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THE plan for allocating the wave-lengths of the broadcasting stations in Europe published in 1934, and known as the Lucerne plan, is getting more and more difficult to work. The trouble arises mainly from the fact that the full range of frequencies available for the carrier waves is 1,350 kilocycles per second, and in order to prevent serious overlapping, each station requires a width of about 10 kilocycles per sec. In order to secure agreement between the various nations concerned, it was necessary to allocate 133 channels to 170 working stations, so that some had to work at the same frequency, care being taken to give these frequencies to small stations at a great distance from one another.
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The Broadcasting Wave-Lengths of Europe. Nature 135, 800 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/135800a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/135800a0