Longwave transmitter Erching
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The longwave transmitter Erching was a longwave broadcasting facility of the Voice of America, established in 1953 near Erching, Bavaria, Germany. This transmitter, which used a 256 metre high guyed-steel-framework mast aerial, was at the time of its inaugauration the most powerful radio station in the world, with a transmitting power of 1000 kilowatts
In 1973, this facility was shut down because of a relaxed political climate. In 1979, it was used for LORAN-D tests. The German Federal Post succeeded, by a workout of the waveplan of Geneva, in getting a new frequency for this transmitter and using it for broadcasting the program of Deutschlandfunk. Because directional radiation was required at night time, a second aerial mast had to be erected. This was impossible because of the then-planned new Munich International Airport (opened in 1992), so the transmitter had to be shut down at night time.
A new transmitter site was consequently placed at Aholming in 1985. After the completion of the longwave transmitter Aholming, the longwave transmitter Erching was shut down and dismantled. Presently, they are dependent on the German Federal Intelligence Agency.
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