BC-DX 841 04 Jan 2008 Private Verwendung der Meldun

Mediumwave Clandestine station Radio Vltava (Radio Moldau) 1430 kHz, 250
kW, Wilsdruff Dresden im August 1968 bis in den Winter [November?] 1968.
History of Compuserve Mail 1998:
Hi Karel, remarks on your comment about R Vltava in August 1968.
Here below you will read my original text in German language. I try to
translate it into English.
Yes I visited Prague in July 1968. When I came back I used to use two well
doing portabel radio sets: Schaub Lorenz 49 to 13 mb, and the very latest
GRUNDIG Satellit type 208, which included the 75 mb, and fine tuning knob,
150 kHz continues to 26100 kHz, and FM 87-104 MHz.
BUT for the first time I heard the endless bass drum tones and also the
Smetana motif "Vltava" approx. five days b e f o r e the occupation /
invasion took place, on the freq 1430 when drove home from my duty in the
Frankfurt/Main downtown city. Using the built in BLAUPUNKT car radio,
which included LW, SW 49 - 31 mbs, MW, and FM. It was about the Tuesday
before the invasion took place, around 1700 hrs local time near the
Frankfurt horse racing stadium on the gateway southwards to the Super
highway Wuerzburg - Cologne.
I stopped my car on the next telephone box and informed the then very
popular German radio station EUROPAWELLE Saar [adjacent 1421 kHz] news
departement, about the Vltava transmission, and the possible interference
to the Saarebruck transmission. At that time very few people had a private
telephone access. We have got our private phone later in the year 1971.
Between 1965 and 1970, Europawelle Saar was the top radio station in
Germany with a wide audience.
After 20 minutes drive when arrived at home, I used both sets and their
ferrit road antennas for direction finding, giving this result:
the transmission was definitely 100% coming from D r e s d e n area, and
n o t from Berlin Koepenick Uhlenhorst (RBI).
All other details you mentioned in the letter to Kai Ludwig are 100%
correct, in other words I made the same observations these days, but 500
kms westerly.
73 Wolfy DF5SX (Wolfgang Bueschel, via CompuServe 25.08.1998)
KL: Da waere dann auch von Radio Vltava die Rede, der aus dem Raum Dresden
gen CSSR spuckte.
WB: Ja, ich hatte noch im Juli 1998 Prag und auch das Funkhaus besucht.
Nach der Rueckkehr, ich hatte zwei ganz gute Portabelempfaenger:
Schaub Lorenz 49 bis 13 mb, sowie ganz frisch den Grundig Satellit 208 mit
75 mb! sooo schoen chromverziert.
Aber die endlosen Pauktoene und auch das Motiv von Smetana "Die Moldau" so
etwa 5 Tage v o r dem Einmarsch auf der Frequenz 1430 hoerte ich im
Blaupunkt Autoradio zum ersten Mal nach der Arbeit auf der Heimfahrt gegen
1700 Uhr an der Frankfurt Niederraeder Pferderennbahn. Ich habe dann
gleich die Europawelle Saar angerufen, von der Telefonzelle, ganz wenige
Leute hatten ein privates Telefon.
Europawelle Saar das war deeeer Info- und Musik-Sender damals zwischen
1965 und 1970 und die News dem Nachrichtenredakteur dort in Saarbruecken
berichtet. Dann ging die Meldung ueber den Vlatava Sender gleich ueber
alle Kanaele.