listen to\/download<\/a> from the RNW Historical Audio Archive. Here’s a synopsis of the programme:<\/p>\nHendrik (Henk) van den Broek, Radio Nederland\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s first director, recorded in 1955, explains why Radio Nederland was set up.
\nThe origin of Dutch overseas broadcasting goes back to 1927, the pioneering year of shortwave telephony. The Philips Laboratories in Eindhoven experiment with the PCJJ short-wave transmitter. The transmissions reach as far as the East-Indies. Mr. A C de Groot, a technical official of the Netherlands East Indies PTT and a radio amateur, is sitting up all night monitoring the 30 metre band in the hope of hearing amateurs operating in morse code from The Netherlands. Somewhere around 3:00 AM, he hears a voice speaking in Dutch saying \u00e2\u20ac\u0153This is an experimental transmission from the Philips Laboratory in Eindhoven, Holland, on a wavelength of 30.2 metres\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.
\nThat same year, the NV PHOHI (Philips Omroep Holland-Indi\u00c3\u00ab) was set up, a joint commercial operation of Philips and other Dutch Companies with interests in the East-Indies. It used the PCJJ transmitter.
\nIn November 1928, Edward (Eddie) Startz began broadcasting over PCJJ, marking the beginning of his popular \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Happy Station\u00e2\u20ac\u009d programme. Startz dropped the second J of PCJJ and said that PCJ stood for \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Peace, Cheer and Joy: The Happy Station of a friendly nation\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.
\nEngineer Martin Ruis speaks about the closure of the shortwave transmissons because of the invasion of the German Army in May 1940. They tried to destroy the transmitter, but later on the Germans succeeded in reparing the PCJJ-equipment, and used it to broadcast propaganda to India (\u00e2\u20ac\u009dThe Voice of Free India\u00e2\u20ac\u009d).
\nParis and London took over when broadcasts from Hilversum ended: The Dutch first used the French shortwave service for a programme called \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Vrij Nederland\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. That ended after a month with the German invasion of Paris. Over in London the Dutch Government in exile in late 1940 created \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Radio Oranje\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, the official voice of the Dutch Government.
\nFragment of a Radio Oranje transmission: Bob den Doolaard speaks about sabotage (in Dutch).
\nUnknown Dutch speaker about listening to Radio Oranje and the BBC during the war.
\nHendrik van den Broek became head of Radio Oranje and in 1944 he created a station called \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Herrijzend Nederland\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in the grounds of the Philips Company in Eindhoven. When the whole of The Netherlands was liberated he moved his operation to Hilversum. Radio Nederland was born.
\nOn 15 April 1947 the private non-profit foundation Stichting Radio Nederland Wereldomroep was founded, after many discussions about the future of Dutch broadcasting.
\nShort quote from Queen Wilhelmina about the end of Dutch rule in Indonesia.
\nThe story of Radio Netherlands in the fifties and beyond.
\nEddie Startz with the Happy Station station in Spanish, French and English.
\nTechnical expert Jim Vastenhoud talks about technological developments and the future of shortwave radio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
RNW Historical Audio Archive: 50 years of shortwave in Holland On 30 March 1977 Radio Nederland (as we were then called in English) broadcast a special programme marking our 30th anniversary, and 50 years since the first shortwave broadcast from the Netherlands. 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