The famous "Landessender Beromünster" will shut down on Dec 28th. The name of the little city "Beromünster" was known throughout Europe, as it was marked on many radio scales of the last decades. It's frequency is 531kHz (since 1978).
Beromünster started broadcasting on June 11th, 1931. After 77 years of operation, its end is near.
Beromünster started broadcasting on June 11th, 1931. After 77 years of operation, its end is near.
Beromünster has 2535 inhabitants (number of Dec 31th 2006) - it's the radio station which made it famous.
I remember having played with an electronics construction kit being a young boy and I constructed my first radio. There were two stations which could be heard very easily because they had a strong signal: Bodenseesender (SWF Südwestfunk 1; now SWR) at 666kHz (hehe no it was not the devil!) and Radio Beromünster at 531 kHz.
Even with the "Volksempfänger" (which has its 75th anniversary this year) you were able to listen to Beromünster using a better antenna. Despite being threatened by the nazi regime (it was unlawful to listen to non-german stations after 1939) nearly everybody did it in South Germany - the signal was so strong that even this radio with a really bad reception quality did decode it well.
The following picture shows the station antenna called Blosenbergturm. It is taken from Wikipedia (direct link).
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