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December 24, 2021 9:54 am  #1


The World's Most Famous TV/Radio Transmitter

It's not the CN Tower or the lamented World Trade Center. Instead, it's an "eye-full" tower in France.

Signal of strength: Eiffel Tower celebrates a centenary of radio broadcast

 

December 24, 2021 1:14 pm  #2


Re: The World's Most Famous TV/Radio Transmitter

Though the article you posted is about radio, the Eiffel Tower was the source of early TV broadcasts (1942) by the Nazi occupiers, but it was a French TV transmitter from 1939.
Great article on that here:   R.A.F. Reception of German TV from Paris

Last edited by SpinningWheel (December 24, 2021 3:14 pm)

 

December 24, 2021 1:16 pm  #3


Re: The World's Most Famous TV/Radio Transmitter

They were DXing