{"id":32881,"date":"2018-06-23T08:46:48","date_gmt":"2018-06-23T12:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=32881"},"modified":"2018-06-23T08:46:48","modified_gmt":"2018-06-23T12:46:48","slug":"update-bbc-midwinter-broadcast-recordings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/update-bbc-midwinter-broadcast-recordings\/","title":{"rendered":"Update: BBC Midwinter broadcast recordings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/CC-Skywave-SSB-Midwinter-Antarctica-Broadcast.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32884\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/CC-Skywave-SSB-Midwinter-Antarctica-Broadcast.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"945\" height=\"478\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/CC-Skywave-SSB-Midwinter-Antarctica-Broadcast.jpeg 945w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/CC-Skywave-SSB-Midwinter-Antarctica-Broadcast-300x152.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/CC-Skywave-SSB-Midwinter-Antarctica-Broadcast-768x388.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/CC-Skywave-SSB-Midwinter-Antarctica-Broadcast-624x316.jpeg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 945px) 100vw, 945px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Once again, <em>SWLing Post<\/em> readers did an amazing job of capturing off-air clips of the <a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/reminder-help-record-the-2018-bbc-antarctic-midwinter-broadcast-today\/\">BBC Midwinter broadcast to Antarctica<\/a>! Thank you so much for submitting your recordings!<\/p>\n<p>I managed to listen to a bit of the broadcast myself in the parking lot of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rocketcenter.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">US Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama<\/a>. I only brought my C. Crane CC Skywave SSB along. The signal was quite weak, but I did log the 9,890 kHz broadcast from\u00a0Woofferton, UK. Pretty impressive considering the modest portable receiver and the fact the broadcast&#8217;s target was Antarctica! Pure shortwave magic.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a very short video:<\/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\/wDU79gmjKiE?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<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/wDU79gmjKiE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to view on YouTube.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I hope to have a formatted post with all reader recordings published next week. It&#8217;ll actually take me a few dedicated hours to put it all together, so I appreciate your patience.<\/p>\n<p>These are<strong> <em>very<\/em><\/strong> busy days for me, so if you&#8217;ve contacted me via email, I apologize for taking so long to reply. So far in the month of June, I&#8217;ve only been home perhaps a total of three nights. July will be equally as busy, plus I&#8217;ll also present at the <a href=\"https:\/\/hope.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Circle of HOPE 2018 conference in NYC<\/a>. Really looking forward to that!<\/p>\n<p>If you missed the Midwinter broadcast, Richard Langley has already posted recordings\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/shortwavearchive.com\/archive\/bbc-world-service-annual-antarctic-midwinter-broadcast-june-21-2018\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">on the Shortwave Radio Audio Archive<\/a>\u00a0[thanks, Richard!].<\/p>\n<p>Again, thank you all for such an amazing job! I&#8217;m looking forward to going through the recordings!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once again, SWLing Post readers did an amazing job of capturing off-air clips of the BBC Midwinter broadcast to Antarctica! Thank you so much for submitting your recordings! I managed to listen to a bit of the broadcast myself in the parking lot of the US Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama. I only [&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":[3,746,43],"tags":[3892],"class_list":["post-32881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-recordings","category-shortwave-radio","tag-antarctic-midwinter-broadcast"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-8yl","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":23125,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/seeking-off-air-recording-of-2009-bbc-midwinter-broadcast-to-antarctica\/","url_meta":{"origin":32881,"position":0},"title":"Seeking off-air recording of 2009 BBC Midwinter Broadcast to Antarctica","author":"Thomas","date":"January 3, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Post readers: I need your help! 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