To view the Christmas Eve 2024 broadcast of Gruß an Bord, available at the Shortwave Central YouTube channel, go to: https://youtu.be/9qS3ByTwVuw
Christmas Eve - 2025
NDR is promoting their annual NDR Christmas Eve special Gruß an Bord (Greetings on Board) with requests for Christmas wishes for the program, along with details of how to attend the two-hour recording on December 14, to be broadcast at 8pm (in Germany), 1900 UTC.
Mostly intended for sailors and ship crews on Christmas Eve in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, and the areas in between, in the Mediterranean, Red Sea, and Persian Gulf.
For more than 70 years, Norddeutscher Rundfunk has broadcast a special program with greetings to everyone working on the seven seas on Christmas Eve.If you have family or friends who do, you can send a greeting by email to <gruss-an-bordo [at] ndr.de> by December 8, 2025.
The program will be broadcast on Christmas Eve as described below. We will provide the latest information about the broadcast as the date approaches. (via Anatoly Klepov-RUS, RUSdx #1369 via wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Nov 23)
No shortwave information has been given, but hopefully the program will be preceded, as last year by a one-hour maritime program.
The current HFCC lists broadcasts scheduled for December 24, 2025
18:00 - 21:00 UTC
Relays as indicated
6030 Issoudun, France (250kW)
6080 Tashkent, Uzbekistan (100 kW)
9635 Nauen, Germany (250kW)
11650Issoudun, France (250kW)
13830 Nauen, Germany (250kW)
15770 WRMI-Okeechobee, Florida, USA (100kW)
The above frequencies are all labelled "A.xmas". There are also some transmissions labelled "B.xmas". Not sure if these are alternate or backup frequencies, or for some other progra, and include some transmissions for the period 2100-2300. They are:
19:00 - 21:00 UTC
6030 Yerevan, Armenia (100kW)
6080 Nauen, Germany (125 kW)
9740 Nauen, Germany (125 kW)
11650 Issoudun, France (250 kW)
2100-2300 UTC
6145 Nauen, Germany (125 kW)
6155 Yerevan, Armenia (100 kW)
9590 Issoudun, France (250 kW)
9740 Nauen, Germany (125 kW)
9830 Issoudun, France (250 kW)
(Alan Roe, Teddington, UK/BDXC)
(Edited by Teak Publishing)
