Christian Vision buy European TX Site
T-Systems and its parent Deutsche Telkom AG have completed the sale of the Julich shortwave transmission facility to UK charity Christian Vision.
Julich, in north-west Germany, is recognised as one of the leading transmission sites in Europe, equipped with 100kW analogue and digital transmitters and numerous antennae with global reach.
Christian Vision will take full operational control at the end of 2007 and will broadcast in both analogue and DRM in many languages reaching Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Russia and West Asia.
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Shortwave broadcasting facility at Julich
In 1956 the WDR broadcaster established the first short wave transmitter near the borough Mersch. In the subsequent years this site was expanded.
On September 1st, 1961 this site was handed over to the German Federal Post for establishing the German foreign broadcasting service, "Deutsche Welle".
In the course of time 10 transmitters of 100 kilowatts were installed, with transmitting antennas comprising enormous dipole arrays between free standing steel framework towers.
Today these transmitters are rented to the predominantly to non-German broadcasting organisations.
In the 1990's a transmitting plant for medium wave was installed, using a long wire antenna which is spun from a tower on the transmitter site. It was intended to be used for transmission of the programme of radio Viva on 702 kHz, but it never went into regular service for this broadcaster. Since December 6, 2004, this mediumwave transmitter is used to broadcast the programmes of German commercial broadcaster "TruckRadio" on 702 kHz.
Julich is one of the lead tranmission sites for test and experiemental broadcasts of Digital Radio Mondial (DRM) - short wave digital radio.
posted by Christian Radio Blog at Saturday, April 08, 2006
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