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German Wireless.
Broadcast and Transmitter History

and other topics.
Last update 05/27/2008.
VOX House


Nauen transmitter
Early transmitter site Nauen (B3)

 

German Wireless History. Milestones

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History Time Line
(Last update 2005)
Time Line of German Broadcast and Radio History.
Personalities of Wireless
(Last update 2003)
Personalyties of German Wireless and Broadcast
Beginning of German wireless
(Last update 2007)
Count Arco and professor Slaby installed the first German antenna on the tower of the "Heiland" church in Sacrow.
church Sacrow
VOX House , Funkstunde
(Last update 04/10/2005)
First German officially broadcast studio and transmitter, Berlin 1923.
transmitter Vox-House
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Radio

 

The taylor listen to broadcast station
Broadcast in the taylor workshop (B2)

 

Transmitter sites, broadcast stations

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Transmitter Nauen
(Last update 2000.)
Commercial and broadcast transmitter site near Berlin (Deutsche Welle)
Transmitter Nauen
"Berliner Funkturm"
(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.
Berliner Funkturm
Broadcast station SFB
(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)
Transmitter SFB
Broadcast station RIAS
(Last update 2005)

Berlin broadcast transmitter RIAS. "The Voice of the free world"
Rias Logo
Transmitter site Zehlendorf
(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)
Transmitter Zehlendorf
Transmitter site Burg.
(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.
Transmitter Burg

Transmitter Museum Koenigswusterhausen
(Last update05/07/2008)


Transmitter Koenigs Wusterhausen
First German FM broadcast transmitter
02/28/1949, Muenchen. 250 W. 90.1 MHz. Photo: "Funkschau 1959, vol 8, page 176"
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Early transmitters
Historical replicas by Helmut Kern
(Coming soon)

 

Quenched spark gap

 

Visits to radio related museums
and Exhibitions

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Communication Museum Berlin
(Last update 2000)
Visit the new museum in Berlin. Much information about wire and wireless telecommunucation. Old radio sets and tubes. Internet: http://www.museumsstiftung.de

Museum
German Radio and Broadcast Museum
(Last update 2007)
"Deutsches Technikmuseum Berlin"
(Last update 1998)
The "Deutsches Technikmuseum Berlin" is located in Berlin Kreuzberg
Technik Museum Berlin
Kuba-Museum, Wolfenbuettel
(Last update 3/2006)
Braun collection Ettel / Ebendorf

"Volkskundemuseum", Templin
(Last update May 2008)

Folklore - museum Templin including a section about old-time radio sets, north east of Berlin

Museum Templin

Transmitter Museum Koenigswusterhausen
(Last update05/07/2008)


Transmitter Koenigs Wusterhausen
Radio exhibition in Woltersdorf near Berlin
Internationale Funkausstellung Berlin
Visit the exhibition.
(Last updated 2007)
IFA Berlin
German and European radio related museums
List of some German and European radio related museums
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The forgetful professor
The forgetful professor (B1)

The world of radio sets

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"Volksempfangers" and accessories
List of the legendary "Volksempfanger" with many accesory information
 
Radio sets of former "German Democratic Republic (GDR)". List and gallery
GDR radio
Radio experimental construction sets, like "Radiomann", Stabo, Braun, RIM, Polytronic, Philips, ITT, etc.
"The young Marconi". Construction kit for children
Logos of German Radio Manufacturers and Companies
Logo of Telefunken
Radio old-timer links.
Some old-time radio related link
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Grundig 4010 = 160.00 EUR ?
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Zukunft ?
Why the collecting of radio oldtimers is so interesting.
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Radio engineering in some details

Broadcast program lists.
Frequency lists, transmitter sites lists

German broadcast transmitters
List of early German Broadcast transmitters1923-1933
Frequencies of German and European broadcast transmitters
List of German and European broadcast transmitter frequencies in 1932
Frequencies of German MW and LW transmitters
List of German broadcast transmitter frequencies in 1943
Long wave (LW/LF) frequency list
The Transmitters of Berlin
List of broadcast transmitters in Berlin, 1923 - 1945
Broadcast band ranges in Germany

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.

German broadcast program of 08/25/1924 (in English)
German broadcast program of 10/261928 (in German)
German broadcast program list of 07/09/1932 (In German)
German broadcast program list of 02/12/1950 (In German)
German broadcast program of 04/30/1955 (In German)

Broadcast listener

 

Miscellaneous

Dictionary
German / English and English / German
Old radio related dictionary
Antenne = antenna, arial
Antenna = Antenne
Professional journals and program periodicals
List of many German radio related periodicals
Funkschau
Photos of periodical "Funktechnik"
Some Photos from the German magazine "Funk-Technik", 1947
Radio related picture riddles
Battery Manufacturers
Old-time battery and accumulator manufacurers
Old-time Head phone manufacturers
Built your own paper model radio set

 

(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

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