Merkur Tower

The Merkur Tower is a remark tower on the Merkur close to Baden-Baden. The tower has been in use in view that 8 April 1950 with the aid of the previous SWF as a transmission tower for FM-radio and, considering the fact that 1953, TV. At the end of the 1970s the tower became absolutely renovated and its radio device modified. An underground equipment room for radiotechnical equipment changed into built, and a new tower changed into built, adjoining the older tower. In this tower additionally an elevator for traffic become set up.

Built between autumn 1980 and December 1982, it is 23 metres excessive, made from steel and concrete, and carrying a 40 metre high aerial mast with FM and TV-aerials on its pinnacle. In radio engineering, an antenna is the interface among radio waves propagating through area and electric currents transferring in metal conductors, used with a transmitter or receiver. In transmission, a radio transmitter elements an electric powered modern to the antenna's terminals, and the antenna radiates the strength from the current as electromagnetic waves.