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This page is filled up with impressions on the commemoration station PH80MAN of Team The Netherlands.
We did a short recce in February 2025.
This central building will hosted the radio shack, and the eating/sleeping facility during the event.
In the far corner, a support-mast held the 40-meter-long HyEndFed antenna for worldwide communications.
On the field, in front of this huge stage, some 80 years ago the food droppings were executed.
In the picture on the right, a Lancaster flies over Duidigt, dropping food packages for the people in The Hague.
The forest around the horse race track was cut by locals during the extremely cold winter months of 1944/1945.
The effect of these droppings on the Dutch people, receiving the packages from the sky, is told in some interviews with Dutch people who lived in the area and still remember these droppings.
Please, have a look here for these interviews.
Another visit was payed to the actual building where the radio shack was installed and where a small exhibition of Operation Manna related items was on display.
To get a feeling of what was to expect we were allowed to take some indoor pictures before we are going to re-decorate the first floor, connected to the balcony, which offers a great place to relax in the sun and keep an ear on the radio contacts.
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From left to right: Michel (PE1MR), Lynette (PD4LYN, Erwin (PA3EFR), Frans (PE0F) and Sander (PD9HIX). The Team The Netherlands for the full PH80MAN experience.
Michel (PE1MR) was checking the coffee machine for options.
Jur (PD9NT, visiting local operator) filmed Erwin (PA3EFR) as he talked on VHF in the “MOS-ronde”
On Thursday 24th April 2025, Frans PE0F was invested as Radio Scout team member in the Plusscouts Fellowship PA3EFR/J.
The King’s horses practised noise-traning on the court , right in front of our radio shack, thus providing a musical entertainment hour during our station setup.
Sander (PD9HIX) was interviewed by Radio 1, the national news channel. She recorded over an hour of audio, which lead to an impressive report on the event.
It was good to have some time-off in the sun, whilst others took over operations .
The national news agency NPO recorded our efforts for the main news broadcast that evening.
In the background, Frans was entertaining scout leaders from Scouting Sterrenburg, Rotterdam, at which the radio fellowship was planning to have a JOTA station in October that year. In the foreground, Sander and Erwin were accompanied by Marcel (PH5V) from Scheveningen.
Scout leaders from Scouting Starrenburg, Rotterdam, were very much interested in the DMR radio setup.
The national new broadcasting station NPO used their recording to show our efforts to the Dutch population.
On the right the drawing of food drops over Oveschie (Rotterdam) was to be seen. This drawing was created one day after the drops were executed by Lancasters in 1945. The drawing was donated for the duration of the commemoration event by Family Bos from Rotterdam.
The crew was photographed by Thomas (PA3TVV), the only crew member who could only join by live-stream.
Jur (PD9NT) and Patrick (PE2PVD) with Erwin (PA3EFR) at the VHF setup. In the background the owner of the Duindigt Renbaan Museum, Mr Koop, visited the station.
On the right, Leni (DO7NBK) can be seen, who visited the station for the full weekend, together with her father Lars-Hendrik (DO5VL).
The sout-leaders from Scouting Starrenburg, Rotterdam, shared a lunch with the crew in the adjacent building. It was in this building that all meals and overnights were taking place.
Marc (on the left and Michel (PE1MR) sharing memories af JOTA 2024, where they met in Heemstede (WABO Scouting).
Hans Oranje and a friend of his, visited the station as they knew some of the crew members from previous operations (Ouddorp).
Frank (PF1SCT) and his wife were checking the DMR contacts with the other stations that were participating in the event.
Anna (Scouting WABO, Heemstede) enjoyed being back in a radio shack after their JTOA with the team in October 2024.
While Sander explains radio operations to the radio report of NPO, Radio 1, Lars-Hendrik (DO5VL) is working the world on the HF station.
Marco (PA3DTN) was making sure his footsteps were logged in the visitor’s books on internet. In the background his wife Silke was talking to Lars-Hendrik (DO5VL) and his daughter Leni (DO7NBK).
The Plusscouts Crew and the NPO Television Crew (Marjolein Hogervorst and Sidney) shared a moment for the history books.
Whiel Erwin (PA3EFR) was talking on the radio, Lynette (PD4LYN) and her father (PD4RB) were enjoying the HF conversations.
