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and put under the control of the Ministry for Post and Telecommunications. The second 250 kW transmitter went into service in 1956. The first one which can be considered a prototype was replaced in 1959 by an improved version. Two smaller medium wave transmitters were also installed.
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Two wire triangle aerials, each mounted on three guyed steel lattice masts of 50 m height, were used as reserves. The first, east of the transmitter house, was built in 1951, the second, western one only in 1963. They were dismantled in the late 1990s.
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was installed here, and the site served as the prototype for the following medium wave transmitter installations in the GDR. Construction started on 21 May 1951, transmissions on 6 July 1952. The building for the
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In 1956, a 1 kW television transmitter was installed which was replaced in 1958 by a 10 kW transmitter. TV transmissions from Köpenick had ceased, however, when the Berlin TV tower went into service.
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near Oranienburg for medium wave broadcast made the facilities in Köpenick redundant. They were shut down in 2002, and the run-down transmission mast was demolished on 16 December 2002.
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site, where it remained until 19 September 2013. Hydraulic jacks could lift the masts from their base insulators to avoid damage of the latter e.g. when
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was transmitted on 728 kHz with 250 kW. Later, the programme of Berliner Rundfunk was transmitted on 693 kHz, and that of
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radio museum on the site of the former longwave transmission station. One of the smaller medium wave transmitters is now at
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in 1997, which took over the FM and TV transmissions, and the construction of a new transmission mast of 120 m height at
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from military aircraft were expected. The reflector mast also carried aerials for FM broadcasting and television.
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The programme of Berliner Rundfunk was transmitted from Köpenick in FM. From 1983, the transmitter was used for
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The aerial for medium wave transmissions consisted of one 248-metre-high (814 ft) guyed steel tube
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The 250 kW transmitters were used to broadcast the programmes of Berliner Welle,
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Decisions of the construction of new medium wave transmitting facilities for the
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After 1989, the old medium wave transmitters were dismantled and three modern
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on top of the tube mast, until the modernisation of the Berlin TV tower.
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was only completed in October 1953. In 1954 the site was renamed into
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The 1959 transmitter, shut down and replaced in 1993, was rebuilt in
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came into effect, was dismantled in 1984 and re-erected at
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were taken in 1950. One of them was originally planned at
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on 693 kHz. The latter frequency was used for the
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transmitters installed in the antenna tuner building.
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broadcasting
medium wave
short wave
VHF
Berlin-Köpenick
Germany
GDR
Nauen
Soviet Military Administration in Germany
Funkwerk Köpenick
diesel generators
Telefunken
Königs Wusterhausen
mast
Geneva Frequency Plan of 1975
Wachenbrunn transmitter
sonic booms
directional antennas
Adlershof
Berlin TV tower
Zehlendorf
Berliner Rundfunk
Radio Berlin International
jam
RIAS
Berliner Rundfunk
Radio DDR 1
Voice of Russia
Yagi antenna
58°28′36″N 13°35′21″E / 58.47667°N 13.58917°E / 58.47667; 13.58917

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