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Thursday, October 15, 2009

Special QSLing opportunity for shortwavers

Together with Radio Slovakia International, the Austrian DX Board (ADXB) is sponsoring an initiative for a special QSL card for correct reception reports between 1 November-2009 and 31 January 2010. This is part of the celebrations on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of ADXB, the only Austrian DX club.

The special QSL card may be earned under the following conditions:

* Irrespective of club affiliation, any correct reception report about a transmission of Radio Slovakia International between 1 November 2009 and 31 January 2010 will be honoured with a special QSL card.

* Only ONE special QSL card will be issued per operating frequency.

* Any reports that do not compy with these conditions shall be verified with a standard card from Radio Slovakia International (RSI), and shall not count towards the statistics of the ADXB sponsored initiative.

* The reception report must be submitted via the following address:
ADXB
P.O.Box 1000
A-1081 Vienna
Austria

* All six language services of Radio Slovakia International shall take part in the initiative. These are: Slovak, German, Russian, Englich, French, and Spanish.

* The handling fee is 1 IRC, 1 USD or 1 EUR. The fee is determined for the cost recovery of ADXB club, whereas RSI isn’t eligible to receive handling fees.

The QSL cards will be sent directly from Bratislava. Please check the websites of ADXB-OE and Radio Slovakia International for the current transmission schedule. Information is also available by snail mail.

All transmissions originate from the Slovak shortwave centre at Rimavska Sobota.

If you have any further questions, please contact ADXB, P.O.B. 1000, A-1081 Vienna, Austria, or use the following e-mail address adxbsuess@aon.at in German, English, French, Italian or Spanish.
(Source: Harald Süss, ADXB via RSI website/Radio Netherlands Media Network Weblog)

as soon as the Radio Slovakia International B09 schedule is released, I will repost this announcement.
Gayle