Rare,
Unusual, Unique QSLs”: AWR “Focus on Asia” 2014 Annual DX Contest
- 10:26
The time has come! Beginning on Monday (September 1) it is
Contest month for AWR “Wavescan”.
As Adventist World Radio enters into
its 43rd year of international radio broadcasting, we take pleasure
in announcing our annual “Wavescan” DX
contest, which comes to you under the title, “Rare,
Unusual, Unique QSLs”.
In short, you are invited to check your collection of QSL cards and
letters for rare, unusual and unique QSLs from shortwave, mediumwave and
communication stations throughout the world.
You are also invited to log AWR programming to Asia on shortwave,
mediumwave or FM during the month of September 2014.
Here are the details of our 2014 “Rare,
Unusual, Unique QSLs”: AWR “Focus
on Asia” Annual
DX Contest:-
A.
Rare, Unique and Unusual QSL Cards and Letters
*
You are invited to make a list of what you consider to be your rare, unique or
unusual QSL cards or letters in your QSL collection. Perhaps no one else in the world has a QSL
verifying some transmissions that you have
verified.
*
Your list of QSLs can show any number of different rare, unique or unusual QSLs
up to a total of 5 QSLs.
*
Your QSLs may verify a wrong transmission channel or an emergency broadcast due
to flood, fire, earthquake, turmoil etc, or a
transmission from an emergency transmitter, or test broadcasts, or first broadcast or last broadcast,
unusual propagation, etc.
* These QSLs can be from any shortwave
broadcasting station or shortwave communication station or mediumwave
station located in any country anywhere in the world. Amateur QSLs nor CB QSLs are
not valid for this contest.
* You are invited to
provide a photocopy of each of the QSLs that are on your list in Part A. Preferably, these
photocopies should be in color, though black & white copies may be
acceptable.
B.
Details of Rare, Unique and Unusual QSL Cards and Letters
* Please state very briefly, no more
than one paragraph for each, why you consider each item in your list of QSLs is rare, unique or
unusual.
C.
AWR Reception Reports
* You are invited to
prepare three reception reports for the broadcast on shortwave mediumwave or FM
of any AWR Asian
programming. These broadcasts from
Adventist World Radio may be from shortwave,
mediumwave or FM stations located anywhere in Asia or on nearby Asian islands;
or AWR
programming beamed into Asia on shortwave from other countries.
* It is not necessary to send an
off-air recording of your reception. We
just need your honest reception report on paper.
D.
Adventist Photograph
*
You are invited to visit a unit of the Seventh-day Adventist denomination in
your country and take a photograph of it, preferably in
color, though B&W can be acceptable, and submit one picture with your contest entry.
E. Three Radio Cards
*
Where possible, you are invited to include three radio cards for the
Indianapolis Heritage Collection with your contest
entry. These cards may be old or new,
and they may be QSL cards, reception report
cards, or picture cards of radio stations, etc.
Not valid for this contest are amateur cards nor
CB cards.
Other Contest Details
*
Well, there you have it, the details for our Wavescan 2014 “Rare,
Unusual, Unique QSLs”: AWR “Focus
on Asia” Annual
DX Contest.
*
This contest will run through the month of September 2014, and all contest entries
should be postmarked at your local post office
anywhere in the world on any date up to the end of the month of September and they should be
received at the AWR post office address in Indianapolis no later than the end of
the month of October 2014.
*
Partial and incomplete entries are considered valid.
* Post your entry with all items to
Adventist World Radio in Indianapolis, remembering that neatness and
preparation, will all feature in the judging procedure. Due consideration will also be given to the
area of the world in which the contestant lives.
* Where possible, please enclose
return postage in the form of currency notes in any international currency, or mint postage stamps. Please note that IRC coupons are too
expensive for you to buy,
and they are no longer valid in the United States.
* Please enclose your postal address
label also.
* The awards for the 2014 AWR “Rare,
Unusual, Unique QSLs” - AWR “Focus on Asia” Annual
DX
Contest will be similar to all
previous contests. There will be a
special award for the world winner,
one of the Jerome Berg radio history books; and World Radio TV Handbook 2015
for each continental winner. In addition, there will be other special
awards as well as AWR souvenirs
and radio curios for many participants.
*
You can remember that all AWR reception reports will be verified with a
specially endorsed AWR QSL card.
Please remember that it will take a period of many months, well into the
new year 2015, to process all of
the contest entries and reception reports, but each will in due course be processed.
* The only address for the “Rare,
Unusual, Unique QSLs”: AWR “Focus
on Asia” Annual
DX Contest is:-
QSL
DX Contest
Adventist World Radio
Box 29235
Indianapolis
Indiana
46229 USA
