{"id":23125,"date":"2017-01-03T08:59:06","date_gmt":"2017-01-03T12:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=23125"},"modified":"2017-01-03T08:59:18","modified_gmt":"2017-01-03T12:59:18","slug":"seeking-off-air-recording-of-2009-bbc-midwinter-broadcast-to-antarctica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/seeking-off-air-recording-of-2009-bbc-midwinter-broadcast-to-antarctica\/","title":{"rendered":"Seeking off-air recording of 2009 BBC Midwinter Broadcast to Antarctica"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_23126\" style=\"width: 635px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Antarctica-Rothera-Research-Station-BAS-e1483447652488.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23126\" class=\"size-large wp-image-23126\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Antarctica-Rothera-Research-Station-BAS-1024x319.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"195\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-23126\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rothera Research Station, Adelaide Island, Antarctica (Image Source: British Antarctic Survey)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong><em>Post<\/em> readers: I need your help!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>SWLing Post<\/em> reader Andy Webster (G7UHN) is searching for an off-air recording of the <a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/tag\/antarctic-midwinter-broadcast\/\">BBC Midwinter Broadcast<\/a> to Antarctica from the year 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Andy has a very personal connection to this particular broadcast because he was the wintering communications engineer at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bas.ac.uk\/polar-operations\/sites-and-facilities\/facility\/rothera\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rothera Research Station<\/a> in 2009. One of his fondest memories was listening to the BBC Midwinter broadcast while he and his colleagues were huddled around the station&#8217;s Skanti TRP 8750 marine transceiver. Andy would like a proper off-air recording of the broadcast to share with his family and friends&#8211;so they can hear what the broadcast sounded like over shortwave radio.<\/p>\n<p><strong>If you happen to have an off-air recording of the 2009 Midwinter broadcast, could you please <a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/contact\/\">contact me<\/a> or comment on this post?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Not only will we share the recording with Andy, but we would also like to post it to the <a href=\"http:\/\/shortwavearchive.com\" target=\"_blank\">Shortwave Radio Audio Archive<\/a>. <em><strong>Thank you in advance!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Post readers: I need your help! SWLing Post reader Andy Webster (G7UHN) is searching for an off-air recording of the BBC Midwinter Broadcast to Antarctica from the year 2009. Andy has a very personal connection to this particular broadcast because he was the wintering communications engineer at Rothera Research Station in 2009. One of his [&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":true,"_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":[3,305,746,43],"tags":[5776,3892,3921,419,1998,4106],"class_list":["post-23125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-nostalgia","category-recordings","category-shortwave-radio","tag-andy-webster-g7uhn","tag-antarctic-midwinter-broadcast","tag-antarctic-midwinter-broadcast-recordings","tag-antarctica","tag-british-antarctic-survey-team","tag-recordings"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-60Z","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":26428,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/2017-bbc-midwinter-broadcast-test-transmissions\/","url_meta":{"origin":23125,"position":0},"title":"2017 BBC Midwinter Broadcast test transmissions","author":"Thomas","date":"June 15, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributors, Richard Langley and Mauno Ritola, who shared frequencies and times for the test transmissions in advance of the BBC Midwinter broadcast next week (June 21). 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