Mediumwave transmitter Bremen
The Mediumwave Transmitter Bremen is the mediumwave broadcasting facility of Radio Bremen situated at Bremen-Oberneuland, Germany. It operates at 936 kHz, with a transmitter output power of 50 kW. The new transmitter at Bremen-Oberneuland was built in 1999 as a replacement for the old transmission facility of Radio Bremen at Leher Feld, which was demolished to make room for an industrial area.
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Today the mediumwave transmitter Bremen is the only transmitter owned by Radio Bremen — all other transmitters now used by Radio Bremen are the property of Deutsche Telekom — uses a cage aerial, mounted on a 45-metre (146 feet) high, grounded, guyed lattice steel mast. This aerial has a high gain of 4.5 dB, which means that the 50 kW transmitter feeding it produces the same effect as a 140 kW transmitter feeding an antenna with a gain of 1 dB.
The broadcasts from this transmitter reach all northern Germany during daylight, except the most eastern areas. At night it covers all of Europe, although a transmitter operating at the same frequency in Lviv, Ukraine often interferes with it.
In 2006 the aerial mast got a new coat of paint.
Due to financial difficulties, Radio Bremen switched off the transmitter in March 2010 "temporarily" and dismantled it after only 200 people voiced their protest.
See also
- List of masts
- Germany
External links
- Bremen Medium Wave Transmitter at Structurae
- Aerial comparison
- https://web.archive.org/web/20070202131616/http://www.asamnet.de/~bienerhj/0936.html