page_title: Marnach transmitter
hierarchical_section_title: Marnach transmitter
caption_attribution_description: English: The three masts of the day antenna of the Marnach transmitter, Luxembourg. Lëtzebuergesch: Dagsender vu Maarnech. Polski: Maszty anteny średnio falowej w Marnach, Luksemburg.
context_page_description: Marnach transmitter was a broadcasting facility of RTL near Marnach in the commune of Munshausen, in northern Luxembourg. The Marnach transmitter was built in 1955 for improving the transmission of the English-speaking program on 1439 kHz, which was transmitted from 1951 with an omnidirectional antenna from Junglinster, to the British Isles and for a better transmission on this frequency to Germany at daytime. Therefore, it was given a directional antenna with a switchable directional characteristic pointing North-northeast towards the Rhine-Ruhr area, Germany's most populated area, and West-northwest in the direction of the UK. This antenna was implemented in form of a directional antenna consisting of three ground-fed 105-metre tall guyed mast antennas arranged in the form of an isosceles triangle with a 90 degree angle.
  As transmitters, two 100 kW units switched in parallel were used when it went in service in December 1955.
context_section_description: Marnach transmitter was a broadcasting facility of RTL near Marnach in the commune of Munshausen, in northern Luxembourg.  The Marnach transmitter was built in 1955 for improving the transmission of the English-speaking program on 1439 kHz (later 1440 kHz), which was transmitted from 1951 with an omnidirectional antenna from Junglinster, to the British Isles and for a better transmission on this frequency to Germany at daytime. Therefore, it was given a directional antenna with a switchable directional characteristic pointing North-northeast towards the Rhine-Ruhr area, Germany's most populated area, and West-northwest in the direction of the UK.  This antenna was implemented in form of a directional antenna consisting of three ground-fed 105-metre tall guyed mast antennas arranged in the form of an isosceles triangle with a 90 degree angle.
  As transmitters, two 100 kW units switched in parallel were used when it went in service in December 1955.
caption: the three 105-metre tall masts of the day antenna of the Marnach transmitter
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