Japan Shortwave Club(JSWC) 70th anniversary special program via HCJB Australia

Japan Shortwave Club(JSWC) celebrated 70th anniversary this year 2022. In July 1952, just after Japan gained independence again by San Francisco Peace Conference, students Tohoku University in Sendai founded the club, and published the first edition of "SW DX Guide" (8 pages, all in English) by mimeograph printing. 

The first forward was given by Mr.O.Lund Johansen, the publisher and the editor of World Radio Handbook of the days, as "My heartiest congratulation to Japan Shortwave Club. I hope the World Radio Handbook will be of value to each of the members in their world listening, and in this way contribute to best possible understanding between the Japanese people and the pop peoples of other countries". Also "Asora DX Club" in Germany sent the celebrating message. Annual membership fee was only 300 yen for domestic and 80 cents for foreign members!

To celebrate 70th anniversary special talk about the history of JSWC between Toshimichi Ohtake, club member since 1953 and Takahito Akabayashi, since 1966, in Japanese will be on air on December 17 ("BCL Day" in Japan, celebrating the birthday of legendary BCL late Koji Yamada 1940-2008 who was also a member of JSWC) and 18 by Reach Beyond Australia "HCJB Japanese" (Kununura 75kW 5deg).

Part 1 December 16 2230-2300 15420 repeated December 17 1100-1130 11905

Part 2 December 17 2230-2300 15420 repeated December 18 1100-1130 11905

Special eQSL, woodprint by member artist Hiroyoki Ogawasara, will be issued by JSWC for the reception reports, address <jswc70qsl @ gmail.com>.

(Takahito Akabayashi, Tokyo, Japan via WOR)

 

Special QSL for JSWC 70th Anniversary special program via AWR

Japan Shortwave Club will issue a special QSL card for the JSWC segment broadcasted in AWR Wavescan program aired on 11th Dec'22 (Date may vary, please check)). JSWC will have a special program commemorating the 70th anniversary in addition to the regular Japan DX report.

JSWC CELEBRATES 60TH ANNIVERSARY

                                                             .....................JSWC MEMBERS AT TOKYO HAM FAIR 2012

                                   ........................... JSWC MEMBERS AT 60TH ANNIVERSARY PARTY

 

Tokyo HAM Fair 2012.

This annual event is to be held on 25th and 26th of August at Tokyo Big Site. JSWC will open our own booth to promote short wave radio listening. Our booth number is J-45. We will have a special lecture during the Fair. The topic to be presented is radio world topics in the past 10 years by Mr. Akabayashi, an administrator of Gekkan Tampa, a popular monthly short wave news on the web.

This year is our club's 60th anniversary, so we will have a big celebration party at Hotel Sun Route Ariake in the evening of 25th during the HAM Fair. We anticipate many club members and foreign broadcasters to join the party.

We are also planning to print the booklet titled JSWC's 60th Years in Japanese to cover 10-year activities of the club and various radio topics in the past 10 years, as we did for our 50th anniversary book, which covered 50-year activities. Both 50th anniversary and 60th anniversary books will also be published in CD format at this occasion. These are only in Japanese.

Special radio programs celebrating 60th anniversary are in progress. During the month of July, HCJB Japanese Service aired 3 special programs, and KBS World Radio aired a special program on 17th of July. All of these programs were in Japanese. We are planning to broadcast a special English program sometime this fall, and the schedule will be announced when the detail is defined. A special QSL card will be issued.

Toshi Ohtake

Japan Short Wave Club

JSWC, P.O.Box 44, Kamakura 248-8691, Japan.

 

(Photo's courtesy Mr.Toshi Ohtake)