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Also known as the Dutch Concerts station. Hans Idzerda set up the station and it began broadcasting from The Hague in 1919. It is believed to have been Europe’s first sustained broadcasting station and one of the first stations in the world to transmit entertainment. It ended broadcasting in 1924. It was popular not only in the Netherlands, but also in Britain. More info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCGG

Corona-Phon, already version 2.1.2 Window and room antenna. Idzerda was a radio pioneer, founding one of the first radio stations and the first commercial radio station. For more info on Idzerda: Wikipedia – PCGG And in Dutch: Inst. Nederlandse Geschiedenis – Idzerda Wikipedia – Idzerda From the book Radio voor amateurs of 1926. Originally an English book by Michael Egan, translated/reworked into Dutch by ir. W. Harmsen.