BC-DX TopNews WWDXC #945 BC-DX 945

Een Hollands landschap met aan de horizon IJsselstein met tv mast.
(wb, SW TXsite Jan 24)
Google Earth imagery. Some high resolution place. Another GE image update.
Distant View of Lopik. PLUS: View of location where former Huizen site
was. Huizen was before World War II site of a large transmitter.
a.. Broadcasts were considerably improved in 1937 with the construction of
beam antennas supported by the world's first wooden antenna masts
rotatable on two concentric circular rails at the transmitter site in
Huizen.
b.. Rotatable shortwave antennas were not in common use until the 1960s,
so PCJ was far ahead of its time with its introduction of rotatable HRS
type antennas.
Huizen transmitter was one of the first broadcasting stations in the
Netherlands. It was built in 1923 as 500 watt experimental transmitter
whose power was increased in 1926 to 5000 watt. At Huizen transmitter in
1926 possibly the first rotating shortwave transmission antenna consisting
of 2 60 metres tall towers were built.
The towers of Huizen transmitter were well-known landmarks and often shown
on postcards. In 1935 they were demolished after the erection of a mast
radiator near Hilversum in 1931.
A replica of the shortwave antennas can be found on a roundabout in
Huizen.
see photo images at
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