Kitzbüheler Horn Transmitter
Base data
Site:	Kitzbüheler Horn Kitzbüheler Horn The Kitzbüheler Horn is one of the most important mountains in the Kitzbühel Alps in Tyrol, Austria, whose eastern flank lies near the smart ski resort of Kitzbühel...
Owner:	ORS
Location:	47.475950°N 12.429800°E
Elevation:	1964 metres above NN
Use:	Television tower, not open to the public
Built:	1967-1969
Technical data
Height:	102 metres
Material:	reinforced concrete Reinforced concrete Reinforced concrete is concrete in which reinforcement bars , reinforcement grids, plates or fibers have been incorporated to strengthen the concrete in tension. It was invented by French gardener Joseph Monier in 1849 and patented in 1867. The term Ferro Concrete refers only to concrete that is...

The Kitzbüheler Horn Transmitter is a 102 metre high transmission tower

Transmission tower

A transmission tower is a tall structure, usually a steel lattice tower, used to support an overhead power line. They are used in high-voltage AC and DC systems, and come in a wide variety of shapes and sizes...

 made of reinforced concrete

Reinforced concrete

Reinforced concrete is concrete in which reinforcement bars , reinforcement grids, plates or fibers have been incorporated to strengthen the concrete in tension. It was invented by French gardener Joseph Monier in 1849 and patented in 1867. The term Ferro Concrete refers only to concrete that is...

 on the summit of the Kitzbüheler Horn

Kitzbüheler Horn

The Kitzbüheler Horn is one of the most important mountains in the Kitzbühel Alps in Tyrol, Austria, whose eastern flank lies near the smart ski resort of Kitzbühel...

 near Kitzbühel

Kitzbühel

-Demographic evolution:-Personalities:*Karl Wilhelm von Dalla Torre , entomologist and botanist*Alfons Walde , expressionist painter and architect*Peter Aufschnaiter , mountaineer and geographer...

 in Austria

Austria

Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...

. The Kitzbühler Horn Transmitter does not have a cylindrical schaft. It broadcasts TV

Television

Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...

 and VHF radio programmes.
The tower was taken into service on 12 December 1969 as a combined radio and television transmission facility for the ORF

ORF

ORF may refer to:* ORF , the Austrian public service broadcaster.* Open reading frame, a portion of the genome.* The IATA airport code for Norfolk International Airport in Norfolk, Virginia.* ORF format , Olympus raw image file format....

 after a difficult two-year long construction period. This had been preceded by lengthy and intensive negotiations with local authorities and land owners.

To facilitate the switchover to DVB-T

DVB-T

DVB-T is an abbreviation for Digital Video Broadcasting — Terrestrial; it is the DVB European-based consortium standard for the broadcast transmission of digital terrestrial television that was first published in 1997 and first broadcast in the UK in 1998...

, the analogue channels ORF 1 (Channel 5, 3 kW) and ORF 2 - Tirol (Channel 24, 30 kW) were switched off on 22 October 2007.

Analogue radio (VHF)

Frequency Frequency Frequency is the number of occurrences of a repeating event per unit time. It is also referred to as temporal frequency.The period is the duration of one cycle in a repeating event, so the period is the reciprocal of the frequency... [MHz]	Programme	RDS PI	ERP Effective radiated power In radio telecommunications, effective radiated power or equivalent radiated power is a standardized theoretical measurement of radio frequency energy using the SI unit watts, and is determined by subtracting system losses and adding system gains... [kW]	Polar diagram Radiation pattern In the field of antenna design the term radiation pattern most commonly refers to the directional dependence of the strength of the radio waves from the antenna or other source .... circular (ND)/directional (D)	Polarization horizontal (H)/vertical (V)
95.4	Ö2 - Radio Tirol Radio Tirol Radio Tirol is the regional radio for Tyrol and the German-speaking population of South Tyrol, and is part of the Österreich 2 group.It is broadcast by the ORF, and the programs from Radio Tirol are made in the ORF Tirol Studio.-History:...	RADIO___TIROL	4.5	D	H
97.5	Ö1 Ö1 Ö1 is an Austrian radio station: one of the four national networks operated by Austria's public broadcaster ORF. It focuses on classical music, jazz, documentaries, features, news, radio plays, radio dramas, cabaret, quiz shows, and discussions.Ö1's programming mix of information, culture, music,...	OE___1	4.5	D	H
99.9	FM4 FM4 FM4 is an Austrian national radio station, operated by the ORF. Its main target is the youth audience, and much of the music output is characterised by an alternative rock and electronic music slant....	FM4	4.5	D	H
103.4	Life Radio Tirol (St. Johann in Tirol)	*LIFE*	0.2	D	H
103.9	Ö3 O3 O3 may refer to:*O3, the molecular formula for ozone*O3, the 1993 debut album by the techno band Sunscreem*O3: A Trilogy, a concept album trilogy by progressive metal band Dominici...	HITRADIO*OE_3	4.5	D	H
106.8	Life Radio Tirol (Kitzbühel)	*LIFE*	0.5	D	H

Digital television (DVB-T

DVB-T

DVB-T is an abbreviation for Digital Video Broadcasting — Terrestrial; it is the DVB European-based consortium standard for the broadcast transmission of digital terrestrial television that was first published in 1997 and first broadcast in the UK in 1998...

)

Channel	Frequency Frequency Frequency is the number of occurrences of a repeating event per unit time. It is also referred to as temporal frequency.The period is the duration of one cycle in a repeating event, so the period is the reciprocal of the frequency... [MHz]	Multiplex Multiplex (TV) A multiplex or mux is a group of TV channels that are mixed together for broadcast over a digital TV channel and separated out again by the receiver...	Programmes in multiplex	ERP Effective radiated power In radio telecommunications, effective radiated power or equivalent radiated power is a standardized theoretical measurement of radio frequency energy using the SI unit watts, and is determined by subtracting system losses and adding system gains... [kW]	Polar diagram Radiation pattern In the field of antenna design the term radiation pattern most commonly refers to the directional dependence of the strength of the radio waves from the antenna or other source .... circular (ND)/ directional (D)	Polarization horizontal (H)/ vertical (V)	Modulation technique Modulation In electronics and telecommunications, modulation is the process of varying one or more properties of a high-frequency periodic waveform, called the carrier signal, with a modulating signal which typically contains information to be transmitted...	FEC Forward error correction In telecommunication, information theory, and coding theory, forward error correction or channel coding is a technique used for controlling errors in data transmission over unreliable or noisy communication channels....	Guard interval	Bit rate Bit rate In telecommunications and computing, bit rate is the number of bits that are conveyed or processed per unit of time.... [MBit/s]
23	490	MUX A	ORF 1 ORF 2 Tirol ORF 2 Vorarlberg ATV ATV (Austria) ATV is currently the largest commercial television station in Austria and was originally the first commercial station to be aired via transmitters after a long time when commercial broadcasts in Austria were only possible via satellite or cable and the national public broadcaster ORF held a...	2	D	H	16-QAM	1/4	3/4	14.93