Ochsenkopf Transmitter
The transmitter ox head is a 190 -meter high TV tower of reinforced concrete located since 1958 at the summit of the ox head. From the transmission tower analogue radio (FM ), digital radio ( DAB) and digital television (DVB -T) are emitted. He also serves as a radio relay nodes.
The transmission mast head of the ox was a replacement for a 50 meter high guyed steel tube mast, which had collapsed in January 1958 due to icing. He has a direct line of sight to approximately 135.3 km remote transmitter Kreuzberg in the Rhön despite earth's curvature.
History
With today's Bavaria 2 program began in October 1950, the FM broadcasts from the ox head. The Asenturm initially served as an antenna carrier before 1951 a 22 meter high steel framework tower was built. Than five years later the first German television was broadcast by the ox-head, built the Bayerische Rundfunk a 50 meter high mast tube, in 1958 a storm fell victim. In the same year the present reinforced concrete tower was completed.
The total height was until September 2008 163 meters. With the switchover to DVB - T, the tower received a 27 -meter-high fiberglass cylinder. This makes it a total of 190 meters high.
The TV Tower with the ARD television station on Channel 4 in the VHF band I enabled the reception of Western television in many parts of the GDR, even some residents of Leipzig and Dresden, the " valley of the clueless ", with the help of a so-called ox-head antenna.
Even in Görlitz FM radio reception from ox head under circumstances was possible, but there the reception of the transmitter from West Berlin was widespread.
The analog TV channel ARD was turned off on 25 November 2008 in favor of DVB -T.
Frequencies and programs
Analogue radio (FM )
The antenna pattern of the main beam directions are given in degrees in the case of directed radiation.
Other internationally coordinated at the transmitter site ox-head frequencies:
- 88.0 MHz with 25 kW ERP: At the transmitter site Big Waldstein in operation.
- 104.3 MHz with 100 kW ERP: With 10 kW ERP at the transmitter site Bayreuth for Radio Main shaft in operation.
Digital radio ( DAB)
DAB is broadcast in vertical polarization and single-frequency operation with other transmitters.
- Bayern 1 (Upper Bavaria) (160 kbit / s)
- 1 Bavaria (Franconia) (80 kbit / s DAB )
- Bayern 1 ( Franconia ) (80 kbit / s DAB )
- Bayern 1 ( Lower Bavaria / Upper Palatinate ) (80 kbit / s DAB )
- Bayern 1 ( Swabia) (72 kbit / s DAB )
- Bayern 2 plus (80 kbit / s DAB )
- Bayern 2 (80 kbit / s DAB )
- Bayern 3 (160 kbit / s)
- BR -Klassik (128 kbit / s DAB , multi-channel sound )
- B5 aktuell (80 kbit / s DAB )
- B5 plus (64 kbit / s DAB )
- BR transport (48 kbit / s mono )
- Lower Franconia: Kreuzberg (Rhön ), Pfaff mountain ( Aschaffenburg ), Würzburg ( Frankenwarte )
- Upper Franconia Bamberg ( Geisberg ), ox-head ( Fichtelgebirge)
- Middle Franconia: constable mountain ( Burgbernheim / Franken height ), Nuremberg ( television tower)
- Lower Bavaria: Brotjacklriegel ( Deggendorf ), Landshut
- Schwaben Augsburg (Hotel Tower ), Gruenten ( Sonthofen ), Ulm ( Cow Mountain ) [ Baden-Württemberg ], pledges (Vorarlberg), Hühnerberg (Harburg )
- Oberbayern: Gelbelsee, Hochberg (Bavaria ), Ismaning, Munich ( Olympic Tower ), Wendelstein ( Bavarian Zell)
- BR -Klassik (192 kbit / s)
- Bavaria plus (128 kbit / s)
- PULS ( BR) (128 kbit / s)
- Antenne Bayern (80 kbit / s DAB )
- Rock Antenne (80 kbit / s DAB )
- Antenna Top40 (72 kbit / s DAB )
- Antenne Bayern info digitally (40 kbit / s mono DAB )
- Radio Galaxy (80 kbit / s DAB )
- Absolutely HOT (72 kbit / s DAB )
- Lower Franconia:
- Upper Franconia:
- Middle Franconia:
- Upper Palatinate:
- Lower Bavaria:
- Swabia:
- Oberbayern:
Digital TV (DVB -T)
The DVB- T broadcast is broadcast in simulcast with other transmitters.
- The first (BP North )
- ARTE
- Phoenix
- EinsPlus
- Bayerisches Fernsehen ( Swiss francs)
- BR -alpha
- MDR Fernsehen ( Thuringia)
- Hr- TV
Analog TV
Until the switchover to DVB - T following programs were broadcast in analog PAL: