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Devil's head transmitter
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| Basic data | ||||
| Place: | Teufelskopf mountain near Waldweiler | |||
| Country: | Rhineland-Palatinate | |||
| Country: | Germany | |||
| Altitude : | 695 m above sea level NHN | |||
| Coordinates: 49 ° 35 ′ 54.3 " N , 6 ° 49 ′ 27.5" E | ||||
| Use: | Broadcasting station | |||
| Accessibility: | Transmission mast not open to the public | |||
| Owner : | German radio tower | |||
| Mast data | ||||
| Construction time : | 1962 | |||
| Operating time: | 1962-2008 | |||
| Total height : | 120 m | |||
| Data on the transmission system | ||||
| Waveband : | FM transmitter | |||
| Radio : | VHF broadcasting | |||
| Send type: | PAL | |||
| Shutdown : | November 2008 | |||
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The Teufelskopf transmitter is a basic network transmitter for television at 695 m above sea level. NHN high Teufelskopf , a mountain in the Black Forest high forest belonging to the Hunsrück . It is located near Waldweiler in the Rhineland-Palatinate district of Trier-Saarburg . The transmitter, which has existed since 1962, uses a 120 m high guyed tubular steel mast as an antenna carrier.
Geographical location
The Teufelskopf transmitter is located in the Saar-Hunsrück Nature Park on the Teufelskopf summit region. It is located in the southeast of the municipality of Waldweiler . The border with Saarland runs about 1 km to the southwest .
Transmitter
The transmission system supplied the area around Trier with analog television and also served to feed the Astra satellite with the ZDF program by receiving and processing the signals from the Teufelskopf in Betzdorf (Luxembourg). As part of the analogue switch-off , the transmitter was shut down in November 2008, the region has since the SWR - Transmitter Saarburg with digital TV in the DVB-T supplied standard. The transmitter has been unused since then.
The following analog television programs were broadcast before the switch to DVB-T:
| channel |
Frequency (MHz) |
program |
ERP (kW) |
Transmission diagram round (ND) / directional (D) |
Polarization horizontal (H) / vertical (V) |
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| 46 | 671.25 | ZDF | 50 | D. | H |
| 53 | 727.25 | SWR television Rhineland-Palatinate | 50 | D. | H |
Almost 100 m east-southeast of the transmission tower is a lower transmission tower that is used by Vodafone .
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Teufelskopf… , from April 15, 2016, accessed on September 23, 2016, on amateurfunk-blog.de.