{"id":25295,"date":"2017-04-18T08:12:18","date_gmt":"2017-04-18T12:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=25295"},"modified":"2017-04-18T08:12:18","modified_gmt":"2017-04-18T12:12:18","slug":"video-tour-of-rnw-operations-van-and-interview-with-niels-zack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/video-tour-of-rnw-operations-van-and-interview-with-niels-zack\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Tour of RNW operations van and interview with Niels Zack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Fullscreen-capture-4182017-120102-PM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-25296\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Fullscreen-capture-4182017-120102-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"447\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Fullscreen-capture-4182017-120102-PM.jpg 800w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Fullscreen-capture-4182017-120102-PM-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Fullscreen-capture-4182017-120102-PM-768x429.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Fullscreen-capture-4182017-120102-PM-624x349.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>ShortwaveService has uploaded\u00a0the following video (to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IbT67BQKa0w\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a>) which features the RNW Operations Van used in <a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/april-15-rnw-returns-for-broadcast-from-original-news-van\/\">the recent 70th anniversary broadcast<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The video includes a tour of the van, the setup used in the 70th anniversary broadcast<span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">\u00a0and an extended interview with Niels Zack, who restored the operations van:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IbT67BQKa0w?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IbT67BQKa0w\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to view on YouTube.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I listened to at least an hour of the Saturday broadcast via the U Twente WebSDR. Sadly,\u00a0I just discovered the audio dropped about 2 minutes into my recording.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>Post<\/em> readers: Anyone else listen to, record or simply log this anniversary broadcast? Please comment!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ShortwaveService has uploaded\u00a0the following video (to YouTube) which features the RNW Operations Van used in the recent 70th anniversary broadcast. The video includes a tour of the van, the setup used in the 70th anniversary broadcast\u00a0and an extended interview with Niels Zack, who restored the operations van: Click here to view on YouTube. I listened [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,305,288,43,304],"tags":[6137,263,63,64,6118,1281,2441,5224],"class_list":["post-25295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-nostalgia","category-radio-history","category-shortwave-radio","category-videos","tag-niels-zack","tag-radio-netherlands","tag-radio-netherlands-worldwide","tag-rnw","tag-schagen-auto-museum","tag-special-broadcasts","tag-special-event-broadcasts","tag-vintage-radio-netherlands"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-6zZ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":25188,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/april-15-rnw-returns-for-broadcast-from-original-news-van\/","url_meta":{"origin":25295,"position":0},"title":"April 15: RNW returns for broadcast from original news van","author":"Thomas","date":"April 13, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Gerard Koopal, who shares the following: Below an article about the return of RNW Netherlands out of a 1958 truck on april 15. 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