Transmitter Ulm-Jungingen

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Transmitter Ulm-Jungingen
Image of the object
Transmitter Ulm-Jungingen in March 2014 with one of the two newly built amateur radio antennas
Basic data
Place: Jungingen ( Ulm )
Country: Baden-Württemberg
Country: Germany
Altitude : 592  m above sea level NHN
Coordinates: 48 ° 26 ′ 32.5 "  N , 9 ° 58 ′ 53.7"  E
Use: Broadcasting station
Mast data
Construction time : 1952
Building material : steel
Operating time: 1952-2011
Total height : 51  m
Data on the transmission system
Waveband : AM station
Radio : MW broadcasting
Shutdown : December 30, 2011
Position map
Transmitter Ulm-Jungingen (Baden-Württemberg)
Transmitter Ulm-Jungingen
Transmitter Ulm-Jungingen
Localization of Baden-Württemberg in Germany

The transmitter Ulm-Jungingen was a medium wave transmitter of the Südwestrundfunk (formerly the Süddeutscher Rundfunk ) for radio. It was located on the south-western outskirts of Jungingen , about seven kilometers north of downtown Ulm. A 51-meter-high, braced steel framework mast with a square cross-section, insulated from the ground, was used as the antenna carrier.

The transmitter was switched off and shut down by the SWR on December 30, 2011 and sold to two radio amateurs two years later.

Program history

Mast base

The transmitter in Jungingen was put into operation as a small transmitter for the Ulm region in 1952 on the frequency 1169 kHz. The SDR 1 program was generally broadcast until the early 1980s . In the 1980s, the SDR 3 program was also broadcast during the day . The SWR 1 Baden-Württemberg program was broadcast from August 1998 to July 2002 . Since then, the SWR cont.ra program has been spread.

Frequency, transmission power and coverage area

Transmitter Ulm-Jungingen in March 2011 (still in operation at this time)

Until the Geneva Wave Plan of 1978, the frequency was 1169 kHz. Then there was a change to the frequency 711 kHz, on which EMRP was transmitted until March 8, 2010 with a transmission power of 5 kilowatts . From March 10, 2010 to December 30, 2011, the SWR cont.ra program was broadcast with a transmission power of 1 kilowatt EMRP over the frequency 1413 kHz.

The supply area extended to the urban area of ​​Ulm and to parts of the districts of Alb-Donau , Reutlingen , Biberach , Heidenheim and Neu-Ulm ( Bavaria ).

Shutdown and shutdown of the transmitter

The Ulm-Jungingen transmitter was finally switched off by the SWR on December 30, 2011, as the SWR wanted to give up the very cost-intensive broadcast of its information program SWR Cont.Ra via medium-wave transmitters in Baden-Württemberg and Rhineland-Palatinate. Instead, the SWR wants to concentrate on building a nationwide coverage of its programs via DAB + .

Südwestrundfunk has sold the 4,150 m² transmitter property including the company building, antenna mast and valid operating license, but without the actual transmitters, to two radio amateurs from the Ulm area and should be used by them for amateur radio , which is suggested by two newly built antennas.

Others

Senderweg in Ulm-Jungingen

The street that leads to the Ulm-Jungingen transmitter is called Senderweg.

Web links

Commons : Sender Ulm-Jungingen  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Amateur radio Oberschwaben: * P14 * OV-Abend-Info-Flash 11/2014: Medium wave transmitter in Jungingen was used by radio amateurs. December 25, 2013, accessed March 31, 2014 .
  2. ↑ DXaktuell: Message about the shutdown
  3. ↑ senderfotos-bw.de: SWR gives up medium wave
  4. ↑ Picture of the transmitter from March 2014