> When radio came around in the twenties Europe was - and is still > despite the efforts for a European Union - > a continent which is split into some fourty countries. Countries, > not radio stations overseen by e.g. the FCC, divided up the MW > band in the twenties, and as you know WWII, suceeded by the the > Cold War made it impossible to change anything. European > countries have more or less kept all old frequncies and their > right to broadcast with so and so much ERP.
I think it's important to point out that the structure of broadcasting in Europe differs fundamentally from that in the US. Most, if not all, European countries have *national* radio services, whereas the US has networks of local stations. If there are no local variations from network programmes, a single high power mediumwave or longewave transmitter can serve a radius of several hundred kilometres day and night. In the case of smaller countries one transmitter can serve the whole country. There are certainly political issues involved too, but the primary decision on using high power transmitters was originally a technical one. Andy Sennitt. ---[Start Commercial]--------------------- World Radio TV Handbook 2003 is out! Order it now! http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0823059677/hardcoredxcom ---[End Commercial]----------------------- ________________________________________ Hard-Core-DX mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www2.hard-core-dx.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ _______________________________________________ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://dsl.org/copyleft/dsl.txt
