BC-DX TopNews WWDXC #945 BC-DX 945

Radio Bremen 936 kHz, SWR Heilbronn - Ulm 711 / 1413 kHz.
Radio Bremen has switched off its 936 kHz transmitter on Wednesday (March
10), assuming that hardly any listeners still tune in. The decision is not
final yet and could be revoked if complaints demonstrate that the
assumption is wrong.
Listeners who already called Radio Bremen have been told that their
reactions indeed get explicitly registered, so apparently this is not just
sweet press officer talk and already writing off 936 kHz would be a bit
premature. It has so far not been deleted either from
For the time being this example has been posted for how 936 sounds in
Germany now:
A permanent closure would be remarkable because the whole transmission
facility is not more than 11 years old. It uses a cheap antenna
construction, as explained in detail at
(link to the subpage with the best photos). This antenna has been
repainted just four years ago, in green, since it is not subject to flight
security rules with its height of just 45 meters. Must have cost them a
considerable fraction of the power bills for one year.
A word about the programming: From 1999 to 2002 the transmitter carried
Funkhaus Europa. In 2001 Radio Bremen closed down its Radio Bremen 3
program and put Funkhaus Europe on its FM frequencies, thus they decided
to use 936 for Bremen Eins (the former Hansawelle) again. Time and again
special programmes went out, apparently for the last time the ARD-
Olympiaradio during "Beijing" (probably also during "Vancouver", here 936
has not been announced in advance but the DW relays on shortwave have not
been either).
(Kai Ludwig-D, dxld March 13)
Also on March 10 Suedwestrundfunk changed the frequency of its transmitter
at Jungingen near Ulm from 711 to 1413 kHz [in oder to allow SWR Heilbronn
Obereisesheim 711 kHz gear to transmit on DRM mode instead, -- in 2nd
quarter of 2010... wb.], apparently in doing so reducing the power from 5
to 1 kW, at least according to
During the second quarter the AM service of SWR cont.ra via the remaining
711 transmitter at Heilbronn/Obereisesheim will cease and the frequency be
used for DRM tests instead, as explained at
1413 is an old Sueddeutscher Rundfunk (one of the Suedwestrundfunk
predecessors) frequency, during the eighties it was in use with 3 kW from
Bad Mergentheim and with 200 watts from some further sites. After 1990
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