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  • 21 Aug, 2019

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Sender Inselsberg

The Sender Inselsberg (transmitter Inselsberg) is an FM, DAB+ and television-transmission facility on the Großer Inselsberg in Thuringia, Germany. It has two aerial towers, which were built in 1939 and 1974.

The transmission tower built in 1939 is a 43.31-metre-high (142.1 ft) freestanding cylindrical tower built of steel concrete, which carried until the beginning of the 1990s similar to Gerbrandy Tower a guyed steel tube mast on its top. This mast carried the FM- and TV-broadcasting aerials.

Nowadays this mast is demounted and there are only small aerials for mobile phone services on its top. The tower is nicknamed because of its cylindrical form "thermos flask".

The transmission tower built in 1974 is a 126-metre-tall (413 ft) freestanding steel tube tower on three feet. This tower which is similar to the tower of transmitter Brocken, which was built at the same time, carries above its legs three platforms for aerials for directional radio services and in its topmost section, protected by layers of glass-reinforced plastic, transmission aerials for FM broadcasting services and TV.

Signals transmitted from Inselsberg

Analogue television (formerly)

FM radio

Frequency 
(MHz)
Programme RDS PS RDS PI Regional programme ERP 
(kW)
92.5 MDR Thüringen MDR_THUE D4F1 Erfurt 80
90.2 MDR Jump MDR_JUMP D3C2 80
87.9 MDR Kultur __MDR___ / _KULTUR_ D3C3 49
97.2 Deutschlandfunk Kultur Dlf_Kult D220 100
102.2 Antenne Thüringen ANT.THUE / AT-WEST_ D4F8 (regional), 
D3F8
West 100
104.2 Landeswelle Thüringen LANDESW. D4F9 (regional), 
D3F9
West 100

Digital Radio (DAB+)

Block kW Operator
5C 5 DR Deutschland
5D 5 Antenne Deutschland
8B 10 MDR Thüringen

Digital Television (DVB-T2)

Channel Frequency 
(MHz)
Multiplex Programmes ERP 
(kW)
Bitrate 
(MBit/s)
27 522 MDR 1 (ARD) 50 23.6
39 618 MDR 2 (ARD) 50 23.6
41 634 Substream 0:

ZDF

(ZDFmobil)

Substream 1: MEDIA BROADCAST

Substream 0:

Substream 1:

50 22

In order to receive ARD-alpha HD (Internet) and SWR BW HD (Internet), a hbb-TV-compatible device is required.

See also

50°51′05″N 10°27′55″E / 50.85141°N 10.46537°E / 50.85141; 10.46537