Olympiaturm Explained

Olympiaturm
Location:	Munich, Germany
Coordinates:	48.1744°N 11.5536°W
Completion Date:	1968
References:	^[1]
Top Floor:	182m (597feet)
Antenna Spire:	291m (955feet)
Elevator Count:	2

The Olympic Tower (German: German: Olympiaturm) in the Olympic Park, Munich has an overall height of and a weight of 52,500 tons. At a height of there is an observation platform as well as an exhibition commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Tower. Previously in that space was a small rock-and-roll museum housing various memorabilia. Since its opening in 1968, the tower has registered over 43 million visitors (as of 2018). At a height of there is a revolving restaurant, which seats 230 people. A full revolution takes 53 minutes. The tower also serves as a broadcast tower, and has one Deutsche Telekom maintenance elevator with a speed of, as well as two visitor lifts with a speed of which have a capacity of about 30 people per car. The travel time is about 30 seconds. The tower is open daily from 09:00 to 24:00.^[2]

There is a concept of making virtual reality weather timelapse service from Olympiaturm.^[3] In case it were implemented, it would become the first tower worldwide with such function.

List of channels

The following radio and television stations broadcast from the Olympiaturm.

Analogue FM radio

• 89 MHz: Radio 2Day
• 92.4 MHz: Radio Horeb/Radio Lora/Radio Feierwerk/Münchner Kirchenradio/CRM/Radio München
• 93.3 MHz: Energy München
• 95.5 MHz: 95,5 Charivari
• 96.3 MHz: Gong 96.3
  • 101.3 MHz: Antenne Bayern 107.2 MHz: Klassik Radio

Digital radio (DAB)/Digital mobile television (DMB)

• Block 11D: 222.064 MHz (DAB)
  • Deutschlandfunk
  • Deutschlandradio Kultur
  • Nova Radio
  • Digital Classix/Radio Opera
  • Fantasy Bayern
  • Gong Mobil
  • Radio DeLuxe
  • Bayern 1
  • Bayern 2 plus
  • Bayern 3
  • Das Erste (DMB)
• Block 12D: 229.072 MHz (DAB)
  • Bayern 2 plus
  • Bayern 4 Klassik
  • B5 plus
  • Bayern plus
  • On3radio
  • BR Traffic News
  • Rock Antenne
  • Radio Galaxy

Digital television (DVB-T)

• UHF 26: 514 MHz
  • DVB-H Mobile 3.0 test
• UHF 34: 578 MHz - RTL Group
  • RTL Television
  • RTL II
  • Super RTL
  • VOX
• UHF 35: 586 MHz - ZDF
  • ZDF
  • 3sat
  • ZDFinfokanal
  • KI.KA/ZDFneo
• UHF 48: 690 MHz - ProSiebenSat.1 Media
  • ProSieben
  • Sat.1
  • kabel eins
  • N24
• UHF 52: 722 MHz: Mixed private channels
  • Euronews
  • münchen.tv
  • HSE24
• UHF 54: 738 MHz - ARD national programming
  • Das Erste (BR)
  • arte
  • Phoenix
  • EinsPlus
• UHF 56: 754 MHz - ARD/BR regional programming (South Bavaria)
  • Bayerisches Fernsehen (Swabia/Old Bavaria)
  • BR-alpha
  • SWR Fernsehen (Baden-Württemberg)
  • Das Erste (BR) - DVB-H test

Ham radio and television

• Callsign DB0EL
  • UHF FM relay: 439.275 MHz (International Echolink Network #7385)
  • SHF FM relay: 1298.2 MHz
  • APRS digipeater: 144.8 MHz
• Callsign DB0TVM
  • D-Star relay: 439.975 MHz
  • Amateur television relay: 10194 and 24120 MHz

See also

• List of towers

External links

• tum.de: Olympiapark (a student project of the tum/dept Architecture)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Emporis building ID 109448 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160407060212/https://www.emporis.com/buildings/109448 . usurped . April 7, 2016 . Emporis.
2. Web site: Olympiapark München :: 50 Jahre Olympiaturm – Feiern Sie mit! :: Presse Olympiapark München, Konzerte in München, Veranstaltungen München, Freizeit Sport München, Unterhaltung München.
3. Web site: projektname: Olympic Tower weather in timelapse . 2016-07-21 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160828185913/http://projektname-positiv.de/timelapse-olympic-tower-weather-in-timelapse/ . 2016-08-28 . dead .