St. Peter transmitter

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
St. Peter transmitter
Basic data
Place: Graz - St. Peter
State: Styria
Country: Austria
Coordinates: 47 ° 3 ′ 14.6 ″  N , 15 ° 27 ′ 56.2 ″  E
Use: Broadcasting station
Demolition : 1980s
Data on the transmission system
Construction time: 1920s
Tower / mast 1
Operating time: 1929-1940
Transmitter shutdown: 1940


Tower / mast 2
Operating time: 1929-1981
Transmitter shutdown: 1981
Waveband : AM station
Radio : MW broadcasting
Further data
Commissioning : June 19, 1929

The Sankt Peter transmitter was a radio transmitter for medium-wave broadcasting in the St. Peter district of Graz , which went into operation on June 19, 1929 and used a system with two transmitter masts. The transmission power was originally 7 kW and from 1937 15 kW.

In 1940 one of the two transmitter masts was transported to Dobl , where a new transmitter was opened in 1941.

In 1981 the plant in St. Peter was shut down.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. http://www.denkmal-steiermark.at/downloads/denkmalsteiermarknewsletter072011einzelseiten.pdf , p. 10