The time has come for change. For the past quarter century and more, the
Indianapolis address for Adventist World 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.
