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IN accordance with the Lucerne plan, a considerable redistribution of the wave-lengths allocated to European broadcasting stations will take place early in 1934. Recent issues of the Wireless World have given the first details of the scheme which has been organised by the International Broadcasting Union to effect a smooth and orderly change-over on the night of January 14-15, 1934. Broadcast listeners who are sufficiently interested have here a valuable opportunity both of calibrating their receivers and of following each broadcasting station on to its new wave-length. According to the arrangements described, all European stations will cease transmission at or before 11 p.m. G.M.T. on January 14. Then, one by one, according to special schedules now being prepared, the stations will resume broadcasting on their new wave-lengths. These will be checked systematically by one or other of the ten official control points which are under the direct supervision of the Union's own frequency-checking station at Brussels. Immediately a control station has completed its measurement of the frequency of a transmitter, the fact will be announced through one of five high-power stations specially selected by the International Broadcasting Union. To assist rapid identification, each transmitter will broadcast its name and country at least every two minutes during its transmission period. The transmissions will consist of gramophone records the titles of which will have been previously communicated to the control posts. Most British listeners will probably tune-in Radio-Paris, which will be announcing the progress of the change-over at the broadcasting stations in Belgium, France, Great Britain, Holland, Iceland, Ireland, Luxembourg, Morocco, Portugal, Spain and Switzerland. It is anticipated that this scheme will obviate the difficulties experienced in making changes under previous ‘plans’ due to the varying accuracies of the calibrations of wavemeters at individual broadcasting stations.
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New Wave-lengths for Broadcasting Stations. Nature 132, 848 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/132848c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/132848c0