Reichenbach / OL transmitter
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Reichenbach / Upper Lusatia transmitter
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| Place: | Reichenbach / OL | |||
| Country: | Saxony | |||
| Country: | Germany | |||
| Altitude : | 238 m above sea level NHN | |||
| Coordinates: 51 ° 8 ′ 44 " N , 14 ° 48 ′ 11.7" E | ||||
| Use: | Broadcasting station | |||
| Owner : | Media broadcast | |||
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| Construction time : | 1999 | |||
| Building material : | metal | |||
| Operating time: | 1999-2013 | |||
| Total height : | 50 m | |||
| Data on the transmission system | ||||
| Waveband : | AM station | |||
| Radio : | MW broadcasting | |||
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The Reichenbach / Oberlausitz transmitter was a medium wave transmitter with a power of 3 kW, which was located north of the urban area of Reichenbach / OL .
history
The first transmission tower of the medium wave transmitter Reichenbach, built in 1937, was a free-standing, 100-meter-high tower made of pine wood, whereby larch wood was also used. At the top there was an octagonal ring made of bronze with a diameter of 11 meters as a roof capacity . The antenna cable was led vertically from the base to the top of the mast. The high-frequency part of the transmitter was a Telefunken product with a transmission power of 5 kW, which was later amplified. It was "technically and structurally the most modern radio station in Germany" .
Two months after the start of trial operations on May 2, 1937, it officially went on air on July 8 of the same year. As "Sender Görlitz" (secondary station of the Reich broadcaster Breslau ), which also included a studio in the Görlitzer Ständehaus , the broadcaster also partially broadcast regional programs until the Reich program was standardized in June 1940. Until the end of the Second World War he worked with the Gleiwitz transmitter in single-wave operation .
The National Socialist perseverance program was broadcast until the end of April 1945. The transmission tower was blown up on May 7, 1945 at around 9 p.m. on the orders of the Nazi station leader - the Red Army was already standing in the northern part of the city.
The technical facilities of the station remained intact and were in command of the spring of 1946 SMAD dismantled, packed and brought to Berlin in the central post office Tempelhof, a little later to Potsdam-Wildpark. With this transmission system and other parts, the technical prerequisites for the start of the program of the state broadcaster Potsdam of the Berliner Rundfunk were created.
In 1950 a small 0.5 kW transmitter was built in Reichenbach. This broadcast the program of the newly founded Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk and, from 1953, broadcasts in the Sorbian language .
Most recently, the Reichenbach / Oberlausitz transmitter used a 50-meter-high, guyed, top-fed steel truss mast with a cross-shaped roof capacity as a transmitting antenna. The self-radiating transmission mast was renewed in 1999. Until April 2013, the program was broadcast by MDR Info on 1188 kHz with an output of 3 kilowatts.
On April 30, 2013 at 6 a.m., the medium-wave transmission from MDR Info from Reichenbach ended with the activation of a loop that indicated the alternative reception channel DAB + and should actually run until 6 May 2013 at 6 a.m. However, due to a technical error, it was only switched off at around 10:10 a.m. After the notification loop was switched off at 6 a.m., the regular MDR Info program was switched on again by the transmitter's electronics in Reichenbach, as it did not recognize a signal on the substitute signal from the Astra satellite instead of the direct radio link over which the switched off notification loop ran switched. At 9 o'clock the message loop was activated again. Since the transmitter could not be switched off remotely, the transmitter was switched off manually by a technician from the operator Media Broadcast on site. This or a similar phenomenon was also observed in the medium-wave transmitters in Wiederau and Wilsdruff, which were also switched off that day . This means that there are no more radio transmissions from this location.
On July 22, 2013, the self-radiating transmission mast with roof capacity was moved. This ends the story of the medium-wave transmitter Reichenbach.
Web links
- Representation of the wooden tower
- Historical pictures and information from the station
- Pictures of the last transmission mast (including demolition)
Individual evidence
- ^ Görlitzer Nachrichten of July 9, 1937
- ↑ Köhler, G. (1988): 750 years Reichenbach OL A historical consideration, p. 58
- ↑ radioeins.de: MW transmitter switched off in Saxony ( memento of the original from July 1, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ youtube.com: Video with reference to the shutdown of MDR medium waves on April 30, 2013
- ↑ soundcloud.com: Recording of the transition to the hint loop on the morning of April 30, 2013
- ↑ Video of the dismantling of the medium wave transmitter
