The time has come, the event you are waiting for has
arrived! The new month of October is the
official period for our big 2015 Wavescan DX contest. This year, we invite you to participate in “The World’s Most Unusual DX Contest”, and this time you may design
your own contest details. Read on for
this years requirements.
AWARDS
The
awards for the 2015 AWR “The
World’s Most Unusual DX Contest”
will be similar to all previous contests, with the addition of several extra
awards.
* Every entry will receive a full size
copy of two historic American mediumwave QSL cards dating back to the early 1920s.
*
Four entries will receive a special numbered QSL card featuring Thomas
Kincade art in color
showing twin radio towers, the only Kincade painting that depicts a radio
station.
* All AWR reception reports will be
verified with specially endorsed AWR QSL cards, and two new cards are now available.
* Additional AWR souvenirs, radio
curios, Christmas Card, AWR Magazine and small keepsakes.
* One entry from Australia and New
Zealand will receive a copy of the new 5th edition
of Dr. Bruce Carty’s
remarkable and readable book “Australian
Radio History”.
This large format
volume, in full color throughout, presents almost 100 pages of fascinating information about
every known mediumwave station that ever took to the air in Australia during the past almost 100 years,
beginning in 1918.
* Each continental winner will receive
a copy of the 2016 edition of the World Radio TV Handbook.
* The World Winner will receive a copy
of one of Jerome Berg’s
remarkable shortwave radio history
books. The winner may choose which of
the four thick volumes he would like to receive.
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A. The World’s Most Unusual DX Contest: Description
* You are invited to design your own
DX contest in any way and in any form you consider is best. Your
self-designed DX contest may be based upon any aspect of radio associated in some way with shortwave or
mediumwave broadcasting, such as for example:-
Listening, monitoring,
collecting QSLs, programming, script writing, radio history, current radio
events, radio in the future, large radio stations, little radio stations, rare stations, distant
stations, local stations, silent stations, visiting radio stations, radio magazines, radio
receivers, personal radio memories, recording for broadcast, etc, etc.
* Your self-designed DX contest may be
in any form you desire, and it may be ambitious and complicated, or it may be simple and quite easy, in
whatever way you consider is most appropriate.
* You should then describe in a
paragraph or two, the details of your own self-designed QSL contest.
* Not valid for this contest are
amateur nor CB radio stations.
B. World’s Most Unusual DX Contest: Fulfillment
* Please demonstrate the way you have
fulfilled the requirements for your own self-designed DX contest, in a brief paragraph or two.
C. Your Best QSL Since the 2014 DX
Contest
* What is the best QSL that you have
received since the 2014 DX contest?
Please provide details
and a photocopy, in color if possible.
D. AWR Reception Reports
* You
are invited to prepare three reception reports for the broadcast on shortwave, mediumwave or FM
of any AWR programming in any part of the world. You may choose the international shortwave programing from Adventist World
Radio, via KSDA Guam; or any
of the shortwave relay stations that carry AWR programming; or any of the 1700 local mediumwave or FM
stations in any part of the world that are affiliated with Adventist
World Radio.
* Please do not send a recording of
your reception; we just need your honest reception report on paper. All reception reports will be verified with
our two new QSL cards, and a special contest
endorsement will be shown on each card.
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 radio cards.
Other Contest Details
* Well, there you have it, the details
for our Wavescan 2015 “World’s
Most Unusual DX Contest”. This
contest will run through the month of October 2015, 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 October 2015 and they should be received at the AWR post office address
in Indianapolis no later than the end of the month of November 2015.
* 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.
* Please remember that it will take a
period of many months, well into the new year 2016, to process
all of the contest entries and reception reports, but each will in due course
be processed.
The only address for the “World’s Most Unusual DX Contest” is:-
World’s
Most Unusual DX Contest
Adventist
World Radio
Box
29235
Indianapolis
Indiana
46229
USA
AWR Adventist World Radio AWR
Adventist World Radio AWR
AWR
DX Programs
Ever since
Adventist World Radio was inaugurated way back more than 40 years ago,
listeners in many countries on all continents have looked forward to
participating in the annual DX contest.
Our historical records show that the first listener contest was
conducted by the fledgling new AWR-Europe way back during the year 1972, just a
few months after the official inauguration on October 1, 1971.
The longest
series of annual DX contests began under the original Adventist World Radio in
Asia, AWR-Asia in Poona India, and these were introduced just a few years later
in 1977. The first world winner in the
annual contest in association with the original AWR DX program “Radio Monitors
International” RMI was Victor Goonetilleke, the well known
international radio monitor living in Colombo Sri Lanka. Since then, this well established AWR DX
program has transmigrated from Asia to the United States, and the name likewise
has evolved into a new name, the now familiar “Wavescan”.
Throughout
all of these intervening years, the annual winner’s list contains the names
of well known international radio monitors living on all continents. In addition, the long roster of regional
winners over the years includes a host of names, international radio monitors
living in up to a hundred different countries.
Any and all entrants have an equal possibility of winning one of the
many awards that are available each year.
In fact,
every entry in this year’s very unusual DX contest will be
awarded a full size photocopy of two very early mediumwave QSL cards, dating
way back to the very beginning of radio broadcasting in the United States. In addition, four entrants will receive a
very special QSL card; the QSL text will be attached to the only picture
painted by the noted American artist Thomas Kincade that shows a radio
antenna. Other awards will include the
World Radio TV Handbook for 2016; one of Jerome Berg’s full volumes on the
international history of shortwave radio; a copy of Dr. Bruce Carty’s colorful new volume, “Australian Radio History”.
As Adventist World Radio enters into
its 44th year
of international radio broadcasting, we take pleasure in announcing our annual “Wavescan”
DX contest, which comes to you under the title, “The
World’s Most Unusual DX Contest”. In short, you are invited to design your own
DX contest in whatever way you consider is best.
2015 “The
World’s Most Unusual DX Contest” 2015
