Erching transmitter
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 as aerial a 256 metre high guyed steel framework mast, was at the time of its inaugauration with a transmitting power of 1000 kilowatts the most powerful radio station in the world.
In 1973 this facility was shutdown in order of the relax politics. The German Federal Post succeeded at the workout of the waveplan of Geneva in getting a new frequency for this transmitter and to use it for broadcasting the program of Deutschlandfunk. Because directional radiation was required at night times for which a second aerial mast had to be errected, which was impossible because of the planned (and 1992 opened) new Munich International Airport, the transmitter had to be shutdown at night time.
A new transmitter site was consequently placed at Aholming in 1985. After the completation of the longwave transmitter Aholming the longwave transmitter Erching was shutdown and dismantled. Nowadays in the buildings there is a dependance of the German Federal Intelligence Agency.
See also: List of masts