Re:[HCDX] A question about the power of European tx'ers

[Erich Bergmann <emb.bergmann@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 11:08 18.06.2003 +0200, you wrote:
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Aurel Chiochiu" <acq@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2003 10:27 PM
>Subject: Re: [HCDX] A question about the power of European tx'ers
>> In Romania, the anti-Ceausescu messages were transmitted over SW, via RFL
>> (Radio Europa Liberã), not over MW, only on SW wich was jammed by the way

The jamming of the Romanian Programme of RFE was stopped in August 1963



>>Radio Europa Liberã was the only foreign station
>broadcasting
>> to Romania and it was 100% anti-communist programming and all on SW. 

Incorect! There were some more  foreign station broadcasting in Romanian e.g.:
VOA, Deutsche Welle, BBC, R. France Intern., RAI and others

>>If they
>> had done this on MW, because of the lower frequency and a higher amount of
>> groundwave (and somewhat less skywave obviously) Ceasusescu would have put
>> local tx'er on the same channels as RFL and the listening would have
>become
>> impossible.

Now RFE had only one MW Transmitter at Holzkirchen and this transmitter
broadcast the programs in Polish. However the VOA broadcast in Romanian on
mediumwave via the transmitter in Greece on 791 kHz (since 1979: 792 kHz) 

>> As for those wondering about the concrete issue... well, in Romania over
>90%
>> of the houses have a reinforced concrete structure, because each few years
>> there are big earthquakes there, 

Houses with reinforced concrete structure was the usual method of
constructions for multi-storey buildings in Romania and other East European
countries.

>so that was the reason, in my opinion,
>why
>> most Romanian stations use over 100 kW, like Craiova 558 use 600 kW and
>when

In Europe are used generally higher powers on MW than in America.

73
Erich


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