diff --git a/mpikat/effelsberg/edd/EDDDataStore.py b/mpikat/effelsberg/edd/EDDDataStore.py
index 59af49d9057aa08cec6c6ed69cad391e45d52c6f..9ae5e2938cb06900f5536f60e346ba13b296023e 100644
--- a/mpikat/effelsberg/edd/EDDDataStore.py
+++ b/mpikat/effelsberg/edd/EDDDataStore.py
@@ -33,8 +33,8 @@ data_formats = {
             "port": "",
             "description": "Spead stream of integrated spectra.",
             "central_freq": "",
+            "receiver_id": "",  # Passign down all informations via the data format is only a hack as any product should not what to pass down from upstream to downstream. Only a full desciption of itself should be passed. If a data writer needs all information, it should recnstrut it from the entreis in the data store. 
             "band_flip": ""
-
         },
         "MPIFR_EDD_Packetizer:1": {
             "ip": "",
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ data_formats = {
             "sync_time" : 0,
             "band_flip": False,
             "central_freq": 0,
+            "receiver_id": "",
             "polarization": None,
             "samples_per_heap": 4096,
             "description": "Spead stream of time-domain packetizer data as in EDD ICD."
diff --git a/mpikat/effelsberg/edd/pipeline/GatedSpectrometerPipeline.py b/mpikat/effelsberg/edd/pipeline/GatedSpectrometerPipeline.py
index cbcd58445fa08dde05c3232eb531f314b5c22fcb..cb6935b38ddfd41940d0ec3b1e3ce8ac5b82b9aa 100644
--- a/mpikat/effelsberg/edd/pipeline/GatedSpectrometerPipeline.py
+++ b/mpikat/effelsberg/edd/pipeline/GatedSpectrometerPipeline.py
@@ -437,6 +437,7 @@ class GatedSpectrometerPipeline(EDDPipeline):
         for l in self._config["output_data_streams"].values():
             l["central_freq"] = self._config["input_data_streams"][0]["central_freq"]
             l["band_flip"] = self._config["input_data_streams"][0]["band_flip"]
+            l["receiver_id"] = self._config["input_data_streams"][0]["receiver_id"]
         self._configUpdated()