Burg AM transmitter
In the district of Brehm Castle ( near Magdeburg ), the transmitter stronghold of MEDIA BROADCAST GmbH is for broadcasting in the long and medium waveband. The most striking structures of this system are a 324 meter high guyed steel framework mast, which carried a transmitting antenna for long wave and is no longer used for broadcasting, and many years two 210 meter high guyed tubular masts. The 324 -meter-high radio mast is a grounded structure with a triangular cross-section. He wore until the early 1990s, a highly effective shrinkage -reducing transmitting antenna in the form of a developed in the Soviet Union special cage antenna, which was referred to as ARRT antenna. She served in GDR times the operated on the frequency 783 kHz 1000 kW medium wave transmitter, which was the strongest stations in the GDR, as a transmitting antenna. This cage antenna was dismantled in the early 1990s. In the second half of the 1990s, the radio mast was given a cage aerial for long wave at the frequency of 261 kHz to 2000 on the program of Radioropa information was disseminated. Today it is used to spread the signal of the transmitter DCF 39, is one of the European Radio Ripple Control GmbH (ERA ) operated radio service for remote control of electrical loads, such as street lamps, on the frequency 139 kHz. The antenna for this is located at 324 meters high masts. A re- started broadcasting on longwave frequency 261 kHz in DRM mode is planned.
Both 210 -meter high tubular masts are or were insulated from earth. One of the two tubular masts can be used as fußpunktgespeister even more radiant transmission mast for long and medium wave, while the other transmission tower could only be used as a transmitting antenna for medium wave range.
Another antenna systems, there are three steep beam antennas which are suspended on two free-standing steel lattice towers and serve as a transmitting antenna of a currently disused medium wave transmitter on the frequency 1575 kHz and a triangular patch antenna for medium wave.
From 1967 to 1976 belonged to this facility nor a 350 meter high transmission mast for long wave, the tubular steel lattice mast SL3 program dissemination of radio Volga. This transmission tower was located so as not to affect the radiation field of the other masts, at a distance of 2.2 kilometers from the other poles on the road from Petersburg to Grabow, near the Burger district Gütter. He fell on 18 February 1976 due to a broken bolt and was not rebuilt. But there are still some remains of foundations of the stays and the Abstimmhaus available (coordinates: 52 ° 16 ' 9 " N, 11 ° 55' 24 " O52.26916666666711.923333333333 ). At the former base of the transmission tower, whose fence is still entirely preserved, today is a private wind turbine. To replace one of the two 210 -meter-high steel tubular masts were modified so that he could radiate in the longwave range also the program of Radio Volga and the Voice of Russia (including Radioropa info later).
On 22 June 2006 one of the two tubes with the targeted explosives was brought down. The reason for the removal of the mast is called the apparent in Magdeburg " People's Voice " missing person whose condition would have a 800,000 -euro reconstruction necessitated by statements from T-Systems. A future need for this mast had, however, not be detected. The remaining 210 - meter boom, the operator has leased for the broadcast of the German program of the Voice of Russia.
On August 17, 1956 went from here the German Freedom Station 904 to 904 kHz (later 908 kHz) on the air. The produced initially in East Berlin and from the mid-1960s in Bestensee at King Wusterhausen program was evening sent from 20.00 bis 21.00 clock bis 23.00 clock and 22.00. On September 30, 1971, the transmitter was shut down due to the impending détente. In addition, the overthrow of Walter Ulbricht, a big advocate of the Communist Party, by Erich Honecker came on 3 May 1971, the passage of Max Reimann, the longtime Communist Party chairman, in 1968 the newly founded DKP on September 27, 1971, four days before transmitting end. Probably not coincidentally on October 1, 1971, the former Germany stations were merged with the Berlin shaft to the new program Voice of the GDR at the decision of the State Broadcasting Committee of the GDR.
From October 1960 to June 1972 also turned even the German soldiers transmitter 935, which was produced in Berlin- Grunau, at 935 kHz to the members of the Bundeswehr. He used the same 250 kW medium-wave transmitter such as the German Freedom Station 904 They sent therefore never simultaneously. Because of the necessary Frequenzumstimmarbeiten differed transmitting end and transmit start of the two transmitters usually around 15 minutes.
On February 25, 2014 triangular surface antenna was made up of three 50 -meter-high towers, which was located right next to the 2006 blown-up transmission towers, blown up.