{"id":4172,"date":"2012-10-21T17:59:08","date_gmt":"2012-10-21T21:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=4172"},"modified":"2012-10-21T17:59:28","modified_gmt":"2012-10-21T21:59:28","slug":"building-rnw-bonaire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/building-rnw-bonaire\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Building RNW Bonaire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/jonathanmarks\" title=\"Jonathan Marks\" target=\"_blank\">Jonathan Marks<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><em>This black and white film was made in 1968 at the moment when Philips shipped two 300 kW transmitters from the factory in the Netherlands to the island of Bonaire, then part of the Netherlands Antilles. The film had no sound &#8211; I just thought the music fitted for an internal presentation because it does look as thought they are building a secret rocket launcher for Dr Evil rather than a shortwave relay station to improve the audibility of Radio Netherlands in the Americas and West Africa. I&#8217;m guessing that this film was used for promotional purposes by Philips since the shipping containers carry rather obvious ads plastered on the containers.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/46958587\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/46958587\">The Building of Radio Netherlands Bonaire Relay Station<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/jonathanmarks\">Jonathan Marks<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Source: Jonathan Marks) This black and white film was made in 1968 at the moment when Philips shipped two 300 kW transmitters from the factory in the Netherlands to the island of Bonaire, then part of the Netherlands Antilles. The film had no sound &#8211; I just thought the music fitted for an internal presentation [&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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[56,288,43,304],"tags":[1440,64,1439],"class_list":["post-4172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-radio-history","category-shortwave-radio","category-videos","tag-building-rnw-bonaire","tag-rnw","tag-rnw-bonaire"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-15i","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3857,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/radio-netherlands-says-farewell-in-style\/","url_meta":{"origin":4172,"position":0},"title":"Radio Netherlands says farewell in style","author":"Thomas","date":"July 2, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Thursday night, by the light of an oil lamp, I tuned my trusty Sony portable shortwave to 6,165 kHz. At 2:00 UTC, I was rewarded with a rich, full signal from Radio Netherlands Worldwide\u2019s transmission site in Bonaire. Here in this off-grid cabin, on sixty rural acres, I bask in\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Broadcasters&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Broadcasters","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/broadcasters\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/wpid-sony.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":3786,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/glenn-hausers-calendar-of-shortwave-radio-specials-and-farewells\/","url_meta":{"origin":4172,"position":1},"title":"Glenn Hauser&#8217;s calendar of shortwave radio specials and farewells","author":"Thomas","date":"June 19, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Since I'm travelling, I was very pleased to find that Glenn Hauser outlined the many special broadcasts and farewells over the next couple of weeks. 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I thought it was worth sharing with SWLing Post readers: (Source:\u00a0John Figliozzi) RNW Farewell It was a classy, inspired, quintessentially RNW move to open a shortwave frequency for North America for\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Broadcasters&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Broadcasters","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/broadcasters\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/RNW.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":6440,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/jonathan-explores-the-past-and-present-of-the-radio-netherlands-madagascar-relay-station\/","url_meta":{"origin":4172,"position":3},"title":"Jonathan explores the past and present of the Radio Netherlands Madagascar Relay Station","author":"Thomas","date":"May 6, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to former RNW Media Network host, Jonathan Marks, for sharing this insightful look at the Radio Netherlands Madagascar Relay Station--a must read! Indeed, check out this article and many more on Jonathan's Critical Distance Weblog. If you were a fan of Media Network, you should also bookmark Jonathan's\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Articles&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Articles","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/articles\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Madagascar Transmission Towers (Source: Critical Distance)","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Madagascar-5-photo23-300x207.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":2415,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/rnw-posts-photos-of-abb-transmitter-at-madagascar-relay-station\/","url_meta":{"origin":4172,"position":4},"title":"RNW posts photos of ABB transmitter at Madagascar relay station","author":"Thomas","date":"December 22, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"(Source: Media Network Newsletter) Media Network Newsletter By Andy Sennitt 22 December 2011 Several people asked us if we had any photos of the first ABB transmitter to go into service at our Madagascar relay station. The transmitter, formerly used by Radio Sweden at the H\u00f6rby transmitter site, is in\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Broadcasters&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Broadcasters","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/broadcasters\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/RNW.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":35880,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/radio-netherlands-jonathan-shares-photos-from-bvn-television-and-rnw-newsrooms\/","url_meta":{"origin":4172,"position":5},"title":"Radio Netherlands: Jonathan shares photos from BVN Television and RNW newsrooms","author":"Thomas","date":"February 4, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to Jonathan Marks--former host of RNW's Media Network and curator of the Media Network Vintage Vault--who kindly shares a collection of photos he took in 2001 and 2002 at RNW's headquarters in Hilversum. 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