Europe 1
Europe 1 is the first program of the European broadcast and television AG. The program is spread over long wave on the frequency 183 kHz von Felsberg Felsberg-Berus in the Saarland and in France also over UKW.
History
The transmitter Europe 1 was created during the French administration of the Saarland, in order to go around a prohibition of commercial broadcast in France. The sending were first legally not legitimized, however also under German radio sovereignty in the Saarland 1957 were resumed. Starting from 1959 also the French state took part in the broadcasting corporation, which is administered today by the Lagardère group. The transmissions were produced always in Paris. They are transferred over broadcast lines into Saarland rock mountain. First two 200 KW long wave transmitters were available. 1976 was installed two 1,000 KW transmitters, which are operated with a total output by 2.000 KW.
Technical details
The main end antenna points the signal toward southwest, in eastern direction is absorbed, so that in Eastern Europe only a very weak signal of the transmitter is to be received. Only the carrier frequency, the sidebands experienced only a quite small absorption is absorbed, so that in eastern direction by the transmitter the programs can be strongly distorted. The transmitter frequency of 183 kHz lies outside of 9-kHz-Rasters usual with the long wave. This has the sense to avoid interference with a transmitter in Oranienburg with Berlin, which transfers today the program from Germany radio Berlin to 177 kHz. In the course Geneva wave plan the same frequency was assigned to both transmitters (over the citizen of Berlin transmitter the GDR broadcast was transferred at that time), which led to substantial mutual disturbances. In order to solve this intolerable situation, now both transmitters with a frequency offset are operated of 3 kHz around the nominal frequency of 180 kHz.