Rotenberg transmitter

Rotenberg transmitter
Basic data
Place:	Rotenberg near Kaiserslautern
Country:	Rhineland-Palatinate
Country:	Germany
Altitude :	319  m above sea level NHN
Coordinates: 49 ° 27 ′ 34.7 "  N , 7 ° 46 ′ 16.2"  E
Use:	Broadcasting station
Owner :	Südwestrundfunk
Mast data
Construction time :	1951
Client : Südwestfunk Building material : steel
Operating time:	since 1951
Total height :	120  m
Data on the transmission system
Last modification (transmitter) :	December 2007
Wavebands :	AM stations , FM stations
Radio :	VHF broadcasting
Send types:	DAB , DRM
Position map
Rotenberg transmitter

The Rotenberg transmitter is a broadcasting facility on the 320  m high Vorderen Rotenberg , immediately north of the A 6 motorway near Kaiserslautern , approx. 100 meters north of the location of the first radio transmitter in Kaiserslautern, which ceased operations in 1945. The transmitter consists of a 120-meter-high transmission mast for Südwestrundfunk , which was erected on this site in 1951. The Rotenberg transmitter is isolated from earth, as it was used as a self-radiating transmission mast for a medium wave transmitter until 1975 .

Since 2004 it has been used again in a field test as a medium-wave transmitter for broadcasts on Digital Radio Mondiale . From May 27, 2006 to December 4, 2007, four SWR programs were also broadcast via DVB-T from Rotenberg, which were then taken over by the Kaiserslautern telecommunications tower in Dansenberg from December 4, 2007 .

The ad-free SWR youth program DASDING has been broadcast on VHF since May 19, 2005 .

Frequencies and Programs

Analog radio (VHF)

Frequency   (MHz)	program	RDS PS	RDS PI	Regionalization	ERP   (kW)	Antenna pattern round (ND) / directional (D)	Polarization horizontal (H) / vertical (V)
92.5	THE THING	THE THING_	D3A5	-	0.25	D (80–280 °)	H

Digital radio (DAB +)

The digital radio ( DAB + ) is broadcast in vertical polarization and in single-frequency mode with other transmitters.

block	Programs	ERP   (kW)	Single frequency network (SFN)
11A  Rhineland- Palatinate 1  (D__00217)	DAB + multiplex of Digital Radio Südwest : SWR1 RP (96 kbps) SWR2 (96 kbps) SWR3 (Rhineland-Palatinate) (96 kbps) SWR4 KL (88 kbps) SWR4 KO (88 kbps) SWR4 LU (88 kbps) SWR4 MZ (88 kbps) SWR4 TR (88 kbps) DASDING (96 kbps) SWR current (72 kbps) bigFM (72 kbps) RPR1 (national) (72 kbps) Rockland Radio (national) (72 kbps) EPG (24 kbps) TPEG (16 kbps)	2  planned 8th	Kaiserslautern region: Bornberg , Kaiserslautern (Rotenberg) , Kettrichhof , Zweibrücken Koblenz region: Alf-Bullay , Bad Marienberg , Diez , Koblenz (Dieblich-Waldesch) , Linz am Rhein Ludwigshafen region: Weinbiet Mainz region: Donnersberg , Idar-Oberstein , Mainz-Kastel Trier region: Bitburg , Haardtkopf , Schartenberg (Eifel) , Saarburg , Trier (Markusberg)

Analog television (PAL)

Before the switch to DVB-T, the broadcasting location was still used for analog television:

channel	Frequency   (MHz)	program	ERP (kW)	Transmission diagram round (ND) / directional (D)	Polarization horizontal (H) / vertical (V)
7th	189.25	The First (SWR)	0.32	D.	H

See also

• List of transmitters in Rhineland-Palatinate

Individual evidence

1. ↑ www.swr.de: DVB-T expansion in Rhineland-Palatinate (PDF; 244 kB)