Sender Hosingen

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Sender Hosingen
image of the object
Sendermast im März 2006
Transmitter mast in March 2006
Basic data
Location: Parc Hosingen
Canton: Clerf
State: Luxembourg
Altitude: 506 m
Coordinates: 50° 1′ 14.6′′ N, 6° 6′ 17.3′′ O | |OSM
Usage: Radio station
Accessibility: Transmission tower not publicly accessible
Owner: Broadcasting Center Europe
Data of the mast
Construction time: 1970
Building material: Steel
Operating time: since 1970
Total height: 300 m
Data on the transmission system
Wave range: FM transmitter
Broadcasting: FM broadcasting
Position map
Sender Hosingen (Luxembourg)
Sender Hosingen (Luxemburg)
Sender Hosingen
Sender Hosingen in a close-up

The station Hosingen is a broadcasting system of the Broadcasting Center Europe, a subsidiary of the RTL Group for FM. The transmitter system consists of a 300-meter-high steel tube mast with a diameter of 2 meters. This is the tallest building in Luxembourg.

History[edit | edit source code]

From 1962 to 1970, the transmission system was located in Marnach. On the 17th In January 1969, the transmission tower there fell over. Therefore, a new FM station was put into operation in Hosingen in 1970.

Before the switch to DVB-T, an analog television station was also in operation in Hosingen, which broadcast the Dutch program RTL 5.

Structure[edit | edit source code]

The main transmitters are two FM transmitters of the type Telefunken S 3217 with 10 kilowatts of output power each. Two Telefunken S 3152 with 10 kilowatts of output power are also installed as a spare transmitter.

The transmitting antennas for VHF are each located at a height of 237 meters (92.5 MHz) and at a height of 285 meters (97.0 MHz) at the transmission tower.

Frequencies and programs[edit | edit source code]

Analog radio (FM)[edit | edit source code]

In the antenna diagram, in the case of directed radiation, the main beam directions are given in degrees. The station on 97 MHz is used to broadcast the German program of RTL, which was particularly popular in the 1970s. A considerable effort was made to be able to receive the station up to the Cologne area. In addition to Luxembourg, the range under normal conditions covers the Eifel and the Hunsrück.

Frequency 
(MHz)
Program RDS-PS RDS-PI Regionalization ERP
(kW)
Antenna diagram
round (ND)/
directed (D)
Polarization
horizontal (H)/
vertical (V)
92,5 RTL Radio Lëtzebuerg _RTL.lu_ 7210 50 D H
97,0 RTL - Germany's hit radio RTLRADIO 7111 Luxembourg, Trier, Eifel, Saarland 100 D H
105 Eldoradio (Luxembourg) 0.1 V

Analog television (PAL)[edit | edit source code]

Before the switch to DVB-T, the broadcasting location continued to serve analog television.

Canal Frequency 
(MHz)
Program ERP
(kW)
Sending diagram
round (ND)/
directed (D)
Polarization
horizontal (H)/
vertical (V)
21 471.25 RTL 5 0,3 D H

Web links[edit | edit source code]

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