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The Stolp transmitter was a broadcast transmission system in Rathsdamnitz near Stolp in the province of Pomerania that was put into operation on December 1, 1938 .

The system was not only used directly for broadcasting coverage , but also to clarify the question of whether a good reduction in shrinkage can be achieved with an extensive surface antenna and any desired directional diagrams to reduce shrinkage can be generated by suitable feeding of the antennas. In the final stage, the antenna system was to consist of ten antennas, which were arranged on a circle with a diameter of one kilometer, and a central radiator. At the time of the start of operations, only the central radiator was completed. It consisted of a vertical wire, which was suspended in a 50 meter high freestanding, three-legged timber lattice tower. By July 1939, six more 50 meter high freestanding, three-legged timber lattice towers with wire antennas were built on a circle 150 meters in diameter around the central radiator. The antennas were fed via an underground cable that ran from the transmitter building, which was 180 meters away from the central radiator, to the central tower, where the distributor for the transmission energy was located. The lines from the central tower to the outer towers were single-wire lines on 4 meter high wooden masts. In 1940, a 50-meter-high self-radiating round steel mast was built by Jucho south of the transmitter building.

Despite its name, the facility was not located in Stolp itself, but on Hermannstrasse on the outskirts of the south-eastern neighboring town of Rathsdamnitz.

Contrary to some claims to the contrary, the system survived the Second World War unscathed and was used in the immediate post-war period as a broadcasting station known as Radio Volga , a Russian soldier's radio station. The structures of the facility were demolished in 1955 after the technical facilities had been dismantled a few years earlier.

The current use of the former transmitter area is unknown.

literature

  • Andreas Brudnjak: The history of the German medium-wave transmission systems from 1923 to 1945. Funk-Verlag Hein, Dessau-Roßlau 2010, ISBN 978-3-939197-51-5 , pp. 86–89, 119.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Long and medium wave radio stations as of 1943. Society for German Postal History (Hrsg.) In: Archive for German Postal History , Yearbook, Volume 1972, Table 1.

Coordinates: 54 ° 22 ′ 58 ″  N , 17 ° 9 ′ 57 ″  E