[HCDX] Re: Hard-Core-DX Digest, Vol 6, Issue 23

2003-06-15 Thread Johan Berglund
Bogdan wrote : Hello all ! I wonder why European MW radio stations use powers of several hundreds and sometimes thousands of kWs ? Is it because in Europe, there are much more concrete buildings than in North America, where there is much more absorption of radio waves and the skywave

RE: [HCDX] Re: Hard-Core-DX Digest, Vol 6, Issue 23

2003-06-15 Thread Andy Sennitt
When radio came around in the twenties Europe was - and is still despite the efforts for a European Union - a continent which is split into some fourty countries. Countries, not radio stations overseen by e.g. the FCC, divided up the MW band in the twenties, and as you know WWII, suceeded by