FW: [HCDX] Re: 4880 unid to/from Zimbabwe?

["Andy Sennitt" <andys@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> Yes, also heard in Australia 17/5, to sign-off 1900 with ID, after
> program "Letter from Zimbabwe".
>
> 4880 was used many years ago by the SABC, for their internal service in
> Afrikaans, so maybe a South African-based transmitter?

Technically, that's plausible. Politically, no way! Mugabe himself was in
South Africa yesterday at the funeral of Walter Sisulu.

I know DXing is not supposed to be political, but an awareness of the
political background should help DXers to discount some possibilities, or
point to others.

Andy Sennitt


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