BC-DX TopNews WWDXC #945 BC-DX 945

I know only a single more S 4105 has ever been built, for the Sveio site
in Norway which no longer exists.
The old main building
houses only the control room. The large transmitter hall there is empty,
away from being home of a collection to which also the first broadcasting
transmitter of the Nauen site belongs. This was a 50 kW Funkwerk
Koepenick, installed at 1958 in this building
Otherwise this was until 1990 a utility site.
The unique antenna is here:
West of it were the old 500 kW facilities, with the towers just being
demolished. It started in 1972 with a Brown Boveri 500 kW, using a 6/7 MHz
HQ for services to Europe, a HR 4/4/0.5 for the Middle East (listed as
15 MHz only) and another HR 4/4/0.75 (6...12 MHz), dedicated to Chile
services. During following years two PKV-500 transmitters plus a S-shaped
row of 4/8 curtains have been added with a Soviet contractor.
These old 500 kW facilities have been replaced by the new 500 kW systems
in 1997. The 100 kW system remained in use for another three years for DW
(6140 kHz) and RNW (English at noon to the UK, the second frequency
besides Juelich-6045) until 2000 UT, then it has been revived after six
years with an ex-Juelich transmitter for free brokerage in 2006. The 50 kW
transmitter on the utility site has been withdrawn in 1991, together with
three of the four 2x50 kW Sneg units at Koenigs Wusterhausen.
By the way, on the next annual open monument day in 2006 the traditional
Deutsche Welle booth (pictured in 2005 here) was already missing, of
course, since another presentation after terminating the transmission
contract would have been quite impudent.
And I already considered again walking out in 2007, only to listen how
they say that they have nothing to do with Deutsche Welle anymore. Perhaps
I indeed missed something, judging from the surprise I saw when explaining
this to people.
(Kai Ludwig-D, dxld Apr 29)
Re: Nauen antenna site. Here are the images taken of 2000 year.
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