AWR updates winter schedule

 

Effective to: 29 March 2025

GUAM/GERMANY/MADAGASCAR   B24 AWR Short Wave Broadcast Schedule

Reception reports to:  qsl@awr.org

AWR website: awr.org

Site StartStop  Language   Target Area                  kHz     kW   Days

        UTC     Service

SDA  1900 2000  Arabic     Egypt, Iraq, Arab Peninsula  11985   100  daily

SDA  0000 0030  Burmese    Myanmar, Thailand, China     17650   100  daily

MDC  0300 0400  Malagasy   Madagascar                    6065   100  daily

SDA  1000 1100  Mandarin   Ce/No-China                  15430   100  daily

SDA  1000 1100  Mandarin   So-China                     15295   100  daily

SDA  1100 1200  Mandarin   Ce/No-China                  15430   100  daily

SDA  1100 1130  Indonesian We-Indonesia                 15500   100  daily

SDA  1100 1200  Mandarin   So-China                     15295   100  daily

SDA  1130 1200  Sundanese  Indonesia, Malaysia          15500   100  1357

SDA  1130 1200  Javanese   Indonesia, Malaysia          15500   100  246

SDA  1130 1200  Shan       Myanmar                      15530   100  daily

SDA  1200 1230  MinNan Chi Ce/No-China                   9610   100  12345

SDA  1200 1230  Mandarin   Ce/No-China                   9610   100  67

SDA  1200 1230  Mandarin   So-China                     15550   100  67

SDA  1200 1230  MinNan Chi So-China                     15550   100  12345

SDA  1200 1230  Mon        Myanmar                      15430   100  daily

SDA  1230 1300  Cantonese  Ce/No-China                   9610   100  123457

SDA  1230 1300  Mandarin   So-China                     15550   100  6

SDA  1230 1300  Cantonese  So-China                     15550   100  123457

SDA  1230 1300  Mandarin   Ce/No-China                   9610   100  6

SDA  1300 1330  Dayak      We-Indonesia                 15680   100  daily

SDA  1300 1330  Kachin     Myanmar                      15530   100  daily

SDA  1300 1330  Mandarin   We-China                     15600   100  23456

SDA  1300 1330  Uighur     We-China                     15600   100  17

SDA  1300 1330  Bangla     Bangladesh                   15255   100  daily

SDA  1330 1400  Assamese   NE-India                     17735   100  14

SDA  1330 1400  Lisu       Myanmar                      17755   100  daily

SDA  1330 1400  Kokborok   Bangladesh                   15255   100  daily

SDA  1400 1430  Karen      Myanmar, Thailand, China     15400   100  daily

SDA  1400 1430  Mandarin   We-China                      9720   100  daily

SDA  1400 1500  Mandarin   We-China                     15710   100  daily

SDA  1400 1430  Asho Chin  Myanmar                      15505   100  daily

MDC  1400 1500  Malagasy   Madagascar                    6065   100  daily

SDA  1430 1500  Burmese    Myanmar                      15530   100  daily

SDA  1430 1500  Karen      Myanmar, Thailand, China     15400   100  daily

SDA  1500 1530  Kannada    So-India                     15215   100  daily

SDA  1500 1530  Tamil      So-India                     15530   100  daily

SDA  1530 1600  Hindi      No-India                     15215   100  daily

SDA  1530 1600  Kannada    So-India                     15680   100  daily

SDA  1600 1630  Telugu     So-India                     15665   100  daily

SDA  1630 1700  Pushto     No-India                     15360   100  246

SDA  1630 1730  Korean     Korea                         9870   100  daily

SDA  1630 1700  Sindhi     Pakistan                     15360   100  1357

SDA  1730 1830  Korean     Korea                         6180   100  daily

NAU  1730 1800  Oromo      So-Ethiopia                  15460   250  daily

NAU  1800 1830  Tigrinya   Eritrea                      15460   250  daily

SDA  1800 1900  Korean     Korea                         9760   100  daily

NAU  1830 1900  Amharic    Ethiopia                     15460   250  daily

SDA  1830 1930  Korean     Korea                         6180   100  daily

SDA  1900 2000  Arabic     Egypt, Iraq, Arab Peninsula  11985   100  daily

NAU  1900 1930  Hausa      Nigeria                      11700   250  daily

NAU  1930 2000  Ibo        E-Nigeria                    11700   250  daily

SDA  2000 2100  Korean     Korea                         9885   100  daily

NAU  2000 2030  Yoruba     Nigeria                      11700   250  daily

NAU  2030 2100  Pidgin     Nigeria                      11700   250  daily

SDA  2100 2200  Mandarin   Ce/No-China                  15625   100  daily

SDA  2200 2300  Mandarin   NE-China                     15625   100  daily

SDA  2300 2400  Mandarin   Ce/No-China                  17530   100  daily

SDA  2300 2400  Mandarin   NE-China                     17620   100  daily

(AWR/Pino)

AWR Wavescan announces QSL preservation initiative

 

Dear Radio Listener,

     At the present time, several well-known radio monitors in North America have indicated on the internet their concern as to what will happen with their valuable collection of QSL cards and letters.  We here at AWR Wavescan in Indianapolis have given consideration to this matter and we have a suggestion to offer.  

For those who would like to do so, you can send large and small collections of QSL cards and letters to our address in Indianapolis.  We will accept them, and maintain them in safe storage until things settle down after the virus pandemic. 

 It is our intent that we will then secure a suitable public location where all of the stored QSL collections will then be open to the public for display and research.  

Currently, we are already holding around 100,000 QSL cards and letters and paper radio items, and all additional items that we receive will join the current collection for a permanent suitable public location.

Thank you,

AMP.

Dr. Adrian M. Peterson

International Relations

Adventist World Radio

AWR DX Program Wavescan

903 Tanninger Drive

Indianapolis

IN 46239-9474 USA

Trincomalee transmitter update

Trincomalee, Sri Lanka

   Two of three transmitters at Trincomalee are out of service The transmissions of Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation / SLBC and some transmissions of Adventist World Radio / AWR are suspended, as follows:

All times UTC

0030-0100 on 11905 TRM 125 kW / 345 deg to SoAs Bengali SLBC
0200-0230 on 11905 TRM 125 kW / 345 deg to SoAs Hindi SLBC
1115-1158 on  9695 TRM 125 kW / 345 deg to SoAs Telugu/Malayalam SLBC
1200-1230 on 15715 TRM 125 kW / 045 deg to EaAs Min Nan Chinese Sun-Thu AWR
1200-1230 on 15715 TRM 125 kW / 045 deg to EaAs Chinese Fri/Sat AWR
1230-1300 on 15715 TRM 125 kW / 045 deg to EaAs Cantonese Sun-Thu AWR
1230-1300 on 15715 TRM 125 kW / 045 deg to EaAs Chinese Fri/Sat AWR
1300-1330 on 15550 TRM 125 kW / 075 deg to SEAs Khmer AWR
1330-1400 on 15550 TRM 125 kW / 060 deg to SEAs Hmong Thu/Fri AWR
1330-1400 on 15550 TRM 125 kW / 060 deg to SEAs Assamese Sun/Wed AWR
1330-1400 on 15550 TRM 125 kW / 090 deg to SEAs Indonesian Mon/Tue/Sat AWR
1400-1500 on 15705 TRM 125 kW / 045 deg to EaAs Chinese AWR
1500-1530 on 15530 TRM 125 kW / 060 deg to SEAs Manumanaw Karen AWR
1630-1700 on 11805 TRM 125 kW / 345 deg to SoAs Pashto Mon/Wed/Fri AWR
1630-1700 on 11805 TRM 125 kW / 335 deg to SoAs Sindhi Sun/Tue/Thu/Sat AWR
1630-1700 on 11750 TRM 125 kW / 345 deg to N/ME Sinhala City FM SLBC
1702-1800 on 11835 TRM 125 kW / 345 deg to SoAs Tamil Thendral FM SLBC

Check which of the others transmissions of AWR via Trincomalee are on air or not
0000-0030 on  9810 TRM 125 kW / 075 deg to SEAs Thai
0100-0130 on 11925 TRM 125 kW / 060 deg to EaAs Min Nan Chinese Sun-Thu
0100-0130 on 11925 TRM 125 kW / 060 deg to EaAs Chinese Fri/Sat AWR
0100-0130 on 15630 TRM 125 kW / 025 deg to EaAs Min Nan Chinese Sun-Thu
0100-0130 on 15630 TRM 125 kW / 025 deg to EaAs Chinese Fri/Sat
0130-0200 on 11925 TRM 125 kW / 060 deg to EaAs Cantonese Sun-Thu
0130-0200 on 11925 TRM 125 kW / 060 deg to EaAs Chinese Fri/Sat
0130-0200 on 15630 TRM 125 kW / 025 deg to EaAs Cantonese Sun-Thu
0130-0200 on 15630 TRM 125 kW / 025 deg to EaAs Chinese Fri/Sat
0200-0230 on 15410 TRM 125 kW / 355 deg to CeAs Kazakh
0230-0300 on 15410 TRM 125 kW / 355 deg to WeAs Dari
0300-0330 on 15305 TRM 125 kW / 285 deg to EaAf Tigrigna
0300-0330 on 15410 TRM 125 kW / 270 deg to EaAf Oromo


Active transmissions of Adventist World Radio, BBC and SLBC via Trincomalee
0330-0400 on 15410 TRM 125 kW / 345 deg to CeAs Uzbek
0400-0430 on 15410 TRM 125 kW / 345 deg to CeAs Kirgyz
0430-0500 on 15410 TRM 125 kW / 345 deg to WeAs Farsi
0500-0600 on 17790 TRM 250 kW / 300 deg to CEAf Arabic
1130-1200 on 15610 TRM 125 kW / 045 deg to SEAs Shan Shoshoni
1200-1230 on 15610 TRM 125 kW / 060 deg to SoAs Dialect Mon
1230-1300 on 15430 TRM 125 kW / 025 deg to SoAs Meitei Sun/Wed/Fri
1230-1300 on 15430 TRM 125 kW / 025 deg to SoAs Bengali Mon/Tue/Thu/Sat
1300-1330 on 15430 TRM 125 kW / 025 deg to SoAs Bengali
1330-1400 on 15430 TRM 125 kW / 025 deg to SoAs Khasi
1400-1500 on 11870 TRM 125 kW / 005 deg to CeAs Chinese
1500-1530 on  9740 TRM 125 kW / 015 deg to SoAs Nepali
1530-1600 on  9470 TRM 125 kW / 015 deg to SoAs Oriya
1600-1630 on 11755 TRM 125 kW / 345 deg to SoAs Urdu
1630-1700 on  7410 TRM 125 kW / 015 deg to SoAs Bengali BBC (former 9580, now SNG)
1702-1828 on 11750 TRM 125 kW / 345 deg to N/ME Sinhala City FM SLBC, ex 1630-1830
1830-1900 on 11790 TRM 125 kW / 255 deg to CEAf English
(DXB/Ivanov 04 Aug 2020)

A reminder for QSLing AWR and KSDA

(AWR QSL - (Gayle Van Horn Collection)

Several QSL cards available.  Send your AWR & KSDA reception reports for Wavescan to the AWR address in Silver Spring Maryland MD; and also to the station your radio is tuned to: WRMI or WWCR or KVOH or VOH-Africa, or to the AWR relay stations that carry Wavescan.

Remember too, you can send a reception report to the DX reporters when their segment is on the air here in Wavescan: Japan, Chile, Philippines, Australiaand India.  They also will verify with their own colorful QSL card.  Return postage and an address label are always appreciated.

Only postal address for AWR QSL cards:- Only email address for AWR QSLs:- QSL@AWR.org
Email address for Wavescan: wavescan@AWR.org 
Adventist World Radio
Box 10188
Silver Spring
Maryland MD 20914

AWR plans tribute to Ekala

 

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 29235
Indianapolis
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 USA
1530 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 USA

Wed
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 USA

Fri
0315 WRMI      9955   50 Radio Miami Int   Miami Florida USA

Sat

1100 WRMI      9955   50 Radio Miami Int   Miami Florida USA
1300 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)

Massive Flooding in North India - The Lucknow Story

Recent news from India tells of massive flooding in the north, particularly in the state of Uttar Pradesh. Heavy monsoon rains together with the necessary release of water from three major dams has caused excessive flooding throughout the state. The main highway running towards Delhi was under two to five feet of water in several places, more than 100 villages & towns were totally flooded, and food has been air dropped to marooned people sheltering on the top of tall buildings. Even to this day, the state is still reeling from the recent devastation.
The state of Uttar Pradesh was known in earlier days under the British Raj as United Provinces, with the initials U.P. After partition, the name of the state was changed to Uttar Pradesh, meaning Northern Province, thus keeping the same initials in English, U.P.
Uttar Pradesh shares a northern border with Nepal, and it has a massive population somewhere around 200 million people. Found within its borders are at least four well known cities: Agra with its famous Taj Mahal, Benares with its Hindu bathing rituals, Fatehpur Sikri the now abandoned and silent red city, and Lucknow as the state capital.
The regular Hindu festival known as Khumba Mela is celebrated every four years at several of the major cities in Uttar Pradesh. Regular attendance always attracts several million people, and on special occasions according to a pre-arranged calendar, the attendance is considerably larger. In the 2001 Kumba Mela the total attendance was 60 million people, including 1 million foreigners, making it the largest festival, it is claimed, in the entire history of planet Earth.
The city of Lucknow was founded in the 1200s, and at the time, it was known as Lakshmanpur. When the British came in 600 years later, the name of the city became Lucknow, as it is today.
In a news report, Jose Jacob VU2JOS at the National Institute of Amateur Radio in Hyderabad, states that the radio & TV stations operated by All India Radio at Bareilly were flooded and taken off the air. Bareilly city is located half way between Lucknow & Delhi.
It can be remembered that Priyanka Chopra, Miss World 2000, spent her growing up years in Bareilly. She is well known today as a famous film star in India.
The first wireless station in the state of Uttar Pradesh was installed at Allahabad back in the era before World War 1. This station was on the air in spark gap Morse Code under the callsign VWA. Available information would suggest that it was closed a dozen years later.
The first radio broadcasting station in Allahabad was located at the Agricultural Institute and it was opened in 1935 under the callsign VUA with 100 watts on 1071 kHz. This station was on the air for a period of 14 years, and it was closed when a new station was opened by All India Radio under the same callsign VUA with 1 kW on 760 kHz. The inauguration date for the new VUA was February 1, 1949. Six years later a 50 kW mediumwave transmitter was installed and the operating channel was moved to 980 kHz.
These days, Allahabad is on the air with two program channels of AIR programming, 20 kW on 1026 kHz & 10 kW on 100.3 FM.
Moving over now to the capital city in the state of Uttar Pradesh, we note that the first radio
station was an experimental broadcasting facility installed by the Department of Physics at the
University of Lucknow. This station may have been the very first broadcasting station in the state. It was on the air daily with a short period of broadcast programming. This service was on the air until the era of World War 2, when the transmitter was taken over by the British military.
A regular broadcasting service for Lucknow was inaugurated on April 2, 1938 under the callsign VUW with a power output of 500 watts. However, a 5 kW transmitter was inaugurated shortly afterwards, and in 1955 a 50 kW mediumwave transmitter was installed.
These days AIR Lucknow is on the air mediumwave with 300 kW on 747 kHz and 10 kW on 1278 kHz.
As far as shortwave broadcasting is concerned, the story is quite simple and straightforward. A 10 kW shortwave transmitter was inaugurated in 1958 and it was first noted in Australia on 4880 kHz in September. This unit was replaced by a new 50 kW transmitter in 1992, and this is still in use to this day.
AIR Lucknow has usually occupied three or sometimes four shortwave channels throughout the broadcast day, changing frequency every few hours to meet the changing propagation conditions. These days they are noted on 4880 kHz morning & evening and 7440 kHz during the day.
In earlier times, AIR Lucknow was a reliable verifier, and the Indianapolis collection contains many cards from this station, in fact, confirming the reception of programming over a period of time from four different transmitters. Likewise, cards have been received from AIR Allahabad in earlier times verifying their 1 kW transmitter. All QSL cards for the AIR stations in Uttar Pradesh are processed these days at the AIR national headquarters in New Delhi
(AWR Wavescan/NWS86 via Adrian Peterson)

Wavescan Update - Karachi in Pakistan and Hyderbad in India

A few weeks ago, we presented the complete story of radio broadcasting in Karachi, Pakistan, and at the time, we thought that we had discovered all of the available information on the early radio stations in that city. However, we have subsequently come across some additional information that sheds some light on the early radio scene in the city, back in the days when it was part of British India. This new information goes way back into the 1920s, at the time when it was a popular concept in Greater India for local radio clubs to establish their own mediumwave broadcasting stations. For example, back during this era, several local radio clubs established small radio broadcasting stations in such places as Lahore (VUL), Dehra Dun (VUU), Calcutta (2BZ), Rangoon (2HZ), and other places also.
Now, it so happened that a small radio club was established in Karachi, back at the time when it was a small city. Back in the 1920s, an official document was issued each year in the United States under the title Foreign Radio Broadcast Stations, in which active and projected stations were listed worldwide. These documents are held by the Library of Congress in Washington DC.
The 1926 edition of this document lists the Karachi Radio Club, and the station is shown as active with 40 watts on 425 metres, corresponding to 706 kHz, though no callsign is shown. The 1927 edition of this document shows exactly the same information.
No further listings are given for this small radio station in any known documents anywhere. The available evidence would indicate then that there was indeed a small short-lived mediumwave broadcasting station on the air in Karachi back in the mid 1920s. It would appear that the station was on the air for only a short period of time, and we would guess that the Karachi Radio Club ran out of money, or maybe their patrons left the area for service in other localities.
However, this Karachi radio station now assumes an important significance, because it was surely the first radio broadcasting station on the air in the territory that became Pakistan.
In another recent edition of Wavescan, we presented the full story of radio broadcasting in Hyderabad Deccan, in India. Our correspondent in India, Jose Jacob VU2JOS at the National Institute of Amateur Radio in Hyderabad, sends us an update regarding the active transmitters on air in Hyderabad. This now is the full and uptodate list, giving all of the active transmitters at four different locations:-

* Safiabad Studio Location - City of Hyderabad
10 kW Harris transmitter, 105.6 MHz FM, Gyanvani Service
5 kW Harris transmitter, 101.9 MHz FM, Rainbow Service
10 kW Radio City 91.1 MHz FM

* LB Nagar LP Low Power Site - 1st Location, 10 miles from studios, installed in historic old building
20 kW Harris transmitter, 1377 kHz mediumwave, Hyderabad B Service
10 kW Older BEL transmitter, standby mediumwave unit
50 kW BEL transmitter, shortwave service, dipole antennas
Morning & evening 4800 kHz
Daytime 7140 kHz

* LB Nagar LP Low Power Site - 2nd location, building adjacent to 1st location
2 BEL transmitters at 3 kW each, 102.8 MHz FM, Hyderabad C, VB Service
Commercial FM transmitter 92.7 MHz, Big FM programming

* Hyat Nagar HP High Power Site - 14 miles from studio
2 @ 100 kW BEL transmitters, combined, 738 kHz Hyderabad A Service
(AWR Wavescan/NWS 86 via Adrian Peterson)

a nostalgic look at early shortwave stations in the Philippines

Thus far here in Wavescan, we have presented three programs on the radio story in the Philippines; their early Morse Code wireless stations, their early mediumwave stations, and the story of RCA Manila on shortwave. In our program today, we continue in the Philippine story with this information about their early commercial shortwave stations.

We go back to the beginning, in the year 1930, and that was when RCA Manila began a relay on shortwave from mediumwave station KZRM. This was the beginning of radio program broadcasting on shortwave in the Philippines. The station was owned by the large departmental store Erlanger & Galinger, and the last two letters of the callsign KZRM stood for Radio Manila.

This shortwave relay service was closed eighteen months later, though it was re-opened again three years later again, still as a service from one of the RCA communication transmitters located at their large radio station nine miles out from Manila. However, in the year 1937, a 1 kW transmitter was installed for the specific usage of mediumwave station KZRM as a shortwave relay unit. This transmitter carried the KZRM programming on any of five different frequencies up into the year 1942.

The shortwave lead that was taken by mediumwave KZRM was followed up soon afterwards by several other mediumwave broadcasting stations in the Philippines. In 1938, two new radio stations made their appearance on the international shortwave bands and these were KZIB & KZRF.

Shortwave station KZIB was owned by Mr I. Beck, hence the callsign KZIB, and the studios were located in the Crystal Arcade in Manila. This station, with its 1 kW transmitter, was first noted in Australia in July 1938. Programming was sometimes taken from the mediumwave station KZRD, and the two channels in use were 6040 & 9500 kHz.

The other shortwave station that was inaugurated in 1938 was KZRF, which was actually a sister station to the well known KZRM mentioned just a little earlier here in this program. The studios for station KZRF, with the callsign indicating Radio Filipino, were located in the Insular Life Insurance Building, and it was owned by what was then known as the Far Eastern Broadcasting Corporation. They operated on 6140 kHz with 1 kW and the program relay was from mediumwave KZEG.

During the following year 1939, five more shortwave stations were inaugurated, three as fixed land stations and two as mobile stations.

Station KZEH was heard in the United States on 9585 kHz, but its appearance on shortwave was very short lived. Station KZHS lasted no longer, and it was heard in Australia on 9580 kHz. Perhaps the two shortwave stations KZEH & KZHS were in reality, just the one station.
The new 1939 station KZRH fared much better. They installed their studios on the seventh floor of the Heacock Building with the transmitters on the roof. This station was inaugurated in July 1939 with 1 kW on any of three different shortwave channels. The callsign KZRH identified their slogan, Radio Heacock. On their second anniversary, they made a special broadcast with the Italian passenger liner, Benemato, which carried the Philippine callsign KZSN.

The two mobile stations under the callsign KZRB and rated at 1 kW were owned by the Far Eastern Broadcasting Corporation, with which the afore mentioned KZRF & KZRM were affiliated. Station KZRB was noted in early November in Australia on 11850 kHz.

The two mobile stations were established for the purpose of relaying programs from an outside broadcast back to the studios of the parent stations. If the full details were known, perhaps we could guess that the main mobile unit was licensed as KZRB, standing for Radio Broadcast, and the other unit was licensed with the sequential callsign KZRA.

Finally, two more shortwave stations were added to the Philippine radio scene; KZRC Cebu in 1940, and a government defense station in Manila, KZND in 1941.

Station KZRC was the only pre-war shortwave station located in a regional city in the Philippines; Cebu City on Cebu Island. It was first heard in Australia in March 1940 on 6100 kHz, a channel previously in use from the parent Manila station KZRH. Station KZRC, Radio Cebu, both shortwave & mediumwave, were inaugurated simultaneously, with 1 kW on each channel, and the studios were located in the Heacock Building in the southern city of Cebu.
It should also be stated that radio station KZRC in Cebu remained on the air as the last independent Philippine radio station right up until June 1942, until taken over by the Japanese occupation forces.

The last shortwave station to be inaugurated before the Japanese invasion was operated by the Department of National Defense in Manila under the callsign KZND. This was a low powered station of just 600 watts and it operated at first on 8790 kHz with subsequent test broadcasts on 9515 kHz. This station was on the air only during the last half of the year 1941.
QSL cards and letters were issued by several of these exotic shortwave stations located in the Philippines. Cards from KZRM with the large red callsign letters were often reported by international radio monitors in the Pacific Rim. Stations KZRF & KZRH also issued QSL cards, and KZND verified by letter. The provincial station KZRC in Cebu issued a particularly attractive QSL card, printed in pink & black.

It becomes evident that the increased activity with the bevy of new shortwave stations in the Philippines at the end of the 1930s and the beginning of the 1940s was in direct response to the bristling of political events on the part of the major powers across the Pacific. At the end of the year 1941, there were nine shortwave broadcast transmitters on the air in the Philippines. These were all rated at 1 kW, except for KZND at 600 watts, and one of the KZRH transmitters that was rated at 10 kW.

In the interests of the historical events of the era, we list in alphabetic order, all of the shortwave broadcasting stations that were on the air in the Philippines at the end of the year 1941:-

* Manila KZIB 1 kW Mr. I. Beck
KZND .6 National Defense
KZRA (?) 1 Radio Broadcast, station A (?), mobile
KZRB 1 Radio Broadcast (?), mobile
KZRF 1 Radio Filipinas
KZRH 1 @ 1 kW & 1 @ 10 kW Radio Heacock
KZRM 1 Radio Manila
* Cebu KZRC 1 Radio Cebu
(AWR/Wavescan NWS64 via Adrian Peterson)

AWR Wavescan Annual DX Contest 2010

AWR DX Program "Wavescan" - Annual DX Contest - 2010 "Station Profiles"

It's that time of the year again! Yes, we're talking about our big annual DX contest here in "Wavescan". The title for our big 2010 DX contest is "Station Profiles", and here are the details for all five parts in this year's contest:

A. Five Station Profiles:

Make a list of five different radio stations for which you would like to have a "Station Profile" presented on air in a coming edition of "Wavescan". You may suggest five different radio stations, or the radio stations in five different cities, or in five different countries, or any combinations of these designations. These radio stations may still be on the air, or they
may now be silent. You may choose only shortwave broadcasting stations, or shortwave communication stations that have been used also for broadcasting.

B. Five Paragraphs:

You are invited to write just one short paragraph about each of the five stations you have chosen in the above list, and state why you have chosen that particular station.

C. Five Photocopies:

You are invited to search your QSL collection, and where possible, provide a photocopy of a QSL from each of the five radio stations in your above list. These photocopies should be in color if possible, but black & white is also acceptable. If you do not have a QSL from any of the stations you select, then you should indicate the reason why you do not have a QSL; such as for example, the station is now silent, or you are unable to hear the station in your part of the world, or they do not verify reception reports, etc.

D. Three Reception Reports:

You are invited to send in at least three reception reports on any transmission from Adventist World Radio on any station, shortwave, mediumwave and FM.

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 2010 Station Profiles DX Contest". This contest will run through the month of July 2010, 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 July, and they should be received at the AWR post office address in Indianapolis no later than the end of the month of August 2010. Return postage in the form of currency notes in an international currency, or mint postage stamps, or IRC coupons would be welcome. Where possible, a self addressed return envelope, business size or half quarto size, would also be welcome.

The awards for this year's contest will be similar to all previous contests. There will be a special award for the world winner, one of the Jerry Berg radio history books; and World Radio TV Handbook 2011 for each continental winner. In addition, there will be other special awards as well as AWR souvenirs and radio curios for many participants. There will be special awards for listeners in Africa responding to this year's contest. You can remember that all reception reports will be verified with a specially endorsed AWR QSL card. Please remember that it will take a period of many months to process all of the reception reports, but each will in due course be verified. In addition, and over a period of time, it is our intent to present in our Wavescan DX program, many, and perhaps all, of the "Station Profiles" as submitted in this year's DX contest.
When we present each of these specific "Station Profiles" in our "Wavescan" program, we will also call on-air the listener who made the suggestion. When the listener hears his name in the program, he can send in a reception report and receive a specially endorsed QSL card.

The only address for the AWR Station Profile DX Contest is:-

Station Profile DX Contest
Box 29235
Indianapolis
Indiana 46229 USA
(Dr.Adrian Peterson, Adventist World Radio)
(Alokesh Gupta, New Delhi, India/Rachel Baughn, MT)

AWR & TWR schedules update

All times UTC

USA(non) Frequency change of AWR KSDA Agat Guam in Chin/Karen:
1400-1500 NF 11965 SDA 100 kW / 285 deg to SEAs, ex 9560

USA(non) Frequency changes of KTWR Agana Guam:
1230-1300 NF 9605 TWR 100 kW / 285 deg to SEAs, ex 9635 11-1130 Vietnamese
1230-1300 NF 9910 TWR 100 kW / 293 deg to SoAs, x 11870 Kokboborok Mon-Fri
1330-1400 NF 9340 TWR 100 kW / 285 deg to SoAs, x 12075 Assamese Mon-Fri
(DX Mix News #576 via wb, Germany & Alokesh Gupta, India)

"Wavescan" DX program to continue from new location

The final edition of AWR’s DX program "Wavescan" produced in Singapore is scheduled for broadcast on May 31, 2009, with the usual scheduled repeats during the first few days into June. Beginning in the first week of June, "Wavescan" will be written and produced in the United States for broadcast worldwide.

In the new arrangement, the scripts for "Wavescan" will be researched and written in Indianapolis, Indiana, and the program will be assembled and produced in the Miami, Florida, studios of shortwave station WRMI/Radio Miami International. QSL cards acknowledging the reception of "Wavescan" will be available from both WRMI and Adventist World Radio.
At the end of May, AWR’s Singapore office and studio will be transferred to nearby Batam Island, Indonesia. This move will achieve considerable cost savings for AWR.

Many long-time listeners will remember that the original AWR DX program, "Radio Monitors International," was produced in the Poona (Pune), India, studios of Adventist World Radio and broadcast on the domestic and international shortwave services of the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation. Beginning in 1984, North American coverage was achieved through the services of Jeff White and his original Radio Earth/Radio Discovery service. "Radio Monitors International" became "Wavescan," and Radio Earth/Radio Discovery became Radio Miami International/WRMI.

The new presentations of "Wavescan" will be very similar to the earlier editions as produced in Singapore. Each edition will include a station profile on an important or a little-known shortwave station from a historical perspective. There will also be other features from the fascinating world of international radio broadcasting, as well as regular bulletins of DX news. It is intended that the regular DX bulletins from Japan, Bangladesh, Philippines and Australia will be included as usual in these new broadcasts of "Wavescan."

Other radio entities are welcome to re-broadcast "Wavescan," archive the programs on Internet websites, and reprint items and articles from the scripts and archive the scripts, with the usual attribution to AWR "Wavescan" and to Radio Miami International/WRMI.

As was announced in "Wavescan" earlier, the annual worldwide listener contest during the month of June will continue as planned. Listeners are invited to prepare a list and give details and photocopies of 5 QSLs from silent shortwave stations; to submit 3 reception reports on AWR transmissions; and, where possible, to submit 3 suitable radio cards to the “Wavescan” address in Indianapolis.

Adventist World Radio would like to express appreciation to AWR assistant program director Rhoen Catolico for his splendid work on the production of "Wavescan" during the past three years and to wish him every success with his endeavors as he returns to his homeland in the Philippines. We would also like to express our appreciation to Jeff White at WRMI for mutual co-operation in the areas of international radio broadcasting over the past quarter century, and we are grateful for this new relationship in the production and distribution of the program in his station in Miami.

Jeff White is currently the president of NASB, the National Association of Shortwave Broadcasters USA, in addition to his management responsibilities at WRMI. Adrian Peterson is DX editor for Adventist World Radio and a Board Member for NASB, the National Association of Shortwave Broadcasters USA.

The address is:
Adventist World Radio
Box 29235
Indianapolis, Indiana 46229
USA
adrian@awr.org
(Adrian Peterson/AWR)

Wavescan DX show to cease broadcast

I have received advice from Rhoen Catolico, Assistant Producer, Adventist World Radio-Asia, that the long-running weekly English language communications/media/DX Wavescan program will be closed down in May.

This is a consequence of a decision made by AWR Headquarters in the USA.

At present, AWR-Asia programming originates from studios in Singapore - from June, production will be moved to Indonesia. The Wavescan program is broadcast from KSDA in Guam, and via the Wertachtal (Germany) relay, for a target audience across Asia, the Indian sub-continent, and the Pacific. It is also rebroadcast over WRMI, in the USA.

Since Wavescan's inception some years ago, EDXP has provided major input each month via our Australian DX Report features, for 15 minutes.

During the month, Wavescan also includes features contributed from other members of the production team, including Japan, Bangladesh and Indonesia.

From June, this will mean that the only weekly media/communications/DX program on SW targeting Asia and the Pacific will be HCJB's DX Partyline, from Kununurra, Western Australia, which has a short version of the Australian DX Report each month of four minutes duration.

It is not known if AWR-HQ in the USA will produce any regular communications/media/DX type programs after May.
(Bob Padula, Melbourne, Australia)

Radio Broadcasting in New Guinea - Early Wireless Stations

The island of New Guinea, located north of Australia, is considered to be the second largest island in the world, with only Greenland larger. New Guinea is about 1500 miles long with an area of a little over 1/3rd million square miles, much of which is not yet totally explored. The shape of the island, according to many people who live there, is like one of their national birds, the Bird of Paradise. It is a very rugged island with high snow covered mountains in the interior, deep forested valleys, and low lying jungles along the coastal areas that are hot and humid.

The total population of the entire island of New Guinea is around nine million people, most of whom are Melanesian and Palauan whose ancestors migrated in pre-historic eras from South East Asia. In addition, there are several minorities whose ancestry is European, Asian, Indonesian or Australian. The peoples of eastern New Guinea speak more than eight hundred and fifty languages with three nationally recognized languages; English, Tok Pison, and Hiri Motu. On the western side, there are more than three hundred languages, with Indonesian as the government language.

History tells us that the first European to visit the island of New Guinea was the Portuguese governor of the nearby Molucca Islands, Jorge de Menesses, and this was in the year 1526. He named the island “Papua”, a Malay word meaning “frizzy hair”. However, twenty one years later, a Spanish explorer, Ynigo Ortiz de Retez, visited the island and he named it New Guinea, due to the similarity to the people he had seen in the country of Guinea in Africa.
The first European settlement was established by the English at Fort Coronation at Doreri Bay in 1793, but it was abandoned two years later as untenable due to the poor export quality of the local produce. This settlement was located near the top of the head of the Bird of Paradise map, at Manokwari in what is now Irian Jaya.

Following the introduction of European settlements in several locations around the island, the three major powers in the area, Holland, England and Germany, agreed to partition the island; the western half to Holland, the north eastern quadrant to Germany, and the south eastern quadrant to England.

However, at one stage, the Australian colony of Queensland laid claim to the south eastern quadrant of New Guinea, and after the Australian colonies were federated into one country, England passed on to Australia the administration of its territory in this bird shaped island. Then, after the end of World War 1, the League of Nations granted the German territory, North East New Guinea, as a mandate under the Australian administration.
During the Pacific War, Japanese forces landed on the north east coast of New Guinea in mid 1942, and three months later their overland forces came within just thirty two miles of Port Moresby itself. It was claimed that they could see the lights of Port Moresby from their mountainous viewpoints. A year or two later, American and Australian forces reversed the situation and reclaimed this strategic island.

After the Pacific War was concluded, the two eastern territories on the island of New Guinea were combined under the Australian administration as Papua New Guinea. In 1973, Papua New Guinea was granted self-government for its internal affairs; and on September 16, 1975, Papua New Guinea was granted complete independence.

When Indonesia assumed independence in 1949, it laid claim to the western half of New Guinea; and ultimately, it became a province within Indonesia as Irian Jaya, though these days, the entire territory is now administered apparently as two provinces, Papua and Papua Barat.
The very first attempt at wireless communication in New Guinea took place in Port Moresby in March 1911. The Australian born Catholic priest, Father Archibald Shaw, had joined a search party that went to Port Moresby looking for a group of lost Australian officials. He brought with him some electrical equipment manufactured in his own factory in the Sydney suburb of Randwick. He installed this equipment temporarily at Paga Hill, Port Moresby, and tried unsuccessfully to contact a wireless station on Thursday Island.

In the era before and during World War 1, a total of four different permanent wireless stations were established in the mainland territory of Papua New Guinea, though the advent of wireless in the Dutch side of the island was not implemented until after the conclusion of the European conflict. These very early wireless stations were located at Port Moresby, Aitape, Madang and Morobe. The equipment for these stations was assembled in Australia, using a mixture of Telefunken apparatus imported from Germany, items of electrical apparatus manufactured in Sydney by AWA, together with some additional items from the Randwick factory of Father Shaw. All of them at this stage were spark wireless stations which we would describe these days as being electrical transmitters, rather than electronic.

The first of these new permanent stations was installed on the edge of Port Moresby, Papua. It was a 5 kW Telefunken transmitter and the receiver was a simple crystal set. It should be remembered that all of the spark transmitters anywhere in the world at this stage were operating only in Morse Code.

The Port Moresby station, VIG, was installed and operated by Sydney based AWA and it was intended to be a gathering point for news, information and messages from other stations in the New Guinea area for onward relay to the AWA station located at Pennant Hills, near Sydney in Australia. Station VIG was also intended for use in communication with nearby shipping approaching or departing the harbor at Port Moresby. Station VIG Port Moresby was officially taken into service on February 26, 1913.

Photographs of the Port Moresby wireless station taken on the opening day of the European Conflict in August 1914, show two buildings, both about the same size. Perhaps one housed the technical equipment and the other was for use by staff personnel. The station was located in an isolated area beyond the edge of Port Moresby; and the aerial mast was a little under one hundred feet high.

The second wireless station installed on the New Guinea mainland was VZX Aitape, and this unit was installed in 1914. The station was located on a flat area in between a muddy river and the ocean beach; and the town itself was built on a rocky headland overlooking two islands in the bay. Aitape town is situated on the north coast of New Guinea a little over a hundred miles from the Dutch/Indonesian border of Irian Jaya. At the time when the station was installed, there were some seventy five foreigners in the town of Aitape, mostly Dutch or German.
Station VZX was built to enable the local administration to communicate with government headquarters in Rabaul, and initially the Morse Code messages were relayed to Rabaul via an intermediate Morse Code station on Manus Island.

The third wireless station installed in New Guinea was located at Madang, under the callsign VIV. By this time, World War 1 in Europe was well underway and the Australian government moved quickly for the installation of this facility.

Madang was settled originally by people from Germany in the year 1884. The town is located on a peninsula overlooking a beautiful harbor on each side and it was finally ridded of deadly malaria mosquitoes twenty years later. The wireless station, VIV, was quickly installed by AWA for the Australian government in 1916.

The fourth wireless station installed in mainland New Guinea during this very early era of wireless communication was station VZK at Morobe. The town of Morobe was originally named by the German settlers as Adolfhafen and it was located a little south along the coast from Lae. Station VZK Morobe also came into service during the year 1916.

Each of the three smaller regional wireless stations in mainland New Guinea was described as having a normal coverage range of two hundred miles, whereas the main station at Port Moresby had a range of five hundred miles.

And that’s the story of our first introductory presentation on the long and interesting research into the history of radio broadcasting on the island of New Guinea. More on a later date!
(via Adventist World Radio/AWR "Wavescan" DX Program/Adrian Peterson)

Winter schedule of AWR's Wavescan program

All times UTC

Germany/ Guam - Winter B-08 of AWR's DX program "Wavescan" every Sunday
1130-1200 on 15260 SDA 100 kW / 255 deg to SEAs
1200-1230 on 15495 WER 250 kW / 090 deg to SoAs
1500-1530 on 12105 SDA 100 kW / 285 deg to SoAs
1530-1600 on 11675 WER 250 kW / 075 deg to SoAs
1600-1630 on 9585 SDA 100 kW / 285 deg to SoAs
1600-1630 on 11690 SDA 100 kW / 285 deg to SoAs
1630-1700 on 11980 SDA 100 kW / 300 deg to SoAs
2130-2200 on 9625 SDA 100 kW / 315 deg to EaAs
2230-2300 on 15320 SDA 100 kW / 255 deg to SEAs
(R BULGARIA DX MIX News, Ivo Ivanov, via wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Jan 11/DX Mix news # 555 wb, Germany)

American DX Report

Adventist World Radio - AWR Wavescan - DX Program

* USA: Currently, there is a concerted effort on the part of radio afficianados to rescue the high powered “Voice of America” international shortwave station located near Delano in California. If their efforts are successful, this station will not be demolished, but instead it will be preserved for possible use in the future, as coming political and international events may suggest. This VOA station near the American Pacific coast was constructed towards the end of World War 2, and over the years it has been modernized and updated as newer equipment has become available. The coverage area for VOA Delano has been the many countries on the Pacific rim and also Latin America. You can read about the rescue efforts that have already been implemented by checking their website at radionational.org and also by entering VOA Delano into Youtube.

* Canada: The 1 kW shortwave station located near Toronto in Ontario has recently been renovated and re-activated. With a new transmitter and a new antenna system, this station CFRX can be heard again on its familiar channel 6070 kHz, with a relay from the parent mediumwave station, CFRB on 1010 kHz. However, monitoring observations at our location in Indianapolis, 550 miles southwest of Toronto, indicate that the new antenna system is apparently oriented more for Canadian coverage rather than omni-directional coverage as it was in years gone by. The signal in Indiana is quite poor and unreliable, though it can be heard occasionally with a readable signal.

* New Guinea: Adventist World Radio has contributed half of the funds required for establishing an FM station at the Pacific Adventist University in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. Although the Seventh-day Adventist denomination has been on the air on multiple occasions from the radio stations throughout Papua New Guinea, this new 1 kW FM station is the first Adventist owned radio station in this country. The university campus is located at Boroko, on the edge of Port Moresby, and the target date for the initial test broadcasts from this new radio station has been some time during this month of November.

* India: Jose Jacob, VU2JOS in Hyderabad, reported on November 16 that AIR Port Blair was noted on 4765 kHz instead of the usual 4760 kHz, thus enabling listeners to tune in AIR Leh which was previously co-channel with Port Blair.

* Indonesia: The BBC Monitoring Service reports that there are sixty two radio stations on the air on the holiday island of Bali. Because of this congestion on the radio dial, the licensing authorities state that no channels are available for new radio stations on Bali.

* Namibia: BBC Monitoring also reports that NBC, The Namibia Broadcasting Commission is heavily in debt, to the amount of $250 million. The management of NBC in Windhoek is appealing to their government for financial aid in order to survive.

* Thailand: A report from Andy Sennitt via Jerry Berg states that the BBC relay station located in northern Thailand was taken off the air at the end of the first week in November due to local flooding. Some of the BBC programming was transferred to the Radio Netherlands relay station located on the island of Madagascar.

* Romania: According to Alokesh Gupta in India via Cumbre DX, Romania issued a new postage stamp and also a new coin on November 1 to commemorate the eightieth anniversary of radio broadcasting in their country.

*Australia: A report in the October issue of the Australian DX News states that HCJB Australia has received approval to construct a new shortwave station on an adjoining property at Kununurra at the top of Western Australia. It is intended that all of the transmission facilities located on the original property will ultimately be transferred to the adjacent new location.

* Australia: The same issue of ADXN also states that the transmitter facilities of Radio Netherlands at Flevo in Holland are in the process of being dismantled, though it is not known yet as to what will happen to all of this equipment and the transmitter building.

* USA: And now an interesting old item of news as our final item in this edition of American DX Report; and we take you to Chicago Illinois, on the edge of the Great Lakes. Back three quarters of a century ago, the mediumwave station WLS in Chicago reported that they received a total of 1,051,041 letters from listeners in the year 1934.
(Source: Dr. Adrian M. Peterson/Adventist World Radio
DX Editor Box 29235
adrian@awr.org
Indianapolis, Indiana 46229 USA
(National Online Project)

Wavescan Alphabet DX Contest results

ADVENTIST WORLD RADIO
Wavescan Alphabet DX Contest

Adventist World Radio takes pleasure in announcing the results of our recent listener contest in our DX program, "Wavescan". Even though these days "Wavescan" is beamed mostly to listeners in Asia, yet there was a concentration of entries from listeners in Europe, the Americas, the South Pacific, and of course, from many countries in Asia itself.

The "Wavescan" DX contest this year invited listeners to make up a list of the QSLs in their collection that illustrate the 26 letters of the English alphabet, one QSL for each letter. Participants were also invited to provide copies of what they considered to be the best five in their list, and also to submit three reception reports on AWR radio transmissions, as well as three radio oriented cards. The world winner will receive a copy of Jerry Berg's first book, "On the Short Waves", and continental winners will receive a copy of either "Passport to <>World Band Radio" or "World Radio TV Handbook". In addition, curios and souvenirs will also be sent out to many of the entrants in appreciation for their participation.

And here is the information you are waiting for! The world winner for our big "Alphabet DX Contest, 2008" is: Gunter Jacob of Passau in Germany; and thank you, Gunter for your excellent entry. Those of you who have been following our contest results over the years will note that this is now the 3rd occasion in which Gunter has achieved the top honor as world winner in our international DX contest.

The continental winners for the 2008 contest are:

Europe Uwe Volk Lehrte Germany
Asia Takuji Sahara Tokyo Japan
Pacific Hans Kiesinger Maroochydore Queensland Australia
USA Edward Insinger Summit New Jersey
Americas Ashok Kumar Bose Mississauga Ontario Canada

In addition, we have chosen the following four entries for recognition in the new c ategory "Honorable Mention", and they are:-

Christian Ghibaudo Nice France
Jose Jacob Hyderabad India
Patrick Jeffers Cheshire England
Tony Ashar Depok Indonesia

To all you others who entered the contest, we say a big "thank you", and you will receive your awards in due course through the mail system.

Allow us to express appreciation to every one of you, representing many widespread countries around our world, for entering the contest this year. Due to the widespread international interest in this year's contest, Adventist World Radio is giving careful consideration to the possibility of conducting another DX contest next year in our program, "Wavescan".

Dr. Adrian Peterson
DX Editor
Adventist World Radio

New Adventist World Radio relay in France

New AWR relay location
Dr. Adrian Peterson, DX Editor of NASB member Adventist World Radio, reports that a new relay location has just been implemented. AWR is now on relay from the Issoudun site in France for one and a half hours daily. This is the schedule:

1630 - 1700 UTC 17575 kHz 250 kW Somali to Somalia
1700 - 1800 17575 250 Oromo to Ethiopia
(NASB, April 2008)

New relay location for AWR

Just received from Adrian Peterson at AWR

Dear Radio Colleague,

For those who are collecting QSL cards from the many AWR relay sites, a new relay location has just been implemented. Adventist World Radio is now on relay from the Issoudun site in France for 1 & 1/2 hours daily. This is the schedule:-

1630 - 1700 UTC 17575 kHz 250 kW Somali to Somalia
1700 - 1800 17575 250 Oromo to Ethiopia

Dr Adrian Peterson
DX Editor
Adventist World Radio
(Source: Mark Nocholls via HCDX)

Adventist World Radio - A08 Multilingual schedules

Adventist World Radio - A08 Multilingual schedules
Effective: 30 March - 26 October 2008

Broadcast daily unless otherwise indicated
All times UTC

Site Start Stop Language Service Area kHz m kW Days

SDA 0000 0200 Mandarin NE-China 12025 25 100 1234567
SDA 0000 0200 Mandarin C/N-China 15300 19 100 1234567
SDA 0000 0030 Burmese Myanmar 15510 19 100 1234567
SDA 0030 0100 Karen Myanmar, Thailand, China 15510 19 100 1234567
SDA 0100 0200 Mandarin S-China 15615 19 100 1234567
TAI 0100 0200 Vietnamese Vietnam 15445 19 100 7
MOS 0200 0230 Urdu Pakistan 6065 49 300 1234567
MOS 0230 0300 Pushto Pakistan 6065 49 300 12345
MDC 0230 0330 Malagasy Madagascar 3215 90 50 1234567
MOS 0230 0300 Panjabi Pakistan 6065 49 300 67
SDA 0300 0330 Russian E-Russia 17645 16 100 1234567
WER 0300 0330 Oromo S-Ethiopia 9545 31 250 1234567
WER 0300 0330 Tigrinya Eritrea 5915 49 250 1234567
MOS 0330 0400 Farsi Iran 6040 49 300 1234567
WER 0330 0400 Amharic Ethiopia 9815 31 250 1234567
MOS 0400 0430 Arabic Iraq, Arab Peninsula 9735 31 300 1234567
MOS 0430 0500 French Morocco, Algeria 6135 49 300 1234567
WER 0500 0600 Bulgarian Bulgaria 6185 49 100 1234567
WER 0700 0800 Arabic Morocco, Algeria 11980 25 100 1234567
WER 0800 0830 French Morocco, Algeria 15260 19 100 1234567
WER 0800 0830 Kabyle Morocco, Algeria 11980 25 100 1234567
WER 0830 0900 Tachelhit Morocco, Algeria 15260 19 100 1234567
NAU 0900 1000 Italian Italy 9790 31 100 1
SDA 1000 1100 Mandarin S-China 15510 19 100 1234567
SDA 1000 1100 Mandarin C/N-China 15495 19 100 1234567
SDA 1030 1100 Cebuano Philippines 11925 25 100 67
SDA 1030 1100 Ilonggo Philippines 11925 25 100 45
SDA 1030 1100 Tagalog Philippines 11925 25 100 23
SDA 1030 1100 English N-China, Mongolia 11780 25 100 1234567
SDA 1030 1100 Ilocano Philippines 11925 25 100 1
SDA 1100 1200 Mandarin S-China 12080 25 100 1234567
SDA 1100 1130 Indonesian W-Indonesia 15460 19 100 1234567
SDA 1100 1200 Mandarin NE-China 11775 25 100 1234567
SDA 1100 1200 Mandarin C/N-China 12105 25 100 1234567
SDA 1130 1200 English Indonesia, Malaysia 15460 19 100 1234567
WER 1200 1230 English NE-India, Bangladesh 15435 19 250 1234567
SDA 1200 1300 Mandarin S-China 9720 31 100 1234567
SDA 1200 1300 Mandarin NE-China 9670 31 100 1234567
SDA 1200 1300 Korean Korea 9880 31 100 1234567
SDA 1200 1300 Mandarin C/N-China 12105 25 100 1234567
WER 1230 1300 Bangla NE-India, Bangladesh 15435 19 250 1234567
WER 1300 1330 Mandarin W-China 15320 19 250 23456
SDA 1300 1400 Mandarin C/N-China 12105 25 100 1234567
SDA 1300 1330 Japanese Japan 11975 25 100 1234567
MDC 1300 1400 Vietnamese Vietnam 17670 16 250 1234567
SDA 1300 1330 Japanese W-Japan 9805 31 100 1234567
SDA 1300 1330 Bangla Bangladesh 15275 19 100 1234567
WER 1300 1330 Uighur W-China 15320 19 250 17
WER 1330 1500 Mandarin W-China 15320 19 250 1234567
SDA 1330 1400 Khmer Cambod, Viet, Thai, Laos 11880 25 100 14
SDA 1330 1400 Russian E-Russia 11845 25 100 1234567
SDA 1330 1400 Assamese NE-India 15275 19 100 14
SDA 1330 1400 English Bangladesh 15275 19 100 23567
SDA 1400 1430 Sinhalese Sri Lanka 12130 25 100 1234567
SDA 1400 1430 Chin Myanmar 9880 31 100 1234567
MOS 1400 1430 Urdu Pakistan 15440 19 300 1234567
SDA 1400 1500 Mandarin S-China 9695 31 100 1234567
SDA 1400 1500 Mandarin C/N-China 12105 25 100 1234567
SDA 1430 1500 Burmese Myanmar 11885 25 100 1234567
MOS 1430 1500 Afar Djibouti, NE-Ethiopia, Somalia 17610 16 300 1234567
SDA 1430 1500 Karen Myanmar, Thailand, China 9725 31 100 1234567
WER 1500 1530 Panjabi N-India 15225 19 250 1234567
SDA 1500 1530 Mizo NE-India 11895 25 100 1234567
WER 1500 1530 Nepali Nepal 15160 19 250 1234567
SDA 1500 1530 Telugu S-India 9530 31 100 1234567
SDA 1500 1530 English S-India 11985 25 100 1234567
SDA 1500 1530 Tamil S-India 11870 25 100 1234567
MOS 1500 1530 Turkish Turkey 15160 19 300 1234567
WER 1530 1600 English Nepal, Tibet 15225 19 250 1234567
SDA 1530 1600 Malayalam S-India 11870 25 100 1234567
WER 1530 1600 Hindi N-India 15160 19 250 1234567
SDA 1530 1600 Hindi C-India 11905 25 100 1234567
SDA 1530 1600 Marathi C-India 11895 25 100 1234567
SDA 1530 1600 Kannada S-India 11985 25 100 1234567
MDC 1530 1628 Malagasy Madagascar 3215 90 50 1234567
MOS 1600 1630 Urdu Pakistan 15260 19 300 1234567
SDA 1600 1630 English C-India 11805 25 100 1234567
SDA 1600 1630 English S-India 11985 25 100 1234567
SDA 1600 1630 Urdu N-India 6155 49 100 1234567
SDA 1630 1700 English N-India 6155 49 100 1234567
MOS 1630 1700 Farsi Iran 15105 19 300 1234567
WER 1630 1700 Somali Somalia 17575 16 250 1234567
SDA 1700 1730 Hindi ME 11640 25 100 1234567
MEY 1700 1730 Kiswahili Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda 9600 31 250 1234567
MOS 1700 1730 Arabic Iraq, Arab Peninsula 11660 25 300 1234567
SDA 1700 1730 Cebuano ME 9980 31 100 67
SDA 1700 1730 Ilocano ME 9980 31 100 1
SDA 1700 1730 Tagalog ME 9980 31 100 23
SDA 1700 1730 Ilonggo ME 9980 31 100 45
WER 1730 1800 Oromo S-Ethiopia 17575 16 250 1234567
SDA 1730 1800 Tamil ME 11640 25 100 1234567
SDA 1730 1800 English ME 9980 31 100 1234567
MEY 1730 1800 Masai Tanzania, Kenya 9600 31 250 1234567
NAU 1730 1800 Kabyle Morocco, Algeria 11780 25 100 1234567
MOS 1800 1830 Moru S-Sudan 15315 19 300 1
MEY 1800 1830 English SW-Africa 3215 90 100 1234567
MOS 1800 1830 Juba Arabic S-Sudan 15315 19 300 3
MOS 1800 1830 Bari S-Sudan 15315 19 300 2
MOS 1800 1830 Col English S-Sudan 15315 19 300 4
MOS 1800 1830 Acholi S-Sudan 15315 19 300 7
MEY 1800 1830 English Botswana, S.-Africa, Zimbabwe 3345 90 100 1234567
MOS 1800 1830 Dinka S-Sudan 15315 19 300 5
MEY 1800 1830 English E-Africa 9610 31 250 1234567
MOS 1800 1830 Zande S-Sudan 15315 19 300 6
MOS 1830 1900 Arabic Libya 15260 19 300 1234567
WER 1900 1930 Arabic Morocco, Algeria 11730 25 100 1234567
NAU 1900 1930 Fulfulde Cameroon, Ghana, (Senegal) 15205 19 100 1234567
MOS 1900 1930 Hausa Nigeria 11955 25 300 1234567
JUL 1900 2000 Arabic Morocco, Algeria 15260 19 100 1234567
MOS 1930 2000 French C-Africa 15260 19 300 1234567
WER 1930 2000 Ibo E-Nigeria 15205 19 250 1234567
WER 1930 2000 Tachelhit Morocco, Algeria 11730 25 100 1234567
MOS 2000 2030 Dyula Burk. Faso, Ivory Coast, Mali 11955 25 300 1234567
WER 2000 2030 French Cameroon, Niger 11755 25 100 1234567
MEY 2000 2030 English C-Africa 9655 31 250 1234567
WER 2000 2030 French Morocco, Algeria 11730 25 100 1234567
WER 2000 2030 Farsi Iran 9770 31 250 1234567
NAU 2030 2100 Mandarin Morocco, Algeria 9430 31 100 1234567
MOS 2030 2100 French W-Africa 11955 25 300 1234567
WER 2030 2100 Yoruba Nigeria 11755 25 100 1234567
MOS 2100 2130 English W-Africa 11955 25 300 1234567
SDA 2100 2130 Japanese Japan 11980 25 100 1234567
SDA 2100 2130 Japanese W-Japan 11850 25 100 1234567
SDA 2100 2200 Mandarin C/N-China 11750 25 100 1234567
SDA 2100 2200 Korean Korea 11790 25 100 1234567
SDA 2130 2200 English W-Japan, S-China 11850 25 100 1234567
SDA 2200 2230 Indonesian W-Indonesia 15320 19 100 1234567
SDA 2200 2230 Indonesian W-Indonesia 11850 25 100 1234567
SDA 2200 2300 Mandarin C/N-China 15215 19 100 1234567
SDA 2200 2300 Mandarin NE-China 12120 25 100 1234567
SDA 2230 2300 English W-Indonesia 15320 19 100 1234567
SDA 2300 2400 Vietnamese S-Vietnam 15320 19 100 1234567
SDA 2300 2400 Mandarin C/N-China 15370 19 100 1234567
SDA 2300 2400 Mandarin NE-China 12120 25 100 1234567

Sites:
JUL = Jülich
NAU = Nauen
MDC = Madagascar
SDA = Agat
MEY = Meyerton
TAI = Taipei
MOS = Moosbrunn
WER = Wertachtal

Days:
1= Sunday
2= Monday
3= Tuesday
4= Wednesday
5= Thursday
6= Friday
7= Saturday
(Source: BCLNews via Roberto Scaglione, Italy http://www.bclnews.it/ http://www.studiodx.net/ )

QSL Alphabet DX Contest 2008 information

Adventist World Radio
In response to numerous requests from a multitude of listeners in many different countries throughout the world, Adventist World Radio is pleased to announce the re-introduction of our popular DX contests in association with our DX program, “Wavescan”. It is planned that the DX contest for this year will be conducted during the month of April and it will be staged under the title, “QSL Alphabet DX Contest”.

In our 2008 DX contest, listeners are invited to search their own personal QSL collections and to choose 26 QSLs, one for each letter in the English alphabet. Listeners are also invited to submit at least 3 reception reports on AWR transmissions, and to provide at least 3 radio cards. Here are the full details for the four parts in this year’s big DX contest.


* PART A: Alphabet QSL List

Search your own personal collection of QSL cards and identify 26 QSLs, (preferably QSL cards, though QSL letters will also qualify), with each QSL representing the 26 consecutive letters in the English alphabet. These QSLs, all in your own personal collection, should confirm the reception of broadcasts from radio stations on shortwave, mediumwave, longwave, FM, TV and utility communications, but not amateur nor CB. For example, you can choose one QSL to represent the letter A, and it could be a QSL from Austria, or Australia, or Argentina, or Ahmedabad in India, or ABC Radio, etc, etc. Representing the letter B, you could choose for example, BBC, or Belgium, or Berlin, or 2BL, or Radio Butterworth, etc. And so on down through each letter of the alphabet. For the letter X for example, you could choose, CFRX, or XEW, or 3XY, etc; and for the letter Z, you could choose Zambia, or Zimbabwe, or 2ZB, or Zed Radio, etc. You should then make up a tabulated list of the 26 QSLs that qualify, giving the letters of the alphabet, the radio station, the station location, the year of the QSL, and a brief description. (Remember, in Part A, it is not necessary for you to send the QSLs to the AWR office, just your tabulated list.) Here is a sample for the tabulated list of QSLs:-

EXAMPLES ONLY

Letter QSL Station Location Year Description
A Austria ORF Vienna 1995 Color picture of Vienna palace
B Bonaire RN Bonaire 1996 Photo of studio building
C Canada RCI Sackville 1997 Old anniversary card
D and all subsequent letters down to
X CFRX Toronto Canada 1994 White card with large red letters
Y YVTO Caracas Venezuela 1968 Light green card, black print
Z 2ZB Wellington NZ 1956 Old gray card, red flash

PART B: Copy 5 QSLs

Where possible, photo copy what you consider are the 5 best cards in your list, preferably in color, though black & white from some countries is acceptable, and enclose these copies with your contest entry.

* PART C: Submit 3 Reception Reports

Submit at least 3 reception reports on any AWR transmissions from any location in any mode.

* PART D: Submit 3 Radio Cards

Where possible submit at least 3 radio related postcards for the Indianapolis Historic Collection, old or new, and these can be picture cards, text cards, QSL cards, etc. (Not valid are amateur QSL cards nor CB QSL cards.)

Things to Remember

*1. All entries must be sent by post and they should be postmarked during the month of April and received in Indianapolis by the end of May. In some cases, early entries will be accepted. Late entries will not qualify for the awards, but the reception reports will be verified with the special contest endorsement. Entries by email will not qualify for the awards, but the reception reports will be verified with the contest endorsement.

*2. Where possible, please provide a strong self addressed envelope.

*3. Where possible, please provide return postage, preferably in an acceptable form of international currency notes, though mint postage stamps or IRC coupons will also be appreciated.

*4. The only valid address for contest entries is:-
Alphabet DX Contest
Adventist World Radio
Box 29235
Indianapolis
Indiana 46229
USA

QSL Alphabet DX Contest Awards

*1.The world winner in our “QSL Alphabet DX Contest” will receive a copy of Jerry Berg’s very interesting volume, “On the Short Waves”.

* 2. Additional continental winners will be awarded a copy of their choice, “Passport to World Band Radio” or “World Radio TV Handbook”, 2008 or 2009.

*3. Additional awards will be sent to qualifying entries and these will include AWR souvenirs and other similar items.
(Source: A Petersen/AWR)