Hi again Ha-Jo, thanks for that interesting detail. I had not realised that
it really was originally an MW BC station, as I was very familiar with the
maritime station of that name, and it is unusual for the two services to be
"mixed". Most of the Coastal radio station sites date back to the early part
of the last centuary....being what would these days be call the main
application for radio at that time.
Best Wishes de Alan G3NYK
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To: <[email protected]>
Sent: 25 November 2005 03:28
Subject: Re: LF: Re: Impressive Top Load
Dear Alan and others,
concerning the problem why Norddeich Radio and the site with the "impressive
top load" has been mentioned in connection with broadcast it should be
mentioned that this site started for another service than coastal radio.
In the years before the 2nd world war this site, called Osterloog, a few
kilometers east of the old Norddeich transmitting site, had been built to
house a 100 kW broadcast propaganda transmitter aiming at the UK and other
western countries. After the war Osterloog has first been used for the
British Forces Network shortly but then transmitted the german BBC programme
for Germany for many years. As a young boy living close to Denmark this
transmitter has been the best broadcast station I could receive with my
detector radio receiver; the waves came over the North Sea with little
attenuation.
In 1956 I have visited Osterloog; at that time the 132 m high self
supporting mast has been used on 658 kHz for the BBC broadcast (mast length
slightly above lambda/4). At that time the Osterloog site had also been used
for first HF broadcasts of the Deutsche Welle. I am not aware when "the
impressive top load" mast had been in service. May be it had been erected
before 2nd world war and survived until the early fifties (according to the
date of the photos) because as far as I know before WW2 the construction of
self supporting masts has not been common or even not yet developed.
In 1967 Norddeich Radio took over Osterloog to build a replacement for its
older transmitting site of Norddeich which dated back to 1906. The last
transmitter at Norddeich has been shut down in 1970. This site now serves as
a facility for campers, with all masts removed. The name Norddeich Radio,
however, had been maintained until its closing down in 1996/97.
OK?
73 Ha-Jo, DJ1ZB
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