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QSL BR6 Bodegraven Reeuwijk 107.8 MHz

Another nice QSL from a local radio station in The Netherlands. This time from BR6, the local station for Bodegraven & Reeuwijk. John Bekker was so kind to confirm my reception report. He wrote that they have no QSLs, but in thThey have been heard as far as Wolfsburg, Germany, which isn’t bad given their power of only 50 Watts.

BR6 is also part of the RTV Midden Holland group (see my post on RTV Krimpenerwaard). Their antenna is located on an advertising column in an industrial park in the south of Bodegraven. Just over 10 kms from my QTH!

I hate these ugly advertising columns, but if you put a radio antenna on it, I can live with it😉

By the way… did you know that Bodegraven, like my own QTH Woerden is situated along the old river Rhine? Which was once the northern frontier, the “Limes” of the Roman Empire…

3 Comments

  1. F. Bleeker

    That leaves the question, on which side of the Rhine?
    Did you qualify as civilized, or only as useless barbarians (like all places that couldn’t be conquered)?

    • Peter Reuderink

      Hi Franz,
      The first one is the easiest: both Bodegraven and Woerden have expanded north of the river (since the invention of a thing called bridge), but the city centers are south of the Old Rhine. The highest point in Woerden is the St. Peter Church, on a river dune, 5 m above sea level. Which is exactly where the Romans built their Castellum Laurium as it was the only spot where you could keep dry feet.
      Now the second question is more difficult. On my mothers side my grandparents were from Limburg and Brabant. ” Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres, quarum unam incolunt Belgae, …. Horum omnium fortissimi sunt Belgae”. Belgians were considered brave barbarians as far as Caesar was concerned. But that was war propaganda to show off how brave he must have been to conquer them. On my fathers side we go east across the river… into Angrivari and Bructeri country… well known for the Battle of the Teutoburger Wald. Well known because of “Quintili Vare, legiones redde! (Quintus Varus, give back my legions).

      • F. Bleeker

        Thanks, that was instructive!

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