Transmitter Hornisgrinde

The transmitter Hornisgrinde is a basic network channels of SWR (formerly of Südwestfunk ) for radio. It is located on the Hornisgrinde, the highest mountain in the northern Black Forest, at an altitude of 1125 m above sea level. NN. The antenna carrier is a 206 meter high radio tower in reinforced concrete, which was built from 1971 to 1972.

Function

The former Südwestfunk used the Hornisgrinde from 1951 to broadcast its FM radio programs and from 1954 also as a transmitter site for the first television ARD. The antenna carrier then came two steel lattice towers used. Today, 206 m high concrete tower was built from 1971 to 1972.

The transmitter on the Hornisgrinde is next to Stuttgart TV Tower is the most important transmitter site of SWR. Numerous other SWR broadcasting equipment related programs via microwave or ball receiving the Hornisgrinde. There is also an important microwave link between the Mercury Tower and the Stuttgart Television Tower, which links the two radio Homes Baden -Baden and Stuttgart together.

Around two million people in the core end region can receive the broadcast of radio frequencies here, for stationary reception via antenna home significantly more. The transmitter Hornisgrinde supplied thanks to the exposed position of the tower almost the entire Rhine Valley between Freiburg and Mannheim with radio and extends to large parts of northern and central Black Forest, the Swabian Alb and the Neckar -Alb region. Because of reflections, the programs are to receive from the Hornisgrinde partly to the Central Switzerland, in parts of the Palatinate and Saarland, and to the Czech border in Bavaria.

Until the late 1980s, the former SWF programs could be heard until after the Vosges Mountains. Due to international agreements with France, the power towards the west had to be reduced. Coordinates are in this direction is currently allowed radiated power levels of 10 kW each to the five powerful frequencies. Nevertheless, the light emitted by the Hornisgrinde programs are receiving mainly to the Vosges mountains main ridge and thus, inter alia, in Strasbourg and surroundings in very good quality.

Several sub-tenant to use the Tower for their radio services, including the mobile network operator E-Plus and the Bundeswehr. Since 2005, the Germany radio is broadcast from here, the transmitter is operated by SWR on behalf and for the account of the responsible network carrier media broadcast.

The television broadcast from the transmitter Hornisgrinde was posted on 5 November 2008. From 1954 to 2008, The First aired here. Future of terrestrial TV reception in the supply area of the Hornisgrinde is mostly done by the converted to DVB-T transmitter Baden -Baden, fire head, Pforzheim and Raichberg. However, since all television converter have been shut down, no terrestrial television reception longer possible, particularly in shaded valleys.

The tower is not open to the public.

Frequencies and programs

From the Hornisgrinde following programs are currently being emitted:

Analogue radio (FM )

The antenna pattern of the main beam directions are given in degrees in the case of directed radiation.

Digital radio ( DAB)

  • SWR1 BW (192 kbps)
  • SWR2 BW ( 120 kbps, DAB )
  • SWR3 ( 120 kbps, DAB )
  • SWR4 BW ( 120 kbps, DAB )
  • SWRinfo (192 kbps)
  • DASDING ( 120 kbps, DAB )
  • Program accompanying supplementary information (DAB )
  • SWR1 BW (192 kb / s)
  • SWR2 BW (120 kb / s, DAB )
  • SWR3 (120 kb / s, DAB )
  • SWR4 BW (120 kb / s, DAB )
  • DASDING (120 kb / s, DAB )
  • SWRinfo (192 kb / s)
  • bigFM World Beats (72 kb / s, DAB )
  • Black Forest Radio ( 72 kb / s, DAB )
  • Live Radio (72 kb / s, DAB )
  • Ego FM ( 72 kb / s, DAB )
  • Program accompanying supplementary information (DAB )

Analog TV

Until the switchover to DVB - T following programs were broadcast in analog PAL:

Other transmitters

400 meters away, at the northern end of the summit plateau, is a smaller, designed as a free-standing steel framework construction Tower of Deutsche Telekom AG (48 ° 36 ' 52 " N, 8 ° 12' 13" O48.6145277777788.2036111111111 ). This, inter alia, is home to a relay station for Amateur Television. By 2005, the program of the Germany radio aired before the station was relocated to higher and thus more extensive SWR tower of this tower.

At the southern end of the summit plateau is a designed as a free-standing steel lattice transmission tower construction by Vodafone D2. This houses a GSM base station and serves as a radio relay nodes.

In the southern part of the summit level still have several masts, which were used by the military until 1994.

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