{"id":13671,"date":"2015-06-17T21:32:06","date_gmt":"2015-06-18T01:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=13671"},"modified":"2015-06-18T07:54:56","modified_gmt":"2015-06-18T11:54:56","slug":"today-test-transmission-for-sundays-antarctic-midwinter-broadcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/today-test-transmission-for-sundays-antarctic-midwinter-broadcast\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday: transmission tests for Sunday&#8217;s Antarctic Midwinter Broadcast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/1024px-Antarctica_6400px_from_Blue_Marble.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13662\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/1024px-Antarctica_6400px_from_Blue_Marble.jpg\" alt=\"1024px-Antarctica_6400px_from_Blue_Marble\" width=\"650\" height=\"275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/1024px-Antarctica_6400px_from_Blue_Marble.jpg 650w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/1024px-Antarctica_6400px_from_Blue_Marble-300x127.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, <a href=\"http:\/\/medxr.blogspot.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rob Wagner<\/a>, who reports:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>HFCC is now listing a test transmission (as the BBC usually does) before the official Antarctic broadcast. The test will be held on <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1986041757\"><span class=\"aQJ\">Friday June 19<\/span><\/span> at 2130-2145 UTC. All frequencies listed [below]\u00a0will be tested INCLUDING the 7425 Ascension outlet! Tests usually consist of a simple feed to BBC WS English programming.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>7,425 kHz, Ascension, 207 degrees<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>5,985 kHz, Woofferton, 184 degrees<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>9,590 kHz, Woofferton, 182 degrees<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>5,905 kHz, Dhabayya, 203 degrees<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What&#8217;s interesting about this is that 7425 wasn&#8217;t listed in the finally three freqs chosen for the broadcast, but they are including it in the test! Sounds like they are having &#8220;an each-way bet&#8221; (as we say in Australia) &#8211; 7425 may still possibly be used as a backup for the actual broadcast on <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1986041758\"><span class=\"aQJ\">June 21<\/span><\/span>.\u00a0 Cheers, Rob VK3BVW<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Many thanks, Rob! \u00a0These test broadcasts will give us a good idea which frequencies to focus on during the official broadcast on June 21, 2015. \u00a0I&#8217;ll be listening Friday\u00a0at 2130 UTC!<\/p>\n<p>[<strong>Update:<\/strong> Note that I originally noted the broadcast time as Thursday in the title of this post. Apologies! I&#8217;ve since made this correction. The test broadcast is Friday night (June 19, 2015).]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Rob Wagner, who reports: HFCC is now listing a test transmission (as the BBC usually does) before the official Antarctic broadcast. The test will be held on Friday June 19 at 2130-2145 UTC. All frequencies listed [below]\u00a0will be tested INCLUDING the 7425 Ascension outlet! Tests usually consist of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[81,960,3,43],"tags":[3892,419,3919,327,420,1998],"class_list":["post-13671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","category-international-broadcasting","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","tag-antarctic-midwinter-broadcast","tag-antarctica","tag-bbc-antarctic-midwinter-broadcast-test-broadcasts","tag-bbc-world-service","tag-bbc-ws","tag-british-antarctic-survey-team"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-3yv","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13687,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/correction-antarctic-midwinter-broadcast-transmission-tests-take-place-on-friday\/","url_meta":{"origin":13671,"position":0},"title":"Correction: Antarctic Midwinter Broadcast transmission tests take place on Friday","author":"Thomas","date":"June 18, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"In the title of my last post, I noticed that I've incorrectly stated that the Friday, June 19 BBC\u00a0Antarctic Midwinter Broadcast tests were to take\u00a0place \"today.\"\u00a0While the post content was correct, the date in this title\u00a0was not. \u00a0My apologies for the mix-up--I've since corrected and noted this in the original\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Broadcasters&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Broadcasters","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/broadcasters\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"SX-99-Dial","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/SX-99-Dial-1024x192.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/SX-99-Dial-1024x192.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/SX-99-Dial-1024x192.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":13653,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/2015-bbc-antarctic-midwinter-broadcast-frequencies-confirmed\/","url_meta":{"origin":13671,"position":1},"title":"2015 BBC Antarctic Midwinter Broadcast frequencies confirmed","author":"Thomas","date":"June 16, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Stephen Cooper, who has confirmed the frequencies that will be used for the 2015 BBC Antarctic Midwinter Broadcast on June 21 at 21:30 UTC. Again,\u00a0this year, I\u2019m calling on all SWLing Post readers and shortwave radio listeners to make a short recording (say, 30-60\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Broadcasters&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Broadcasters","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/broadcasters\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"800px-Antarctica.svg","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/800px-Antarctica.svg_.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/800px-Antarctica.svg_.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/800px-Antarctica.svg_.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":13713,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/reminder-help-record-the-2015-bbc-antarctic-midwinter-broadcast-today\/","url_meta":{"origin":13671,"position":2},"title":"Reminder: Help record the 2015 BBC Antarctic Midwinter Broadcast today!","author":"Thomas","date":"June 21, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"As a reminder:\u00a0I\u2019m calling on all SWLing Post\u00a0readers and shortwave radio listeners to make a short recording (say, 30-60 seconds) of the BBC Antarctic Midwinter Broadcast and share it\u00a0here at the Post (frequencies and time below). The recording can be audio-only, or even a video taken from any recording device\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Broadcasters&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Broadcasters","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/broadcasters\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"800px-Antarctica.svg","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/800px-Antarctica.svg_.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/800px-Antarctica.svg_.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/800px-Antarctica.svg_.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":19403,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/today-test-transmission-for-the-bbc-midwinter-antarctic-broadcast\/","url_meta":{"origin":13671,"position":3},"title":"Today: Test transmission for the BBC Midwinter Antarctic Broadcast","author":"Thomas","date":"June 14, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"(Source: Dan Ferguson via Mauno Ritola on the WRTH Facebook group) Babcock has tests today, June 14, at 2130-2145, to Antarctica on 5985 (Woofferton), 6035 (Dhabayya), 7360 (Ascension), and 9720 (Woofferton). 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I didn't get their tips in time to post prior to the transmissions yesterday, however, Mauno believes there may\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Broadcasters&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Broadcasters","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/broadcasters\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Antarctica-Rothera-Research-Station-BAS-1024x319.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Antarctica-Rothera-Research-Station-BAS-1024x319.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Antarctica-Rothera-Research-Station-BAS-1024x319.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":49289,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/possible-frequencies-for-the-2021-bbc-midwinter-broadcast\/","url_meta":{"origin":13671,"position":5},"title":"Possible frequencies for the 2021 BBC Midwinter Broadcast","author":"Thomas","date":"June 16, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Click here to read an update to this post (17 June 2021). 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