BC-DX TopNews WWDXC #945 BC-DX 945

have additional background on this long gone, but fascinating bit of DX,
at least for me.
(Don Jensen-USA, dswci DXW Oct 6)
Yes indeed, I remember it also. Nice long QSL card with an abstract
antenna logo. No power quoted on it, but 1 kW fits the memory (from WRTH?)
also. My QSL was for a midweek broadcast after 1500 in October 1972.
The only new information I can add is that the card had 2 call signs
printed on it along with the one frequency of 6255. The second call was
OEY52. Perhaps OEY21 was their Clark Kent call. If that's right, I don't
know what the conditions were for them to change to being Superman.
(aumas-UK, DXplorer Oct 4)
6255, 5035, 3378. "Schulungssender des Oesterreichischen Bundesheeres" -
Austrian Army Broadcast Training Station - was situated in a Vienna
barracks with the call OEY21 (OEY being the Army call area). There was an
outlet in Salzburg, OEY21, allocated but not active. It would have been
activated in case of a national catastrophe or crisis that necessitated
the evacuation of the government to an excluse nearby. Vienna studio,
transmitter and aerial were located originally downtown later in the 12th
district, not exactly in the outskirts.
Main purpose of the station was to train recruits of the telegraph corps
to operate a bc service, particularly in case of emergencies when regular
bc transisssions were interrupted. the national radio was occupied by
enemy forces etc. But how can you run a station without a programme,
without contents - which was not the main purpose of OEY21. They filled
airtime with music, a morse code training, and occasional announcements
(which misdled Don to think they were destined to keep in touch with their
peacekeeping troups in Cyprus etc. In fact there was a separate service
for that purpose, "Heimatfunk" - Calling Home.
The main problem of the station was that it had to transmit outband. To
somehow find a solution, they stated regularly: "this programme is
destined for army internal purposes only and not for public broadcasting".
On the other hand it was important that _every_ Austrian should learn
about the existence of OEY21, in order to tune to the station in case of
emergency. This conflict could not be solved, and consequently the station
was closed down. For some time they operated into an artificial antenna.
A broadcast studio was built in the inner caves of Salzburg mountain, the
government retreat center. It is permanently manned but so far was never
used. Enjoy the QSL scans.
73 Wolf OE1WHC, Harranth-AUT, DXplorer Oct 6
Documentary Archives Radio Communication
(QSL Collection)
ORF/QSL Argentinierstr. 30A. A-1040 Wien, Austria
+43-1-50101-16071 / Mob (+43676)0676-4012585
Oct 6
Following up the item about the special Austrian Military Radio Society
broadcasts I found that their website has an English page with details of
the broadcast and a history of the organisation:
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