[BC] Open wire transmission lines Hi Power Medium Wave

[Robert Meuser]

I dont know about the latest iteration of Europe #1 but they 
traditionally had a lot of Bandwidth problems (worse that Radio 
Luxembourg) and the signal was just not that good for the power. One of 
the best signals is Radio Monte Carlo 216 khz with 3 megawatts.

R


Mark Humphrey wrote:

> How about the "border blaster" Europe 1, which transmits on 183 kHz
> with a four-tower "drive-through" inline array from the Saarland
> region of Germany into France?  The TPO is 2 MW, and gain in the main
> lobe (at 220 deg azimuth) is 5 dB.  I haven't been able to find a
> polar plot of the pattern, but it reportedly has a very deep null
> towards Berlin, to protect a co-channel station.
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> A picture of the open wire "coax" is about halfway down this page:
> http://perso.orange.fr/tvignaud/am/e1/e1_bat.htm
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> More background:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longwave_transmitter_Europe_1
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> Auf Deutsch, good pictures of the array:
> http://members.aon.at/wabweb/radio/europe1.htm
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> On 12/1/06, Robert Meuser <Robertm at broadcast.net> wrote:
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>> Imagine what 2 million watts into a 3 tower in line array on 234 khz
>> does.  That is Radio Luxembourg's French service Transmitter. The towers
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