Back
some twenty years ago, a few very fortunate international radio monitors were
able to log the Adventist radio broadcasts from the RFO shortwave station
located on the island of New Caledonia in the South Pacific. These broadcasts were not under the
jurisdiction of Adventist World Radio, though they were produced in a studio
that was also producing programs for broadcast over the AWR shortwave
network.
South American listener, Antonio
Riberio do Motta of Sao Luiz do Paraitinga in Brazil, heard one of these
broadcasts and he submitted his report to the AWR studio in Poona India, and he
was issued a courtesy QSL card that was signed by the wife of the studio
director, Violet Peterson. The QSL card
showed a green map of the world, and it verified the reception of the French
language AWR studio programming via a 20 kW transmitter on 7170 kHz in Noumea
New Caledonia on November 8, 1984. A
truly rare QSL card.
(AWR-Wavescan/NWS 360)