The Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation has announced that they plan to
close their historic shortwave station located at Ekala, a dozen miles
north of Colombo in Sri Lanka. In view of the close association of Adventist
World Radio with SLBC and their Ekala shortwave station over a long period of time beginning back in 1951, we are planning to honor the occasion with
a special edition of the AWR DX program Wavescan, under the title "Tribute to
Ekala". We plan to broadcast this special edition of Wavescan under the old
title from around 40 years ago, "Radio Monitors International". At this stage, the closure date for SLBC Ekala is not yet finally confirmed, though
it is our intent to place this special program on the air in the regular
scheduling of Wavescan to co-incide with their last week on the air. SLBC plans
to transfer their shortwave planning to the ex-Deutsche Welle station located near Trincomalee on the east coast of the island.
A special one time only QSL card will be prepared, based on the early QSL
cards issued in Poona India for the broadcasts from AWR-Asia and Radio Monitors
International. All reception reports for this one particular edition of
Wavescan-Radio Monitors International will be verified with this
special card, and the reception reports can be for any of the broadcasts of
this program over any station that carries the program. Postal mail reception reports are preferred, with return postage, though in some cases
email reports will be verified.
The only address for this special QSL card "Tribute to Ekala", is:
Adventist World Radio
Box 29235Indianapolis
Indiana 46229
USA
Wavescan Scheduling: A13 Transmission Period
March 31, 2013 - October 26, 2013
Day UTC Call kHz kW Station Location Country
Sun
1030 WRMI 9955 50 Radio Miami Int Miami Florida USA1530 AWR 15335 250 Media Broadcast Nauen Germany
1600 KSDA 15360 100 Adventist World Radio Agat Guam
1600 KSDA 15670 100 Adventist World Radio Agat Guam
2230 KSDA 15320 100 Adventist World Radio Agat Guam
2330 KSDA 17650 100 Adventist World Radio Agat Guam
Mon
1100 WRMI 9955 50 Radio Miami Int Miami Florida USAWed
MN00 WRMI 9955 50 Radio Miami Int Miami Florida USA
1100 WRMI 9955 50 Radio Miami Int Miami Florida USA
2000 WINB 13570 50 World International Red Lion Pennsylvania USA
Thu
0300 WRMI 9955 50 Radio Miami Int Miami Florida USAFri
0315 WRMI 9955 50 Radio Miami Int Miami Florida USA
Sat
1100 WRMI 9955 50 Radio Miami Int Miami Florida USA1300 WRMI 9955 50 Radio Miami Int Miami Florida USA
1530 WWCR2 12160 100 Worldwide Christian Nashville Tennessee USA
2230 WRMI 9955 50 Radio Miami Int Miami Florida USA
(Anker Peterson/AWR & Alokesh Gupta, India)
