Scheveningen Radio – PCH
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Scheveningen Radio was from 1904 to 1999 the Netherlands’s radio station for communication with ships.
On 19 december 1904 was the national kuststation Scheveningen Radio founded. The station was then called still Scheveningen Harbour and had the call letters SCH. The transmitter operated out of a wooden shack on the South side of the Dune village district. Because one was suffering from near channels, the receive portion moved to IJmuiden. In 1929 changed the call sign according to international rules in Scheveningen Radio. In 1927. Therefore, the call letters were changed to PCH and the reserve transmitter SCH in IJmuiden PCI. Radio Netherlands wereldomroep got the call letters PCJ. Scheveningen Radio was part of a PTT.
During the occupation in the Second World War the station had to cease broadcasting. After the war resumed Scheveningen Radio are activities; first temporarily from a ship in the port of Amsterdam, later again from IJmuiden from a classroom to the Hamilton Street.
In 1951 the station moved to a new building on the second lock island. The range of services has been expanded to VHF and TOR (telex-on-radio). In 1971 involved the new Post-Radio building on the Merwedestraat/Lange Nieuwstraat.
For inland waterway transport was five minutes after the hour on the VHF channels broadcast a traffic list .
After the traffic lists of 07.05-13.05-19.05 and 00.05 were on the broadcast channels with + branded the weather reports.
New communication technology using satellites made the broadcasting station gradually unnecessary:
Although the radio station throughout most of its existence from IJmuiden has surgery, it is always ‘ Scheveningen Radio ‘ continue to welcome, because the send location name required had to be preserved.
A youtube clip about Scheveningen Radio
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