{"id":36690,"date":"2019-03-26T08:09:19","date_gmt":"2019-03-26T12:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=36690"},"modified":"2019-03-26T08:09:19","modified_gmt":"2019-03-26T12:09:19","slug":"encompass-drm-tests-from-woofferton-march-26-and-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/encompass-drm-tests-from-woofferton-march-26-and-27\/","title":{"rendered":"Encompass DRM tests from Woofferton March 26 and 27"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_34530\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Woofferton_transmitting_station_2011.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34530\" class=\"size-full wp-image-34530\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Woofferton_transmitting_station_2011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"816\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Woofferton_transmitting_station_2011.jpg 800w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Woofferton_transmitting_station_2011-294x300.jpg 294w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Woofferton_transmitting_station_2011-768x783.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Woofferton_transmitting_station_2011-624x636.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-34530\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Flickt user Shirokazan via Wikimedia Commons.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>(Source: Mauno Ritola via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/wrthgroup\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WRTH Facebook page<\/a>)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Encompass (BBC content) Encompass DRM tests from Woofferton are planned for March 26th and 27th:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1200-1300 UTC 11780 kHz<\/li>\n<li>1500-1600 UTC 11790 kHz&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Very strong signal on 11780 kHz now.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thanks for the tip, Mauno!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Source: Mauno Ritola via WRTH Facebook page) Encompass (BBC content) Encompass DRM tests from Woofferton are planned for March 26th and 27th: 1200-1300 UTC 11780 kHz 1500-1600 UTC 11790 kHz&#8221; Very strong signal on 11780 kHz now. Thanks for the tip, Mauno!<\/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":[54,3,43],"tags":[1283,980,4083,7275,6750],"class_list":["post-36690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drm","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","tag-bbc-woofferton","tag-digital-radio-mondiale","tag-drm","tag-encompass","tag-mauno-ritola"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-9xM","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14688,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/special-drm-broadcast-to-europe\/","url_meta":{"origin":36690,"position":0},"title":"Special DRM broadcast to Europe","author":"Thomas","date":"September 10, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to Mauno Ritola who shares a link to the following schedule\u00a0from the DRM Consortium\u00a0via the WRTH Facebook page: During IBC, Babcock will be transmitting DRM service from the UK, towards\u00a0Europe. 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