Olsberg transmitter

Olsberg transmitter
Basic data
Place:	Olsberg near Olsberg
Country :	North Rhine-Westphalia
Country:	Germany
Altitude :	700  m above sea level NHN
Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 20.7 ″  N , 8 ° 30 ′ 17 ″  E
Use:	Broadcasting station
Accessibility:	Transmission tower not open to the public
Owner :	West German Broadcasting Cologne
Tower data
Construction time :	1984
Client : West German radio Building material : steel
Operating time:	since 1984
Total height :	58  m
Total mass :	50  t
Data on the transmission system
Waveband :	FM transmitter
Radio :	VHF broadcasting
Send type:	DAB
Position map
Olsberg transmitter

The transmitter Olsberg near Olsberg in the Hochsauerlandkreis , North Rhine-Westphalia is a transmitter on the Olsberg in the Rothaargebirge .

Geographical location

The Olsberg transmitter is located in the area of ​​the city of Olsberg in the northern foothills of the Rothaargebirge on the southern tip ( 701  m above sea  level ) of the Olsberg ( 703.8  m ), which rises southeast of the Olsberg town center. Its transmission tower is about 430 m south-southeast of the mountain summit on the north crest.

General

The Olsberg near the town of Olsberg with a summit cross and a transmission tower

Aerial photo: Olsberg with transmission tower and summit cross, behind it Gevelinghausen (left), core town of Olsberg (right) and telecommunications tower Meschede (horizon)

The broadcast tower operated by Westdeutscher Rundfunk was built in 1984. A 58 m high, free-standing tower is used as the antenna carrier, which was erected as a tubular steel structure with a weight of 50 tons and a cross-section of 2.20 m in the lower part and 1.60 m in the has upper area. The transmitter closes reception gaps in WDR radio in the northern Sauerland and upper Ruhr valley. The WDR 3 program is not transmitted . The VHF programs are supplied by receiving a ball from the Teutoburger Wald and Nordhelle transmitters . In addition, digital radio in DAB standard is broadcast from this location .

Television signals were and are not broadcast by the Olsberg broadcaster.

Frequencies and Programs

Analog radio ( VHF )

In the case of directed radiation, the main radiation directions are given in degrees in the antenna diagram.

Frequency   (MHz)	program	RDS PS	RDS PI	Regionalization	ERP   (kW)	Antenna pattern round (ND) / directional (D)	Polarization horizontal (H) / vertical (V)
98.6	WDR 5	WDR_5___	D395	-	10	ND	H
102.1	WDR 2	WDR_2_SI WDR_2___	DB92 (regional), D392	Wins	10	ND	H
104.1	WDR 4	WDR_4___	D394	-	10	ND	H
106.1	Deutschlandradio Kultur	DKULTUR_	D220	-	10	ND	H
107.0	1 live	_1LIVE__	D391	-	10	ND	H

Digital radio (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 the cathedral radio with an output of 1 kW ERP is currently being transmitted via this ; until 2015 Radio Impala was also broadcast.

block	Programs (data services)	ERP   (kW)	Antenna diagram round (ND), directional (D)	Polarization horizontal (H) / vertical (V)	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)	1	D.	V	Aachen region: Aachen (Stolberg-Donnerberg) , Eifel (Dahlem-Bärbelkreuz) Bergisches Land: Gummersbach (Engelskirchen-Hohe Warte) , Wuppertal (Auf der Königshöhe) Rhineland: Bonn (Venusberg) , Cologne (Kölnturm) Rhine and Ruhr: Düsseldorf (Rheinturm) , Kleve (Bresserberg) , Langenberg (Hordtberg) Ruhr: Dortmund (Florian Tower) Münsterland: Münster (Nottuln-Baumberge) Ostwestfalen-Lippe: Bad Oeynhausen (P.Westf.-Wittekindsberg) , Herford (Eggeberg) , Ibbenbüren (Blomenkamp) , Oelde (Mackenberg) , Stemwede (Arrenkamp) , Teutoburg Forest (Bielstein) , Willebadessen (Eggegebirge) South Westphalia: Arnsberg (Schloßberg) , Ederkopf (Oberste Henn) , Hochsauerland (Hunau) , Nordhelle , Olsberg , Siegen (Giersberg)

The neighboring transmitter Hunau (Bödefeld) was switched off.

Transmitters in the area

Neighboring stations are:

• Teutoburger Wald transmitter : All WDR radio programs, DVB-T and DAB
• Transmitter Siegen Giersberg : WDR 1Live, WDR 2, WDR 3, WDR 4, Radio Siegen, DVB-T, DAB (filling station), Kindelsberg: WDR 5
• Nordhelle transmitter : All WDR radio programs, Germany radio, DAB, DVB-T
• Transmitter Olsberg-Antfeld (Langer Berg) : VHF filler transmitter for Radio Sauerland

Web links

Commons : Sender Olsberg  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
2. ↑ DIGITAL BROADCASTING - DAB: transmitter locations in Germany.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (As of May 31, 2010)