Eifel Transmitter

The transmitter is a transmitter of the Eifel Südwestrundfunks for FM radio and television at Kirchweiler in the Eifel. The 302 meter high guyed steel lattice mast is located on the Schartenberg in the Eifel district, replacing an older 1985, 160 meter high guyed mast. The new building was necessary because data sent by the old mast programs did not reach the required signal strength for interference-free reception in shaded valleys of the Eifel.

Construction

The lower 20 feet of the tower were built using a small crane, the mast sections at heights between 20 meters and 100 meters using a crane truck. The higher pole elements Derrick was used.

The mast is composed of a 288 meter high guyed steel lattice mast with a side length of 2.1 meters and a 14 meter high fiberglass cylinder at the top, which is designed for the reception of UHF TV antennas. The total weight is 204 tons. The mast is guyed at four levels: 57 meters, 123 meters, 195 meters and 273 meters above the ground. It has an elevator, which can drive up to 281 meters in height. As aircraft warning lights 20 red neon lights and two flashing lights with 1000 watt lamps are installed.

The transmission tower is the tallest structure in Rhineland -Palatinate and widely visible.

Frequencies and programs

Analogue radio (FM )

Digital audio broadcasting (DAB )

The Digital Radio (DAB ) is emitted in the vertical polarization and single-frequency operation with other transmitters.

  • Radio hit Paradise ( 72 kbps, DAB )
  • Absolute relax (72 kbps, DAB )
  • Sunshine live (72 kbps, DAB )
  • Germany Funk ( 128 kbps, DAB)
  • Germany radio culture (128 kbps, DAB)
  • DRadio knowledge (56 kbps, DAB )
  • Documents and Debates (40 kbps, DAB )
  • ENERGY ( 72 kbps, DAB )
  • Horeb (72 kbps, DAB )
  • Classic Radio (72 kbps, DAB )
  • LoungeFM (72 kbps, DAB )
  • RADIO BOB! (72 kbps, DAB )
  • Radio Horeb (48 kbps, DAB )
  • Baden- Württemberg: Baden -Baden ( Fremersberg ), Freiburg ( Vogt Castle Totenkopf ), Geislingen ( Oberböhringen ), Heidelberg ( king chair), Heilbronn ( Pig Mountain ), Pforzheim ( Schomberg - Long Brand), Stuttgart ( Head of a Woman ), Ulm ( Cow Mountain )
  • Bavaria: Augsburg (Hotel Tower ), Nuremberg, Regensburg ( High Line ), Ingolstadt ( Gelbelsee ), Munich ( Olympic Tower ), Wendelstein ( Bavarian Zell), Würzburg ( Frankenwarte )
  • Berlin: Berlin ( Alexanderplatz), Berlin ( Scholzplatz )
  • Bremen: Bremen
  • Hamburg: Hamburg ( Moor Fleet ), Hamburg ( Heinrich- Hertz-Turm )
  • Hesse: Bad Hersfeld ( Rimberg ), Fulda ( Hummel head), Gelnhausen ( Schnepf head), casting ( Dünsberg ), Grosser Feldberg, Frankfurt ( Europe tower), Kassel ( Hawk Forest ), Mainz -Kastel
  • Mecklenburg- Vorpommern Schwerin ( Zippendorf - Gr.Dreesch )
  • Lower Saxony Braunschweig ( Broitzem ), Braunschweig ( Dragon Mountain ), Göttingen ( Bovenden - Osterberg ), Hanover ( Telemax ), Osnabrück ( Bramsche - Schleptruper Harrow ), Hildesheim ( Sibbesse / Griesberg )
  • North Rhine -Westphalia: Bielefeld ( Hünenburg ), Bonn ( Venusberg ), Dortmund ( Florian Tower ), Dusseldorf ( Rhine Tower ), Cologne ( Colonius ), Long Mountain, Minden (Jacob Berg)
  • Rhineland -Palatinate: Daun ( Eifel), Koblenz ( Kühkopf )
  • Saarland Saarbrücken ( Schoksberg )
  • Saxony: Schoeneck, Chemnitz ( Geyer ), Dresden, Leipzig ( Stadtwerke )
  • Saxony- Anhalt: Magdeburg ( Kapaunberg ), Halle ( Wallwitz -Peter Berg)
  • Schleswig -Holstein: Kiel ( Kronshagen )
  • Thuringia Gera, Island Mountain, Weimar ( Etter Mountain )
  • SWR1 RP (160 kbps)
  • SWR2 RP ( 120 kbps, DAB )
  • SWR3 ( 120 kbps, DAB )
  • SWR4 RP ( 120 kbps, DAB )
  • DASDING ( 120 kbps, DAB )
  • SWRinfo (128 kbps)
  • bigFM World Beats (72 kbps, DAB )

Digital TV (DVB -T)

Since 12 November 2008 by the transmitter Eifel digital terrestrial television (DVB -T) is irradiated with three public multiplex channels. The digital broadcasts in a synchronous wave mode ( single frequency network ) with other transmitter sites.

  • The first one ( BWR)
  • ARTE
  • Phoenix
  • EinsPlus
  • SWR TV Rhineland -Palatinate
  • Bayerisches Fernsehen ( Swabia / Old Bavaria )
  • Hr- TV
  • WDR Fernsehen (Studio Cologne)
  • ZDF
  • 3sat
  • ZDFinfo
  • KiKA ( 6:00-21:00 clock ) / ZDFneo ( 21:00-6:00 clock )

Analog TV (PAL)

Before converting to DVB- T here were running the following analogue TV transmitters:

Scharteberg Possession (law) Radiation pattern Deutschlandfunk Fremersberg Tower Fernsehturm Heidelberg Dorint Hotel Tower Olympiaturm Fernsehturm Berlin Fernmeldeturm Koblenz Sender Inselsberg Bitrate Structurae
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