The Nordkirchen transmitter is a medium-wave broadcasting facility of

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near

Nordkirchen Nordkirchen is a municipality in the district of Coesfeld, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Nordkirchen's most famous site is Schloss Nordkirchen, built in the 18th century for a local bishop and known as the Versailles of Westphalia, as it is ...

in Northrhine-Westphalia. It was built in 1979 and 1980 after the 549 kHz frequency was again made available in that location. It transmitted at a power of 100 kW and uses a directional antenna, aimed at the Northeast, consisting of two ground-fed, guyed, lattice steel masts 136 metres apart. The power opposite the antenna's focal point was approximately one-third the total radiated power. This avoided conflicting with the nearby Wavre transmitter in Belgium, which works on the neighbouring 540 kHz frequency. OFF AIR in 2007 In 2004, a second medium-wave transmitter with a power of 5 kW for transmitting the privately owned radio programme Truckradio was installed at Nordkirchen transmitter, which uses the same antenna as the transmitter of

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References

External links

* https://web.archive.org/web/20070202095847/http://www.asamnet.de/~bienerhj/0549-NW.html *
Entry of Mast 1
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Entry of Mast 2
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*https://web.archive.org/web/20081011141506/http://www.waniewski.de/id540.htm
Nordkirchen transmitter on Google Maps
Radio masts and towers in Germany Towers completed in 1980 1980 establishments in West Germany {{NorthRhineWestphalia-struct-stub