Transmitter Heilsberg

The transmitter Salvation Mountain was a major station for program "Club I" in the former East Prussia, about three kilometers northwest of salvation mountain on the road of salvation mountain after Eylau.

He went on December 15, 1930 with a transmitter power of 60 kilowatts in operation. When he used a vertical antenna Reuse, which was stretched a rope between two free-standing, 102 -meter-high wooden towers. The wooden towers stood at a distance of 200 meters. In 1935, the transmission power was increased to 100 kilowatts. In addition, the vertical cage antenna was replaced by a Höhendipol with final capacity and coil, which was carried by a 115 -meter-high free-standing wooden tower. This tower was built by increasing one of the two wooden towers, carrying the T antenna. The second tower was dismantled and rebuilt as a transmission tower for the radio station Königsberg - Amalienau again. This was in 1940 replaced by a 151 meter high guyed, insulated against ground round steel lattice towers with a square cross-section. In addition, in the same year went a triangular patch antenna and a 50 -meter-high, insulated against ground round steel pole in operation. On 31 January 1945 the systems were mostly destroyed by the retreating German Wehrmacht. The underground passages were filled due to water intrusion.

After the Second World War to have been operated on the station area for some time a station of the Soviet foreign service. In the eighties, the system of the disturbance of the signals of foreign radio station " Volna Europe " served. In addition, a local program was irradiated to a community shaft with low power and until the mid- 1990s.

Today, from the transmission tower which is 83 meters high, 1 radiated the program of Radio Maria at 106.2 MHz with 10 kW ERP and the television TVP at 527.25 MHz with 200 kW ERP.

Furthermore, the site apparently used by the military.

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