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<blockquote data-quote="Adam792" data-source="post: 1164677" data-attributes="member: 330868">Interesting topic, thanks to [USER=407744]@s-band[/USER] for sharing that scan from 1992 showing the situation with the BBC World Service radio feeds on 27.5°W. I'd not heard of &quot;BBC Electrique FM&quot; before, it seems to have been a station that went out on FM in Paris in the 80s and early 90s, carrying 18 hours of BBC World Service content later on - <a href="https://www.schoop.fr/ficheradio.php?id_radio=232" target="_blank">SchooP | La mémoire de la FM &gt; Les fiches radio &gt; Electric FM - FM Plus (75) - www.schoop.fr</a>The various language sub-carriers must have been what got used to feed the BBC FM transmitters that sprung up in central and Eastern Europe at that time (Czechia, Slovakia, Romania etc).A look through the web archive of Satcodx can be interesting, like [USER=414368]@steeviebops[/USER] has found. These BBC European feeds switched to digital pretty early on, using a low symbol rate transmission on Eutelsat II F4 (7°E) by the end of 1997 - <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/19980129211154/http://www.satcodx.com/e2f4.shtml" target="_blank">SATCO DX Chart: Eutelsat II f4 M at 7,0°E</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Adam792, post: 1164677, member: 330868"] Interesting topic, thanks to [USER=407744]@s-band[/USER] for sharing that scan from 1992 showing the situation with the BBC World Service radio feeds on 27.5°W. I'd not heard of "BBC Electrique FM" before, it seems to have been a station that went out on FM in Paris in the 80s and early 90s, carrying 18 hours of BBC World Service content later on - [URL="https://www.schoop.fr/ficheradio.php?id_radio=232"]SchooP | La mémoire de la FM > Les fiches radio > Electric FM - FM Plus (75) - www.schoop.fr[/URL] The various language sub-carriers must have been what got used to feed the BBC FM transmitters that sprung up in central and Eastern Europe at that time (Czechia, Slovakia, Romania etc). A look through the web archive of Satcodx can be interesting, like [USER=414368]@steeviebops[/USER] has found. These BBC European feeds switched to digital pretty early on, using a low symbol rate transmission on Eutelsat II F4 (7°E) by the end of 1997 - [URL="https://web.archive.org/web/19980129211154/http://www.satcodx.com/e2f4.shtml"]SATCO DX Chart: Eutelsat II f4 M at 7,0°E[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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