The Nordkirchen transmitter was a medium-wave broadcasting facility of Media Broadcast and former

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, Germany. It was built in 1979 and 1980 after and finally de-funct in 2018.

Transmitter

It transmitter had 100 kW power and uses a directional antenna on 549 kHz aimed at the Northeast, consisting of two ground-fed, guyed, lattice steel masts 136 metres apart. The power opposite the antenna's focal point was approximately one-third the total radiated power. This avoided conflicting with the nearby Wavre transmitter in Belgium, which works on the neighbouring 540 kHz frequency. In 2004, a second medium-wave transmitter with a power of 5 kW for transmitting the privately owned radio programme Truckradio was installed at Nordkirchen transmitter, which uses the same antenna as the transmitter of

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. First the 5 kW transmitter got de-funct and later the main transmitter. In 2018 the facility got rebuild.

References

External links

* https://web.archive.org/web/20070202095847/http://www.asamnet.de/~bienerhj/0549-NW.html *
Entry of Mast 1
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Entry of Mast 2
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*https://web.archive.org/web/20081011141506/http://www.waniewski.de/id540.htm
Nordkirchen transmitter on Google Maps
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