I was fortunate to be in Bandung a couple of years back at a Royal wedding - and its an amazing area of high Volcanic mountains and deep valleys and the odd plain. I can only imagine the difficulties with the environmental issues of humidity, high incidence of thunderstorms, and the odd large ground shaker that must have been worked around. The saving grace for me was the elevation and a whole lot cooler than it could have been. Never been in a place that had the number of mosques in such a small area - some of the audio amps were definately class C- :-)
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> Subject: LF: RE: Antenna ideas for Stefan
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> As usual the Americans had not read the history books. Someone had done it
> before. The following extract comes courtesy of G4KHU.
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> " From the writings of a very distinguished
> author..................................
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> On the island of Java, in what was then the Dutch East Indies, a powerful
> long wave transmitting station was erected at Malabar near Bandung by an
> engineer of the name Dr ir C.J. de Groot. He was responsible for the design
> and construction of the station and also the installation of Telefunken high
> frequency alternator transmitters although what made this station
> exceptional was the two enormous 2.4 Mega-Watt arc transmitters for direct
> communication with Holland de Groot installed. The first of these
> transmitters went into service in May 1923 operating on a wavelength of
> 15,600 metres (19.2 kHz).
>
> The
