Swiss broadcast stations

These pages are dedicated to Swiss broadcast stations. They are just a closer look to the transmitters behind their name on the tuning dial of old tube radios. Unfortunately, in the last years, almost all transmitters have been switched off and partially dismantled. These pages are just a nostalgic look to a past telecommunication era when a radio station could be directly heard (with some luck) from the other side of the world and when a simple crystal radio could successfully receive the local station.

Map of Switzerland with clickable transmitters

Beromünster Monte Ceneri Cima Lenk Prangins
Sarnen Savièse Schwarzenburg Sottens  

The list is not exhaustive.

Tuning dial of a Médiator M134A

This is the tuning dial of a Médiator M134A, assembled in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland on December 18th, 1949. The dial shows wavelengths instead frequencies. Swiss transmitters are surrounded by a small rectangle. Please note that they were using different frequencies as they did in the last years.

Tuning dial of a Philips BX 600 A-16

This is the tuning dial of a Philips BX600 A-16 built in 1951. Swiss transmitters have a nice cross symbol and they have the "usual" frequency (the dial says "Plan de Copenhague").

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