Huizen transmitter
Huizen transmitter
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Basic data | |||||
Place: | Huizen | ||||
Province: | North Holland | ||||
Country: | Netherlands | ||||
Coordinates: 52 ° 17 ′ 15 " N , 5 ° 14 ′ 32.4" E | |||||
Use: | Telecommunication system | ||||
Demolition : | 1940 | ||||
Data on the transmission system | |||||
Number of towers / masts: | 2 | ||||
Construction time: | 1937 | ||||
Operating time: | 1937-1940 | ||||
Waveband : | SW transmitter | ||||
Radio : | KW broadcasting | ||||
Shutdown : | 1940 | ||||
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The Huizen transmitter was a shortwave transmitter in Huizen in the northern Netherlands .
history
It had a curtain antenna and the first rotating transmission antenna for shortwave, which was unique at the time. It was built in 1937 and used two free-standing timber lattice towers. The Philips Holland Broadcasting Indies was with this powerful shortwave transmitters in permanent contact with the 12,000 km away Dutch East Indies. In 1940 the facility was blown up by the Dutch military to prevent it from being used by the German occupying forces.
A metal replica of these masts was built on a scale of 1: 5 as an industrial monument.
Web links
- Channel Huizen In: terras.tv (Dutch)