Two very important historic programs are scheduled for broadcast on
consecutive weekends in "Wavescan", the regular DX program from
Adventist World Radio. One program features a 60 year old
broadcast from an American radio station in New Zealand, and the other
features what is believed to be the world's first off-air recording
from an old wireless station in California, a recording that is more
than 90 years old..

Over in New Zealand, the noted radio historian, David Ricquish, was
performing a spate of research in the sound archives of Radio New
Zealand in the picturesque south island city of Christchurch, when he
came across a very significant piece of old radio history. He had
re-discovered the first, inaugural broadcast from the AFRS station 1ZM
in Auckland in the north island.. Originally, station 1ZM was a
privately owned commercial station that was subsequently taken over by
the government and then loaned out to AFRS, the American Forces Radio
Service, back in April 1944. The original recording from this station,
that was one of the famed "Mosquito Network" stations, is thought to be
the only example now in existence of an off air broadcast from an AFRS
station in the Pacific. This orginal recording was presented as a
major feature in the shortwave programming from Radio New Zealand
International, and RNZI has made it available for worldwide usage in
the AWR DX program, "Wavescan".

One week later, listeners to "Wavescan" will be able to hear an
off-air recording that is even older. Just recently, Glen Sage in
Portland, Oregon, uploaded an old Morse Code recording onto his
website. This website gives the content of the message which was
transmitted in the old original version of the Morse-Vail Code. A
further spate of research would seem to indicate that this recording.
on a cyclinder covered with tin foil. was made off-air from a Morse
Code broadcast that was transmitted from station TG in San Francisco
shortly before 3 pm on Monday July 4, in the year 1910.

The AFRS-1ZM broadcast in "Wavescan" is scheduled as follows:-
AWR worldwide network & associated stations - Sunday October
31
WRMI Miami 6870 kHz: Sat night 10:30 pm ET, 0230 UTC Sunday
Oct 31 UTC

WRMI Miami 6870 kHz: Sun night 11:00 pm ET, 0400 UTC Monday
Nov 1 UTC
NASB-RCI Sackville Canada in digital mode - Sat Oct 30, 11900
kHz

The 1910 radio broadcast in "Wavescan" is scheduled as follows:-
AWR worldwide network & associated stations - Sunday November 7
WRMI Miami 6870 kHz: Sat night 10:30 pm ET, 0230 UTC
Sunday Nov 7 UTC

WRMI Miami 6870 kHz: Sun night 11:00 pm ET, 0400 UTC Monday
Nov 8 UTC

Dr Adrian M. Peterson
DX Editor,
Adventist Wolrd Radio.

(Cumbre DX)