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.
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.
