ETF - European Mechanical TV Stations

European Mechanical TV Stations

This list of stations was compiled from magazine and newspaper articles. It is incomplete, and will be updated as new information is discovered.

City	Country	On Air	Lines	Frames/ Second	Aspect Ratio (H/V)	Freq.
London (Long Acre)	England	1929-1932	30	12.5	3:7	752 kHz
London (Brookmans Park)	England	1932-1935	30	12.5	3:7	1147 kHz
Doberitz	Germany	1932	48	25	4:3	2.1 mHz
Berlin (Witzleben)	Germany	1932	30	12.5	4:3	716 kHz
Konigswursterhausen	Germany	1932	30	12.5	4:3	183.5 kHz
Berlin	Germany	1932	60	25	4:3	44.476 mHz
Montrouge	France	1932	30	16.6	4:3	1.5 mHz
Paris	France	1932	60	12.5	3:7	671 kHz
Brussels	Belgium	1932	30	12.5, 16.6	4:3	589 kHz, 1,172 kHz
Moscow (RCZ)	Russia	1931-1941	30	12.5	4:3	271 kHz, 1304 kHz
Rome	Italy	1932	60	20	3:7	3.75 mHz

This list of broadcasting stations appeared in a French magazine in 1932. Thanks to Jerome Halphen for providing it to us.

Column 1 : Transmitter site
Column 2 : Wavelength (m)
Column 3 : Frequency (kHz)
Column 4 : Power (kw)
Column 5 : Aspect ratio

Column 6 : Number of lines
Column 7 : N� of pixels
Column 8 : Frame rate
Column 9 : Direction of exploration
Column 10 : Type of programming

Phonie = audio, Image = video

Some additional translation, courtesy of John Pinckney:

Television directe = Live presentation

Pas de films puisque le format anglais ne s'y prete pas. = No films as the English system isn't yet ready.

Films d'essai et television directe = Test films and live presentation

Films parlant = "Talking pictures"

Films et prises directe = Films and spontaneous scenes.

La Hollands suivra sous peu avec les meme characteristiques = The Dutch will follow soon with the same standards.

Montrouge = A city south of Paris, where Ren� Barth�l�my of CdC (Compagnie des Compteurs) carried out early experiments.

Velthem = Belgium

Another 1932 list of European stations, from a Dutch 1932 book about television:

These pages show all the European television and facsimile stations on the air in 1932. Doberitz, Witzleben and Konigswuster-hausen are in Germany.

Some translations:

Note (1) on the first page: These hours are frequently changed, especially when they are try-out transmissions.

Note at the bottom of the second page: Besides the noted transmitters, there are at the moment also Paris PTT Television Baird-Montrouge (Television) and Moscow (Television Cinema) transmissions, from these the transmission hours are not fixed yet.

Zondag, Maandag, etc: Sunday, Monday, etc.

Golflengte: Wavelength

Beeldradio: Picture radio, or facsimile

(Book and translations courtesy of Henk Dijkstra)