Wavescan Tribute to SLBC Ekala Relay Station

Photo Curtsy: Mr. Victor Goonetilleke 

AWR Weekly DX program Wavescan gave its tribute to historic SLBC Ekala Relay station which was closed down recently. A special edition of the AWR DX program, "Wavescan" that honors the closure of the Ekala Shortwave Station in Sri Lanka. The Seventh-day Adventist denomination made its first broadcast from the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation back in 1951, on the very first day of what was the new SLBC Commercial Service on shortwave. Over the years, these initial radio broadcasts blossomed into Adventist World in Asia, AWR-Asia, and the programming of Adventist World Radio is still on the air shortwave from the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation, though these days from the ex-Deutsche Welle Relay Station located near Trincomalee on the east coast of the island of Sri Lanka. 


Without a specific announcement, SLBC closed their historic Ekala station on the last day of May and they transferred their international programming to the station at Trincomalee. To honor the long and illustrious history of the Ekala Shortwave Station, the AWR DX program "Wavescan" has aired a special edition under the old title, "Radio Monitors International" and this was broadcast on 9th June 2013 and during the following days that week. These days, "Wavescan" is researched and written in Indianapolis by the AWR DX Editor, Dr. Adrian Peterson, and it is produced in the studios of shortwave station WRMI by Jeff White, who is noted also for his key roles with NASB, the National Association of Shortwave Broadcasters in the United States. The AWR international DX program "Wavescan" is on the air from stations in the AWR network, and also from WRMI, WWCR & WINB in the United States, and from Spaceline in Bulgaria.


The old Ekala Radio Station is of such significance in the long history of international radio broadcasting that the well known International Radio Monitor in Colombo Sri Lanka, Victor Goonetilleke, is campaigning widely to have the site recognized as an International Heritage Site.

Indian DX Report- which is now a part of Wavescan is presenting the following SW realtime recording of this special edition of Wavescan under its historic title "Radio Monitors International". 

Please visit the link below to listen the recording:- 

https://www.box.com/s/jxqweddatqj7ijq2xc0a

73s.