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THE authorities responsible for the broadcasting service in Hungary have always kept abreast of the latest developments in wireless technique; indeed, Budapest claims the distinction of being the first town in the world to inaugurate a system of broadcasting over wires so early as 1893. Budapest will again come into prominence in the near future on the opening of its new broadcasting station, with a transmitter power of 120 kw., and an aerial mast which is claimed to be the highest in the world. A brief description of this station and a photograph of the new mast is given in World Radio of November 10. The mast is of trellis-work steel construction, supported by two porcelain insulators on a solid block of concrete about twenty feet square. The shape of the mast is that of two elongated square pyramids, set base to base, and standing on one of the points, the whole structure being guyed at the centre point where the cross-section is a maximum. The height of the mast is 932 ft., but a telescopic steel pole at the top extends this to nearly 1,022 ft. or 310 metres. This height surpasses that of the Eiffel Tower by some 40 ft. and makes the mast the highest structure in Europe. The new transmitter, which is of British design built in the contractor's factory at Budapest, is situated in a building about half a mile away from the aerial, the radio-frequency power to which will be supplied through a suitable transmission line. The station is designed to supply an unmodulated carrier-wave power of 120 kw. into the aerial, and it will take over the wave-length of 550 metres used by the present transmitter. The latter, which has a power of 18-5 kw., will be retained for use on another wave-length to supply an alternative programme of less general interest than that provided by the main transmitter. The new station has already started testing at midnight, and it is likely that Radio -Budapest, which employs three women and two men announcers, will be one of Europe's best-received signals this winter.
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New Broadcasting Station at Budapest. Nature 132, 777–778 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/132777c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/132777c0