Sambach transmitter
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Sambach transmitter
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| Basic data | ||||
| Place: | Otterbach-Sambach | |||
| Country: | Rhineland-Palatinate | |||
| Country: | Germany | |||
| Altitude : | 216 m above sea level NHN | |||
| Coordinates: 49 ° 29 ′ 27 ″ N , 7 ° 43 ′ 3 ″ E | ||||
| Use: | Broadcasting station | |||
| Accessibility: | Transmission mast not open to the public | |||
| Owner : | American Forces Network | |||
| Mast data | ||||
| Construction time : | 1953 | |||
| Building material : | steel | |||
| Operating time: | since 1953 | |||
| Total height : | 136 m | |||
| Data on the transmission system | ||||
| Waveband : | Medium wave | |||
| Radio : | MW broadcasting | |||
| Shutdown : | August 31, 2014 | |||
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The Sambach transmitter was a facility of the American Forces Network (AFN) put into operation in 1953 to broadcast the radio program "AFN PowerNet" on 1107 kHz with 10 kW transmission power for the Kaiserslautern area. It was located southeast of the Sambach district of Otterbach and used a transmission mast of 136 m, which was unusually high for the low transmission power, as an antenna, because this transmitter worked on the frequency 611 kHz before the Geneva Wave Plan came into force in 1978, which is why such a high mast was built at the time. The transmitter mast of the AFN transmitter Otterbach was designed as a self-radiating transmitter mast isolated from the ground. It was a steel framework construction with a triangular cross-section, which was held by nine guys divided with webbing insulators .
On August 31, 2014, the AFN station Sambach was switched off due to savings measures.
On August 5, 2020 at around 2 p.m., the AFN transmission mast was blown up.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Last German medium wave transmitter shut down. Retrieved December 18, 2017 .
- ↑ With video: The Americans' disused transmission mast near Sambach was blown up. In: The Rhine Palatinate . August 6, 2020, accessed August 8, 2020 .