Dutch radio towers collapses, leaves most of the Netherlands without FM radio and television - Polidicks

So, there's been a fire in one of the dutch radio towers for most of the day, and it mostly collapsed a few hours ago. Video: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdMLiL4vlHc[/media] If you listen carefully you can learn some dutch curse words. And super incidentally, one of the other major radio towers "shorted out" leaving lots of people including myself without radio. Most of the Netherlands does not have FM radio reception at the moment, and people that have no cable/satellite can't watch TV either. (Also, more importantly, nobody got hurt.) Current outage: [img]http://content.nos.nl/data/image/xxl/2011/07/15/256538.jpg[/img] I blame terrorists! [url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14168281[/url]

I'm sure they can pick up FM from neighboring countries.

AHHH Godver GODVER KUT Only a part is without radio/digital TV I think..

Holy shit

[QUOTE=faze;31135514]I'm sure they can pick up FM from neighboring countries.[/QUOTE] Do you pick up radio signals from other States? I doubt anyone would unless they're living on a border-city.

[QUOTE=Biotoxsin;31135778]Do you pick up radio signals from other States? I doubt anyone would unless they're living on a border-city.[/QUOTE]Yep. I get stations from DC and Pennsylvania, and I live just NW of Baltimore.

[QUOTE=IceBlizzard;31135648]AHHH Godver GODVER KUT Only a part is without radio/digital TV I think..[/QUOTE] Most of it is still without public radio. Digital TV is fine unless it's Digitenne then only the north is out. [editline]15th July 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=faze;31135514]I'm sure they can pick up FM from neighboring countries.[/QUOTE] I'm only picking up FM radio stations from other dutch (commercial) masts, no foreign stuff. Lots of foreign stuff on AM though. Added chart to show outage.

Hmm... i'll be damned i didn't even notice...

[QUOTE=Marlamin;31135958]Most of it is still without public radio. Digital TV is fine unless it's Digitenne then only the north is out. [editline]15th July 2011[/editline] I'm only picking up FM radio stations from other dutch (commercial) masts, no foreign stuff. Lots of foreign stuff on AM though. Added chart to show outage.[/QUOTE]You don't get anything from neighboring countries ever?

I would have expected them to have minor antennae to back up the major ones.

[QUOTE=ExplodingGuy;31136592]I would have expected them to have minor antennae to back up the major ones.[/QUOTE] Typical Dutch video, heh. Sometimes it's like every Dutch person has Tourettes or something. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zk_kKcaWHx4[/media] Interesting.

[sp]I didn't even notice this.[/sp] None of it is real. The government is behind all of it, they're turning on us.

[QUOTE=faze;31136526]You don't get anything from neighboring countries ever?[/QUOTE] [img]http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/images/wiki/wikipedia/commons/b/b8/LocatieGouda.png[/img] Not over here, though I'm sure the parts near Germany do.

That is a sweet radio tower.

I like how the Hind in the OP's video just kept flying on by without giving a fuck that it was [I]next to a collapsing radio tower.[/I] :v:

Such is life in the Netherlands.

How the fuck does something like the middle of a broadcasting antenna just sort of...catch on fire like that? That was a rather spectacular failure.

Uhm, My radio and TV work fine and I live in Rotterdam.

[QUOTE=FalconKrunch;31138625]Uhm, My radio and TV work fine and I live in Rotterdam.[/QUOTE] Tune in to 96.8 FM. It's the frequency 3FM usually transmits on. I'm getting only static here in Gouda, and am definitely not the only one. Edit: Also, if you look at the chart you might be picking up signal from the radio tower in Zeeland.

[QUOTE=ewitwins;31138217]How the fuck does something like the middle of a broadcasting antenna just sort of...catch on fire like that? That was a rather spectacular failure.[/QUOTE] maybe it got struck by lightening or something,. the first time i watched it i thought it looked like some cgi.

[QUOTE=Madman_Andre;31137320]I like how the Hind in the OP's video just kept flying on by without giving a fuck that it was [I]next to a collapsing radio tower.[/I] :v:[/QUOTE] One hardcore helicopter

It's pretty damn broken now. [hd]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2qya3b_oyw[/hd]

I just turned on my radio to test if I was affected or could pick up from other towers Static with some garbling voice I live right in the middle of the Netherlands win7 chrome netherlands COMBO

That tower looks badass. Is it occupied on a semi regular basis? I see two windowed decks.

[QUOTE=Madman_Andre;31137320]I like how the Hind in the OP's video just kept flying on by without giving a fuck that it was [I]next to a collapsing radio tower.[/I] :v:[/QUOTE] But we don't have Hinds in the Netherlands. We use American helicopters.

[QUOTE=MIPS;31139574]That tower looks badass. Is it occupied on a semi regular basis? I see two windowed decks.[/QUOTE] From what I gather they are observation decks, but I'm not quite sure. The tower was unmanned when the fire broke out so I guess it's mostly automated remotely. Would be a really awesome place to work at though when it isn't on fire. Also, here's a nice chart with the current outage: [img]http://content.nos.nl/data/image/xxl/2011/07/15/256538.jpg[/img] And yeah, it was pretty badass. [img]http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3632/3603871782_dc1955e0cb_z.jpg?zz=1[/img] RIP

ah radio, I love my job :)

How did it take out [del]Smilde[/del] IJsselstein? Was it acting as a relay?

[QUOTE=MIPS;31139972]How did it take out Smilde? Was it acting as a relay?[/QUOTE] They disabled the one in Lopik just to be sure. Edit: There were 2 on fire, the one in IJsselstein was on fire and the one in Smilde collapsed.

[QUOTE=Biotoxsin;31135778]Do you pick up radio signals from other States? I doubt anyone would unless they're living on a border-city.[/QUOTE] I dunno about in the Netherlands but you can pick up different radio signals across Europe from other countries. I have managed to pick up radio being broadcast from the UK in Belgium (admittedly only about 20 miles in land). Its possible to pick up stuff from Luxembourg occasionally as well, well you used to. Might have changed now.