Herford transmitter

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Herford transmitter
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Herford transmitter
Basic data
Place: Schwarzenmoor ( Herford )
Country : North Rhine-Westphalia
Country: Germany
Altitude : 232  m above sea level NHN
Coordinates: 52 ° 8 ′ 42.1 ″  N , 8 ° 43 ′ 28.8 ″  E
Use: Broadcasting station
Accessibility: Transmission tower not open to the public
Owner : West German Broadcasting Cologne
Tower data
Construction time : 1994
Operating time: since 1994
Total height : 109  m
Data on the transmission system
Waveband : FM transmitter
Radio : VHF broadcasting
Send type: DAB
Position map
Transmitter Herford (North Rhine-Westphalia)
Herford transmitter
Herford transmitter
Localization of North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany

The Herford transmitter was a small transmitter of the West German Broadcasting Corporation for medium wave broadcasting on the Eggeberg in Herford - Schwarzenmoor . Today a newly built transmission tower broadcasts on VHF and DAB +.

prehistory

Herford transmitter in the 1970s
Upper part of the transmitter

In 1946 a 50 meter high lattice mast was erected on a slope near the sports field in Eilshausen near Herford, via which the medium wave program of the then Northwest German Broadcasting Corporation (NWDR) was broadcast. The transmission equipment was located in vehicles that belonged to the German soldier station "Ursula" during World War II, which had last broadcast a propaganda program for German soldiers from East Prussian Rauschen . At the end of the war it was taken over by the Reichspost, which set up the transmitter in Eilshausen. After the transmitter on the Egge went into operation on March 15, 1950, the mobile transmitter was sold to the British Army of the Rhine .

Medium wave transmitter

A 104-meter-high transmitter mast, insulated from earth, was used as the antenna carrier. The mast weighed 36,000 kg. Wire ropes were attached at heights of 46 meters and 86 meters to hold the mast. The technical room and an apartment for the transmitter were in a nearby house.

use

At the start of broadcasting in mid-March 1950, the medium-wave program NWDR 1, from 1956 WDR 1 on the frequency 701 kHz (after the entry into force of the Geneva Wave Plan 702 kHz) with a transmission power of 2 kW was broadcast.

On December 31, 1993, medium wave broadcasts were discontinued. In 1994 the transmitter mast was demolished and replaced by a 109 meter high, free-standing steel lattice tower at 52 ° 8 '41 "north latitude and 8 ° 43' 29" east longitude, via digital radio in DAB + standard and the VHF programs from Radio Herford and BFBS Germany are broadcast.

The picture on the left shows the Herford medium wave transmitter from the 1970s. In addition, the 20 meter high mast for the broadcast of BFBS on VHF can still be seen in the background.

BFBS

In addition to the medium wave transmitter, the mast also carried an antenna on its top for broadcasting the VHF program of the British soldiers' station BFBS . In autumn 1955, two 20-meter-high 3 kW transmitters for BFBS were installed next to the WDR transmitter, which broadcast on the 95.40 MHz frequency (channel 28). After the power was reduced to 0.25 kW, transmission was discontinued in the mid-1980s. The supply of the Ostwestfalen-Lippe region was then taken over by the transmitter on the Hünenburg telecommunications tower in Bielefeld with an output of 70.8 kW. After a large part of the British armed forces had withdrawn, the last long-range BFBS frequency in Germany was given up on April 27, 2020. Since mid-March 2020, the BFBS Germany program has been distributed again from the Eggeberg instead.

From October 22, 1990 to July 31, 2009, the German headquarters of BFBS was on the premises of the Wentworth barracks in Herford.

Frequencies and Programs

Analog radio (VHF)

Frequency
(MHz) 		program RDS PS RDS PI ERP
(kW) 		Antenna pattern
round (ND) / directional (D) 		Polarization
horizontal (H) / vertical (V)
94.9 Radio Herford _HERFORD D798 0.5 D. H
101.6 BFBS Germany BFBS_GER D390 1.4 D. H

Digital radio ( DAB / DAB + )

DAB or the successor standard DAB + is broadcast in vertical polarization and in single-frequency mode with other transmitters. On August 29, 2012 the change from DAB channel 12D to DAB channel 11D took place. The multiplex radio for NRW with the programs of the WDR and an output of 0.4 kW ERP is currently transmitted via this .

block Programs
(data services) 		ERP
(kW) 		Antenna pattern
round (ND) /
directional (D) 		Single frequency network (SFN)
11D
radio for NRW
(D__00236)
  • 1 live (72 kbps)
  • WDR 2 Cologne (K) (72 kbps)
  • WDR 2 Aachen (AC) (72 kbps)
  • WDR 2 Bielefeld (BI) (72 kbps)
  • WDR 2 Dortmund (DO) (72 kbps)
  • WDR 2 Münster (MS) (72 kbps)
  • WDR 2 Rhine-Ruhr (RR) (72 kbps)
  • WDR 2 victories (SI) (72 kbps)
  • WDR 2 Wuppertal (W) (72 kbps)
  • WDR 3 (96 kbps)
  • WDR 4 (72 kbps)
  • WDR 5 (64 kbps)
  • WDRcosmo (64 kbps)
  • 1 Live diGGi (72 kbps)
  • WDR mouse (64 kbps)
  • WDR event (48 kbps)
  • WDR EPG (8 kbps)
  • ARD TPEG (16 kbps)
0.4 ND



Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The British close the last large barracks in North Rhine-Westphalia. The bell , February 20, 2020 .;
  2. ↑ Tom Sprenger: British soldier broadcaster BFBS returns VHF frequency in East Westphalia. Radio Week, April 27, 2020 .;

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