Malabar Tel Zt (original) (raw)
Telefunken-Zeitung Nr 40/41 VII Jahrgang Oktober 1925
Die Grossstation Malabar-Radio Auf Java von W. Doetsch
Probably the most comprehensive paper of those days on Radio Malabar
(German language, pdf, 2.8 MB)
The Telefunken �Maschienensender� (400 kW antenna power)(HF machine-generator) at Malabar was by far more reliable than Dr. de Groot�s famous Poulsen arc- type transmitter (which could, however, supply up to 2400 kW into the antenna). There existed a controversy between Dr. de Groot and the Dutch authorities in The Hague, who had purchased two Telefunken �Maschinensender� in late 1918, of which one was erected in Kootwijk Radio and the second one was, finally, installed at Radio Malabar (near Bandung on West-Java). Beit, against Dr. de Groot�s will. For quite a long time he neglected its existence. When Dr. de Groot�s own Poulsen type transmitter failed during the opening ceremony on 5 May 1923, he even did not consider to communicate with Holland by means of the Telefunken transmitter, to transfer a message to Dutch Queen Wilhelmina, who desperately waited for a radio message from Dutch Indies (now Indonesia).
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