ADVENTIST WORLD RADIO
Important Announcement from Adventist
Word Radio
The
time has come for change. For the past
quarter century and more, the Indianapolis address for Adventist Word Radio has
received listener mail and reception reports from more than 100 countries all
around the world. It has been our
privilege to respond to all of the incoming mail, both postal and email, and to
send out uncounted thousands of QSL cards.
However,
because of major health issues for us both (my wife as well as myself) and due
to our advancing years (we are both nearing our mid-80s) it has become
necessary for me to reduce my work load, just as soon as possible. It is with great reluctance that therefore I
announce the fact that the processing of listener reception reports will be
transferred from Indianapolis to a new address in Silver Spring Maryland. Staff at AWR headquarters will take over the
processing of all reception reports addressed to Adventist World Radio. They are located in
the building complex at the world headquarters of the Seventh-day Adventist
denomination on the edge of suburban Washington DC.
Effective
at the end of the year, the Indianapolis post office box address will be
closed, and emails addressed to the Indianapolis address will no longer be
received. Likewise, postal mail
addressed to the AWR street address in Indianapolis will no longer be processed
locally. The new address for all
reception reports addressed to Adventist World Radio worldwide is:-
Box
10188, Silver Spring, MD 20914, USA.
Every
item of postal mail received at the
Indianapolis box address up to December 31 will be processed here and QSL cards
will be sent out in the usual way from this location. It will take some time, well into the New
Year, to complete the processing of all pending mail, but each item will be
processed and all QSL cards will be posted out.
We
might add that a new QSL card has just been received, and this card will be the
last QSL card ever issued from this address.
In addition, a new batch of many different types of AWR curios and
souvenirs has been received, and these items will be sent out to listeners who
enter our big annual DX contest. These
souvenirs and curios will never become available again.
Remember
to enter our big annual DX contest which has been extended till the end of
November. Many awards, and souvenirs,
and new QSL cards are available, as well as a new award for listeners in New
Zealand and Australia; a copy of the colorful Australian Radio History by Dr.
Bruce Carty.
In
this year’s contest, you are invited to design the details for your
own contest entry. You are invited to
tell what is your best QSL since our last contest, and to provide three AWR
reception reports.
Complete details are available from
many DX club magazines, and from various websites. You may also contact Wavescan in Indianapolis
for an email version of the contest details.
In
order to grant opportunity for listeners in Australia and New Zealand, the
closing date for the 2015 DX contest has been extended by one month. All entries worldwide now need to be
postmarked by the end of November, and received at the Indianapolis postal
address by the end of December. Details
regarding the results of the contest will be announced in Wavescan in mid
January.
It
is intended that the AWR DX program, “Wavescan”, will continue as usual in
the same regular way. We are grateful
for the DX reports from our DX reporters in India, Japan, Bangladesh,
Philippines and Australia. We are
grateful for the professional production of this weekly broadcast by Jeff White
in the studios of WRMI in Okeechobee Florida, and for the reading of regular
features by Ray Robinson in the studios of KVOH in Los Angeles, and for the
widespread broadcast of Wavescan via the shortwave facilities of Adventist
World Radio, WRMI, WWCR and KVOH.
Dr. Adrian M. Peterson
DX Editor - Wavescan.