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Opening Announcement - 00:00
Welcome to “Wavescan”,
international DX program from Adventist World Radio
Researched and written in
Indianapolis, produced on cruise ship, Nassau Bahamas
Program outline
1.
NASB Anniversary
2.
Publication Review: WRTVHB 2015
3. Japan
DX Report
4. Special QSL of the
Week SQOTW26: Low Power on Tropical Shortwave
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Theme Music - 00:27
Bahamas: Local music
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NASB Anniversary - 01:09
Jeff White
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Tourism - 05:03
Nassau, Bahamas
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Music of the World - 06:17
Bahamas: Instrumental & vocal
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Publication Review: WRTVHB 2015 - 08:54
The
new 2015 edition of the World Radio TV Handbook again lives up to its high reputation
with excellence in printing, detailed current information about radio
broadcasting on every country throughout the world all 240 of them, a series of
atlas maps in color, interesting and illustrated feature articles, and of
course, advertising that presents the latest in the radio world. This new publication contains the same number
of pages as last year, 672, and a list of worldwide contributors shows so many
well known names, international radio monitors who stand high in the radio
world.
Early
in this new edition is a bio and photo of Mauno Ritolo in Finland who is listed
as the Schedule and Web Editor. This
item is followed by articles describing the latest radio receivers and
associated equipment.
David Porter in England gives us the
70 year story of the BBC Woofferton with pictures in color; Max van Arnhem in
Holland ponders the future of DXing; and David Foster in Australia visits the
radio station on Lord Howe Island in the South Pacific. The 13 pages of maps in high gloss color seem
to be the same as in the previous 2014 edition.
However, beginning on age 66 and
following on for another more than 400 pages, each country is listed in the
same familiar style, with the latest information about all mediumwave, FM and
shortwave stations in all countries throughout the world, each listed in
alphabetic order. The first country in
this listing is Afghanistan, and shown are the current mediumwave and FM
stations in this tragic wartorn country.
Surprisingly, Alaska is on the air
with nearly 50 mediumwave stations and a host of FM stations. There are a dozen local stations on the air
in Antarctica; and it takes 33 pages of print to list all of the mediumwave and
FM stations in Brazil. Apparently the
low power local FM station on Pitcairn Island in the lonely central Pacific is
now inactive. However, the maritime
station in Monaco 3AC with its daily weather broadcast on shortwave is indeed
shown. This station, with its brief
daily broadcast, will verify with a QSL card.
Also listed is 8 pages of detailed
information about clandestine shortwave broadcasting stations; and also shown
are all of the chronohertz stations with their time pips and callsigns. Another listing presents all of the active DX
clubs throughout the world.
All shortwave broadcasting stations
throughout the world are listed according to frequency, and this makes for
quick identification of an unknown station you are hearing on your radio
receiver.
As always, the latest edition of the
World Radio TV Handbook is a must for every serious international radio
monitor. Those who are casual listeners,
and those expatriates who want to hear news and music from home, will also find
this 2015 edition of the annual volume to be of inestimable value.
Thus, the 2015 edition of the superb
World Radio TV Handbook will find its place besides the shortwave receiver on
the monitoring desk of a multitude of international radio monitors throughout
the world. Our copies come to us from
Universal Radio in Reynoldsburg Ohio, and their full page advertisement in
color is found on age 21.
We might add, that all 69 editions
of the World Radio TV Handbook, from 1947 to the present time, are neatly
arranged in two rows of book shelves in the AWR Office in Indianapolis.
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Bandscan -12:43
Jeff White: Nassau, Bahamas
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Japan DX Report - 18:56
Yukiko
Tsuji
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Special QSL of the Week SQOTW26: Low Power on Tropical Shortwave
- 24:27
According to international radio
monitor Bruce White, who lives on a farm near Karoonda in South Australia, the
signal from the low power chronohertz station CHU near Ottawa in Canada seldom
reaches so far “downunder”. However, on September 16, 2010, Bruce heard
the 3 kW CHU, with its time ticks and announcements in English and French, on
his Tecsun 2000 radio receiver. This
receiver is equivalent to the Grundig 350.
In due course, Bruce received their
standard QSL card which features Sandford Fleming and the presentation of his
concept for new international time zones.
An accompanying letter from CHU expressed surprise that this tropical
band outlet on 3330 kHz should be heard at such a great distance.
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Music of the World - 25:20
Bahamas: Steel Drum
Orchestra
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Closing Announcement - 25:32
Thanks for listening to “Wavescan”,
international DX program from Adventist World Radio
Researched and written in
Indianapolis
Next week:-
1.
Tribute to Shortwave WYFR - 14: The Okeechobee Story
2.
Australian Shortwave Callsigns VLB
3.
Philippine DX Report
4. Special QSL of the
Week SQOTW27:
Trial Broadcasts for international Emergencies
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 their own 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
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Music Outrun - 27:17
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Program Ends - 28:55
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1. SQOTW28: Special QSL of the Week
Progressive Topics
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No Call
Location Land IRM
kHz (k)W
Year Date Significance QSL NWS ——————————————————————————————————————————————————
001
7LA Launceston Tasmania AMP 1100 .1 1961 Nov 6 Emergency
transmitter C 282
002
RA Kabul
Afghanistan AMP 96.1 .01 1971
Jul 4 Experimental FM C 284
003
VOA Poro Philippines AMP 15000 LP 1984 Feb 19 Malfunctioning
exciter L 286
004
TTY Perth Australia AMP
1130 .2 1966 Jun 24 6NM
transmitter to 6ED DIYC 287
005
ICPA Kabul Afghanistan AMP 102.8 ½ 1972
Aug 27 Hotel Intercontinental DIYC 289
006
KSFO Frisco California AMP
560 5 1989
Oct 18 Temporary after
earthquake C 290
007
RM
Havana Cuba AMP 9600 100 1982
Feb 3 Relay Radio Tashkent C
291 008 NILB Central Pacific PH
10800 LP 1968 Dec 23 Apollo
Recovery, 1,000 SW L 292
009
AWR Ekala Sri
Lanka CG 11800 100 1981
Feb 21 Test broadcasts Africa &
ME C 293
010
PJC Willemstad Curacao PH
8694
1 1969 Jan 9 Morse
loop C
294
011
AFRTS Adana Turkey
AMP 1590 .01 1980
Mar 24 Plane, WL in ft DIYC 295
012
AWR Sines Portugal TD 9670
250 1977 Aug 26 Self-designed AWR card C 296
013
VoM Honhor Mongolia CL 12085
250 2012 Sep 14 Lived in Ulaan Baatar L&C 297
014
CRI Beijing China UQ
21660 2005 Sep 19 Firedrake
jammer C 298
015
RM Russia
AMP 11875 1984 May 2 Russian
jammer, BBC ARS? C 299
016
NBC Pt Moresby New Guinea VL 4890
35 2006 Mar 18 Reduced power C 300
017
RM
Murmansk Russia JB
5930 5 1979
Jan 13 Long wait DIYC & L
301 018 RM P’zavodsk Russia JB
5065 5 1979 Jan 21 Long wait DIYC & L
302
019
VLU2 Christmas Is Indian O. AMP
1420 .5 1977 Aug 23 Tried many
locations DIYC & L
303 020 XMX Christmas Is Indian O. AMP
341 .1 1977 Aug 28 Airplane
reception DIYC 304 021
AIR Pt Blair Andamans JJ 1440
1 1992 Nov 12 Emergency transmission L 305 022
ABC Shepparton Australia TA 6080 100 2011
Feb 4 Emergency transmission C
306 023 ORTB Benin
CO SW 1985 Sep 20 Hard
to hear, difficult to QSL C 307 024
WQTC Bryan USA-OH AMP
1520 .5 1986
Jul 17 Two words, Bryan Radio DIYC
308
025
AIR
Bangalore India
MKP 9690 500 2014
Feb 28 Memory of 1st radio
broadcast C 309 026
CHU Ottawa Canada BW 3330
3 2010 Sep 16 Low power TSW
C&L 310
027
SW
11 Sites Asia
TA 2 SW
2014 Jun 5 IRDR Trial Broadcasts
C 311
028
TMR Rogaland Norway TD 6210 1970
Jul 8 Jamming against RNI P 312
029
NBC Pt Moresby New Guinea JJ 3925 10 1976
Oct 25 1st report from
India C 313 030 VOA Hawaii
AMP 314
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2. SQOTW28: Special QSL of the Week
Alphabetic Listing
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Title Call City Country IRM City
Country NWS ——————————————————————————————————————————————————
Airplane
Monitoring AFRS Adana Turkey AMP Airplane Turkey
295
XMX Christmas Is Indian Ocean AMP Airplane Indian Ocean 304
Apollo
Recovery NILB USS Arlington Pacific PH Woodland H USA-CA 292
Demonstration
Transmitter TTY Perth W
Australia AMP Perth Australia 287
Difficult to hear ORTB Benin CO Norrkoping Sweden
307 Earthquake Emergency KSFO San Francisco USA AMP Eugene USA-OR 290
Emergency
Transmitter 7LA Launceston Tasmania AMP Launceston Tasmania 282
AIR Port Blair Andaman Is JJ Hyderabad India 305
ABC Shepparton Australia TA Depok
Indonesia 306 Experimental FM RA Kabul Afghanistan AMP Kabul
Afghanistan 284
First
Report: India NBC Port Moresby New Guinea JJ India 313 Jammer:
Firedrake CRI Beijing China UQ-S Norrkoping Sweden
298
Rogaland TMR Rogaland Norway TD Rosrath
Germany 312
Russian RM Russia AMP Poona India 299
Listener
Designed QSL Card AWR Sines Portugal TD Rosrath
Germany 296
Long
Wait: 11 Years XMX Christmas Is Indian Ocean AMP Airplane Indian Ocean 304
23 Years RM Murmansk Russia JB Lexington USA-MA 301
23 years RM Petrozavodsk Russia JB Lexington USA-MA 302
Low
Power CHU Ottawa Canada BW Karoonda S Australia 310
Malfunctioning
Exciter VOA Poro Philippines AMP Lahore
Pakistan 286
Many
Locations VLU2 Christmas Is Indian
Ocean AMP Carnarvon
Australia 303
Memories:
Letter from Home VOM Honhor Mongolia CL Bloomington USA-IN
297
1st Radio Broadcast AIR Bangalore India MKP Kerala India 309
Morse
Code Loop PJC Willemstad Curacao PH Woodland
H USA-CA 294
Reduced Power NBC Pt Moresby New
Guinea VL Naples USA-FL 300
Short
Reception Report WQTC Bryan USA-OH AMP Marion
USA-IN 308
Tashkent
Relay RM Havana Cuba AMP Berrien S USA-MI
291 Test Broadcasts AWR Ekala Sri
Lanka CG Nice France 293
IRDR 11 sites Asia TA Depok Indonesia 311
Translation
Transmitter ICPA Kabul Afghanistan AMP Kabul
Afghanistan 289
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