To All,
In addition to what Michael Sanders has written I can inform you that KPN
(formerly PTT) is already taking away the transmitters at Kootwijk, now that
the station has been closed as per 31 December 1998.
Some of the modern SW ones made by Marconi go to a station of the Dutch
Royal Navy.
But the remaining ones, some dating back to the late forties, are broken
down.
The station manager of Kootwijk Radio, Mr. Martin Nieuwenhuizen, has over
the years collected a series of old transmitters that have been used in the
past by PTT and our broadcasting companies. Even a pre-war one used by the
Dutch World Broadcasting Service of which the first stages were made around
1931!
There was ample space for the collection in the main building at Kootwijk,
originally built to house a Telefunken AC alternator type of VLF
transmitter.
But all this has to disappear as KPN wants to get rid of the building. And
another place for a voluminous collection like Mr. Nieuwenhuizen's one has
not been found. A real pity that this unique collection of historical value
will be lost.
73, Dick, PA0SE
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Van: M. Sanders <[email protected]>
Aan: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Datum: woensdag 25 augustus 1999 22:33
Onderwerp: RE: LF: New LF broadcast transmitter at Kootwijk?
Hi All,
Public awareness to the effects of extreme high power transmitters have
resulted into a public discussion if Kootwijk is a propper site for a Giga
powered LW transmitter. Legal procedures are pending to stop the project. A
second site off-shore is developed at the moment. The location should be a
few miles West of the Zeeland isles (South-East Netherlands). The plan
includes antenna masts well over a hundred meters in height to be
constructed on top of artificial sand isles in the North-Sea. There have
also been asked questions in the Dutch parlament about governement approval
given to this enterprise.
best 73,
Michael Sanders, PA3BSH.
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Van: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]namens
Hans-Joachim Brandt
Verzonden: woensdag 25 augustus 1999 19:56
Aan: [email protected]
Onderwerp: Re: LF: New LF broadcast transmitter at Kootwijk?
Hi all,
I do not know what kind of LF equipment is still existing at
Kootwijk but the
following news may be of interest to all LF fans:
Dick Rollema schrieb:
Today even less than before as the only thing that is of
> interest to KPN is making money. And to preserve a station
like Kootwijk or
> SAQ only costs money.
On an recent trip to the Netherlands (nr Groningen) I have read in a PTT
brochure that plans are underway for a new longwave transmitter
at Kootwijk, but
EMC problems were also foreseen for this area. Further
investigations revealed
the idea to operate a broadcast longwave transmitter at Kootwijk
and have the
programme compiled by a company in the U.K., aiming at listeners
in the U.K.
HW?
73 Ha-Jo, DJ1ZB
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