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From the studios of Adventist World Radio, Welcome to the 500^th edition of Wavescan.

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Our programme for shortwave listeners and radio hobbyists from around the world.   I’m ___________ (Host 1).

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And I’m ____________ (Host 2).

Bring music up and then down. 

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In today’s edition of Wavescan – we talk to the man behind the show – DR Adrian Peterson.

Travelogue

We travel back in time to visit the original AWR studios in Lisbon, Portugal

Feature

we celebrate the origins of the DX hobby as we look back at the beginnings of radio.

 DX report

And with DX reports from Japan and North America, we have a full programme.

PAUSE HERE  . . .  with music fade in.

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 ‘Wavescan” has been on the air now for close on ten years.  The first edition of “Wavescan” was aired over the AWR network and several additional radio stations on January 1, 1995,and this week, we are celebrating our 500th edition.

          To mark this significant occasion, we invite reception reports and each will be verified with a special endorsement honoring our 500th edition.  All reports should be sent to our postal address in London.

AWR DX expert, Dr Adrian Peterson, has written all of the scripts for these 500 editions of “Wavescan”, and in fact, he also wrote more than 500 scripts for the earlier AWR DX program, “Radio Monitors International”, that was broadcast on shortwave, mediumwave and FM by the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation in Colombo back in the 1970s & 1980s.

But what makes Adrian tick?  A question I put to him on the phone to him in his home in Indianapolis, USA.

Play Wavescan topic:  Interview with AMP

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You’re listening to Wavescan and if you’d like to write or comment on any of the issues arising in today’s programme, Our address is,  AWR, 39 Brendon St . . .   Or e-mail letters@awr.org.  Those details again at the end of the programme.

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With an anniversary edtion of Wavescan, we want to go back in the archives and relive an interview from August 1, 1999.  Ray and I were in Lisbon, Portugal, along with a good part of the AWR team. 

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We both have good memories of Portugal -- and particualy the original AWR offices in Rua Braamcamp -- near the Edward the VIIth park.  That ' s where we both started working for AWR.  It ' s also where AWR had its origins. 

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In this interview I ' m talking with Allen & Andrea Steele, the very first managers of AWR who, with vision and courage, started the whole project in 1971, and also with Manuel Viera, one of the Portuguese staff at the time.  So, now, just imagine yourself standing outside the ancient, 6 story building, in Lisbon, Portugal, as we take a journey back in time.

Play Travelogue: 2115:AWR history - Portugal:

IN: start in with traffic noise and then Victor "You learn ' t your Portugese here . . .

OUT: . . .  For talking with us.

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Fond memories there looking back at the early years of AWR when it ' s primary aim was to broadcast across the "iron curtain" in the former communist states of Eastern Europe and the USSR.

Things have changed a lot since then -- both with politics and geography -- and also with the growth of AWR as a broacaster.  Programmes such as Wavescan are now heard in many parts of the world – and are also available on the Internet.

P A U S E    H E R E    P L E A S E

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Let’s go to our DX reports and then we’ll have more – looking back over 100 years at the origins of Long Distance radio.  Our first report today is from the Far east with the Japan Short Wave Club.

DX Report

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And our thanks to the Japan shortwave club – and I’m delighted to say I will be with them at the Japan Ham Radio Fair in just a few weeks time in Tokyo – and we’ll bring you a report from there in September.

Now to the North American DX Report - Dr Floyd Layer, Terre Haute, (TE-ra HOTE)                      Indiana

          In recent months, Dr Layer has been concentrating on reception reports and QSL cards, and he is increasing his collection of historic and current QSLs at a rapid rate.  He reports that he recently sent two reception reports to Radio Free Asia and both were verified with their new card featuring the Dalai Lama.

          Dr Layer has also received two QSL cards from Radio Australia and these verify the reception of their satellite relay via WRN, the World Radio Network, as heard over Radio Miami International station WRMI in Miami Florida.  These two cards show the Radio Australia studio building in Melbourne, but they are a new printing with a different style of QSL text on the reverse side.  He heard the Radio Australia relay at 0800 UTC on 7385 kHz and at 2230 UTC on 15725 kHz.

          Two QSLs have come in from Radio Albania and these show costumed local dancers.  Floyd heard Radio Albania on 6115 from their transmitter base at Cerrik (SE-RICK) and on 7130 kHz from Shijak (SHE-JACK).  The usual QSL card from Radio Slovakia International shows their famous upside down studio building and it honors their 10th anniversary.  Dr Layer’s report was for the frequency 5930 kHz. from Rimavska Sobota.

          The Voice of Russia confirmed their WRN relay via WRMI with a picture card showing a scene in St Petersburg; and Radio Netherlands confirmed with card number 8 in their current series, showing a stream running through a field.

          Dr Layer has also heard the three broadcasts from the Seventh-day Adventist Church that are on the air from station KTBN in Salt Lake City.  These programs are heard on KTBN 15590 kHz as follows:-

                   Tuesday at 1530 UTC

                   Wednesday & Thursday at 1630 UTC.

          A final radio item from Dr Floyd Layer in Terre Haute, Indiana, is a newspaper item from his local newspaper, the “Tribune Star”.  This news item shows pictures and tells the story of how the antenna system at the local mediumwave station WBOW was felled by a thief.  As the newspaper states, a19 year old young man broke into the lonely transmitter building at station WBOW and stole the air conditioning unit.  As he was preparing to drive out, he accidentally backed into a guy wire that was supporting the radio tower and the tower fell.  In a panic, he abandoned his pick-up truck nearby and the police were easily able to locate him and apprehend him.

          Radio station WBOW is licensed for 1 kW on 1300 kHz and they are now operating at just 100 watts until their antenna system can be reinstalled.    

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Your listening to WAVESCAN – and a specially endorsed QSL card is available for this, the 500^th edition of the programme.  Send your reception reports and comments to AWR 39 Brendon St, London, W1 England – or email letters@awr.org.  Those details again at the end of the programme.

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But first, we look back one hunded and three yeas to December 12, 1901, the first transatlantic radio signal was send across the Altantic from Englands West coast to Newfoundland.   It was an event we had to cover back in 2001 – and in this anniversary edition, we bring you the story again – so over to Victor – not in our comfortable studio – but in the wind and drizzle below the granite Marconi Monument at Poldhu, Cornwall.

Play Feature 927: Marconi Centenary:

IN:  (FX sea and wind)  I ' m standing on a cliff top . . .

OUT: . . .  This is Victor Hulbert reporting. (FX Sea and Morse code CQ)

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And that report celebrating Marconi ' s great acheivement on December 12, 1901 was made in collaberation with Newfoundlands Christian Radio Station, VOAR  and was first broadcast in December, 2001.

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And that brings us to an end of this week’s edition of Wavescan – a production of Adventist World Radio.  But remember there is a special QSL endorsement for THIS EDITION ONLY.  If you want a Wavescan 500^th edition QSL then send your reception report with CORRECT programme details to AWR, 39 Brendon St, London, W1, England, or e-mail us at letters@awr.org.  

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That’s also the address for your Bible questions or free Bible Guides:  AWR, 39 Brendon St, London, W1, England, or e-mail us at letters@awr.org.  

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Next week we take you to another AWR memory as we share the story of Radio Andorra – a small station in a small country,

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We’ll also have DX reports from Europe nd Australia.

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Wavescan is written and produced by Adrian Peterson and Ariel McLeggon.  You can find it on the web at:  english.awr.org/Wavescan.  But, from this 500^th edition of Wavescan, I’m . . . (Me)

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. . . and I’m . . .  (You) God bless, good DX and Thanks for joining us.