{"id":62613,"date":"2025-04-18T08:50:50","date_gmt":"2025-04-18T12:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=62613"},"modified":"2025-04-18T08:50:50","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T12:50:50","slug":"radio-nederland-dx-contests-and-a-silver-spoon-ronald-is-seeking-answers-from-the-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/radio-nederland-dx-contests-and-a-silver-spoon-ronald-is-seeking-answers-from-the-past\/","title":{"rendered":"Radio Nederland, DX Contests, and a Silver Spoon: Ronald is Seeking Answers from the Past"},"content":{"rendered":"
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From Ronald W. Kenyon’s collection<\/p><\/div>\n

Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Ronald, who writes:<\/strong><\/p>\n

I am 83 years old now. When I was actively DXing from the late 1950s through the mid-1960s, some stations, such as Radio Prague and Radio Nederland, and clubs such as the Japan Short Wave Club (JSWC) organized contests with prizes, usually special QSL cards.<\/p>\n

In 1957, Radio Nederland ran a DX contest and offered a special QSL card. The JSWC offered a special QSL card to SWLers who received confirmation of their special 5th Anniversary broadcasts from eight stations between December 1956 and January 1957. \u00a0I reproduced the JSWC card and the Radio Nederland card in my book, QSL: How I Traveled the World and Never Left Home<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

Perhaps on this occasion or another occasion, Radio Nederland ran a contest and offered
\nprizes.\u00a0 I won one of these prizes, a silver-plated commemorative sugar scoop spoon made by “Schonenberg.”<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I illustrated it on the colophon of my book.Googling “Schonenberg,” I couldn’t figure out where it was located. Some said the Netherlands, some said Canton Thurgau, Switzerland, and one source\u00a0 (obviously wrong) said England.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>“Wettig gedept” on the box is abbreviated Dutch for Wettig gedeponeerd “legally deposed,” which suggests “Trademark Registered” in English.\u00a0 Thus, I conclude that the spoons are made in the Netherlands–logical for Radio Nederland to have its prizes manufactured in its own country!<\/p>\n

Questions:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. \n
      \n
    1. When did this contest take place?<\/li>\n
    2. What <\/span>were the rules of the contest?<\/li>\n
    3. How many Schonenberg spoons were offered as prizes?<\/li>\n
    4. Were there other prizes?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Ronald<\/p>\n

      Readers: If you can help Ronald answer these questions, please comment!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Ronald, who writes: I am 83 years old now. When I was actively DXing from the late 1950s through the mid-1960s, some stations, such as Radio Prague and Radio Nederland, and clubs such as the Japan Short Wave Club (JSWC) organized contests with prizes, usually special QSL cards. In […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[3,305,288,7566,43],"tags":[4094,4091,1908,263,9005],"class_list":["post-62613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-nostalgia","category-radio-history","category-radio-memories","category-shortwave-radio","tag-nostalgia","tag-radio-history","tag-radio-nederland","tag-radio-netherlands","tag-ronald-w-kenyon"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-ghT","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":46643,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/qsl-how-i-traveled-the-world-and-never-left-home-by-ronald-w-kenyon\/","url_meta":{"origin":62613,"position":0},"title":"“QSL: How I Traveled the World and Never Left Home” by Ronald W. 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