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'''Radio Kootwijk''' is a small town in the [[Netherlands|Dutch]] municipality of [[Apeldoorn]], with (in 2001) ca. 120 inhabitants. It is situated in a heather- and forest-rich territory in the [[Veluwe]] region, east of the sandhills of the [[Kootwijkerzand]] and the town of [[Kootwijk]].

The housing accommodations of Radio Kootwijk arose as a result of the building of a [[shortwave]] [[transmitter]] site with the same name. The transmitters played an important role in the [[20th century]] as a communication facility between Holland and its then colony of [[Dutch East Indies]]. In [[1923]] Dutch [[PTT]] started transoceanictrans-oceanic [[telegraphy]] using [[longwave]] radio, and in [[1928]] a radiotelephonicradio-telephonic connection was established based on shortwave technology. In [[World War II]] the German occupying forces blew up the transmitter. Afterward some of the radio towers were rebuilt.

Due to the development of new technologies like [[Communications satellite|satellite communication]], Radio Kootwijk lost its position as main overseas wireless connection point of the Netherlands.

In [[2004]] the park lost its last transmitter functions, and was transferred from the [[KPN]] company (successor to PTT) to the State Forestry Commission, which started attracting new buyers. The main building of the former transmitter park, named 'Building A' ofor 'The Cathedral' is officially appointed a [[monument]].

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