Raichberg Transmitter

[image:Raichberg_transmitter.jpg|thumb|left|The mast of Raichberg Transmitter until 2007]
Raichberg transmitter is a broadcast facility for various FM radio and television programs operated by the Südwestrundfunk on the Raichberg mountain in Albstadt, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It uses a 137 meter guyed steel tube mast as the antenna tower. There is also a free-standing lattice tower for microwave radio.

History

The Raichberg station started broadcast service on as an FM radio transmitter operating the Südwestfunks program SWF 1. The first transmitting antenna was installed at this time on the observation tower “Raichbergturm”, which is close to the current station. Since December 1954, a high steel tube mast was used as an antenna support. As this tower could not carry TV broadcasting antennas, a new steel tube mast went into operation starting in. Between September and November 2007, the originally high mast was converted to the upcoming digital DVB-T. The old analog VHF antenna was dismantled and a new high UHF antenna segment for DVB-T was mounted on top, thereby shrinking the transmission tower from.