Radiobos

The Radiobos is an area of 50 hectares to the North of the village in the Dutch municipality of stevensbeek Sint Anthonis. It is located north of the Radio peeing, and also the Radioweg runs through it.

This geographical names can be explained by a long wave radio-receive station, the marvel of the twentieth century, which was established in 1919 under the name Radio Sambeek and that short time has functioned.

There was a radio-telegraphy Radio Sambeek-receiving station for the long wave transmitters in Bandung and so was the contact with the then Netherlands East Indies made possible. On the Heath were established seven masts 61.5 meters high were, to which aerial cables were confirmed.

In the early years of the radio station had to the distance between transmitter and receiver can be significant: the highly sensitive receiver had to be disturbed as little as possible by the very strong transmitter. The (later built) broadcasting station was therefore on the Veluwe, over 60 miles away to stand: Radio kootwijk.

The staff, which came mainly from the Randstad, could on the heide Brabant not good earths. The distance of the telegraph office in Amsterdam to Sambeek turned out to be too big for the necessary phone lines. The receiving station moved In 1924 to Meijendel at Wassenaar, later to Noordwijk and finally to Nederhorst den Berg.

In 1925 has Willem Frederik Einthoven in Sambeek reception tests done in the field of long wave telegraphy. He used the left antenna of the PTT and a string galvanometer vacuum, a special version of the string galvanometer that by his father, Willem Einthoven, was invented. ==Present[ Edit] == Nowadays it is Radiobos a recreation area. There are puddles in which one can swim. The forest consists mainly of pinewood.