Don't forget to visit the 4 Photo-Galleries with more pictures about Norddeich Radio
Receicing
Station Westgaste and Utlandshörn until 1981
Receiving
Station Utlandshörn 1981 - 1998
Transmitting
Station Norddeich
Transmitting Station
Osterloog
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My Time at Norddeich Radio
This Site is organized for a better overview:
Receiving Station Utlandshörn
Transmitting Station Osterloog
Transmitting Station Norddeich
From December 6, 1971 to December 12,
1995 I worked in radio service for Norddeich Radio,
only interrupted by a three
month assignment in Hamburg.
Since the closure of Norddeich Radio in 1998, the “Deutsche Telekom” and
“T-Mobile”, use
the central operation center in Utlandshörn for their “Call Center” and
administration departments,
which employ several hundreds of people.
On the 31st of December 2011 the “Deutsche Telekom” ceased all
operations, and only one VHF-Antenna
remained as the lonely “guard”. Once all the activities ceased, the nature took
over this property, and created
a natural paradise for scarce owls, birds and other wild animals. Unfortunately,
the year 2013 was the end of
this natural habitat.The initial building and the antenna area was purchased by
a private investor.
The building is now used for several exhibitions, and a museum was created to
show wireless techniques and
exposing equipment, which never had anything to do with Norddeich Radio.The
operator was never employed
by the “Deutsche Bundespost” nor the “Deutsche Telekom”, and it was neither
involved in the commercial
marine radio services. However, the operator is taking advantage of the good
images produced by Norddeich Radio
for an effective presentation of itself.
We would like to mention that previous employees of Norddeich Radio, which was
under administration until 2011,
have founded the “Museum Norddeich Radio e.V”.In the city center of Norden, a
building has been leased, which
is now undergoing a complete renovation, and has been classified under
preservation of ancient monuments
The opening of this legendary marine radio station is planned in the near
future, and presentations by previous
employees will be available to discover the original equipment, videos, charts
and its history.
The origin and history of this coastal
radio station in detail is too wide an effort for here,
moreover there
are many good publications on the Internet, for example by
Sylvester
Föcking, Rolf
Marschner, Henning
Ullrich, Heinrich Busch and Fritz Deiters.
A visit to their Sites will be rewarding.
For pictures I have used exclusive
private Fotos. I know that today there are many "Fans"
of this coastal station, and agree that they may be used as long as there is no commercial
purpose or use.
The publishing of the 4 photo-galleries was not possible without the
assistance of
Mr. Hans-Heinrich de Joung, DL3QW, who kindly made many photos to disposal
for the web site.
These photos are rare and partly never published.
Hans-Heinrich de Joung has been the technical staff manager of the
transmitting station
Osterloog in the years 1964 - 1993.
Certainly if any visitor to this Site
has a question about Norddeich Radio, I will gladly reply.
Please
E-Mail to: Hans-Jörg Pust at hj@pust-norden.de
or for technical questions about transmitters
and antennas
mail to Hans-Heinrich de Joung at h.h.de.joung@t-online.de