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the.antenna.site




It all started in the mid 80's... my passion for radio & television. I was a 12 year old boy who enjoyed listening to radio stations, especially the local independent ones where I lived (Antwerp, Belgium). When on vacation in the South of Belgium with my grandparents, we used to always take a few trips to Luxembourg by car. I always sat in the front 'handling' the radio. It was on one of those trips that I discovered Radio Luxembourg. This station (with it's programs in English & pop music) made such an impression on me, that today I still remember listening to the 1440 kHz. I even remember a program in Dutch, presented by Peter Vandam. A very professional DJ with a great voice. The years passed by, the passion did not. Then the internet showed up and a few years later digital cameras. It didn't take long before I started my first website, "AMFMradio.webb.be". A list of radio stations in the greater Antwerp area, which came with pictures of their broadcast antennas. I started with a Hewlett Packard with 1 million pixels, it didn't take long before I bought a better one (Canon Digital Ixus) and started expanding the site. A trip to The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg brought back the memories and I was now finally able to take pictures of the transmitter sites at Junglinster and Marnach, which I had never seen up-close before. Since that day I've been driving around taking pictures of antennas and placing them on the internet. I closed-down "AMFMradio.webb.be" in 2002, after I moved to another town and maintained a site called "the.antenna.site" which I closed-down in the winter of 2003. In February of 2004 I launched "project208", a reference to the 208 meters or 1440 kHz. MW. It looks like "the.antenna.site", but is hosted on another server. This site is here to stay... I hope you enjoy it. Don't hesitate to drop me a line!