Technical Data
- The entire height of 250 meters is divided into a 152 m high shaft with a tower basket and a 98 m high antenna
- Architects: Vischer & Weber
- Civil Engineer work: Aegerter & Bosshardt
- Building cost: 50 million Swiss francs
- Concrete volume: 10,000 cubic meters
- Total weight: 23,000 metric tons, of that; 13,500 metric tons in the foundation and 9,500 metric tons in the tower
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- Armouring weight; 1,300 metric tons, steel pipe tower, 135 metric tons
- Steel for the antenna terraces: 120 metric tons, introduction steel: 90 metric tons
- Uses
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- Transmitter, for the among other things, television programs SF 1 and SF two, the radioprograms DRS 1, DRS 2, DRS 3, Baden-Wurttemberg SWR1, SWR2, SWR 3, Baden-Wurttemberg SWR4, radio Basel 1 and radio basilisk.
- In addition, the tower serves for the radio and phone transference and for the water supply communications. Measuring instruments are, in addition, used for weather forecasting and aerial coordination. In an emergency the tower can be likewise used as a transmitter.
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