(Adrian Peterson, IN, script for AWR Wavescan June 20, via
Glenn Hauser-OK-USA, wor July 14)
- - -
GERMANY/CZECHOSLOVAKIA/CSSR history
* that remaining reserve LW transmitter at Koenigswusterhausen was in
permanent use as heavy JAMMING bubble audio transmitter service against
173 kHz US VoA Munich Erching Bavaria relay services of US RIAS Berlin
German service / US VoA foreign Russian and English services between
1953 and 1973.
173 kHz was also the 'twin' against US VoA / RIAS Berlin JAMMING service
Koenigswusterhausen from CSSR territory instead at Podebrady OLR stn at
50 08 15.15 N 15 08 40 E location.
50 08 11.70 N 15 08 39.88 E tall LW mast former location.
Podebrady LW and SW Site History,
former Czech standard & time station, Czech Radio Prague SW station before
1939, on 7 frequencies and a directional antenna towards North America,
also occupied by Nazi Reichsrundfunk Organization on SW in 49 meterband in
1942 - 1945 years.
Re: Podebrady SW Site History; Jan 1994 by Adrian Peterson-USA AWR :
<www.pateplumaradio.com/genbroad/stations/slovakia.htm>
In 1934, an imported Marconi SW transmitter from England, rated at 30 kW,
was installed at. Podebrady. Regular broadcasting from this unit, OKI, began
on August 31, 1936, using any of three omnidirectional antennas according to
frequency. A directional antenna was installed for use in the service beamed
to the United States.
In 1938, following the German annexation, SW broadcasting from Podebrady
continued, and during the following year, two new transmitters, each of
30 kW were added. These were given the collective callsign, OLR, with a
suffix numeral indicating the unit and channel in use. However, 3 years
later, in 1942 year, German callsigns were introduced for the Podebrady
transmitters, and the collective call became DHE2A. This alphanumeric de-
signation was in use for four years.
Following the events of World War 2, SW broadcasting from Czechoslovakia was
recommenced in 1947 year. Then, for a period of twelve years beginning in
1950, many new transmitters were installed progressively at Podebrady-CSSR.
(Adrian Peterson-USA, AWR Jan 1994 year)
and from
Rimantas Pleikys
RADIO JAMMING IN THE SOVIET UNION, POLAND AND OTHER EAST EUROPEAN COUNTRIES.
W. Edwards, "Long wave duel": "The trading pawn in the hands of the U. S.
had been the megawatt long wave tx located in Munich. The record shows that
when the Soviets stopped jamming the VOA Russian programmes in June of 1963,
the VOA megawatt tx in Munich shut down very soon thereafter. In August
1968, when the Soviets resumed jamming of the VOA. [...] the megawatt in
Munich returned to the air.
Again, in September of 1973 Soviet jamming against the VOA stopped and a
month later the megawatt tx on 173 kHz went off the air. This off again-on
again relation was rooted in the 1948 European Broadcasting Conference at
Copenhagen where medium wave and long wave frequencies were assigned to the
participating countries within Europe.
Under the plan, 173 kHz was assigned to the USSR. [...] The presence of the
VOA megawatt tx in Munich appearing on the same frequency caused an acerbic
reaction - the Soviets took the position that their 500 kW signal on 173 kHz
from Moscow was being jammed".
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tony Ashar" <shortwave@clubmember.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2021 8:24 PM
Subject: Re: [WOR] Koenigswusterhausen
While still living in East Java, as a technical monitor, I received a
circular from Deutsche Welle regarding their broadcasts via transmitters ex
GDR (RBI).
Tony Ashar
Depok, West Java
Indonesia.On 15/07/2021, 08:00 "Glenn Hauser via groups.io" wrote:
The German Shortwave Service at Koenigswusterhausen - 3
On two recent occasions here in Wavescan, we have presented the story
of two of the major transmitter buildings (Senderhaus Nr 1 &
Senderhaus Nr 2) that were in use in the now historic radio station at
Koenigswusterhausen near Berlin in Germany. In our program today, we
tell the story of Senderhaus Nr 3, and its usage over the past almost
one hundred years.
Such was the increasing need for radio transmitters in Germany in the
extended aftermath of World War 1 that a third transmitter building
was constructed at Koenigswusterhausen in 1924. The specific location
of this new transmitter building Senderhaus Nr 3 on Radio Mountain was
identified as Part B. Three Morse Code transmitters were installed in
Senderhaus Nr 3, together with several new antenna systems nearby, and
this new radio equipment was in use for commercial and news
communications.
Back in those days, the design and appearance of German radio
transmitters was very different when compared to the American and
British transmitters. Many of the German transmitter controls and
their associated meters were installed on a sloping bevel panel at a
lower level, not on the main outer cabinet panels at eye level as in
the American transmitter housing.
Many of the radio receivers made in Europe during the period between
the wars, indeed up into the 1970s, showed the names of various radio
broadcasting stations on the glass dial plate according to the
transmitted wavelength. As a well known and powerful longwave radio
broadcasting station, the name Koenigswusterhausen was often printed
on the glass dial plate of German made radio receivers, so that
listeners could turn the dial pointer to the desired position and thus
tune in to the programming from that station.
Now with three transmitter buildings and the associated multitude of
antenna systems, that was enough radio equipment at one location;
there was no additional space at Radio Mountain for further expansion.
Koenigswusterhausen was filled up, and if any additional installation
was needed, then a new location would be sought.
Towards the end of the European War in the middle of last century, as
Russian troops approached Berlin, they were ordered to capture the
twin Koengswusterhausen and Zeesen radio stations undamaged. The final
broadcasts from Koenigswusterhausen under the World War 2 German
administration occurred towards the end of April 1945. On April 25,
the few remaining radio personnel at Koenigswusterhausen-Zeesen closed
the stations down and fled.
At the end of that same year (1945), the Russians installed a 10 kW
longwave transmitter into Senderhaus Nr 3 and this carried the main
program stream from East Berlin. In August next year (1946), a 100 kW
longwave transmitter was installed and this carried the
Deutschlandsender program, also from East Berlin. This unit was on the
air for more than 30 years until it was closed in 1997, though it
still remains in place.
Audio Insert: Deutschlandsender, recreated program in English
In 1952, the fourth floor of an old furniture factory building at 50
Nalepastrasse, in Oberscheineweide, suburban East Berlin, was
redesigned for use as the head office and studios for an extensive
network of longwave, mediumwave, FM and shortwave radio stations
throughout East Germany. The East Berlin studio complex was in use
until 1991, one year after German reunification. Their shortwave
stations were located at Koenigswusterhausen, Zeesen, Leipzig, and
Nauen.
In 1964 a locally assembled 70 kW longwave transmitter was installed,
and this unit remained in service for nearly 30 years until it was
closed down in 1992. This silent transmitter also remains in
location.
Due to economic and environmental problems, the entire station at
Koenigswusterhausen was closed in 1997 and all transmitter buildings,
including Senderhaus Nr 3, remained partly empty. However these days,
the entire complex is an important and very interesting radio museum,
that illustrates the century old history of radio broadcasting in
Germany.
Next time, the story of the historic shortwave station that was
located at nearby Zeesen.
(Adrian Peterson, IN, script for AWR Wavescan June 20, 2021)
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