Free Radio Service Holland announces Summer Splash !

 

Special thanks to our friends from FRS Holland for the Summer Splash update!

It's time to inform you about our upcoming Summer Splash 2022.

The start is next Sunday, July 24th at 18:59 UTC/ 21:59 CEST.

For detailed information check the link below:

http://www.frsholland.nl/20-latest-news/161-frs-summer-splash-2022.html

Of course, we are curious to hear from you...a reception report, personal info, program criticism: we count on you!Hope to meet you in the upcoming weeks on one of our frequencies and...experience the taste of SW Free Radio

on a Sunday Summer evening.

73s, The FRS Team (Jan, Mike, Bert, Dave, Brian & Peter)

Sunday, July 24, will be the kick-off of the FRS 'Summer Splash' Event. Two years ago- in the 2020 Summer- saw the first edition of this event. FRS will be on air on three consecutive Sunday evenings. All programs will be thematic like we did in the past few years during the Summer period. Instead of full programming, each of these Sunday evenings will last two hours and will be aired between 19:00- 21:00 UTC/ 21:00- 23:00 CEST. 

Frequencies will be 5800, 6185 and and 7700 kHz.  Important: on July 31st only 5800 and 7700 kHz will be used! 

For the latest accurate info check this website! Of course, there's also a streaming schedule. Correct reception reports will be verified with one of our 9 QSL cards from the 'FRS Through the Years' series. Hard copies can be obtained via our Herten maildrop.

Remember you can pay via Paypal using 'FRS-Holland'. 

Tune in and experience the magic of shortwave free radio on a Summer evening...

      FRSH--Program-Schedule for Sunday, July 24, 31, and August 7, 2022

UTC

Sunday, July 31

18:59

Opening: Theme Tune ‘Theme from Close Encounters”+ TotHour pips/ Welcome                                       

20:59

19:01

Mike Taylor. Mike concentrates on songs from the month of July from a particular 1980s years. Including some news items from that particular month & sound byte. 

21:01

20:00

FRS Golden Show- Peter Verbruggen will be featuring nothing but 60s gold concentrating on the not-so-familiar stuff. Including one or two radio items.

22:00

21:00- 21:04

Close down

23:00- 23:04

Sunday, August 7

18:59

Opening: Theme Tune ‘Theme from Close Encounters”+ TotHour pips/ Welcome                                       

20:59

19:01

Prog 2022 Show- Dave Scott will be featuring the best of this year's program releases so far.

21:01

20:00

German Underground -  Jan van Dijk. Jan will go for playing only music from German bands and artists past and present including some rare 80s tracks. No Schlager or Volksmusik but instead anything from post-punk to wave. Including one or two radio items as well.

22:00

21:00- 21:04

Close down

Free Radio Service Holland schedules

Dear FRS Friends,

In this special 40th year of FRS broadcasting, we thought to be 'Just a bit Different'.

In line with previous years, we will be providing a number of thematic shows on shortwave. However, opposite to previous years we will be airing three weeks in a row on Sunday evenings 19-21 UTC/ 21-23 CEST.

The kick off will be next Sunday evening!

Full details are to be found via the link below:
http://www.frsholland.nl/20-latest-news/142-frs-40-years-summer-event-in-july-august-2020.html

Put it on your calendar: on Sunday August 30th FRS will celebrate its 200th broadcast with a special evening's broadcast.
Full details will follow in the 2nd half of August.

All the best & 73s,

Peter Verbruggen on behalf of the FRS team

FRS 'may' repeat broadcast

Last Sunday's FRS broadcast suffered from instable propagation conditions. Some might have enjoyed good reception whereas others' reception was poor.

It is commonly known that SW conditions have been poor. Not only during daytime but also sometimes during evening. Last Sunday we were received in Cyprus and Mexico (not via SDR) while reception in areas where 7700 is almost always satisfactory, was poor. Apart from the final 60 minutes when the first show (Bert van Leer) was repeated; that was between 23:00-23:50 CEST. During that time 7700 was very strong and also 5810 did well.

There might be a repeat next Sunday August 4th or August 11th. At this  moment things are uncertain. But it's worth while to tune in and give it a try! Same time schedule and same freqs being 7700//5810 kHz. Details are still to be read on our site: http://www.frsholland.nl/20-latest-news/132-frs-on-air-sunday-evening-july-28th.html

Remember there are streams planned for next Thursday, Saturday & Sunday (twice!). FRS'  39th anniversary will be celebrated on Sunday Sept. 1st. Details will follow in the course of August.
73s,  Peter V. on behalf of the FRS team
(Patrick Travers, Sheffield)
 Peter V/FRS)

Free Radio Service-Holland, summer program schedules

Free Radio Service Holland, as in past years, will be on air in the summer period with evening broadcasts. For this year we have decided to broadcast two broadcasts. 

The first one is scheduled for Sunday July 22, starting at 16:52 UTC/ 18:52 CEST. Close-down will be at 20:50 UTC/ 22:50 CEST. 

Frequencies will be 7700 kHz in the 48 meter band. For this broadcast, we will not air on 9300 kHz. .

FRS-HOLLAND Programming for Sunday July 22
UTC Time	Program	CEST Time
16:52	Station-opening: ID's & Theme tune	18:52
17:02	FRS Golden Show – Roger Davis. Roger focuses on 60s/70s tracks.	19:02
17:45	Musical Express- Bert van Leer Bert mainly plays 70s/80s tracks.	19:45
18:30	Radiowaves- Dave Scott Excellent classic rock to be heard nowhere else on SW	20:30
19:15	German Show- Jan van Dijk A nice choice of up-to-date music and a few interesting items	21:15
20:00	FRS Magazine - Peter Verbruggen. Includes a tunes item plus…Summer sounds.	22:00
20.50	Close down	22:50

Streaming
Choosing for ‘the best of both worlds’ FRSH goes for broadcasting on short wave in good old AM and digital high-quality web streaming. That means you can make their choice out of two possibilities: [http://laut.fm/jukebox] and [http://nednl.net:8000/frsh.m3u]. Details will follow as soon as possible. 

QSL/letters
Correct reception reports include: date + time of reception, QTH, frequency, your receiver/antenna and most important: adequate program details (artists/records etc.). In case you are forwarding an MP3 file (which is much appreciated!) please make sure you include: date, time, frequency QTH within the file name! Thanks in advance! E-mails including correct reception reports to < frs@frsholland.nl > will be consequently replied by our E-QSL. If you prefer a good looking high quality color QSL (hard copy) and large color sticker (plus personal letter), you must write to our Herten maildrop!! Please enclose 3 US dollars or three Euro. Please do not send any IRCs.

FRS on air on Sunday August 26
On August 26, FRS will go on air with programming including presenters; Jan van Dijk (German), Bert van Leer, Dave Scott & Peter Verbruggen. It will be the in-official celebration of our 38th anniversary. All shows will be thematic. In the past years various interesting themes were presented: Made in Holland, progressive rock from Dutch bands, Music & Radio Stories, music related to the 'Sea' topic. FRS will surprise you with new themes upcoming August! 

Free Radio Service Holland schedules Christmas programming

On the FRS website you will find info about our  upcoming Christmas programming December broadcast.

On Sunday December 3rd FRS will be testing 09:00- 10:00 UTC as well as in the later afternoon.
See also our website for further details: [ http://www.frsholland.nl/20-latest-news/112-frs-test-seasonal-broadcast.html ].
For all of you: have a good weekend!

73s  Peter Verbruggen on behalf of the FRS team

Free Radio Service Holland set for Setember 2-3 broadcast

Dear FRS Friends,
FRS Birthday
Yesterday Thursday August 31st it was exactly 37 years ago that FRS-Holland officially started short wave broadcasts to Europe. Last Sunday's broadcast in general gave (very) good results on both frequencies. About 15 minutes before the closing down announcement, the 6280 outlet went faulty and so only 7700 continued. 'Luckily' only 15 minutes on 48 metres had to be missed! By the way: the first show (Dave Scott) was repeated after 'closing down' implying that FRS-Holland continued till approx. 23:50 CEST.FRS Streams

The first stream of a total of three took place yesterday evening- on our birthday- but to be honest: it was not to our liking...  Programs should start at 20:00 CEST but started too late. And: the programs were played in wrong order as well. For instance the station opening was played at a moment other shows had already been streamed. Still we are happy with the LautFM facilities assuming this was an incident!

Hopefully things will go better this weekend...
Below the schedules for Saturday & Sunday...

http://laut.fm/jukebox Saturday September 2, 07:00 - 11:00 UTC = 09:00- 13:00 CEST
http://nednl.net:8000/frsh.m3u  Sunday September 3 - 14:52- 19 UTC = 16:52- 21:00 CEST
Repeat

Good news in case you missed (parts of) last Sunday's broadcast!
Next Sunday the complete four hour schedule of last Sunday will be repeated on 48 meters 6284 (most likely!)
Time slots will be similar to last Sunday: 16:52- 21:05 UTC = 18:52- 23:05 CEST

Remember...we have a brand new QSL for that broadcast waiting for you.
Correct reports to FRS-Holland, P.O.Box 2702 in 6049 ZG Herten, The Netherlands.
For all of you: have a good weekend!
73s
Peter Verbruggen (on behalf of the entire FRS staff)
For the latest news of FRS go to: http://www.frsholland.nl/20-latest-news/

Free Radio Service Holland program news update

Dear FRS Friend,
Following last Sunday's broadcast there's an update on the FRS site. In case you missed that broadcast or you suffered from less favorable reception,
next Sunday will offer a new chance to tune in (besides: between Thursday and Sunday there are four Internet streams!). Please visit:
http://www.frsholland.nl/20-latest-news/106-frs-on-air-sunday-august-6th.html
A special 'thank you' for all of you who sent a reception report by e-mail for last Sunday's broadcast.
I will be on holidays for two weeks, so after being returned a start will be made to reply with QSLs etc. That also counts for listeners/ SW friends I know a bit more
personal...please have some patience. Thanks for your understanding!
73s Peter Verbruggen (on behalf of the entire FRS crew)

Free Radio Service Holland to broadcast July 30

Dear FRS Friend,
Upcoming Sunday July 30th, FRS -Holland will be on air with a Summer evening broadcast.
For details please check our website at: http://www.frsholland.nl/20-latest-news/105-frs-on-air-sunday-july-30th.html .
Hopefully we will meet next Sunday!
73s  Peter Verbruggen (on behalf of the FRS team)

FRS Holland set for Sunday broadcast

FRS-Holland will hit the airwaves on Sunday August 30th. That's almost exactly 35 years following the official start of the station back in 1980. Programmes will start at 17:52 UTC/ 19:52 CEST and will last till 23:05 UTC/ 01:05 CEST. Frequencies are most likely: 7700 (7685) //9300 (9335) kHz. 

For streaming (at the same time as the SW output!) please check: [http://nednl.net:8000/frsh.m3u] and  [http://laut.fm/jukebox]. For mobile devices there is a 24 kbps mono stream: [http://nednl.net:8000/frsh24.m3u].
Streaming will be repeated on Saturday September 5th via  [http://laut.fm/jukebox]  from16:52-22:05 UTC/ 18:52-00:05 CEST time. And on Sunday September 6th from 15:52 UTC/ 17:52 CEST till 21:05 UTC/ 23:05 CEST via [http://nednl.net:8000/frsh.m3u].
The upcoming broadcast will include five 60 minute thematic musical shows, take a look at the schedule below...

Understandably reception reports and letters with comments and criticism are much appreciated and will be verified with one of our QSL cards from our current series FRS through the Years. This implies you can make your very own choice out of the eight QSLs this series consists of. The only condition is you send us the number of the QSL you'd like to receive. Curious about the previously published QSLs from this series? Take a look at our Image Gallery > QSL Gallery > QSL Series.  E-mails please to frs@frsholland.nl  and for a hard copy use our Herten maildrop: P.O.Box 2702, 6049 ZG Herten, the Netherlands.

FRS-HOLLAND Programme-Schedule for SundayAugust 30th 2015
UTC Time	Programme
17:52	Station-opening: ID's & Theme tune
18:02	Theme tunes from the 60s to 80s (deejays/ stations) Special-   Paul Graham kicks off with great   memories to the songs which reminded milliosn of listeners to their favoutite   jocks and/or stations.
19:00	German Show: banned songs- Jan van Dijk. He’s focusing on songs which were banned from the   radio in past decades.
20.00	Made in Holland presents a Special- Peter Verbruggen with music from Dutch artists/ bands from the 1970-1980   era. Part of the show will be extracts from landbased SW pirates.
21:00	Dave Scott's Radiowaves: this time Davewill feature on forgotten tracks from the 1980s era.
22:00	FRS Golden Show – Roger Davis. This time a psychedelic trip   through the 1960s special of the FRS  Golden Show. Familiar but also rare 1967 s stuff. Most   likely also an Offshore Radio item will be included.
23:00-23:05	Close down

 (FRS)

Free Radio Service Holland Easter programming

All 'Latest News' items appear after clicking below the 'FRS on air April 5th' article !

Easter Sunday broadcast on shortwave
Easter Sunday April 5th FRS-Holland will take to the airwaves. Programs will begin at 10:00 UTC/ 11:00 BST/ 12:00 CEST and last till 15:00 UTC/ 16:00 BST/ 17:00 CEST.

Frequencies are: 7700//9335 kHz and 6070 kHz. After close down FRS intends to continue repeating a few shows on 7700//9335 kHz.

Streaming
Choosing for ‘the best of both worlds’ FRSH goes for broadcasting on short wave in good old AM and digital high quality web streaming. We were approached by the responsible person from the German radio website fmkompakt.de/. He has offered to take care of FRS streaming during future broadcasting days. That means that listeners can make their choice out of two possibilities: http://laut.fm/jukebox and 'good old' http://nednl.net:8000/frsh.m3u

On Easter Sunday April 5th streaming will be done between 15:00- 20:00 UTC/ 17:00-22:00 CEST. Choose for one of the afore mentioned options.  As an 'extra' there will also be streaming via http://laut.fm/jukebox on Easter Monday April 6th between 10:00- 15:00 UTC/ 12:00- 17:00 CEST.

QSL cards
For this broadcast we feature the 8th (!) of the ‘FRS Through the Years’ QSL Series. This successful series will be continued in 2015. A hard copy QSL can be achieved by writing to our Herten maildrop. It's a high quality large size colour QSL which certainly is desirable... E-mails will be consequently replied with our e-QSL card.

Our usual format of 'a Balance between music and information' means....great (often forgotten) music, DX news, the Phrase that Pays, Archive sound bytes, offshore and land based pirate radio items, Uplink, your mail from December 28th 2014, the Day Calendar and...just tune our way and find out!!

Free Radio Service Holland ready for Sunday broadcast

May 2010 broadcast
Since our February 28th broadcast, FRS has been silent. However: we feel that in this very special year, it's important to keep in touch with our listening audience.

May 30th- on the 5th Sunday- FRS will take to the air from 07.52- 12.45 UTC (6400) and 13.52-18.45 UTC (7600).

The morning/ early afternoon shows will be repeated as from 13.52 UTC onwards. Right now there is still an option to use a 2nd frequency in parallel, we will inform you about that at a later stage. Expect the usual mix of music & information.

2010: 30 Years of FRS-Holland on Short Wave
In the mean time FRS is preparing the 30th anniversary which will take placed in October 2010. Five years ago, FRS would have been celebrating its 25th birthday but that celebration had to be cancelled due to personal circumstances. Sad but true. This year things are looking different and we feel it's time to do a big on air celebration. And that will certainly happen!
But: we feel that an on air celebration would be incomplete without our listeners' input! Therefore we explicitly invite you as FRSH listener to participate:

"2010 will be a very special year for all at FRSH: 30 years on the air! We will be celebrating this later in 2010. We invite our listening audience to participate in the celebrations later this year. We'd like to receive your personal FRS memories. Put them on a sheet of paper or send them by mail and most wanted: record your personal message and send an mp3 audio file. All listener's contributions will be collected and together it will be our anthology of 30 years of SW broadcasts. When did you hear us for the first time, what was your favourite show, when did you get your first QSL, how much did you listen to FRS, any special on air moments you remember? All this info could be part of your personal FRS contribution. For any serious contribution, we have a nice surprise and that is a promise!"

Important: as we have to do a lot of preparations for that very special broadcast, we urge to send your contribution as soon as possible!
or P.O. Box 2702, 60 49 ZG Herten, the Netherlands.

If you have any questions/ remarks, feel free to contact us!!
73s

(Peter Verbruggen (on behalf of the FRS Team)






a Balance between Music & Information joint to one Format....

FRS-Holland
POBox 2702
6049 ZG Herten
The Netherlands

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a Balance between Music & Information joint to one Format....

FRS-Holland
POBox 2702
6049 ZG Herten
The Netherlands

e-mail: <>
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FRS Holland, Nov 15 broadcast

FRS-Holland will be on air next Sunday November 15th 2009.
The broadcast will start at 07.52 UTC/ 08.52 CET sharp and close down will be at 12.35 UTC/13.35 CET.
Of course we do hope propagation will be satisfactory that day.
Programme line-up consists of FRS Magazine, German Service, FRS Goes DX and FRS Golden Show.

In addition an 'old' new presenter will make his debute show on FRS-Holland. We are very happy he has joined our team.

Ingredients....great music, DX News, letters, the day calendar for November 15th, various adior retelated items, the Phrase that Pays and extracts of landbased pirate station of the past.

Radio entertainment on a Sunday. Tune in...7600 kHz/ 39 metres ánd 5810 kHz / 51 metres (low power only). Info about the internet stream will be sent later this week.

One Sun Nov. 22nd FRS will be again on with a full repeat of upcoming Sunday's broadcast. Pxs on the 22nd will commence at 10.52 UTC/ 11.52 CET and 5810 will be replaced by another frequency. More info about that at a later stage.

All letters from the previous broadcasts are handled coming your way very soon (with the brandnew QSL cards). Emails have already been done. The tests on Oct. 4th & 11th produced over 100 reports from all over Europe and beyond. Thanks you all!!
(Peter V. (on behalf of the FRS staff)

Address: FRSH, P.O.Box 2702, 6049 ZG Herten in The Netherlands.
Free Radio Service Holland is an Independent and Free radio station broadcasting on SW since August 1980. Broadcasts are carried out in Dutch, German and English at an irregular basis on 48 & 41 metres.
(FRS -Holland)

More Christmas shows from Finland and Netherlands

Finland
5980, Scandinavian Weekend Radio, Virrat, again this year plans a Christmas program on Dec 25 from 0700-1900 UTC.
Schedule:
49 mb: 0700-1500 on 5980, 1500-1700 on 6170 and 1700-1900 on 5980.
25 mb: 0700-0800 on 11690, 0800-1400 on 11720, 1400-1700 on 11690 and 1700-1900 on 11720.
(DX Window 366)

Free Radio Service -Holland plans December 28 broadcast
Netherlands/ Lithuania
Schedule for FRS-Holland special broadcast on Dec 28:
0800-1300 on 6220 (via unknown location)
0800-2200 on 6400 (a few hundred watts via unknown location) and 1430-1530 on 9700 (alternative 9710) via Sitkunai, Lithuania (100 kW), possibly repeating the DX Show. Correct reception reports are verified with our QSL-card. Address: P. O. Box 2702, NL-6049 ZG Herten, The Netherlands. At least one IRC to cover the QSL postage will be appreciated. (Verbruggen/DX Window 366)

Radio Sweden adds two "Christmas" frequencies for English to Europe Radio Sweden carries the following announcement on its website: “During the period between Christmas and New Year’s days, our English programme to Europe at 2130 UTC can be heard on the additional frequencies of 1179 and 5850 kHz.” These frequencies normally carry relays of the Swedish domestic service.
(R Netherlands Media Network Weblog)