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The five-year contract, which provides Deutsche Welle with a highly
flexible and cost effective sce, includes a significant potential increase
in programme hours from May 2007.
Doug Umbers, Managing Director, VT Communications said: "We are delighted
to be given the opportunity to play such a critical role in broadcasting a
significant proportion of Deutsche Welle's worldwide programmes. We are
proud to be associated with such an internationally respected broadcaster
and look forward to developing the partnership over the coming years".
"We were able to respond to Deutsche Welle's requirements in a technical
and commercially creative way based on our extensive experience and
understanding of the industry, and through our unique technical knowledge
and capability."
VT Communications, which already owns and operates short wave and medium
wave tx sites worldwide, will make a multi-million pound investment in its
sites in the UK and its partner site in Austria to facilitate Deutsche
Welle's analogue and digital broadcasts. This will involve creating a
newly re-engineered infrastructure to support the sces required, including
new txs, antennas and support infrastructure, demonstrating VT
Communications' commitment to providing state-of-the-art solutions for
broadcasters in analogue and digital.
Press release 14/8, photo of masts at Woofferton was attached.
(via Mike Barraclough-UK, wwdxc BC-DX Aug 14)
Hopefully the VT contract will be profitable for DW in future also.
Normally expensive VT hiring rates are much higher than the German Telekom
T-systems rates. (wb)
Google Earth Imagery. HR Frankfurt MW 594 kHz 250 kW, via (Frankfurt)
Rodgau Weiskirchen, 2 masts in 60/240degr,
255 meters apart each other.
Main lobe at 180 degr. Screened towards degr/dB
000/10, 60/4, 120/15, 180/0, 240/8, 300/0, at
50 03 23 N 8 51 56 E
50 03 19 N 8 51 45 E
and (Kassel) Hoher Meissner, MW 594 kHz, 90 kW,
two masts in 25/205 degr, 145 meters apart each other.
51 12 34 N 9 50 45 E main mast
51 12 29 N 9 50 42 E reflector
WDR Langenberg, TX house, FM/TV tower at
51 21 22 68 N 7 08 2 76 E
MW 720/1593 kHz mast at
51 21 3 N 7 08 17 7 E
DLF Nordkirchen 549 kHz 100 kW, two masts in 50/230 degr, 137 meters
apart.
51 45 19 04 N 7 32 21 E
51 45 17 64 N 7 32 16 E
DLF Thurnau 549 kHz 100 kW,
single mast at 49 59 14 50 N 11 22 36 E
tx house at 49 59 11 N 11 22 48 E
T-systems Woebbelin [former GDR highpower 576 kHz site,
minor txion on 999 kHz]
Two masts in 150/330 degr, 123 meters apart each other.
53 23 43 N 11 30 59 E
53 23 40 N 11 31 2 E