{"id":24090,"date":"2017-02-10T08:20:34","date_gmt":"2017-02-10T12:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=24090"},"modified":"2017-02-10T08:20:34","modified_gmt":"2017-02-10T12:20:34","slug":"new-book-history-of-the-birdlip-aeronautical-hf-communications-complex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/new-book-history-of-the-birdlip-aeronautical-hf-communications-complex\/","title":{"rendered":"New book: History of the Birdlip Aeronautical HF Communications Complex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Birdlip-Book.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24091\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Birdlip-Book.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"509\" height=\"677\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Birdlip-Book.jpg 509w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Birdlip-Book-226x300.jpg 226w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 509px) 100vw, 509px\" \/><\/a>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em>\u00a0reader and author, Colin McKeeman, who shares the following announcement:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As a mature aviation historian and keen HF monitor since the mid-1960\u2019s, <a href=\"http:\/\/banterops-aerohflog.blogspot.ie\/\" target=\"_blank\">as you will note from my blog<\/a>\u00a0this has prompted me to produce this detailed record of the [Birdlip Aeronautical HF Communications Complex, U.K.] stations activities.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]The activities of this station are currently handled by \u2018Shanwick\u2019 (Shannon and Prestwick) for air traffic on the North Atlantic.<\/p>\n<p>I attach a summary of its content which may help to clarify the scope and nature of this publication.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Birdlip-Book-Description.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to download the full press release (PDF).<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Fascinating, Colin! I think you&#8217;ll find a number of our community members love reading about the history of HF stations. \u00a0Thank you for sharing your press release!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post\u00a0reader and author, Colin McKeeman, who shares the following announcement: As a mature aviation historian and keen HF monitor since the mid-1960\u2019s, as you will note from my blog\u00a0this has prompted me to produce this detailed record of the [Birdlip Aeronautical HF Communications Complex, U.K.] stations activities. [&#8230;]The activities of this [&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":[251,3,288,43],"tags":[5561,4163,4090,5951],"class_list":["post-24090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-news","category-radio-history","category-shortwave-radio","tag-aeronautical","tag-aeronautical-hf","tag-books","tag-colin-mckeeman"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-6gy","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":24273,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/guest-post-colins-retrospective-on-monitoring-aeronautical-communications\/","url_meta":{"origin":24090,"position":0},"title":"Guest Post: Colin&#8217;s retrospective on monitoring aeronautical communications","author":"Thomas","date":"February 19, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to\u00a0SWLing Post contributor,\u00a0Colin McKeeman, who at my request, kindly shares the following guest post: Monitoring Aeronautical Communications \u2013 A Personal Retrospective View By Colin McKeeman Hopefully this article will demonstrate that this hobby involves so much more than just listening to ATC (Air Traffic Control) advising \u201cShamrock 105\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Articles&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Articles","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/articles\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Shanwick-Aviation-HF.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Shanwick-Aviation-HF.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Shanwick-Aviation-HF.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Shanwick-Aviation-HF.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":14526,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/aeronautical-hf-radio-map\/","url_meta":{"origin":24090,"position":1},"title":"Aeronautical HF Radio Map","author":"Thomas","date":"September 3, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to Craig Fuller who shared this excellent Aeronautical HF radio map on the Shortwave Listeners Global Facebook page. Click here\u00a0or here to download the map as a large graphic. Note that this map is 13 years old and somewhat out-of-date. \u00a0Paul Jones kindly posted some frequency updates to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"News","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"MapasconFrecuenciasAereas","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/MapasconFrecuenciasAereas1.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/MapasconFrecuenciasAereas1.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/MapasconFrecuenciasAereas1.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":26587,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/video-air-traffic-on-the-hf-bands\/","url_meta":{"origin":24090,"position":2},"title":"Video: Air traffic on the HF bands","author":"Thomas","date":"June 24, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Dan Hawkins, who writes: Air traffic bands on VHF is well-known. Not so well-known are the shortwave (HF) communications networks that must be operated by transoceanic flights. This is an ARINC station for San Francisco, California. I am located about 70 miles inland from\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Aviation&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Aviation","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/aviation\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Aircraft-Jet-Boeing-VOLMET.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Aircraft-Jet-Boeing-VOLMET.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Aircraft-Jet-Boeing-VOLMET.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":26157,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/project-amelia-earhart-work-an-air-mobile-station-as-it-travels-the-world\/","url_meta":{"origin":24090,"position":3},"title":"Project Amelia Earhart: work an air mobile station as it travels the world","author":"Thomas","date":"June 2, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Here's an opportunity for both ham radio operators and SWLs to log this special event air mobile station throughout June and July. Based on WB6RQN's flight path, almost everyone should have an opportunity to put WB6RQN in the logs! 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