Nostalgic Memories First Radio Broadcast
Mr Muneer K. P. in Sharjar, United Arab
Emirates tells us that he received a QSL card from Deutsche Welle early last
year, verifying his reception of their relay broadcast from the nearby Dhabaya
transmitter station in Abu Dhabi. This
relay transmission on 15640 kHz is important to him, because the first
shortwave broadcast he ever heard was from Deutsche Welle in 1982 while he was
visiting in the home of a friend. At the
time, he was living in his home state, Kerala, in South India, and he wrote to
Deutsche Well at their office in New Delhi, requesting a schedule. Listening to the broadcast from Germany, and
receiving a copy of the magazine “Tune In “ sparked
an interest in the monitoring of the international shortwave bands.
(AWR Wavescan/NWS 309)