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aq?n.9urgp9..n9w F A I T H Volume 9,

C O M E S No. 2

B Y

H E A R I N G

AWR,C,P.2590,

R O M A N S

L i s b o n 1 1 1 - 4 ,P o r t u g a l

1 0 : 1 7 Winter

1979

BADIO ATIIDOBBA Andorre-la-Vi ei l-Le. With the booms of sky rocketing fireworks bursting outside the studio window, clearly audible o v e r f , n e m l c r o p n o n e , A w K - L U K U r ts r l r s c ever live broadcast began over RADI0 ANDORM INTERNATIONAL. It was 2000 GIIT (10:00 prn local Andorra tftne), Saturday night, September I, 1979. A hundred thousand or nore visitors had come to assist the 30,000 native Andorrans celebrale their national in gent)-e holiday. Al1-day festivities warm breezes under deep blue skies wete drawing to a c1ose. The elimax of the day was a dazzling fireworks dispia6 and extra loud, as each explocolorful ding bornb echoed and reechoed through the canyons of the valley. But few of the fes tivity-makers were aware of another important event taking place at that samemoment... one that indeed most historians wiLL l-ikely Eake little note of.,. two very signi" f i r s t s ", a s A W R - E U R o PbEy t h e ficant grace of GODprogresses with the share of the gospel conrnission (Matthew 24:14) assigned to it. This was the first of a series of AWRtest transrnissions on ttris small but mighty station nestled away in the Pyrenees mountains. The purpose is to see how well it can be heard in Europe, as compared with other, far more powerful facilities A W Ru s e s i n P o r t u g a l , M a l t a and Luxembourg. operating with only 3 kilowatts power, RADIo ANDORM transmitter INTERNATIONALis perhaps the lo\dest power shortwave station in EuRoPE.Its simple antenna, a 3 element horizontal strung co-linear with a single reflector, just above tree top level, surrounded causes one by towering mountain cliffs' t o \ n T o n d eirf t h e s t a t i o n c o u l d b e h e a r d beyond this tiny country's boarders.

But, indeed, it is, not only in its primary target area of Northern France, Belgium, Holland and Great Britain, but most everywhere else in Europe. The station frequency receives signal reports from as far away as the Americas. Iloht could that be , you ask, r,r'ith such 1ow power and modest antenna? Aside from good engineering, an important reason is the choice of frequency. At 6215 Kilohertz, the station operates just outside the normal lirnits of the 49 mdtre band, on a relatively clear channel, and away from the dozens of super-power giant br€€d€€€t€fs .ratsich compete to be trcard within our modern day shortlrave broadcasting bands. So, a big thank you to all of you who have sent in reception reports. These favorable reports have made it possible to expand the number of hours f,or the tests and also to extend the testing period. Can YOU help us evaluate this new opportunity? Let us know the conditions of reeeption. N E W S . .N E W S . . . N E W S , . . AWRhelped build the first Ira.lian Adventist FM radio network station in Florence. The station went on the air Saturday, December 1, 1979. 101 mHz.

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