“Grand Finale” Annual DX Contest:
How Many AWR Shortwave Sites Have You
Verified?
Contest Details
* “Grand Finale” Annual
DX Contest:
How Many AWR Shortwave Sites Have You Verified?
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 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. Since then, this well
established AWR DX program has transmigrated from Asia to the United States,
and the name likewise has evolved into 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.
As Adventist World Radio enters into
its 45th year of international radio
broadcasting, we take pleasure in announcing our annual “Wavescan” DX contest
for the year 2016. This year’s contest
is planned as the last ever contest from the AWR DX program “Wavescan” and it
comes to you under the title,
“Grand Finale” Annual DX Contest:
How Many AWR Shortwave Sites Have You
Verified?
In short, you are invited to make up a
list of all of your AWR QSL cards, one only for each different AWR shortwave
site. “Grand Finale” Annual DX Contest:
How Many AWR Shortwave Sites Have You
Verified?
A. How Many AWR Shortwave Sites Have You Verified?
* You are invited to make up a tabulated
list of all of your AWR QSL cards, one only for each AWR shortwave site. You may also include reception reports for
any AWR shortwave site that you have not yet verified, up to a maximum of three
additional sites. The listing of each
QSL card for each AWR site that you have verified should show the station name,
location, country, frequency, date and a brief description of the card. Here is a sample listing showing how to give
the information:-
1.
KSDA Agat Guam 11935 kHz 2015 March 1 Yellow Compass Card
2.
WRMI Okeechobee FL
9955 2013 Oct 29 Dr Chow Interview
3.
AWR Forli Italy 6205 1985
May 30 Forli Antenna
4.
SLBC Ekala Sri Lanka
6075 1984 Dec 30 Sines Antennas
5.
TIAWR Alajuela Costa Rica 15460 1986
Oct 17 Radio Lira Antenna
6.
Media Nauen Germany
9610 2016 Feb 14 Report enclosed
etc
etc
B. Copy Three Cards
* Where possible, please copy any three of your AWR QSL
cards, preferably in color, though black and white can be acceptable, and
enclose with your contest entry.
C. Your Best AWR QSL Card
* Which
is your best AWR QSL card? Explain why
in one short paragraph.
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. You may include up to three reception reports
of AWR programing from shortwave sites that you have not yet verified.
*
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 a special contest endorsement.
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 2016 “Grand Finale DX Contest”. This contest will run through the month of
August 2016, 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 August 2016 and they should be received at the AWR
temporary post office address as given below no later than the end of the month
of September 2016.
* Post your entry with all items to
Adventist World Radio, 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.
* The awards for the 2016 AWR “Grand
Finale DX Contest” will be similar to all previous contests. There will be a special award for the world
winner, one of Jerome Berg’s radio history books; and World Radio TV
Handbook 2017 for each continental winner.
In addition, there will be other special awards as well as AWR souvenirs
and radio curios for many participants.
* Each entry will receive the
special postage stamp that commemorates the 200th anniversary of Indiana.
* An additional ward is offered for
an entry from Australia or New Zealand, a copy of Dr. Bruce Carty’s colorfully prepared History of
Radio Broadcasting in Australia.
* All AWR reception reports will be
verified with a specially endorsed AWR QSL card. Please remember that it will take a period of
many months, well into the new year 2017, to process all of the contest entries
and reception reports, but each will in due course be processed.
* Here is the only address for the “Grand Finale”
Annual DX Contest: How Many AWR Shortwave Sites Have You Verified? This postal address is temporary, and it is
open only during August and September 2016.
TEMPORARY POSTAL ADDRESS, Open only during August &
September 2016:-
Adventist
World Radio
Grand
Finale DX Contest
Box 771
Bloomington
Indiana 47402-0771 USA
