MN7 – The Belgian Military Wireless Station at Baarle-Duc (Baarle-Hertog)
during World War I
Written by Jacques Boone (+ 24 November 2023 at the age of 96), this book relates an unknown episode in the Great War.
It was right under the noses of the Germans that Lieutenant Paul Goldschmidt, engineer, and his team installed this Belgian military station of wireless radiotelegraphy and goniometry at Baarle-Duc (Baarle-Hertog), a small Belgium village enclave in the neutral Netherlands.
Despite infuriating the Germans the station functioned, without interruption, from 1915 until the end of the war. The goniometric station would identify the
origin of enemy signals (especially those of Zeppelins).
An unpublished manuscript relates the messages picked up by the station between the 6th and 23rd November 1918. It is a genuine instant of the elaboration and the implementation of the armistice.
In November 2018, exactly 100 years after Armistice Day, enthusiastic Belgian radio amateurs revived the military station MN7 on the exact location in Baarle-Hertog (Belgium), using the special call sign OP187MN.
There were 16000 Lookups in QRZ and thousands of contacts made.
(121 Seiten, ca. 50 Bilder, ISBN 978-9082236019)
Preis: 11,00 € (+ Porto)