Lauterach Transmitter

The transmitter Lauterach is a device for the distribution of FM radio programs (until 1 January 1995, a radio program on the medium wave frequency 1026 kHz, before the introduction of DVB- T and TV programs, to 31 December 2010 and DVB - H) of the ORF in Lauterach in Vorarlberg. As a radio mast a 116 meter high guyed steel lattice mast is used, which is insulated from earth and its construction is similar to the two poles of the former channel Aldrans. Maybe he is the oldest radio mast of the ORF. The transmitter Lauterach went into operation in 1933 and was the end of the Second World War, one of the last functioning radio station in the former German Reich. The complex also includes a second smaller towards earth is insulated transmission tower, which apparently served as a reserve antenna. The entire transmitter is now a protected monument.

Although the transmitter Lauterach is no longer used as a medium-wave transmitter today, should one use this system for this frequency range still be possible and was scheduled for temporarily TruckRadio.

History

The transmitter Lauterach went on November 15, 1933 tentatively with a power of 200 watts in operation. On 18 December 1934, the official start-up with a power of 2 kW at the frequency of 1294 kHz, which was assigned to Austria as part of the Lucerne wave plan. In the spring of 1935, the station was modernized and increased the transmit power to 5 kW. In the Third Reich the station came to Reichssender Stuttgart, as the Dornbirn region was occupied on 2 May 1945 by French troops. The transmission operation has been continued without interruption. They soon formed with the transmitter Aldrans a single frequency at 519 kHz, up to at March 15, 1950 Ground surrounded 629 kHz in the wake of the Copenhagen plan on the wave frequency. A year later, the power can be increased already to 12 kilowatts. In early December 1954, the station for the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation ( ORF) as an FM feed transmitter still operates it today. This took on December 6, 1955 new stations in operation, with which the first program was broadcast on 1025 kHz to 629 kHz with 25 kW and the second program with 10 kilowatts. October 1, 1967 - the date of the introduction of the ORF - regional programs - the cultural program was broadcast on 629 kHz Austria 1 ( OE1 ) to 1025 kHz and the Regional Programme Austria Regional ( Ö2 ). On September 5, 1977, the broadcast of the first program was set to 629 kHz and retuned the 25 kilowatt transmitter on 1026 kHz. In addition, another 25 kilowatt transmitter with the interconnected transmission power of 50 kilowatts a mixed program from the programs OE1 and Austria Regional ( Ö2 ) was transferred from another disused transmitter site to Lauterach and broadcast. Until 1987 was sent with this power level, until you finally decreased again to 25 kilowatts. On 1 January 1995, the complete decommissioning of the medium wave transmitter followed. Finally, the station Dornbirn served as stations for FM and TV, to the analog television was turned off on April 14, 2008. From autumn 2008 to 31 December 2010 was also broadcast DVB -H transmitter from Dornbirn. Since then sent from this site is now on FM.

Frequencies and programs

Analogue radio (FM )

Digital television for handhelds (DVB- H) ( off)

From the Editor Lauterach until 31 December 2010, DVB -H broadcast:

Analogue TV ( off)

Until the switchover to DVB - T on April 14, 2008, the station continued to serve Lauterach for analog TV: