{"id":16185,"date":"2015-12-14T08:00:10","date_gmt":"2015-12-14T12:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=16185"},"modified":"2015-12-14T08:00:10","modified_gmt":"2015-12-14T12:00:10","slug":"video-the-skelton-hf-transmitting-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/video-the-skelton-hf-transmitting-station\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: The Skelton HF Transmitting Station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/criticaldistance.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jonathan Marks<\/a>, who shares\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zJ49Ru1uPKo\" target=\"_blank\">this short video<\/a> about the history of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Skelton_Transmitting_Station\" target=\"_blank\">Skelton HF Transmitting Station<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zJ49Ru1uPKo?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to Jonathan Marks, who shares\u00a0this short video about the history of the Skelton HF Transmitting Station:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"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":[960,3,288,43,304],"tags":[2937,4091,4519,4520,4093,676],"class_list":["post-16185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-broadcasting","category-news","category-radio-history","category-shortwave-radio","category-videos","tag-bbc-wwii","tag-radio-history","tag-skelton-hf-transmitting-station","tag-skelton-hf-transmitting-station-history","tag-videos","tag-wwii"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-4d3","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":43224,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/example-of-a-manual-wavechange-at-bbc-skelton-a-transmitter\/","url_meta":{"origin":16185,"position":0},"title":"Example of a manual wavechange at BBC Skelton A Transmitter","author":"Thomas","date":"May 8, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Dave Porter (G4OYX), who shares the following: Here's Steve Gale in the late 80's or early 90's starting a wavechange on a Marconi BD272 250 kW sender at SKA. 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