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You are quite correct with the VOR that you state...... the distance in not plauseable the problem is that a number of radio aids within a few miles of each other have the same ident.
This did not matter in the old days when one was a VOR one a DME and One an ADF because you can't tune a DME using your ADF, the problem in Europe is you can put an ident into an area nav and it is likely to send you to the wrong place, especially if the distance is plausible.