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At
the beginning of this current Transmission Period B14 October 6, 2014,
Adventist World Radio began a relay service from the Deutsche Welle shortwave
relay station near Kigali in Rwanda Africa.
The AWR relay via DW Kigali is on the air for a total of 2½ transmitter
hours daily in three languages, French, Amharic & Fulfulde. In one particular time block, two
transmitters carry the programming in parallel.
However, Deutsche Welle has
subsequently announced that they plan to close their African relay station at
the end of this current Transmission Period B14 March 28, 2015 and then
dismantle the station. The last AWR broadcasts
from DW Kigali will therefor also end at the same time.
For those who would like to receive
a QSL card for these now short term broadcasts, AWR would welcome all reception
reports from listeners in any part of the world. Each reception report will be verified with a
QSL card (not an Email QSL), and the envelope will be affixed with genuine
postage stamps, not postal labels. In
addition, while supplies last, a special QSL stamp showing Kigali will be
attached to the QSL card.
It is not necessary to send an off-air
recording of your reception. We just
need your honest reception report
on paper. 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coupons are too expensive for you to buy, and they are no longer valid in the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.
Also please enclose your address
label.
The only address for the special
Kigali QSL stamp is the Indianapolis address at:-
Adventist
World Radio, Box 29235, Indianapolis, Indiana 46229, USA.
All reception reports, including all
that have already been received, will be QSLed in due course. However, please be patient with us as we
already hold uncounted hundreds of reception reports still pending, and it may
take us many months to process them all.
The current AWR website shows the
following scheduling for the daily Kigali transmissions:-
0600
- 0630 UTC 15700 kHz French
0600
- 0630 17800
French
1700
- 1730 9490 Amharic
1930
- 2000 17800
Fulfulde
2000
- 2030 17800
French
Adventist
World Radio - Regular QSL Policy
Adventist World Radio welcomes
reception reports from listeners in all countries. Please note the following items of
information:-
* Each reception report should contain
the following items of information
Date
Time,
preferably expressed in International Radio Time, equivalent to UTC
Frequency in kHz
Sufficient program
details to verify that you actually heard the AWR programming
Reports using SINPO Code
preferred
* Reception reports by postal mail are
preferred, though email is also acceptable.
* 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.
* Where possible, please enclose your
address label.
* You will receive a full data QSL card,
including location, through the postal system in response to your reception report.
* Several different QSL cards are
available.
* The envelope will be affixed with
regular postage stamps, not a postage label.
* AWR does not send out email QSLs.
* It is not necessary for you to send
and resend the same reception report.
All reception reports that we
receive are verified with a regular full data QSL card.
* It is not necessary to send an
off-air recording of your reception. We
just need your honest reception
report on paper.
* At times, there may be a delay
before you receive your AWR QSL card.
This is due to the large
inflow of reception reports we receive from listeners in so many different
countries.
* The regular postal address for
reception reports is:-
Adventist World Radio
Box 29235
Indianapolis
Indiana 46229 USA