The AM transmitter in Burg, Germany is a huge facility for longwave and mediumwave broadcasting. Its most dominant constructions are a 324 metre guyed radio mast and two 210 metre guyed steel tube masts. Longwave radio frequencies are those below 500 kHz, which correspond to wavelengths longer than 600 meters. ... Mediumwave radio transmissions (sometimes called Medium frequency or MF) are those between the frequencies of 300 kHz and 3000 kHz. ... Broadcasting is the distribution of audio and video signals (programs) to a number of recipients (listeners or viewers) that belong to a large group. ...

The 324 meters high mast is a grounded construction with triangular cross section. It carried until the beginnings of the ninties a highly effective fadinng-reducing transmitting antenna in form of one in Russia developed special cage aerial, which was called ARRT-antenna. It served for the 1000kW-medium wave transmitter operated on 783 kHz, which was the strongest transmitter of the former GDR, as transmitting antenna. Today this mast carries a cage aerial for long wave. Both 210 meters high tube masts are isolated against ground. One of the two tube masts can be used as toe-fed mast antenna for long and medium wave, while the other mast can be used only as transmitting antenna for the medium-wave band. A Cage aerial is an antenna, which consists of several parallel running wires, which are radialsymmetrically arranged around a tower or a mast. ...

As further antenna systems there are still three step-radiating antennas, which each are hung-up on two free standing steel framework towers and which served as transmitting antenna for a medium-wave transmitter on the frequency 1575 kHz, which is shut down at present and a triangle plane aerial for medium wave.

From 1967 to 1976 there was also another 350 meter high radio mast for long wave, the steel tube lattice mast SL3, which was used for transmitting the program of Radio Wolga. This radio mast was, in order not to affect the radiation field of the other masts, placed in a distance of 2.2 kilometers to the other masts near the road from Burg to Grabow, in the neighboorhood of Gütter, a city part of Burg. It collapsed on February 18, 1976 because of a defective bolt. It was not rebuilt. As replacement one of the two 210 meters high steel tube masts was converted in such way that it could radiate also the program of Radio Wolga (and later also from Radioropa Info) in the long-wave range. Nowadays still some remanents of the basements of the radio mast SL3 are still there. Radio Volga was the name of a broadcasting station for the Russian armed forces in the former GDR. Radio Volga would send castle until 1968 of king Wusterhausen, starting from 1968 the transmitter with Magdeburg was used. ... February 18 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... 1976 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... Radioropa Info was the designation of the only German-language private broadcasting station in the long-wave range. ...

In the 1960s some propaganda transmitters became, as the German soldier transmitter, operated on the site of the AM transmitter Burg. The 1960s, or The Sixties, in its most obvious sense refers to the decade between 1960 and 1969, but the expression has taken on a wider meaning over the past twenty years. ...

See also

• List of masts

Warsaw radio mast Masts are among the tallest man-made structures. ...

External links

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