BC-DX 841 04 Jan 2008 Private Verwendung der Meldun

Vinohradska studios, reads "This is Radio Prague, the free, legitimate
station of Czechoslovak radio; we broadcast continuously in German,
English, French, Russian, Italian, Spanish and Czech alternately in the
shortwave range from 49 to 51 metres, that's 6100 to 5800 kHz".
Sergei Sosedkin, Illinois. The Vltava recording says: "from German
Democratic Republic. We are broadcasting daily on the wave of 210 meters
or 1430 kHz at 5 in the morning and 18:30 in Slovak language and at 5:30
and 18 in Czech language. This is radio broadcasting station Vltava
calling! This is radio broadcasting station Vltava calling! We are
broadcasting on the wave of 210 meters or 1430 kHz in Czech and Slovak
language."
Jari Savolainen, Finland. The West German weekly magazine, Stern, under
the headline, Voices out of the Dark, said in its September 8 edition that
the Bundeswehr (German armed forces) were suspected of being involved in
the Czech stations. A West German TV reporter in Prague has paid a visit
to a children's hospital which, according to one of the clandestine
stations, had been destroyed by gunfire. He had found the hospital
undamaged. It was thought the radio station was being operated by the
Bundeswehr within West Germany.
Two days after the invasion, Neues Deutschland carried a report saying
that a "reinforced company for psychological warfare and units of the
"Andernach Radio Battalion" were broadcasting, since August 21, faked
programs and appeals to the population of Czechoslovakia; the Bundeswehr
did not issue a denial but kept silent. A query by the Stern to the
Federal Ministry of Defence did not serve to dispel doubts as to whether
or not the Federal Army was involved. A high ranking official of the
ministry declared: "Please do understand - no comment".
The Andernach battalion, the mission of which, up to 5 years earlier, was
a state secret, comprised of three "LF companies" (leaflets and Radio-
Funk) - and a mobile radio station mounted on two trucks with antennas
operated hydraulically. In case of war, the Bundeswehr was permitted to
operate a radio station consisting of one medium wave and three short wave
stations in order to "carry out special measures of strategic psychology",
according to the Andernach officers. Up until then now, the battalion has
proven its usefulness only by distributing several hundred million
leaflets which, in gas-filled balloons, in fair winds were sent over to
the GDR.
On the weekend after the invasion, twelve and perhaps more broadcasting
stations were busy on Czechoslovak wavelengths but, amazingly enough, out
of them, ten could be heard in the Federal Republic and only a few in
Austria. Along with stations using city names like Pilsen or Budovice, a
"Free Radio Czechoslovakia", a "Free Radio northern Bohemia" and a "Radio
Number Seven" could be heard.
Czech patriots operated those radio stations broadcasting news and
information which could be checked and verified; for example: the listing
of license plate, numbers of cars used by Soviet police detachments
carrying out arrests, direct coverage of the CPCS party congress in
progress at a secret meeting place. However, of a more doubtful kind were
those secret stations broadcasting news which proved false.
Chancellor Kiesinger, in an interview with Sudwestfunk, took pains to
pacify his people about the role played by the Bundeswehr, in answering
questions by simply saying that he had tried to prevent "blockheaded
interference" and idiotic fraternization attempts."
Kai Ludwig, Germany. They were broadcasting on a known RBI frequency,
1430, and they moved the Berlin-Koepenick transmitter to Wilsdruff for