Special shortwave Christmas broadcast from Germany: All six frequencies of Gruss an Bord

[@StratmanII]

Listening to those traditional German Christmas songs made me think this maritime radio service may have had its origins going back to WW1, when the Imperial German Navy ruled the world's oceans. 🙂 Anyway, I attempted to get C3PO to translate the male announcer around the 06:00 mark, until you switched the frequency about two minutes later. Note that the source sound quality which is played through my Android tablet and detected by smartphone has resulted in many things lost in translation: "Ladies and gentlemen, they also report on what life in the ports, life on board, working on board, again and again in the Info, of course we do North German reporting or business reporting, but this year we have really unpacked it again, André Feuerbacher, network editor of North Rhine-Westphalia and the head of programming at NDR, Coron, is ok with me" "We have also paid a little more attention here to the fact that we also tell exactly about it, about the hard work, the food-rich work, about the economic contexts that always have to do with seafaring, what did we do, well, we have heard the thought of Rosa, also to keep alive an awareness of the importance, the relevance of SEPA are economical, that also brings the ports are on the wheels on these first marriages just to keep these first marriages awake again(?)" "I miss it especially at Christmas, when you can simply preview quite interesting thought experiments to sit around the account decorations or Christmas stands or by things with which you are currently driving, what is being prepared. Gifts like sneakers, smartphone and I think it's quite interesting to ask you what is it really here if there were male sailors, containers, giants across the world's oceans, among other things, here, where we are currently broadcasting, to the port of Hamburg. "What of it would be here if it weren't for the people who would take care of the fruit, if the machines that were almost year-old are not here, the people are here, the containers on my head, the ships are waiting again, I have this beautiful place to sleep, no shipping nose of the year..." That was a verbatim translation by the app and if I ran it several times I'm sure I'd get a better translation each time. I think the translation would have been better had you used your Eton/Grundig Executive Traveler instead of the Qodosen. 😀

[@swlistening]

Thank you so much for the translation! I am pinning your comment so that viewers will see it first, it is really interesting to see what they are talking about. This is really nice, thanks! There are quite a number of words in Afrikaans that are similar to German words, so I am able to catch a few words here and there and understand a little bit, but not in full. You might know it already, but before WW1 Germany also had several African colonies. My neighbour to the north, Namibia, was a German colony. To this day there are some towns in Namibia where people still speak German, and the German colonial architecture has been maintained and is very popular among tourists. You can see one example here, the small coastal village of Luderitz in the south of Namibia. I have been there, it is a very interesting place, all these German-style buildings surrounded by desert! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%BCderitz#/media/File:Lutheran_Church_Luderotz.jpg

[@StratmanII]

@@swlistening I hope I didn't insult any German speaking viewer, as that translation was done in the wee hours of the morning and the app relies on the device's microphone input. 🤭 If the source audio was from an FM station I'm sure C3P0 would have translated the German announcer more accurately. Thank you for the link to the article about the town in Namibia. I enjoyed looking at the strange coastal landscape. I wish I could sail along the coast of the African continent to see how the beaches vary with the latitude. It seems that the east coast of Africa (Tanzania, Kenya, Somalia) has sandy beaches while the south western part appear to have a rocky coastline. What's fascinating to me is that South Africa sits mostly on the Highveld plateau which tapers all the way to Cape Town. I'm going to have a look at Namibia's topology on Google Earth in my spare time! 🌍🇳🇦

[@54cal54]

Most excellent catch, im sure the sailors really enjoyed this program. Merry Christmas everyone.

[@swlistening]

Thank you, and Merry Christmas to you also!

[@brianveitenheimer4492]

Thank you Andre for all you do for us in the hobby. Wishing you and your family a merry Christmas and prosperous new year from my family in the Canadian Rocky Mountains. 73. VA7VEB

[@swlistening]

Thank you Brian, and thank you for the kind comments about my channel. Merry Christmas and happy new year to you and your family also! The Rocky Mountains must be beautiful at this time of the year, covered in snow?

[@ArnieDXer]

Hello André, Merry Christmas again 🎅😜 Well done receiving this broadcast on so many frequencies, even the Tashkent one did really well 😮 and I like the fact you had a very good signal on 11650, at least for most of the broadcast 😛 this really means shortwave can work & can be suitable for such broadcasts. I hope those responsible find a good replacement for Moosbrunn to Indian Ocean next year 👍

[@swlistening]

Hi there Arnie, thanks for the wishes and I hope you had a good Christmas! Mine was good, just some family and a few friends came over, a small gathering, but it was very nice. It will be interesting to see what they do next year with Gruss an Bord for the Indian Ocean, my guess is that they might use Woofferton. Always reliable here at my location. It is as you say, the clarity of 11650 shows that SW can work really well. The clear NHK signal from Yamata here at my location on an almost daily basis is another example of SW that works really well. By the way, I monitored NHK from Issoudun last night on 15130 kHz at 19:10 UTC. It was clear. Good and strong signal. Sinpo 45444. Not as crystal clear as the one from Yamata, but still very good.

[@CarolineFord1]

I picked up some of this in Yorkshire.

[@RADIOFREUNDETV-LW-MW-SW-FM.]

nice video 73 an Merry Christmas from Germany!

[@swlistening]

Thank you and Frohe Weihnachten to you also!

[@AndrewwDXing]

Nice catch! Merry Christmas & Happy holidays! 🎄🎆

[@swlistening]

Merry Christmas Andrew!

[@SWL_JO32]

Hello André 😊 Happy Holidays 😊 I was not able to listen to this yesterday evening so it is good that you made this recording!

[@swlistening]

Happy holidays to you too! Glad you enjoyed the video.

[@jamesglenn6461]

Merry Christmas!

[@swlistening]

Merry Christmas to you too James!

[@AnthonyJones-vk6xq]

Outstanding my friend, although i rarely speak German since i left Berlin in the early 90's i still understand a little 😉😉!! Thanks for uploading.......Best regards

[@swlistening]

Glad you enjoyed it Anthony! Berlin is a really fascinating place, I visited last year for the first time.

[@Kw1161]

Merry Christmas Andre! Excellent recording off the little "Q" DX radio machine! 15770 KHZ WRMI usually comes in about the same in Tucson, Arizona too as we are back of the beam and propagation has been mediocre for the past 3 weeks here, so it's even worse. 73! Have a great day!

[@swlistening]

Merry Christmas to you too! Interesting about 15770 kHz at your location. How are the other WRMI frequencies there? They seem to have quite a number of frequencies in various directions. Are some of them very clear catches in Tucson? If I hear WRMI, it is 15770, but never very clearly. They have one targeted broadcast to West Africa on 17790 kHz, Radio Africa Network, which is quite clear here on some days, but not always.

[@Kw1161]

@@swlistening Andre I receive 5050 Khz weakly but they broadcast the Legends of WRMI on there so I live with it. They used to switch to 9455KHZ but one of the hurricanes damaged the antenna or Xmitter. 5850 and 5950 KHZ are usually good except when occupied by old BS. 7730 and 7780 KHZ occasionally. plus 9395 KHZ in the Tucson area. 73!

[@FamtechVideos]

Nice catches! I will watch this video soon, I am afraid I am with family for now, but I will update this comment when I watch the video fully.

[@swlistening]

No worries!

[@StratmanII]

Happy holidays, Deniz! Pet Daphne for me, ok? ☺️👋🏼🐈

[@Albert-zl3zd]

Mooie ontvangst van ndr Grusse am bord, ik heb geluisterd naar 6080khz in Nederland

[@swlistening]

Dankie Albert! Hierdie was 'n baie spesiale uitsending, dit is vanjaar die eerste keer dat ek dit hoor. Beste wense vir die feestyd!

[@KekmanForTheRestOfTheWorld]

Happy Holidays everyone! I was listening to this in the 49m band (mostly 6080). Reception was not as good as other stations in that band even though i was receivig in germany. Was an interesting show for sure! I think with live audience and band in the studio? proper radio show

[@swlistening]

Happy holidays to you also! It was a great show to listen to, even though I did not understand much. I caught a few words here and there 😀

[@PIasmaZombie]

Listen in to Radio HCJB on 3995KHz AM, that is a missionary Broadcast from Germany, usually in the german Language Hochdeutsch.🌠

[@swlistening]

Thank you for your comment. This sounds like an interesting broadcast. I have actually tried to catch it in the past, but I haven't been able to hear it yet. I keep trying!

[@gorankoilic6571]

You should record Radio Vatican, Brother Stair, WMLK and World's Last Chance.

[@swlistening]

Actually I should have, on Christmas day, to see what they do. Next year :-)

[@gorankoilic6571]

@@swlistening I heard WMLK last week and heard some music.

[@md.safiulalam2054]

I have a question, are listening the stations out of the target area,thanking you.

[@swlistening]

For most of the signals I was outside the target area. I am in South Africa, so the two signals to the Indian Ocean and to the Atlantic near South Africa were in my direction. All the others were not.

[@gorankoilic6571]

Laudetur Jesus Christus!

[@duanetrivett750]

Merry Christmas SWL i hope all is well. I was not aware of these broadcast. I did catch several Pirate Radio stations last nights. Hope all is well in South Africa .

[@swlistening]

Thank you Duane, and Merry Christmas to you also. All is well here, thanks 😀 I sometimes talk about events like these on my channel, in my podcasts. I think you might have missed the podcast where I spoke about this. But next year it will happened again! The pirates you caught sound interesting, where are you located?

[@duanetrivett750]

@swlistening They are some where in the mid US or the eastern US because people in the east US are picking then up. People in the western states don't copy them .

[@swlistening]

@@duanetrivett750 It is fun to chase these pirate stations. I know there are some in the Netherlands and elsewhere in Europe also. I once caught one from Brazil, called Radio Araucaria. But that has been the only pirate station I have heard so far. There are none here in South Africa.

[@lew9223]

A pirate called - Free Radio Service Holland was broadcasting a few days ago on 9.300khz A mix of Dutch & English, clips of old pirate jingles etc.

[@swlistening]

@@lew9223 Nice one!