One of them was originally planned at Nauen, but objections of the Soviet Military Administration in Germany led to the construction of Funkstelle Köpenick.
[4] The 1959 transmitter, shut down and replaced in 1993, was rebuilt in Königs Wusterhausen radio museum on the site of the former longwave transmission station.
[8] The latter was made unnecessary when the Geneva Frequency Plan of 1975 came into effect, was dismantled in 1984 and re-erected at Wachenbrunn transmitter site, where it remained until 19 September 2013.
[9] Hydraulic jacks could lift the masts from their base insulators to avoid damage of the latter e.g. when sonic booms from military aircraft were expected.
A free-standing steel lattice mast supported directional antennas for the reception of signals from the Adlershof studio.
The smaller transmitters were used for Berliner Rundfunk and occasionally to jam the reception of RIAS, and for the programme of Stimme der DDR.
on 102.6 MHz, both using a Yagi antenna on top of the tube mast, until the modernisation of the Berlin TV tower.