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German Wireless.
Broadcast and Transmitter History and other topics. Last update 05/27/2008. |
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Early transmitter site Nauen (B3)
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Broadcast in the taylor workshop (B2)
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(Last update 2005.) Former radio tower of Berlin. Drawing : Radio tower Berlin "Funkturm" with 2 nd antenna tower. A foot of the tower . Special view: The tower and the sky . The "Funkturm" was used earlier as radio - and television - transmitter. Broadcast station since 1925. Already 1936 television was transmitted from here. More information about the Funkturm on the VOX-House page. |
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(Last update 2003) The "Berlin radio station" SFB, "Sender Freies Berlin" operates with a medium waveband transmitter in Berlin Charlottenburg. 567 KHz, 5 KW. The antenna mast is 130 meters high. DAM modulation (dynamic amplitude modulation) . Photo of the mast top , photo of the mast foot. Photo of the station building (studios). The station is as of 06/01/1954 on air. Since 2003 is the SFB and the ORB combined to RBB (Rundfunk Berlin Brandenburg) |
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(Last update 2007.) The "long wave" transmitter Zehlendorf in the north of Berlin. It is active since 1936. Maximum output power on 177 KHz: 750 Kw. 2 antennas are available: Triangle antenna (150 meters high) and main antenna (360 meters high). Photo of the two antennas .The transmitter sent the program "Deutschland Radio", former "DS Kultur" and "RIAS" and "Stimme der DDR". Since 2001 a b.c. band transmitter is in use. Photo inside 1994. (Photo by Werner Bader) |
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(Last update 2000.) The transmitter site is located near Burg (ex GDR) in Germany. Today are on air: "MDR Info", MW (BC) 783 KHz and "Radioropa", LW 261 KHz. During the "cold war" political propaganda transmitters were also operated from here: "Der deutsche Freiheitssender 904" and "Der deutsche Soldatensender 935". Next to other antennas, a 324 meters pylon and two 210 meters pylons were in use. |
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02/28/1949, Muenchen. 250 W. 90.1 MHz. Photo: "Funkschau 1959, vol 8, page 176" |
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Broadcast program lists. |
The collector of old-time radio sets is interested in the "hardware", that means the broadcast equipment itself. With it the radio sets were only resources for the purpose of: Listening the broadcast program. What did the listeners in the first decades of the radio hear actual? Please, read the small selection of radio program.
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(Die Skizzen sind der Zeitschrift Funk, Weidmannsche
Verlagshandlung, Berlin entnommen)
(B1) = Seite 90, Funk, 1924, Zeichner Popp
(B2 ) = Seite 257, Funk, 1924, Zeichner unbekannt
(B3) = Seite 417, Funk, 1924, Zeichner G. Fechtnen