A: Dear listeners, may you be blessed with every happiness throughout the New Year. I hope this edition of the Letter Box finds you well.

New Year’s Greetings by VOV Director General Nguyen Dang Tien:

First of all, on behalf of all the English section staff, we would like to say thank you for your best wishes and greetings to us on Christmas and New Year. Yesterday, one of our regular listeners from England, Edwin Southwell, phoned us to say best wishes for the New Year. It touched us so much. He said he had received our QSLs, our 2013 calendar, and some other gifts. We hope that, like Edwin, you’ve received everything you expected.

A: This week, we were very happy to receive season’s greetings from our listeners. We would like to thank you all for your warm sentiments for the VOV staff. We also wish you and your families a merry Christmas and happy New Year. We hope to have your continuing support and feedback to help us improve our program.

This week a Christmas atmosphere is starting to be felt in Vietnam. Temporarily putting off aside their economic woes, Vietnamese people, especially Christians, are eagerly preparing for Christmas.

A: This week, we received a fantastic letter from Alan Anderson of the US, who proposes a very interesting idea for Dx’ing.

This week, we were impressed and moved by letters and emails from listeners in Assam, India. They set a record by sending us an average of 4 to 5 letters per day.

To begin this week’s Letter Box, I would like to say Hello to Omar Alfredo Robayo, a new listener of VOV. Welcome you to our worldwide Dx’ing community.

This week, we’ve received a lot of emails and letters from Indian listeners. One is Dr. Siddhartha Bhattacharyya who is President of the Chaitak Listeners Club in Paschim Medinipur district. Bhattacharyya wanted to know about dialects in Vietnam and how the younger generation is now?

A: First off, I’d like to inform you of our frequency changes for the winter. Pen and paper ready? Our English broadcasts to Western Europe from Moosbrunn, Dhabayya, and Woofferton will be broadcast from 18.00 to 18.30 UTC on 5955 KHz.