A
Note About The
French Transmitter Sites
As a matter of
interest there are about 520 FM sites in France transmitting all three
main Radio France services. Another 30 or so transmit a
single
programme (France Inter or France Bleu). In total there are approx 5960
individual FM transmitters in France. The figure for Britain
is
approx 1520 individual transmitters.
Many
UHF TV transmitters in France had their powers reduced in the mid
1990's Apparently TDF undertook a study of field strengths
all
round the country and an exercise to quantify the tolerance of TV
receivers to a reduction in field strength. The upshot of
this
was
a wholesale lowering of erps; the figures that accompany the
photos are these reduced in service erps.
[Martin Watkins]