* At last! The
Results of Last Years Wavescan DX Contest
We here at the AWR DX program “Wavescan” take pleasure in announcing
today the list of winners for the big 2015 Annual DX Contest, “The World’s Most
Unusual DX Contest”. This contest took
place during the months of October and November, and all entries were received
at the Indianapolis address by the end of December. You will remember that our big 2015 DX
contest invited participants to provide information in five different areas:-
1. You were invited to design your own DX
contest in any way and in whatever form you choose.
2. You were invited to describe how
you have fulfilled the requirements of your own self-designed
DX contest.
3. Please list what you consider is
the best QSL that you have received since the 2014 DX contest?
4. Provide three reception reports for the
broadcast on shortwave, mediumwave or FM of any AWR programming in any part
of the world.
5. Where possible, provide three radio
cards for the Indianapolis Heritage Collection.
We are grateful again for the large
number of entries received this year from so many countries around the world,
and we appreciate the time consuming effort that so many listeners exerted in
preparing their excellent entries. As always, we note that many entries
were from new participants this year, and we are grateful also to those who
have entered on previous occasions during the past 40 years of contesting.
As in all previous contests, there
were many entries of particularly high quality, some even in a book style of
presentation. The QSL cards and color
copies of QSL cards are appreciated, and the story behind so many of these
interesting QSLs will be presented here in Wavescan over a long period of time,
one each week.
From a long list of entries, we have
chosen the following listeners to whom awards will be sent in due course.
Here
are the 2015 Continental Winners, each of whom will receive a copy of the 2016
edition of the “World Radio TV Handbook”:-
Continental
Winners
*
Africa Middle East Shaikh Jawahar Major City
Mid East Most precious QSLs
*
Asia Harumasa Yokoi Nagoya
Japan One day listening
*
Europe Rumen Pankov Sofia Bulgaria Countries
that jam
*
North America Andrew Lisowski Springfield VA USA Logging
continents
* South America Jose Roberto Cunha Jardim Perola Brazil Five
hard stations
* Pacific/Asian Islands Eddy
Probowo Jakarta Indonesia Multiple
reports
Among the many outstanding entries
in this year’s contest, neat, colorful and nicely prepared, we have chosen the following to receive
the Award of Merit:-
Award of Merit
* India Sheikh Shamim Trivandrum Focus on Time
* Israel David Crystal Gilboa Relations listener & station
* Ukraine Bondar Volodimir Frankivsk Monitoring different SW bands
* UAE Dr. Avinash Cheekoth Al
Ain Letters of Alphabet
* USA Patrick Hector Woodland First and last QSLs
And now, the name of the World
Winner in our big 2015
listener contest: “Design Your Own DX Contest”. This year’s winner presented a most unique procedure in order to
obtain a QSL card. He observed that some
of the longwave chronohertz stations emit a signal that can be received by a
specific type of clock, an Atomic Clock, if you please. The signal from the radio station adjusts the readout
of the time on the clock. He will
receive a book of his choice, one of the authoritative volumes on shortwave
history written by the noted radio historian Jerome Berg of suburban Boston in
the United States.
World Winner
The
World Winner for 2015
is:- Mikio Kohara
of Osaka in Japan
We might also add that the entry
from Jose Roberto da Silva Cunha in Jardim Perola, Brazil, as mentioned above
as the Continental Winner for South America, was judged to be a close runner up
in second place in this year’s contest,
due to his splendid, colorful and neat presentation.
Once again, we acknowledge with
appreciation the many entries in this year’s 2015 Design Your Own DX Contest. Thank you for participating, and we trust
that you enjoyed participating as much as we did in perusing all of your
interesting entries. All entries will be
acknowledged through the post, and all reception reports will be verified,
though it will take time, well into this New Year 2016, to process them all.
We invite you to enter our 2016 DX Contest, which will run during the month of August. This will be the final Wavescan DX contest,
and you are invited to make a list of your QSL cards from Adventist World
Radio, one for each shortwave transmitter site.
How many AWR shortwave sites have you verified? You will be given a temporary postal address
for our 2016 DX contest in due course.
Full details will be announced quite soon.
