Friday, June 13, 1952, a DC-3 takes off from Bromma airport. On board are eight people on a top secret operation. The plane never returns and remains gone for over 50 years.
Behind the locked steel door in a backyard at Torshov in Oslo you will find the emergency communication center. From this premises the telephone communication would be secured in event of war or enemy sabotage.
Since the first shutdown of FM transmitters in Nordland county on January 11 this year, FM transmitters across the country have been turned off region by region. The last region where FM transmitters are switched off were in Troms and Finnmark.
Today
15 December 2018 Today is this year's day number 348. We are in week 50, and have 17 days left of 2018.
At this day in history:
37
Nero, Roman Emperor (d. 68) was born.
130
Lucius verus, Roman Emperor (d. 169) was born.
1263
King Haakon IV (b. 1204) died.
1832
Gustave Eiffel, French engineer (d. 1923) was born.
1852
Antoine Henri Becquerel, French physicist and winner of the Nobel Prize (d. 1908) was born.
1853
Denmark and Norway Sweden and Norway declare themselves neutral Crimean War.
1890
Sitting Bull, the manager of Sioux strain (eg. About 1831) died.
1891
James Naismith invents basketball.
1916
France beats Germany in the Battle of Verdun.
1928
Friedensreich Hundertwasser Austrian multiartist, templates and architect (d. 2000) was born.
1938
Fred Anton Maier, Norwegian speed skater and cyclist was born.
1939
Gone with the Wind premieres in Atlanta, Georgia.
1944
Alton Glenn Miller, American musician (b. 1904), died.
1946
The Norwegian National Police will be closed down, but works in a liquidation phase until summer 1947.
1949
Don Johnson, American actress was born.
1964
CJ Hambro, Norwegian politician (b. 1885) died.
1966
Katja von Garnier, German director was born.
1966
Walt Disney, animator and cartoonist (b. 1901) died.
1970
Michael Garrett Shanks, Canadian actress was born.
The purpose of the Radio Day's Field Day is to promote recruitment of new radio amateurs and to strengthen the cooperation between Norwegian radio amateurs. This year, the Oslo group had its Field Day at Bygdøy Sjøbad.
In this flashback you can see some of the pictures I took during the Olympics 20 years ago. Although I have a lack of interest in sports, it was an experience to be in Lillehammer during the Olympics and experience the atmosphere in town.
In the second weekend in March it was time for festival featuring World Cup in Holmenkollen. Among the thousands of volunteers were 13 radio amateurs from Oslo Group. The radio amateurs were responsible for tracking medical resources, communication network for the jumping competition and operation of the healthcare communications center with a radio operator and a logger.
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