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Mar 20, 2008, 10:36 PM
For 3 towers, the following information should be added:
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Some further information to Deutschlandsender Herzberg ( http://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=45271 )
The facility was also called "Deutschlandsender III", as it was the third transmission facility built for broadcasting
the program of "Deutschlandsender". The mast was a mast radiator insulated against ground and guyed in 4 levels.
It stood on the roof of the 12 metres tall helix building. So the height of the pure mast structure was 325 metres.
The mast carried on its top a lens-like disk for its electrical enlengthing. This structure was 4 metres high and had a diametre of 25 metres and it
was possible to stand in it.
As the mast was a mast radiator insulated against ground, it led high radio frequency voltages against ground, which would have required special measures for the installation of aircraft warning lights on its top. As these measures are expensive one installed on 3 poles close to the mast three rotating skybeamers, which illuminated the lens-like top of the mast at night.
It was planned to expand this facility to a skywave-reducing antenna by building further 275 metres tall mast radiators on a circle around the mast. However as result of World War II these plans were not realized. However one started in 1944 to build a reserve antenna consisting of 3 masts each 150 metres tall arranged in a triangle of 210 metres side length. These masts
were never built, but their basement still exists.
On April 19th, 1945 the transmitter was destroyed by an air raid. The mast itsself was not hit and survived World War II.
The mast itsself was dismantled by Soviet occupants and its parts were transported to former Soviet Union. It is not known, what
happened with them afterwards. It is sometimes claimed, that they were used for building up the radio mast in Raszyn in Poland,
but therefore exists no proof. Other claim, it was built up in Ukraine and Turmenistan, while others say, it was never rebuilt.
The helix building, on which the mast stood and the transmitter building was blown up afterwards. However still today the basements
of the guys and the debris of the helix building with the conical structure on which the basement of the insulator, on which the mast stood
are still there.
In 1959 on some parts of the area of the site of Deutschlandsender III a waterwerk was built.
Source: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutschlandsender_III
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Some further information to Fernsehturm Stuttgart ( http://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=2661 )
Fernsehturm Stuttgart carries beside the standard aircraft warning lights above its topmost observation decks three rotating headlamps
each equipped with a 1600 watt power lamp. Installation of these headlamps was necessary as the tower stands only a few kilometres away
from Stuttgart airport. These lamps, which can be switched off by remote control, are a very characteristic landmark of the skyline in most
areas around Stuttgart and not only for pilots a well-known orientation mark.
As I know, it is the only tower in Germany ( for sure at least in Baden-Württemberg, which carries such lamps.
Source: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernsehturm_Stuttgart
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Some further information to Konstantynow Radio Mast ( http://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=46244 )
An interesting feature of this facility was, that for marking the span field of its guys small free-standing steel masts with
a red lamp on the top were built. These towers still exist today. ( Pictures: http://www.fotosik.pl/showFullSize.php?id=c8283eb1c5d9099f )
The basement of the mast and the basements of the guys of the mast still exist ( http://www.fotosik.pl/showFullSize.php?id=aff22c564098cec1 , http://www.fotosik.pl/showFullSize.php?id=1d18174380ab5f30 http://www.fotosik.pl/showFullSize.php?id=94cbb6d8455c5ce5 , http://www.fotosik.pl/showFullSize.php?id=37825658e35f59cd ) , The former helix building close to the mast is still
standing, but it is devasted ( http://www.fotosik.pl/showFullSize.php?id=b4f627ca2d65f90a , http://www.fotosik.pl/showFullSize.php?id=8c61e83613f92057 , http://www.fotosik.pl/showFullSize.php?id=2570959ac553cb44 ).
Some debris of the mast stuck still in the ground! ( http://www.fotosik.pl/showFullSize.php?id=e3fac79f620a8bbc , http://www.fotosik.pl/showFullSize.php?id=6540eb7afbcbdef3 )
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Some further information to Deutschlandsender Herzberg ( http://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=45271 )
The facility was also called "Deutschlandsender III", as it was the third transmission facility built for broadcasting
the program of "Deutschlandsender". The mast was a mast radiator insulated against ground and guyed in 4 levels.
It stood on the roof of the 12 metres tall helix building. So the height of the pure mast structure was 325 metres.
The mast carried on its top a lens-like disk for its electrical enlengthing. This structure was 4 metres high and had a diametre of 25 metres and it
was possible to stand in it.
As the mast was a mast radiator insulated against ground, it led high radio frequency voltages against ground, which would have required special measures for the installation of aircraft warning lights on its top. As these measures are expensive one installed on 3 poles close to the mast three rotating skybeamers, which illuminated the lens-like top of the mast at night.
It was planned to expand this facility to a skywave-reducing antenna by building further 275 metres tall mast radiators on a circle around the mast. However as result of World War II these plans were not realized. However one started in 1944 to build a reserve antenna consisting of 3 masts each 150 metres tall arranged in a triangle of 210 metres side length. These masts
were never built, but their basement still exists.
On April 19th, 1945 the transmitter was destroyed by an air raid. The mast itsself was not hit and survived World War II.
The mast itsself was dismantled by Soviet occupants and its parts were transported to former Soviet Union. It is not known, what
happened with them afterwards. It is sometimes claimed, that they were used for building up the radio mast in Raszyn in Poland,
but therefore exists no proof. Other claim, it was built up in Ukraine and Turmenistan, while others say, it was never rebuilt.
The helix building, on which the mast stood and the transmitter building was blown up afterwards. However still today the basements
of the guys and the debris of the helix building with the conical structure on which the basement of the insulator, on which the mast stood
are still there.
In 1959 on some parts of the area of the site of Deutschlandsender III a waterwerk was built.
Source: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutschlandsender_III
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Some further information to Fernsehturm Stuttgart ( http://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=2661 )
Fernsehturm Stuttgart carries beside the standard aircraft warning lights above its topmost observation decks three rotating headlamps
each equipped with a 1600 watt power lamp. Installation of these headlamps was necessary as the tower stands only a few kilometres away
from Stuttgart airport. These lamps, which can be switched off by remote control, are a very characteristic landmark of the skyline in most
areas around Stuttgart and not only for pilots a well-known orientation mark.
As I know, it is the only tower in Germany ( for sure at least in Baden-Württemberg, which carries such lamps.
Source: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernsehturm_Stuttgart
---------------------------------------------------------------
Some further information to Konstantynow Radio Mast ( http://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=46244 )
An interesting feature of this facility was, that for marking the span field of its guys small free-standing steel masts with
a red lamp on the top were built. These towers still exist today. ( Pictures: http://www.fotosik.pl/showFullSize.php?id=c8283eb1c5d9099f )
The basement of the mast and the basements of the guys of the mast still exist ( http://www.fotosik.pl/showFullSize.php?id=aff22c564098cec1 , http://www.fotosik.pl/showFullSize.php?id=1d18174380ab5f30 http://www.fotosik.pl/showFullSize.php?id=94cbb6d8455c5ce5 , http://www.fotosik.pl/showFullSize.php?id=37825658e35f59cd ) , The former helix building close to the mast is still
standing, but it is devasted ( http://www.fotosik.pl/showFullSize.php?id=b4f627ca2d65f90a , http://www.fotosik.pl/showFullSize.php?id=8c61e83613f92057 , http://www.fotosik.pl/showFullSize.php?id=2570959ac553cb44 ).
Some debris of the mast stuck still in the ground! ( http://www.fotosik.pl/showFullSize.php?id=e3fac79f620a8bbc , http://www.fotosik.pl/showFullSize.php?id=6540eb7afbcbdef3 )