Sunday, September 28, 2014

Wavescan NWS292



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

* Opening Announcement - 00:
            Welcome to Wavescan, international DX program from Adventist World Radio
            Researched and written in Indianapolis, produced in studios of shortwave WRMI
            Program outline
                        1. A Blast from the Past: The Biggest Aspidistra in the World
                        2. Australian DX Report
                        3. Closing of Annual DX Contest and a Rare, Unusual, Unique QSL
                        4. International DX News

* Song from Youtube - 00:52
            The Biggest Aspidistra in the World! Gracie Fields

* A Blast from the Past: The Biggest Aspidistra in the World - 01:14
            The Biggest Aspidistra in the World!  This song title is reminiscent of Gracie Fields and her popular rendition back during the era of World War 2.  This title was also applied to a magnificent American made mediumwave transmitter that was on duty in England during those same wartime years.
            The Aspidistra is a popular house plant in western countries.  It has numerous long glossy leaves often striped with white, and plumed with pretty purple or brown flowers.  The Aspidistra is a member of the lily family and it was originally native to Oriental Asia.
            Back during the 1970s, the scientists had documented only ten different species of Aspidistra though these days 93 are documented; and it is probable that two or three hundred varieties exist in tropical and semi-tropical Asia, mainly southeast Asia and China.
            The song, The Biggest Aspidistra in the World, was written in 1938 by three Englishmen as a humor song, it was adopted by Gracie Fields in the same year, and it became one of her most popular theme songs.  Gracie Fields was English born, at one stage she was married to an Italian citizen on the island of Capri, and she lived much of her time during World War 2 in the United States.  She is remembered most however for her entertainment programs for forces personnel in combat areas.
            The Aspidistra radio transmitter was a concept that was presented to Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of Great Britain, during the year 1941.  The project called for a superpower mediumwave transmitter that could change frequency rapidly and radiate on any frequency in the standard international mediumwave band.  Its purpose would be to cover continental Europe with black propaganda programming.
            An international search was made for a suitable transmitter, already available if possible. It was discovered that the assembly of a 500 kW mediumwave transmitter was nearing completion at the RCA factory in Camden New Jersey in the United States.  This transmitter was under contract to mediumwave WJZ for installation at Bound Brook New Jersey but they no longer wanted it due to the fact that the FCC in the United States had mandated a maximum power of 50 kW on mediumwave. 
            At the time, China had already placed an option on the purchase of this superpower transmitter, but it was taken over by the British for installation in the south of England.  This transmitter was inspected on behalf of the British government by Bob Hornby and it was purchased with modifications at a price of £165,000.
            The English engineering executive, Harold Robbin, was sent across the Atlantic in the Summer of 1941 to supervise the completion of this superpower transmitter and its associated equipment.  For two months he lived in New York city and he travelled each day to the RCA factory at Camden, across in New Jersey.
            Two major segments of the transmitter system were already completed and work had begun on the third.  The entire system was modified for a total power increase of 600 kW, with the three amplifiers in parallel.  For a change of frequency, each amplifier in turn was closed, the frequency was changed, and then switched back into service.
            The completed assembly was dismembered, packed separately for shipping to England, and loaded onto different Royal Navy vessels.  All arrived at port in England, except for the antenna towers and antenna systems which were on a ship that was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic.  A duplicate set of antenna systems was hurriedly manufactured and subsequently shipped to England. 
            Several sites were considered for this powerful new mediumwave radio station, including one near Woburn in Bedfordshire where initial work preparation had begun.  However, the final choice fell on a location at Kings Standing in Ashdown Forest near Crowborough.  This location was 620 feet above sea level.
            Some 70 acres of land were fenced off, a road construction unit of the Canadian Army that was stationed nearby dug a 50 feet deep hole, and a labor force of some 600 personnel worked 24 hours a day to construct a two storied building underground.  A four foot thick bomb proof reinforced concrete slab protected the top of the building, and a covering of grass and trees provided adequate camouflage.  Programming was produced and controlled in a set of new studios at nearby Milton Bryan.
            The new Aspidistra mediumwave facility was ready for usage by April 1942, but it was not taken into regular usage until November 8 on the occasion of Operation Torch, the American landings in North Africa.  On this occasion, Aspidistra carried a mix of programming that included a speech in French by President Franklin Roosevelt, a live relay of VOA news and programming from shortwave WRUL in Scituate Massachusetts, BBC program relays, and local program inserts that were coordinated in their nearby studio.
            Over the years, the Aspidistra transmitter was in use for the broadcast of a variety of program relays, including the BBC European Service in French and German on 804 kHz which began on January 30 of the next year, 1943.  Soon afterwards, a new black clandestine service began from Aspidistra in the German language under the station name, Atlantiksender.  Then on October 24, another station was launched in the same language via Aspidistra, Soldatensender.
            There were several notable occasions also when Aspidistra made intrusion broadcasts.  When a major German station was switched off because of air raids from England, Aspidistra was tuned to the same channel, and it relayed the national German network from another station still on the air.  Then at coordinated times, spurious announcements and information in the German language were inserted into this program relay.  The first intruder broadcast took place on March 24, 1945. 
            The broadcasts of the black clandestine stations Atlantiksender and Soldatensender were terminated at the end of April.  At 4:50 am on June 6, 1944 the BBC announced to Europe via Aspidistra that the expected invasion of Europe had begun.  This station was used subsequently to carry the BBC External Service. 
            The station was closed with due ceremony on September 28, 1982, and later the powerful and historic Aspidistra was unceremoniously sold for scrap.  That was the end of this blast from the past, a 600 kW American mediumwave transmitter that was installed in England during the middle of last century.
            We should mention that there were also several other transmitters installed at the Crowborough station, all shortwave, but that is the story for another occasion.

* Program Announcement - 08:25
            Allen Graham

* Australian DX Report - 09:15
            Bob Padula

* Rare, Unusual, Unique QSLs - 22:07
            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, as an important part of our annual DX contest.  Partial entries for this years contest are considered to be valid, and all entries need to be postmarked at your local post office before the end of September, next Tuesday. 
            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.
            Full details of this remarkable contest are available on several websites:-
                                    * ontheshortwaves. com
                                    * mt-shortwave.blogspot. com
                                    * facebook.com/indiandxreport/posts/
                                    * alokeshgupta.blogspot.com/2014/06/
                                    * awr. org

            As an example of a rare, unusual or unique QSL card . . .  Mr. Patrick Hector of Woodland Hills in California states that he tuned his radio receiver, a Realistic DX650, to the frequency 10800 kHz SSB, single side band, back on December 23, 1968.  This was at the time when the space vehicle Apollo 8 was orbiting the Moon, just 4 days before splashdown in the Central Pacific,
            Patrick heard an identification tape loop from a low power communication transmitter aboard the US navy ship Arlington under the callsign NILB.  At the time, the Arlington was on duty in the open waters of the Central Pacific in the Apollo 8 splashdown area, 1,000 miles south west of Hawaii. 
Patrick sent his reception report to the Arlington care of the Navy Department in Washington DC and he received a QSL card from the navy office in San Francisco California. 
            The officer who signed the QSL card stated that the Arlington is a major communication relay ship, the navys finest.  Mr Patrick Hector of Woodland Hills in California states that this QSL card from transmitter NILB aboard the USS Arlington is his rarest QSL card.  The card itself shows an artists rendering of the ship Arlington
            He listens to the DX program Wavescan regularly via shortwave station KVOH in Simi Valley, California.

* International DX News - 25:26
            WRMI: Relay Radio Ukraine International

* Music of the World - 26:18
            Macedonia: Instrumental & male vocal

* Closing Announcement - 26:45
            Thanks for listening to Wavescan, international DX program from Adventist World Radio
            Researched and written in Indianapolis
            Next week:-
                        1. We return to the story of radio broadcasting in Ceylon: The Sri Lanka Broadcasting                                           Corporation turns commercial                       
                        2. WRMI Insert
                        3. Japan DX Report
            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.  Remember too,                             you can send a reception report to each of the DX reporters when their segment is on                          the air here in Wavescan: Japan, Bangladesh, Philippines, Australia & India.  They will                             verify with a colorful QSL card.  Return postage and an address label are always                                            appreciated.  
            Wavescan address:-
                        Box 29235
                        Indianapolis
                        Indiana 46229 USA
            Wavescan @ AWR.org
            Jeff White, shortwave WRMI

* Music Outrun - 28:26


* Program Ends - 28:55

Thursday, September 25, 2014

WRTH 2015


 
 
Sean Gilbert wrote on Facebook:

24 September 2014

WRTH 2015 will be published, as usual, in early December. This will be the 69th Annual edition! Even though both International and Domestic SW  is declining there is still a lot to be heard out there on those broadcast bands, so don't consign the SW receiver to the attic (to gather dust) just yet.

There is a mix of over 200 languages and dialects to get stuck in to, plus the Clandestine broadcasters are always around from politically troubled areas.

Some of these are low powered or broadcasting to a different part of the world and can be a tough challenge to pick up.

All the details you need to stand the best chance of catching these, or any of the other broadcasters (be it LW, MW, SW or FM),  can be found in WRTH.

You will soon be able to reserve your copy of the 2015 edition and be one of the first to receive it. Check the WRTH website for pre-ordering details. If the 2014 edition is still showing, try again in a few days time.
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Digital radio sales fall to six-year low

Digital radio sales have fallen to a six-year low, with a period of consecutive growth in digital's share of listening coming to a halt.
Despite a cross-industry marketing campaign led by spoof soul man "D Love", 1.7m digital audio broadcasting (DAB) sets were sold in the year to the end of June this year, down 9.1% on the previous 12 months and the lowest of any year since at least 2009.
Digital radio's share of total radio listening, including DAB, mobile, online and digital TV, was 36.8% in the second quarter of this year – flat on the same quarter in 2013.
However, on a 12-monthly basis, the popularity of digital radio continued to grow, with almost half of UK adults (48.5%) claiming to own a DAB set.
"While in previous years there has been consecutive quarterly growth in digital radio's share of total listening hours, quarterly figures from Rajar show that between quarter two 2013 and quarter two 2014 it has remained broadly stable," said the report.
"Compared to quarter two 2013, sales of DAB digital radio sets were down by 9.1%, with 1.7 million being sold in the year to quarter two 2014. Total radio sales were down by 11.3% over the same period. DAB sales continue to represent around a third of all radio set sales."
Only 2% of radio listeners without a DAB set at home said they were "certain" to buy one in the next 12 months, with another 13% either likely or very likely to do so.
The majority of people said there was "no need" to buy one or they were happy with their existing services.
Sales of digital sets peaked at 2.1m in 2009, but have failed to hit those heights again. However, more than half of new cars (54.8%) now have digital radio fitted as standard, some way ahead of previous years.
Five digital-only stations now have a weekly reach of more than 1 million listeners, led by BBC 6 Music, with the most popular commercial station Absolute 80s. The BBC accounts for more than half of digital listening, reflecting wider trends in listening across all platforms.
It is a sign of the scale of the competition faced by UK broadcasters in the digital age that Ofcom said there were more than 100,000 internationally accessible online stations.
Bu the research also revealed that one fifth of adults with an internet connected computer were not aware they could use it to listen to the radio.
A spokeswoman for Digital Radio UK, the body responsible for promoting the technology, said: "The report shows encouraging progress on coverage, cars, sales of digital devices and station availability.
"Listeners can look forward to planned national and local coverage improvements by the broadcasters over the next couple of years, further progress on digital radio in cars and the planned new national commercial stations. With analogue listening at an all-time low, digital is the way forward for radio."
• To contact the MediaGuardian news desk email media@theguardian.com 
Source: http://www.theguardian.com/

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  • Can set auto turn off function within 90 minutes
  • Auto turn on within 24 hours and auto turn off within 1 hour
  • With International time inquiry
  • Light touch electric switch, volume, power, band can be change-over easily
  • With lock switch to avoid misoperation
  • Night light for 10 seconds for night operating
  • With AC power
  • Big speaker system
  • Long antenna to improve FM/SW reception
  • Use 3 D batteries
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DRM Launches India Receiver


 
Radio World
September 19,2014             

AMSTERDAM — At IBC2014 the Digital Radio Mondiale Consortium unveiled the first DRM AM receiver designed to
comply with the relevant Indian specifications and to be fit for global use.

The Avion AV-DR-1401 from Communications Systems Inc. allows DRM
reception in the shortwave and medium-wave bands, as well as analog AM and FM
reception.

"Interest in India toward DRM keeps growing. Even though we
have some issues, such as a few industry stakeholders still trying to turn the
attention to FM networks instead of concentrating on DRM, our government's
commitment is strong and clear," said Ankit Agrawal, director of Communications
Systems Inc.

According to public service broadcaster All India Radio's
website, they are targeting 2017 as the complete switchover to digital mode date.

"About one year ago AIR issued a tender for the supply of DRM
receivers," explained Agrawal. "They definitely raised the bar as to technical
specifications by grouping together the most appealing features from the various
receivers available on the market at that time. I took those specifications and considered them a challenge and I asked my
engineers to design a receiver capable of meeting or possibly exceeding AIR's
requirements." 

AIR's specifications include a four-line text display, ER-AAC+, CELP and HVXC codecs,
stereo speakers, a minimum of 40 programmable station presets, USB or SD slot
with read/write capability, instant recording and playback capability from
external storage, upgradable firmware and at least six hours of battery life.

Agrawal showcased the official prototype of the new receiver at the IBC
Show and attendees were able to hear its audio quality during a live
transmission from an Ampegon transmitter. "We are ready to launch a first
production batch of about 1,000 receivers," he said. "They should be delivered
within the end of this year. Then we will be ready to launch a second batch,
definitely much larger."

The Avion AV-DR-1401 will be positioned as an high-end product; it features multimedia applications and local interactive text
and media (Journaline) as well as automatic tuning by station (not frequency).
Agrawal expects a battery life of about 10 hours, pointing out that since the
receiver is also capable of delivering emergency warning messages, a
long-lasting battery is necessary. 

"We are very pleased with the exciting announcement on this new Indian receiver. With
sufficient orders and support it could do very well and start the receiver ball
rolling demonstrating that global, green and extremely cost-effective DRM is not
just the future of digital radio but a reality for listeners now." —Davide Moro  

http://www.radioworld.com/article/drm-launches-india-receiver/272493#              
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Posted by: Mike Terry <miketerry73@btinternet.com>

Tuesday, September 23, 2014

Wavescan NWS291


 
* Theme - 00:00
            "Birthday Serenade" - Willi Glahe
 
* Opening Announcement - 00:15
            Welcome to "Wavescan", international DX program from Adventist World Radio
            Researched and written in Indianapolis, produced in studios of shortwave WRMI
            Program outline
                        1. The World's Busiest Airport: AWR Was There!
                        2. HFCC Sofia: DRM Transmissions
                        3. International DX News
                        4. Rare, Unusual, Unique QSL: Radio Tashkent via Radio Havana Cuba
 
* The World's Busiest Airport: AWR Was There! - 01:02
            The entries in the internet encyclopedia Wikipedia inform us that the world's busiest airport in regular operation is the Hartsfield Airport, located some seven miles south of Atlanta Georgia.  Each year Hartsfield processes 900,000 aircraft traffic movements, landings and takeoffs.  This is an average of 17,000 traffic movements each week.
            However, there is another airport in the United States that processes nearly 50% more traffic movements, landings and takeoffs, at a total of 25,000 traffic movements in a week, though for only one week each year.  This airplane phenomenon is played out each year in July or August at the Wittman Regional Airport, just two miles south of Oshkosh, a lakeside city in Wisconsin.
            The name Oshkosh means claw in the tribal Menominee language, and it was the name of a notable chief in the early days of European settlement.  Fur traders established the first European settlement, though the timber trade spurred subsequent development.  At one stage, Oshkosh was known as the Sawdust Capital of the World, with 62 lumber mills in the area.  The city was incorporated in 1853, and the population these days is around 70,000.
            Oshkosh is home to three divers tourist attractions:-
                        * The Aviation museum with 250 historic airplanes and five aviation cinemas
                        * The Creation Museum with ¾ million square feet of walk through exhibits
                        * The Historic Adventist Village with 3 blocks of historic buildings and artifacts
 
            Oshkosh is best known for its Annual Air Show.  This event is staged every summer around the end of July and the beginning of August, and it draws half a million visitors from as many as seventy different countries.  Thousands of people are accommodated in neat rows of tents on the enlarged property measuring nearly 2¼ square miles, and besides each tent is a parked airplane, not a motor car.  There are some 800 commercial exhibits on display for the weeklong event. 
            For this year's event just a few weeks back, nearly one thousand media personnel came in from countries on five different continents to provide news reports for back home newspapers and radio & TV stations.  The annual air show also operates its own FM radio station in order to provide news and information to the massive number of attendees.
            The airport supervises three runways and while in operation for the annual air show, there is one departure or one landing every ten seconds, the world's busiest.  During this year's air show, 2,500 participants co-operated in the construction of a Zenith Cruzer airplane which was flown for the first time on the last day of the show. 
            A few days after the end of the Annual Air Show this year, this same property was taken over for a major international youth festival.  This event ran for almost a week, running from August 11 through 15, and it attracted a total attendance of more than 50,000 young people from fifty different countries.
            These Camporee events are staged for young people known as Pathfinders and this year's Camporee was planned under the name Forever Faithful International Camporee.  These Camporees are organized by the Youth Department of the Seventh-day Adventist denomination and they are for young people in the age bracket from 10 - 15 years, together with family members and church leaders; they are staged every five years.  
            The Pathfinder organization is very similar to Boy Scouts and Girl Guides.  It began in 1907 and today there are 2 million Pathfinders in 90,000 Pathfinder Clubs in 150 countries worldwide.  The huge Air Show property at Oshkosh is one of the few available venues in the United States that is large enough to accommodate the influx of attendees with all of the events and activities.    
            A large number of the youthful attendees participated in community events in Oshkosh, and they  also entered into many different contests and events in the Camporee itself.  Guided drones were in use for the monitoring of motor traffic, and for aerial photography.  A special one thousand piece jig saw puzzle featuring the Camporee was made available at this year's event.
            Local media, radio TV & newspaper, provided ample coverage of the Pathfinder Camporee, and the Camporee administration provided a daily newspaper in color.  International news from the Camporee via satellite and TV was provided by the Hope Channel from Silver Spring in Maryland on the edge of Washington DC and by 3ABN TV from Illinois with its two mobile vans.  The Camporee at Oshkosh also operated its own local FM station, Pathfinder Radio, on 89.4 MHz in order to provide information and news to attendees.
            Among the many display booths was one that gave an overview of the activities of Adventist World Radio.  Yes, AWR was there!  A special issue of the youth magazine, Guide, was dedicated entirely to the work and results of AWR ministry, and display boards showed the widespread outreach statistics of AWR programming.  The AWR booth was under the direction of Shelley Freesland, who is  
Communication Director at the AWR headquarters in suburban Washington DC.
 
            Among the interesting AWR statistics:-
                        On the air worldwide in nearly 100 languages from 10 shortwave transmitter sites
                        Program production in 70 affiliated studios on all continents
                        1500 FM stations in Russia carry AWR programming
                        Nationwide coverage throughout India on FM and other local media
                        On the air to Asia and the Pacific from 5 shortwave transmitters on the island of Guam    
 
            The next Pathfinder Camporee is scheduled for Oshkosh again, during the summer of the year 2019.
           
* Program Announcement - 07:32
            Allen Graham
 
* International DX News - 8:24
     Update on Disastrous Floods in Kashmir
            Reports from India give further details regarding the disastrous flood situation in the Indian territory of Kashmir.  This massive flooding was brought about by heavy monsoon rains which have left rd million people stranded without the basic necessities for sustaining life, and already the death toll has reached more than 500 and is still climbing.  
            Huge numbers of survivors are living temporarily in public and religious buildings in the state capital, Srinagar and in the smaller towns.  The only highway connecting Kashmir with the rest of India is impassable, and likewise the single railway line is also flooded.  The only means of physical communication is by plane.  
            The Jhelum River runs through Srinagar and onward into Pakistan, and already there are now ¾ million refugees in Pakistan due to these raging flood inundations.  The Prime Ministers of both India and Pakistan have offered aid to each other's territory.  Currently, 41 aid agencies are providing assistance to survivors in Kashmir, including ADRA, the Adventist Development & Relief Agency which is a sister organization to Adventist World Radio.
            According to information from Jose Jacob VU2JOS at Hyderabad in India, Radio Kashmir is now back on the air again, with a mix of programming produced in temporary studios locally and at AIR headquarters in New Delhi.  Additional electronic equipment was flown in from Delhi to Kashmir by the Indian Air Force.  
            At present the only radio transmitter on the air in Srinagar is their FM facility which is installed at an elevation in the Shankaracharya Hills.  Likewise, Radio Jammu in the nearby city and territory with the same name is on the air with supportive flood information.
 
 
     Additional news items:
            * REE Spain leaving shortwave
            * Audio insert: REE identification announcement
            * New Indian made DRM receiver released in Amsterdam
 
* HFCC Sofia Report - 13:55
            DRM discussions, list of analog stations
 
* Rare, Unusual, Unique QSLs - 23:32
            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, as an important part of our annual DX contest.  Partial entries for this year's 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.
            Full details of this remarkable contest are available on several websites:-
                                    * ontheshortwaves. com
                                    * mt-shortwave.blogspot. com
                                    * facebook.com/indiandxreport/posts/
                                    * alokeshgupta.blogspot.com/2014/06/
                                    * awr. org
 
            As an example of a rare, unusual or unique QSL card . . .  Back around 30 years ago, Radio Moscow was heard in the Americas with regular programming on shortwave via a relay from Havana Cuba.  On one particular occasion while I was in the United States, I was listening to the Havana relay, but instead of programming from Radio Moscow, it was programming from Radio Tashkent.  Apparently this was a program switching mistake.
            I sent a reception report to Radio Tashkent in Uzbekistan, not really expecting a reply regarding this unusual and unexpected relay transmission via Havana on 9600 kHz.   However, back in 1982, Radio Tashkent was also on the air on the same channel 9600 kHz from its own transmitter site near Tashkent.  In any case, I did receive a QSL card from Radio Tashkent in there unique style, acknowledging their transmission on 9600 kHz.   Surely this must be the only QSL card verifying Radio Tashkent via Havana Cuba.
 
* Music of the World - 26:30
            Bulgaria: Mystery of Bulgarian Voices Choir
* Closing Announcement - 27:00
            Thanks for listening to "Wavescan", international DX program from Adventist World Radio
            Researched and written in Indianapolis
            Next week:-
                        1. Another Blast from the Past: The Biggest Aspidistra in the World
                        2. HFCC Bulgaria
                        3. Australian DX Report
                        4. Rare QSL
            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.  Remember too,                             you can send a reception report to each of the DX reporters when their segment is on                          the air here in Wavescan: Japan, Bangladesh, Philippines, Australia & India.  They will                             verify with a colorful QSL card.  Return postage and an address label are always                                            appreciated.   
            Wavescan address:-
                        Box 29235
                        Indianapolis
                        Indiana 46229 USA
            Wavescan @ AWR.org
            Jeff White, shortwave WRMI
 
* Music Outrun - 28:26
 
* Program Ends - 28:55