Lucerne wave plan
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Lucerne Plan (Annex to the European Broadcasting Treaty) in the German Reich Law Gazette 1934
The Lucerne Wave Plan of 1933 was used to coordinate long and medium wave frequencies for broadcasting in Europe and the neighboring Mediterranean region. It is the result of an ITU conference that took place in Lucerne from May 15 to June 19, 1933 , and came into force on January 15, 1934, based on a frequency spacing of 9 kHz. The predecessor was the Prague wave plan from 1929, the successor to the Copenhagen wave plan from 1948 (the wave plan from Montreux 1939 did not come into force due to the war).
KHz target (plan) | KHz Actual (1934) | place | country | kW |
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160 | 160 | Brasov |
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20th |
167 | 182 | Radio Paris |
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75 |
167 | - | Syria / Lebanon |
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- |
175 | 174 | Moscow I (Noginsk RW 1) |
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500 |
183 | 731 | Madrid I (Radio España, EAJ 2) |
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3 |
183 | 208 | Reykjavik |
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16 |
183 | 155 | Kaunas |
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7th |
183 | 229 | Ankara |
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7th |
191 | 191 | Zeesen |
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60 |
200 | 200 | Daventry (5XX) |
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25th |
208 | 208 | Minsk (Koloditschi RW 10) |
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35 |
216 | 216 | Motala |
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30th |
223 | 160 | Huizen |
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7.5 |
223 | 232 | Kharkov I (RW 20) |
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10 |
230 | 224 | Warsaw I (Raszyn) |
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120 |
238 | 237.5 | Kalundborg |
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30th |
238 | - | Northern Portugal |
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- |
245 | 245 | Leningrad I (Kolpino RW 53) |
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100 |
253 | 260 | Oslo |
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60 |
262 | 166 | Lahti |
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45 |
271 | 271 | Moscow II (Stschelkowo RW 49) |
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100 |
355 | 355 | Finmark (Vadsø) |
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10 |
355 | 355 | Rostov-Don (RW 12) |
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20th |
364 | 364 | Smolensk (RW 24) |
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10 |
392 | 392 (1936) | Slovakia (Banská Bystrica) |
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30th |
392 | 413.5 | Ostersund |
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0.6 |
401 | 401 | Geneva |
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1.3 |
401 | 401 | Moscow III (RCZ) |
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100 |
413.5 | 413.5 | Voronezh (RW 25) |
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10 |
413.5 | 387/392 | ground |
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0.6 |
431 | 431 | Oulu |
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1.5 |
519 | 519 | innsbruck |
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0.5 |
519 | 510 | Hamar |
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0.7 |
527 | 211 | Tampere |
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0.7 |
527 | 527 | Ljubljana |
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5.3 |
536 | 536 | Bolzano (IBZ) |
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1 |
536 | 536 | Vilna |
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16 |
546 | 545 | Budapest I |
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120 |
556 | 556 | Beromünster |
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60 |
565 | 565 | Athlone |
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60 |
565 | 565 | Italy. GW: Palermo (IPA) |
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3 |
574 | 574 | Mühlacker |
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100 |
583 | 583 | Madona |
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50 |
583 | 868 (1938) | Tunis (Djedeida) |
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20th |
592 | 592 | Vienna (Bisamberg) |
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100 |
601 | 601 (1938) | Athens |
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15th |
601 | 601 | Radio Morocco |
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6.5 |
601 | 601 | Sundsvall |
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10 |
610 | 610 | Florence (IFI) |
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20th |
610 | 610 | Murmansk (RW 79) |
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10 |
620 | 620 | Brussels I (Veltem) |
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15th |
620 | 620 | Cairo I |
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20th |
629 | 629 | Trondheim (Trøndelag) |
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20th |
629 | 629 | Lisbon |
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20th |
629 | - | Skoplje [later: Zagreb] |
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- |
638 | 638 | Prague I (Liblice) |
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120 |
648 | 648 | Lyon PTT (La Doua) |
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15th |
648 | 648 | Petrozavodsk |
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10 |
658 | 658 | Langenberg |
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100 |
668 | 668 | North Regional (Moorside Edge) |
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50 |
668 | 668 (1936) | Jerusalem |
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20th |
677 | 677 | Sottens |
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25th |
686 | 686 | Belgrade |
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2.5 |
695 | 695 | Paris PTT |
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7th |
704 | 704 | Stockholm |
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55 |
713 | 713 | Rome I (IRO) |
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50 |
722 | 722 | Kiev (RW 9) |
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36 |
731 | 731 | Seville (Union Radio, EAJ 6) |
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0.2 |
731 | 731 | Tallinn |
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20th |
740 | 740 | Munich |
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100 |
749 | 527 | Finland. GW: Viipuri |
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10 |
749 | 749 | Marseille PTT |
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1.6 |
758 | 758 | Katowice |
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12 |
767 | 767 | Midland Regional (Daventry) |
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25th |
776 | 776 | Toulouse PTT (Pyrénées) |
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1.5 |
776 | 776 | Stalino (RW 26) |
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10 |
785 | 785 | Leipzig |
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120 |
795 | - | Coruña |
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- |
795 | 795 | Lviv |
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16 |
804 | 804 | Scottish Regional (Westerglen) |
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50 |
804 | - | Saloniki |
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- |
814 | 814 | Milan I (IMI) |
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50 |
823 | 823 | Romania (Bucharest) |
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12 |
832 | 832 | Moscow IV (Noginsk RW 39) |
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100 |
841 | 841 | Berlin (Tegel) |
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100 |
850 | 850 (1935?) | Sofia |
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0.75 |
850 | 850 | Valencia (Union Radio, EAJ 3) |
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1.5 |
850 | 850 | Norway GW: Ålesund |
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0.4 |
850 | 850 | Norway GW: Porsgrunn |
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0.7 |
850 | 850 | Norway GW: Bergen |
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1 |
859 | 859 | Strasbourg PTT |
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11.5 |
859 | 859 | Simferopol (RW 52) |
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10 |
868 | - | Marrakech |
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- |
868 | 868 | Poses |
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20th |
877 | 877 | London Regional (Brookmans Park) |
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50 |
886 | 886 | Graz |
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7th |
895 | 895 | Helsinki |
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10 |
895 | 913 | Radio Toulouse |
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60 |
904 | 904 | Hamburg |
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100 |
904 | 1492 | Spanish Morocco (Ceuta, EAJ 46) |
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0.5 |
913 | 895 | Limoges PTT |
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0.5 |
913 | 913 | Dnepropetrovsk (RW 30) |
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10 |
922 | 922 | Brno |
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32 |
932 | 932 | Brussels II (Veltem) |
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15th |
941 | 941 | Algiers |
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11.5 |
941 | 941 | Gothenburg |
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10 |
950 | 950 | Wroclaw |
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60 |
959 | 959 | France (Poste Parisien) |
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60 |
959 | 959 | Gomel (RW 40) |
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1.2 |
968 | 583 | Grenoble PTT (Alpes) |
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15th |
968 | 968 | Odessa (RW 13) |
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10 |
977 | 977 | West Regional (Washford) |
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50 |
977 | - | Haifa |
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- |
986 | 986 | Genoa (IGE) |
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10 |
986 | 986 | Krakow |
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1.7 |
995 | 995 | Hilversum |
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20th |
1004 | 1004 | Pressburg |
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13.5 |
1013 | 1013 | North National (Moorside Edge) |
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50 |
1013 | 1013 | Tchernigov (RW 86) |
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5 |
1022 | 1095 | Madrid II (Union Radio, EAJ 7) |
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10 |
1031 | 1031 | Heilsberg |
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60 |
1031 | 1031 | South Portugal (Lisbon, Rádio Clube Português) |
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5 |
1040 | 1040 | Rennes PTT |
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1.5 |
1040 | 1040 | Leningrad II (RW 70) |
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10 |
1040 | 1040 (1938) | Syria / Lebanon ( Beirut ) |
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- |
1050 | 1474 | Bournemouth |
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1 |
1050 | 1050 | Scottish National (Westerglen) |
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50 |
1050 | 1050 | Krasnodar (RW 33) |
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1 |
1059 | 1059 | Bari (IBA) |
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20th |
1068 | 1068 | Tiraspol (RW 57) |
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4th |
1077 | 1077 | Bordeaux PTT (Lafayette) |
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25th |
1086 | 1086 | Falun |
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0.5 |
1086 | 1086 | Zagreb [later: Sarajevo] |
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0.7 |
1095 | 795 | Barcelona (Union Radio, EAJ 1) |
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5 |
1095 | 1095 | Vinnitsa (RW 75) |
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10 |
1104 | 1104 | Naples (INA) |
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1.5 |
1104 | 1104 | Kuldiga |
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50 |
1113 | 1158 | Kosice (Uszhorod) |
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2.6 |
1113 | - | Oran |
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- |
1122 | 1122 | Alexandria I |
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11 |
1122 | 1122 | Belfast |
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1 |
1131 | 1131 | Hörby |
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10 |
1140 | 1140 | Turin I (ITO) |
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7th |
1149 | 1149 | London National (Brookmans Park) |
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50 |
1149 | 1149 | West National (Washford) |
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50 |
1149 | 186 | Turkey (Istanbul) |
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5 |
1158 | 1113 | Moravian Ostrava |
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11.2 |
1167 | 1167 | Monte Ceneri |
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15th |
1176 | 1176 | Copenhagen |
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10 |
1176 | 1303? (1935) | Malta |
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- |
1185 | 1185 (1936) | Nice-Corsica PTT |
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60 |
1185 | 1185 | Kharkov II (RW 4) |
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20th |
1195 | 1195 | Frankfurt (Main) |
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17th |
1195 | 1195 | West German GW: Kaiserslautern |
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1.5 |
1195 | 1195 | West German GW: Kassel |
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1.5 |
1195 | 1195 | West German GW: Koblenz |
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1.5 |
1195 | 1195 | West German GW: Trier |
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2 |
1195 | 1195 | West German GW: Freiburg i. Br. |
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5 |
1204 | 1204 | Czech. GW: Prague II |
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5 |
1213 | 1213 | Lille PTT (North) |
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1.3 |
1222 | 1222 | Trieste (ITS) |
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10 |
1231 | 1231 | Gliwice |
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5 |
1231 | - | German GW |
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- |
1240 | - | Yugoslavia [later: Skoplje] |
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- |
1249 | 230 | Luxembourg |
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150 |
1258 | 1258 | San Sebastian (Union Radio, EAJ 8) |
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0.6 |
1258 | 1258 | Rome III (IRO3) |
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1 |
1258 | 1258 | Riga |
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15th |
1267 | 1267 | South German GW: Augsburg |
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2 |
1267 | 1267 | South German GW: Nuremberg |
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2 |
1276 | 1276 (1935?) | Varna |
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2 |
1276 | 1276 | Norway GW: Bodø |
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0.5 |
1276 | 1276 | Norway GW: Kristansand |
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0.5 |
1276 | 1276 | Norway GW: Stavanger |
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0.5 |
1285 | 1285 | Andrimont (Radio Ottomont) |
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0.1 |
1285 | 1285 | Vellereille (Radio-Wallonia-Bonne-Espérance) |
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0.1 |
1285 | - | Southern Greece |
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- |
1294 | 1294 | Linz |
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0.5 |
1294 | 1348 | Salzburg |
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0.5 |
1303 | 1303 | Danzig |
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0.5 |
1303 | - | Sombor |
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- |
1312 | 1312 | Swedish GW: Karlstad |
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0.25 |
1312 | 1312 | Swedish GW: Norrköping |
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0.25 |
1312 | 1312 | Swedish GW: Trollhättan |
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0.25 |
1312 | 1312 | Swedish GW: Malmo |
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1.25 |
1321 | 360 | Budapest II |
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0.8 |
1330 | 1330 | North German GW: Magdeburg |
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0.5 |
1330 | 1330 | North German GW: Szczecin |
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0.5 |
1330 | 1330 | North German GW: Bremen |
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1.5 |
1330 | 1330 | North German GW: Flensburg |
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1.5 |
1330 | 1330 | North German GW: Hanover |
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1.5 |
1339 | 1339 | Montpellier PTT |
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0.8 |
1339 | - | Eastern Poland. GW: Pinsk |
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- |
1348 | 519 | Vorarlberg |
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0.2 |
1348 | 1348 | Boarding school GW: Königsberg (Pr.) |
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0.5 |
1348 | 1348 | Boarding school GW: Cairo II |
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1 |
1348 | 1348 | Boarding school GW: Estonia (Tartu) |
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0.5 |
1348 | 1270? | South West France (Bordeaux Sud-Ouest) |
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3 |
1348 | 1285 | Aberdeen |
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1 |
1348 | 1348 | Boarding school GW: Dublin (2RN) |
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0.5 |
1348 | - | Boarding school GW: Benghazi |
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- |
1348 | 1357 | Italy. GW: Milan II (IMI2) |
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4th |
1348 | - | Boarding school GW: Lithuania |
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- |
1348 | 1240 (1943) | Monaco |
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- |
1348 | 1348 | Boarding school GW: Norway (Rjukan) |
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0.15 |
1348 | 1339 | Eastern Poland. GW: Lodz |
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1.7 |
1348 | - | Boarding school GW: Yugoslavia |
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- |
1357 | 1357 | Norway GW: Notodden |
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0.1 |
1366 | 1366 | Thorn |
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24 |
1375 | 1375 | Switzerland. GW: Basel |
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0.5 |
1375 | 1375 | Switzerland. GW: Bern |
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0.5 |
1384 | KW ? (1938) | Albania |
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- |
1384 | 1348 | Warsaw II |
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10 |
1393 | 1393 | Franz. GW: Central France (Radio-Lyon) |
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0.7 |
1402 | 1402 (1936?) | Bulgaria (Stara Zagora) |
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2 |
1402 | 1402 | Swedish GW: Halmstad |
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0.2 |
1411 | 1411 | Portuguese GW (approx. 15 channels) |
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≦ 2 |
1411 | - | Roman. GW: Bucharest |
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- |
1420 | - | Yugoslav GW |
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- |
1429 | 1294 | Klagenfurt |
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0.5 |
1429 | 1429 | Boarding school GW: Alexandria II |
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1 |
1429 | 1429 | Boarding school GW: Paris (Radio LL) |
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0.8 |
1429 | 1348 | France (Ile de France) |
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0.7 |
1429 | 1429 | Boarding school GW: France (Radio-Béziers) |
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1.5 |
1429 | 1429 | Boarding school GW: Newcastle |
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1 |
1429 | 1240 | Cork (6CK) |
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1 |
1429 | 1104 (1938) | Tripoli (ITR) |
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- |
1429 | - | Boarding school GW: Netherlands |
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- |
1429 | - | Boarding school GW: Norway |
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- |
1429 | - | Boarding school GW: Yugoslavia |
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- |
1438 | 1321 | Magyaróvár |
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1.25 |
1438 | 1438 | Hungarian. GW: Miskolc |
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1.25 |
1438 | 1465 | Pécs |
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1.25 |
1438 | 1122 | Nyiregháza |
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6.2 |
1447 | - | Spanish GW |
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- |
1447 | - | Lithuania |
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- |
1456 | 1456 | Franz. GW: Radio Normandy (Fécamp) |
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0.7 |
1465 | - | German GW |
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- |
1474 | 1474 | Plymouth |
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0.2 |
1474 | - | British GW |
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- |
1483 | - | GW of the USSR |
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- |
1492 | 1492 | Boarding school GW: Binche |
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0.1 |
1492 | 1492 | Boarding school GW: Châtelineau (Radio EL) |
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0.1 |
1492 | 1492 | Boarding school GW: Antwerp (Het Kerkske) |
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0.1 |
1492 | 1492 | Boarding school GW: Radio Courtrai |
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0.1 |
1492 | 1492 | Boarding school GW: Spain (approx. 30 channels) |
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0.2 |
1492 | 1492 | Boarding school GW: Turku |
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0.5 |
1492 | 1492 | Boarding school GW: Radio Nimes |
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1 |
1492 | 1492 | Boarding school GW: Uppsala |
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0.2 |
1500 | 1500 | Boarding school GW: Radio Cointe |
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0.1 |
1500 | 1500 | Boarding school GW: Liège (Radio Wallonia) |
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0.1 |
1500 | 1500 | Boarding school GW: Seraing |
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0.1 |
1500 | 1500 | Boarding school GW: Test transmitter Liège |
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0.1 |
1500 | 1500 | Boarding school GW: Verviers |
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0.1 |
1500 | 1500 | Boarding school GW: Spain (approx. 20 channels) |
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0.2 |
1500 | 1500 | Boarding school GW: Pietarsaari |
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0.25 |
1500 | 1500 | Boarding school GW: Kristinehamn |
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0.2 |
- | 160 | Kootwijk |
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50 |
- | 216 | Tour Eiffel |
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15th |
- | 238 | Baku (RW 8 / RW 43) |
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10 |
- | 253/1954 | Tromso |
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0.1 |
- | 280 | Tbilisi (RW 7) |
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35 |
- | 340 | Saratov (RW 3) |
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20th |
- | 380 | Yerevan (RW 21) |
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10 |
- | 565 (1936) | Klaipeda |
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10 |
- | 583 | Radio Agen |
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0.6 |
- | 704 | Malmberget |
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0.2 |
- | 731 (1938) | Upper Egypt (Assiut) |
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1 |
- | 749 | Pori |
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1.5 |
- | 776 | Fredrikstad |
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0.7 |
- | 1022 | Barcelona (Ràdio Associació de Catalunya, EAJ 15) |
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1 |
- | 1022 | Oviedo (Radio Asturias, EAJ 19) |
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1 |
- | 1122 | Brussels: Radio Conference |
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0.1 |
- | 1122 | Brussels: Radio Schaerbeek |
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0.1 |
- | 1240 | Eskilstuna |
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0.2 |
- | 1240 | Säffle |
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0.4 |
- | 1240 | Varberg |
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0.2 |
- | 1249 | Radio Nice (Juan-les-Pins) |
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0.8 |
- | 1258 | Kiruna |
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0.2 |
- | 1258 | Örebro |
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0.2 |
- | 1285 | Dresden |
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0.25 |
- | 1366 | Hudiksvall |
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0.2 |
- | 1366 | Turin II (ITO2) |
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1 |
- | 1384 | Hälsingborg |
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0.2 |
- | 1393 | Uddevalla |
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0.05 |
- | 1393 | Umea |
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0.2 |
- | 1411 | Ornsköldsvik |
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0.2 |
- | 1420 | Finland. GW: Tampere |
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1 |
- | 1438 | Squid |
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0.2 |
- | 1447 | Borås |
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0.2 |
- | 1483 | Gävle |
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0.2 |
- | 1530 | Karlskrona |
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0.2 |
GW = community wave; * = State has not signed the contract
Individual evidence
- ^ European Radio Conference (Lucerne, 1933) ; RGBl. II pp. 763 , 779 ; BBl 1934 I 835 , 847
- ↑ Radio-Wien, July 6, 1934, pp. 13/15/17/19; Broadcasting Yearbook 1935 pp. 93-97
- ↑ 100 ans de radio, 1934
- ^ Development of the BBC AM transmitter network
- ↑ Norske AM kringkastningsendere 1923-2016
- ↑ Le origini della radiodiffusione in Italia, Cronologia 1919-2000
- ↑ De geschiedenis van de Belgische radio: de eerste radiozenders