Tuesday, August 26, 2014

Wavescan NWS287



* Theme - 00:00
            “Birthday Serenade - Willi Glahe

* Opening Announcement - 00:16
            Welcome to Wavescan, international DX program from Adventist World Radio
            Researched and written in Indianapolis, produced in studios of shortwave WRMI
            Program outline
                        1. From the Needles to Colombo: The Radio Story on the Isle of Wight
                        2. Australian DX Report
                        3. Rare QSL Cards

* From the Needles to Colombo: The Radio Story on the Isle of Wight - 00:49
            The Isle of Wight is located on the southern edge of England half a dozen miles across the waterway known as the Solent.  The island itself is approximately 25 miles by 12 miles, and it might be described as a diamond shaped diagonal square.  Tourism is the islands main industry, and dinosaur fossils are found in the chalk cliffs.  The resident population is around 140,000.
            The island is rich in European and British history, and it was known as Vectis under the rule of the Roman Empire two thousand years ago.  At one stage it was an independent kingdom during the era of the 1400s. 
            The most famous building on the Isle of Wight is Osborne House, built under the direction of the illustrious Queen Victoria in the mid 1800s.  At the time when Melbourne was the temporary capital city of Australia, before the federal development of Canberra, Government House was designed and built as a copy of Osborne House on the Isle of Wight.
            It was in November 1897 that the famous Italian wireless inventor, Guglielmo Marconi, made a visit to the Isle of Wight and he rented rooms in the Royal Needles Hotel overlooking Alum Bay on the western tip for the winter.  The Needles were a neat row of four rocky pinnacles extending out into the edge of the bay, though the slendermost has long since collapsed.
            Marconi installed his wireless equipment in the Billiard Room, and a 168 foot tall wooden mast was erected in the grounds nearby.  Work on the installation of the wireless station was completed by Marconis assistant George Kemp on December 5 (1897), and next day, Monday December 6, test transmissions were commenced.
            On the Tuesday, test transmissions began with two tug boats belonging to the South Western Railway Company.  These two tugs, the Solent and the Mayflower, received the Morse Code tests from the new Marconi wireless station in the Royal Needles Hotel while they were stationary in Alum Bay, and while maneuvering around the Solent waterway. 
            On January 9 of the New Year 1898, Marconi gave a successful public demonstration of his wireless equipment.  Then, on July 3, the station was opened for commercial Morse Code messages back to the English mainland.
            In March 1899, the Marconi company shipped a load of wireless equipment on a motor launch to the nearby French coast, where it was installed on the ocean front at Wimereux.  On the 27th, the worlds first international wireless messages were exchanged between the two Marconi stations, Wimereux in France and the Needles on the Isle of Wight in England.  This first message ended with three Vs in Morse Code  _  signifying victory, success. 
            On June 3, Lord Kelvin sent the worlds first paid wireless telegram from the new Marconi station at Needles on the Isle of Wight.  This message, which was addressed to Sir George Stokes and Sir William Preece, simply stated the route by which it traveled, from the Isle of Wight by wireless to nearby Bournemouth on the English mainland, and thence by wire to Cambridge & Glasgow.  Lord Kelvin paid one shilling for this historic exercise.
            During a 16 day period in August of this same year 1898, 150 messages were successfully transmitted between the Royal Yacht Osborne and Osborne House on the Isle of Wight.  Osborne House was the private home of the elderly Queen Victoria and her 9 children; and during this time period the Royal Yacht Osborne was afloat in the Solent, the waterway that separates the Isle of Wight from the English mainland.
            During a visit to Paris, the eldest son and heir apparent to the royal throne, Prince Albert Edward, fell and hurt his knee.  He chose to spend his time of convalescence aboard the Royal Yacht Osborne, and Queen Victoria invited Marconi to install wireless equipment at both locations for communication between the royal mother and her son. 
            The landbased terminal was installed in Ladywood Cottage in the spacious grounds of the grand Osborne palace.  As a gesture of appreciation, the 79 year old queen invited the 24 year old Marconi to lunch at Osborne House.
            On November 15, 1899, Marconi was aboard the ship SS St. Paul, some 36 miles near to the Isle of Wight on his return voyage from a visit to North America.  A bulletin of news was transmitted in Morse Code from the Royal Needles Hotel and received on the St. Paul where it was printed out for the passengers as the worlds first wireless newspaper at sea, the Transatlantic Times.
            However, the hotel owner increased the rent during the next year 1900 by £1 per week and so Marconi dismantled the station in June and re-erected it with additional new equipment on Knowles Farm at Niton on the bottom tip of the island.  The final message from the Royal Needles at Alum Bay was on May 26.
            Test transmissions from the new Niton station began on January 22, 1901; and next day a new distance record was established with reception at the Lizard in Cornwall, a distance of 196 miles.  Eight years later, the Niton station was taken over by the British Post Office.
            A new Marconi station was constructed nearby at Lower Niton.  As time went by, this station was granted the callsign GNI and it operated as Niton Radio for marine communication.  During World War 2, Niton Radio was bombed by the German Air Force, with some superficial damage nearby.  Niton Radio was finally closed on May 31, 1997. 
            During the war, several additional temporary stations were installed on the Isle of Wight, including radar stations and a mobile communication facility that was placed on the air near Chichester  immediately before D-Day, the massive invasion of continental Europe which began on June 6, 1944.
            Towards the end of the year 1944, an aerial system, probably a multi-wire rhombic, and some of the temporary electronic equipment on the Isle of Wight was disassembled and shipped to Colombo Sri Lanka, or Ceylon as it was back then, for installation at the new SEAC broadcasting station at Ekala,  However, the ship was torpedoed and sunk off the coast of Ceylon and the radio equipment was lost.  A second shipment was soon afterwards sent out from England and this was installed at the historic SEAC station at Ekala.
            The first, and only, mediumwave broadcasting station, Isle of Wight Radio, was inaugurated on April 15, 1990 with a 500 watt transmitter at Briddlesford Farm on 1242 kHz.  This station transferred to the FM band in March 1998, and the mediumwave unit was closed down soon afterwards.
     Audio Insert
            Isle of Wight Radio: Station announcement & news

* Program Announcement - 08:43
            Allen Graham

* Australian DX Report - 09:36
            Bob Padula

* Annual DX Contest: Rare QSL Cards - 22:19
            Adventist World Radio is issuing a special invitation to shortwave listeners around the world to participate in the 2014 Annual DX Contest in association with the DX program Wavescan.  Shortwave listeners, international radio monitors and DXers around the world are invited to search their collection of QSL cards and letters for rare, unusual and unique verifications.  You are invited to make up a list (up to 5 in number) of your QSLs in this collective category, and to write a short paragraph about each.  Partial entries for this years contest are considered to be valid. 
            At the conclusion of the contest, we at Wavescan are planning to write up and publish a detailed compilation of interesting information on a world wide basis about the rare, unusual and unique QSLs that come to light in this way.  This will be the first occasion in the history of international radio broadcasting for the compilation of such a QSL list, and you all are invited to submit entries.
            You should remember to participate in our big annual DX contest in September which comes to you under the title, Rare, Unusual, Unique QSLs  -  AWR Focus on Asia 2014 Annual DX Contest.  In brief, you are invited to:-
     * Make up a list of your rare, unusual and unique QSLs, up to five in number, and provide a                            photocopy of each.
     * Describe these QSLs in one brief paragraph each.
     * Provide reception reports for three AWR Asian broadcasts.
     * Provide a photograph of an Adventist unit in your country.
     * Send three radio cards.
            As an example of a rare QSL card . . . .  In June 1966, there was an electronic exhibition in the Town Hall in Perth Western Australia as promotion for the Technical Training Year, TTY.  The electronic exhibits included a live on the air television station, and a live on the air radio broadcasting station.  The transmitter for the radio station was a 200 watt unit that was on the air previously with ABC programming as 6NM in Northam, Western Australia. 
            At the Town Hall exhibit, the output of the transmitter was fed into two electric light bulbs at 100 watts each and these flickered in synch with the programming that was coming from a reel to reel tape recorder.  The frequency in use at the time was 1130 kHz. 
            I took my portable radio receiver into the hall and tuned in to Radio Station TTY, Technical Training Year.  The engineer in charge signed my Do-It-Yourself QSL card, no doubt the only QSL ever issued for this transmitter in this temporary usage. 
            After the exhibition was over, the 200 watt transmitter was taken to Esperance on the south coast where it was installed as the emergency transmitter for the new ABC station 6ED.

  
* Music of the World - 25:34
            Isle of Wight: Folk instrumental & vocal

* Closing Announcement - 26:27
            Thanks for listening to Wavescan, international DX program from Adventist World Radio
            Researched and written in Indianapolis
            Several QSL cards available.  Send your AWR & KSDA reception reports for Wavescan to the                            AWR address in Indianapolis, and also to the station your radio is tuned to: WRMI or                                 WWCR or KVOH, or to the AWR relay stations that carry Wavescan.
            Next week:-
                        1. A Visit to All India Radio: Khampur on Shortwave            
                        2. Indian DX Report
            Wavescan address:-
                        Box 29235
                        Indianapolis
                        Indiana 46229 USA
            Wavescan @ AWR.org
            Jeff White, shortwave WRMI

* Music Outrun - 27:41


* Program Ends - 28:51

Thursday, August 21, 2014

Announcement of Wonderful Indonesia Quiz 2014

RRI World Service Voice of Indonesia would like to announce you 4 (four) lucky winners of Wonderful Indonesia Quiz 2014, namely:
1. Zhao Yadong from China
2. Bernhard Seiser from Germany
3. Idriss Boudina from Marocco
4. Amir Jameel from Pakistan
Congratulation to the winners! All the four winners will be contacted and will be invited to visit Indonesia.
In addition to the four lucky winners, we also have other 6 (six) winners who will receive souvenirs from Voice of Indonesia as a form of VOI's appreciation for participating in Wonderful Indonesia Quiz 2014. They are:
1. Klaus Kohler from Germany
2. Li Chun Guo from China
3. Bizazel Farhat from Algeria
4. Sergi Giovani from Italy
5. Vladimir Gudzenko from Russia
6. Mitul Kansal from India
We will send gifts to the 6 (six) winners. 
For those who have not been lucky yet, don't be disappointed. Thank you for participating in the quiz. All your replies and feedbacks will be very much appreciated to improve our service to you all over the world.
Best regards
RRI World Service, Voice of Indonesia
Source: http://en.voi.co.id/voi-program-highlight/7269-announcement-of-wonderful-indonesia-quiz-2014

Wednesday, August 20, 2014

Monitoring Observations



 
Monitoring observations of Special broadcasts by All India Radio
At my location in Hyderabad
 
 
Honble President Pranab Mukherjee's "Address to the Nation" on the eve of Independence Day 14 August 2014  at 1330 UTC (7.00 pm IST).
 
kHz Station SIO
 
4760 Leh / Port Blair    Not heard
4775 Imphal  Not heard
4800 Hyderabad 555 (my local station)
4810 Bhopal 444
4820 Kolkata 353
4830 Jammu : Off air
4835 Gangtok 232
4840 Mumbai 555
4850 Kohima Not heard
4860 Shimla 151
4880 Lucknow 353
4895 Kurseong 252
4910 Jaipur 353
4920 Chennai   555
4940 Guwahati: Off air
 
4950 Srinagar : 151  intermittent (Surprise entry after many months!). Sign off noted at 1430 UTC by me & Alokesh Gupta
 
4960 Ranchi : Off air
4970 Shillong 252
4990 Itanagar 252
5010 Thiruvananthapuram 252
5040 Jeypore 454
5050 Aizawl 242
6030 Delhi 444
9380 Aligarh 555
9425 Delhi 454
9870 Bangalore 433
11620 Delhi 343  (usually External Service in English but today Special broadcast heard)
 
 
Broadcast  of the running commentary on the Flag Hoisting and Prime Minster's speech  held at Red Fort, New Delhi  on 15 August 2014 0135-0240 UTC (7.05-8.10 am IST)
  
English (Special frequencies only today at this time)
 
9425 Delhi  454 (later 433 Cochannel from Iran ?)
11985 Delhi 511 Audio problem till around 8.00 am. After 8.00 am 555
15050 Bengaluru 353
 
Hindi: (Normally External Service in Urdu but special broadcast only for today)
6155 Aligarh 151
7340 Mumbai 454
9595 Delhi 322 (Cochannel from China ?)
11620 Bengaluru 353
  
Changes than normal schedule noted as follows only for this day:
 
5010 Thiruvanathapuram did not change to  7290 at 0230 UTC but continued on 5010 till end of commentary
 
7380 Chennai   0117 UTC (Normally from 0300)
 
7420 Hyderabad  0117  UTC (Normally from 0225)
 
7430   Bhopal - 0125 UTC (Normally from 0225)
 
 
Other interesting observations:
External Service
 
0215-0300  UTC Kannada 13695 15120  Special broadcast heard. Instead of signing off at 0300 UTC it carried the Prime Ministers speech live without cutting it off (at 0300).
This service continued till end of the special broadcast till around 0320.
 
It is observed that only on Independence Day & Republic Day the External Services start with Vanthe Matharam song.
(On Home Service it is broadcast daily at sign on)

Jose Jacob, VU2JOS
National Institute of Amateur Radio 
Hyderabad, India
 
 www.qsl.net/vu2jos     Via [dx_india] 

Sunday, August 17, 2014

Pulicat lighthouse celebrated by HAMs

Pulicat, a sleepy fishermen hamlet some 50 km north of Chennai, has secured a place on the world amateur radio with a group of HAM operators setting up a special radio station (VU69) on this picturesque place on Saturday to commemorate the two-day annual international lighthouse/lightship weekend. 
 
The trio K. Rajesh (VU3RGK), S. Narayanan (VU3GJP) and K. Premchand (VU2RPC) had set up the radio station and contacted over 500 similar groups across the world also commemorating the event in their places. 
 
“Our objective is to promote public awareness about lighthouses and lightships and the urgent need for their preservation and restoration. At the same time, we want to promote amateur radio and foster global goodwill through HAM. We like to conduct this event every year in different light houses in Tamil Nadu. We contacted over 200 light house stations across the world as part of the event,” Mr Rajesh said. 
 
The group started their transmission as early as 5.30 a.m. with sharing of messages about the significance of the event. “We got to know the history about light houses in various parts of the world and it also gave us a chance to share our best practices. This event also gave us an opportunity to create awareness about the dying hobby of HAM radio among people who visited the light house,” Mr S.Narayanan said. 
 
This year, 531 HAM radio operators from various countries like Argentina, Australia, Canada, Canary Islands, England, Germany, India and Scotland had registered for the event that will close at 00.01 am on Sunday. - DC | N. ARUN KUMAR 

Source: deccanchronicle.com

Wavescan NWS286


* Theme - 00:00
            “Birthday Serenade - Willi Glahe

* Opening Announcement - 00:16
            Welcome to Wavescan, international DX program from Adventist World Radio
            Researched and written in Indianapolis, produced in studios of shortwave WRMI
            Program outline
                        1. Phantom Radio Stations in Canada
                        2. NASB Report: Animal Life at WRMI Okeechobee
                        3. Ancient DX Report 1908
                        4. Contest Reminder Rare QSLs
                        5. Bangladesh DX Report
           
* Phantom Radio Stations in Canada - 00:58
            It was back in the year 1919 that the Canadian National Railways CNR was formed as a government owned corporation.  Over a period of time, CNR has owned a sprawling and interconnected network of rail lines across lower Canada, and down into the United States as far as the Mexican Gulf.  The tall iconic CN Tower was constructed in the 1970s on CNR land at the waterfront in Toronto; and in addition to these vast public enterprises, they also operated their own radio broadcasting network, for a period of 13 years running from 1921 into the earlier part of 1933.
            Over a period of time, CNR developed a network of radio programming distribution and radio broadcasting stations.  At the height of its radio activity, CNR owned and operated three radio broadcasting stations, its programming was relayed live by thirty or more radio stations across Canada mostly under licensed phantom callsigns, and it operated 78 passenger radio carriages that picked up CNR programming for the benefit of travelers.
            The first CNR venture into experimental radio broadcasting took place in the summer of 1921 from the CNR owned passenger vessel SS Dalhousie City.  At the time, the Dalhousie City was afloat on Lake Michigan and an experimental transmitter was installed aboard the ship under the callsign CKUC.  Several experimental broadcasts were made from the Dalhousie City and they were received at the nearby 1921 Toronto Exhibition in a specially equipped CNR railway carriage.
            During the summer of the following year, CNR repeated the radio broadcasts from the ship Dalhousie City with the use of a portable Marconi YC3 transmitter under the same callsign CKUC.  A new steel railway carriage was fitted out with radio receiving equipment and this was on display at the CNR location in the Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto.  The first day of regular broadcasting from CKUC was August 26, 1922, and two hours of programming was on the air daily in three segments on the mediumwave channel 680 kHz.
            The first land based station constructed by the Canadian National Railways was station CKCH in Ottawa which was officially inaugurated on February 27, 1924.  The studios were installed in the Jackson Building on Bank Street and the transmitter was a 500 watt unit radiating on 690 kHz.
            The recently formed CNR radio department wished to operate its radio broadcasting stations under callsigns beginning with the three identification letters CNR, but the international callsign sequence CN had already been allocated to Morocco.  The Canadian government on behalf of CNR obtained approval from Morocco for these desired callsigns, and so the CNR radio callsign list ran from CNRA down through the English alphabet to CNRX.  Thus it was that the original CKCH in Ottawa became CNRO on July 16, 1924.
            Station CNRA in Moncton New Brunswick was inaugurated also in 1922 as the second station in the CNR network with 500 watts on 960 kHz; and the third and last station owned by CNR was CNRV which was inaugurated in Vancouver on August 11, 1925, with 500 watts on 1100 kHz, as the Voice of the Pacific.
            However, in addition to its own three stations, CNR obtained licenses for phantom stations across Canada, whereby CNR programming could be relayed by other already established radio broadcasting stations.  When CNR programming was on relay from another station, CNR was permitted to use its own phantom callsign over the air.  This CNR network programming was thus made available to listeners in each local area, and also to travelers in specially equipped railway parlor cars.
            The first CNR network broadcast was an interview with the British Prime Minister David Lloyd George on June 1, 1923; he was traveling from Montreal to Toronto in one of their radio parlor cars.  However, the first pre-planned network broadcast was a Christmas/New Year program that was aired on December 30, 1923.  Two stations carried the program in English and French, CHYC in Montreal and COA in Ottawa.
            The first phantom call was CNRM in Montreal, and the CNR programming was heard over CKAC on Thursday nights and CFCF on Friday nights.  The first three station network program was heard in March 1925 (Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto); there was a special broadcast from the deck of a ship in Montreal Harbour in the same year; the first national network program right across Canada was the 60th Jubilee Confederation broadcast on July 1, 1927; and regular coast-to-coast network broadcasts began on December 27, 1928. 
            A total of 23 stations from Halifax to Vancouver carried this Jubilee program including an American mediumwave station WWJ in Detroit.  There was no phantom callsign in use for the WWJ relays.  In 1930, 27 stations were carrying the special CNR network programming.
            In addition to the long list of mediumwave stations on relay with CNR programming, several shortwave stations also carried this relay of radio program broadcasting.  For example, on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of Confederation, the unification of the original four provinces of Canada into one nation within the British Empire, the Marconi shortwave station at Drummondville near Montreal in Quebec, carried the programming beamed towards Europe.  A 1931 entry shows Drummondville relaying CNR programming via station VE9BA; and three years later via CGA4 with 15 kW on 6465 kHz.   
            The American shortwave stations KDKA-8XK Pittsburgh and WGY-2XAD Schenectady also provided programming for broadcast over CNR radio in Canada; and sometimes they relayed the Canadian programming to other parts of the world for live relay in other countries.  Smaller shortwave stations, such as CFCF in Montreal, CFCN in Calgary, VE9HX in Halifax, and VE9GW in Bowmanville, all carried CNR programming in parallel with the mediumwave parent stations.
            Program production for CNR relay was produced in the studios of the three stations owned by the railway system, though the main coordination studios were in station CNRV at the Pacific Central (Railway) Station in Vancouver.  QSL cards and QSL stamps were issued on behalf of the three CNR owned radio stations, as well as some of the CNR phantom relay stations.
            However, change was on the way and in November 1931, the Canadian National Railways ended their reception of radio programming in special radio parlor cars; and then in early 1933, CNR sold its radio facilities to the newly set up Canadian Radio Broadcasting Corporation, which in turn became CBC the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in 1936, as it is to this day. 
            Thus ended the fascinating 13 year story of railway radio in Canada (1921 - 1933), with its unique list of alphabetically progressive callsigns running from CNRA (Moncton NB) to CNRX (Toronto ON).  

* NASB Report - 09:16
            Jeff White: Animal Life at WRMI Okeechobee

* Program Announcement - 11:20
            Allen Graham

* Ancient DX Report 1908 - 12:12
            The year 1908 began at midnight when a 700-pound "electric ball" fell from the flagpole atop the New York Times building, the first-ever ball-drop in Times Square, New York.  This leap year ended 366 days later with a nearly 2½ hour flight by Wilbur Wright, the longest ever made in an airplane.  
            In the days between, the U.S. Navy's Great White Fleet sailed around the world; Adm. Robert Peary began his conquest of the North Pole; Dr. Frederick Cook reached the North Pole (or claimed to); six automobiles set out on a 20,000-mile race from New York City to Paris via Asia; and the Model T went into production at Henry Fords plant in Detroit, Michigan. 
            The events and innovations that occurred within that 12-month frame a century ago marked, in many ways, America's entry into the modern world.  In some cases, they quite literally put modern America in motion. Jim Rasenberger, Smithsonian Magazine, January 2008
            The expert already realizes that practical wireless telegraphy and telephony are possible.    Before the close of the year wireless transmission across the Pacific and trans-Atlantic wireless telephony may be expected with perfect confidence.  The use of the wireless telephone in isolated districts (within the United States) will spread like fire. Nikola Tesla Jan 5 1908 Anything, everything, is possible. Thomas Edison, 1908

            The year 1908 was a concentrated year in which remarkable development took place in many different areas of human expertise, including wireless and radio communication.  Several major attempts were made at radio program broadcasting, and we could say that information and entertainment via radio was beginning to make its mark through this electronic medium, even though distortion and interference were still quite evident.
            The American entrepreneur Archie Collins made several successful attempts at radio broadcasting and he activated an arc transmitter at 51 Clinton Street Newark, NJ and transmitted voice and music.  On July 9, Collins sent voice messages from his laboratory in New Jersey that were heard on a receiver in the Singer Building in New York.  Later in the year, he sent voice messages across the intervening 81 miles between New York  and Philadelphia.
            Collins established a demonstration display of his wireless equipment at the New York Electrical Show in October, and the noted Guglielmo Marconi paid a visit.  He courteously stated that Collins should be credited with the invention of wireless telegraphy.
            Among the wireless experimenters and developers in the United States during the year 1908 was the 21 year old Walter Willenborg of Hoboken New Jersey.  His first newspaper coverage was granted during 1907, and he began to achieve prominence in the wireless world during the year 1908 due to a very large article in a magazine for boys about his achievements with his self-made equipment.
            Luxembourg born Hugo Gernsback launched the worlds first radio magazine,Modern Electrics       from his newly adopted city New York City in April; and on May 12, Nathan Stubblefield received a patent for his wireless telephone, based on induction transmission rather than radio frequency transmission.  The first wireless transmission between the continental United States and Hawaii took place unexpectedly in mid-October when Lawrence Malarin at station PH on Russian Hill in San Francisco overheard his friend Arthur Isbell in Morse Code at station HU RCA Kahuku during the dark hours of the night.   
            The Californian based experimenter Professor Charles Herrold entered the wireless scene in 1908 with experiments in the transmission of voice and music; and the late teenager Francis McCarty transmitted music occasionally from his family home on Hayes Street, near Ashbury in San Francisco.
            The United States army successfully transmitted speech and music from Sandy Hook New Jersey to their army base on Bedloe Island, in the shadow of the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor; the United States navy made many music and speech broadcasts from the Great White Fleet as it circled the globe; and the callsign of the Marconi station at Cape Cod was modified from CC to MCC, standing for Marconi Cape Cod.
            On February 2, the ship SS Cuthbert caught fire out on the Atlantic, 500 miles from its destination while en route from Antwerp in Belgium to New York.  The SS Cymric was bound from Ireland to Boston and most of the personnel on board the stricken Cuthbert were transferred to the Cymric.  On board the Cymric was a news reporter and he arranged for a news report in Morse Code to be sent via the ship wireless equipment to the New York Times and the Chicago Tribune.
            The first long distance message from the Eiffel Tower in France was transmitted on January 12. Then during the summer, Dr. Lee de Forest set up a transmitter at the base of the tower with an antenna running up to the top of the tower.  Following a series of test transmissions, he made a pre-arranged program broadcast with music and speech on Wednesday April 1.  Reliable coverage was provided both day and day for a radius of 25 miles, though an engineer in Marseilles sent in a reception report by letter, a distance of 500 miles.
            In England, the Marconi engineer H. J. Round made a successful telephony broadcast using a modulated arc, as did Poulsen at Lyngby in Denmark and his transmissions extended 150 miles on the first test.  Three experimenters in Belgium, R.-B. Goldschmitt,  Monsieur Ruhmer and Maurice Philippson made a series of test transmissions from the Palace of Justice in Brussels which were heard at Liege 70 miles distant.
            Down under, Engineer H. V. Jenvey with the PMG department in Melbourne Australia established two wireless communication stations, one at St. Kilda and the other at Queenscliffe, which enabled successful communication over the intervening 65 miles.
            Across the Tasman at Dunedin, down near the bottom of the South Island in New Zealand, three teenagers now known as the Dunedin Boys, constructed their own wireless equipment and made a series of Morse Code transmissions across the city and across the bay.  They made a public demonstration of their equipment and sent congratulatory messages between local city mayors and the Prime Minister in Wellington, the national capital.  The newspapers gave excellent coverage of the performance of these three boys, Rawson Stark, Stanton Hicks, and Cyril Brandon, though in reality their experimental transmissions were considered illegal by the local authorities.   

* Bangladesh DX Report - 19:56
            Salahuddin Dolar

* Annual DX Contest: Rare QSL Cards - 23:48
            Adventist World Radio is issuing a special invitation to shortwave listeners around the world to participate in the 2014 Annual DX Contest in association with the DX program Wavescan.  Shortwave listeners, international radio monitors and DXers around the world are invited to search their collection of QSL cards and letters for rare, unusual and unique verifications.  You are invited to make up a list (up to 5 in number) of your QSLs in this collective category, and to write a short paragraph about each.  Partial entries for this years contest are considered to be valid. 
            At the conclusion of the contest, we at Wavescan are planning to write up and publish a detailed compilation of interesting information on a world wide basis about the rare, unusual and unique QSLs that come to light in this way.  This will be the first occasion in the history of international radio broadcasting for the compilation of such a QSL list, and you all are invited to submit entries.
            You should remember to participate in our big annual DX contest in September which comes to you under the title, Rare, Unusual, Unique QSLs  -  AWR Focus on Asia 2014 Annual DX Contest.  In brief, you are invited to:-
     * Make up a list of your rare, unusual and unique QSLs, up to five in number, and provide a                            photocopy of each.
     * Describe these QSLs in one brief paragraph each.
     * Provide reception reports for three AWR Asian broadcasts.
     * Provide a photograph of an Adventist unit in your country.
     * Send three radio cards.
            As an example of a rare QSL card . . . .  Back on February 19, 1984, I heard an irregular transmission from the Voice of America underneath the time ticks from chronohertz station WWVH in Hawaii on exactly 15 MHz.  At the time, we as a family were living in Lahore Pakistan and I was an official monitor for the Voice of America, so I reported the information to the VOA head office in Washington DC.  Ultimately, it was discovered that the spurious transmission was leaking from the radio frequency exciter on a shortwave transmitter at the VOA relay station at Point Poro in the Philippines.  The exciter was radiating as a low power transmitter; and in due course, a letter from the legendary George Jacobs acknowledged the reported information.  No doubt, this letter was the only QSL ever issued for this spurious low power VOA transmission on exactly 15000 kHz.

* Music of the World - 26:55
            Canada: Canadian folk songs, brass

* Closing Announcement - 27:05
            Thanks for listening to Wavescan, international DX program from Adventist World Radio
            Researched and written in Indianapolis
            Several QSL cards available.  Send your AWR & KSDA reception reports for Wavescan to the                            AWR address in Indianapolis, and also to the station your radio is tuned to: WRMI or                                 WWCR or KVOH, or to the AWR relay stations that carry Wavescan.
            Next week:-
                        1. From the Needles to Colombo: The Radio Story on the Isle of Wight                  
                        2. Another Story about Phantom Radio in Canada
                        3. Australian DX Report
            Two QSL cards available - AWR & WRMI
            Wavescan address:-
                        Box 29235
                        Indianapolis
                        Indiana 46229 USA
            Wavescan @ AWR.org
            Jeff White, shortwave WRMI

* Music Outrun - 28:32


* Program Ends - 28:55