ROME, 9th yuly 1995 Dear listener as you well know, this year is the centenary of Radio's birth. It was 1895 when Guglielmo Marconi proved the validity of his theories and he invented a thing become, in the next years till now, the basis for mass-communication. Radio's main purpose is to favour the communication among men and people in spite of its many modern variants. Even in the hateful use of this instrument for the sake of war, its purpose is communicating (maybe the results of an observation realised by the same radio-waves). In 1887, eight years before Marconi's invention, another important man, Ludwig Lazar Zamenhof, tried to favour the communication among people. Zamenhof was a polish doctor and the result of this efforts is called "Esperanto". It isn't mere chance that Radio and Esperanto go often together. They complete each other, infact Radio pulls down the geographical barriers while Esperanto the linguistic ones. Which best opportunity, therefore, to stimulate listeners in an aimed hearing of programs broadcasted in Esperanto? For this reason we istitued the first award "Guglielmo Marconi speaks Esperanto". We enclose its statute. You will find a list of frequency and timetables concerning Esperanto programsand also a listening report in Esperanto . You can use it to ask confirmations to the broadcasting stations. All the programs that you will find in the list are controlled to check the validity of your report. We hope warmly in your active participation. Yours faithfully Radioanchio RANCH Group Organizing commetee for the RANCH Group: Maria Jesus Santos, SWL 3957/RM Marcello Casali, IW0FGZ Claudio de Filippis, I0-5570/RM Sergio Ciattaglia For informations you can contact: Marcello Casali fax: +39/06/49914320-24h Internet E-Mail: mc4868@mclink.it Sergio Ciattaglia fax: +39/06/9306873 Gruppo RANCH Radioanchio - SWL & BCL Group - Roma