{"id":39776,"date":"2019-09-23T21:20:42","date_gmt":"2019-09-24T01:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=39776"},"modified":"2019-09-23T21:20:42","modified_gmt":"2019-09-24T01:20:42","slug":"radio-world-historic-woofferton-boasts-a-modern-twist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/radio-world-historic-woofferton-boasts-a-modern-twist\/","title":{"rendered":"Radio World: &#8220;Historic Woofferton Boasts a Modern Twist&#8221;"},"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: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radioworld.com\/news-and-business\/historic-woofferton-boasts-a-modern-twist\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Radio World<\/a> via David Iurescia and Michael Bird)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>WOOFFERTON, England \u2014<\/strong>\u00a0Nestled in the beautiful Shropshire countryside, just a few miles from England\u2019s border with Wales, is the tiny village of Woofferton. That name is synonymous with shortwave radio for millions of listeners around the world as just a short distance from the village itself, lays the United Kingdom\u2019s last remaining public service shortwave transmitting station.<\/p>\n<p>Now owned and operated by Encompass Digital Media, Woofferton recently celebrated its 75th birthday. Built in 1943, the station has a fascinating history; originally designed to bolster the BBC\u2019s General Overseas Service (now the World Service) during the latter years of World War II, it was later partly funded by the United States and was used extensively by the Voice of America to broadcast into Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union during the cold war years. Today, Woofferton transmits programs for the BBC and a number of other international broadcasters, reaching audiences across Europe, North Africa and the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]There are 10 high-power HF transmitters at Woofferton. They range from Marconi senders of various vintages, including two BD272 250 kW units that date back to the 1960s, to the more recent 300 kW B6124 solid-state transmitters, and four of the most modern RIZ 250K01 wideband systems, which are also capable of operating in Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM) mode. In fact, the BBC\u2019s daily DRM transmission for Europe is broadcast from here.[&#8230;]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.radioworld.com\/news-and-business\/historic-woofferton-boasts-a-modern-twist\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article at Radio World.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Source: Radio World via David Iurescia and Michael Bird) WOOFFERTON, England \u2014\u00a0Nestled in the beautiful Shropshire countryside, just a few miles from England\u2019s border with Wales, is the tiny village of Woofferton. That name is synonymous with shortwave radio for millions of listeners around the world as just a short distance from the village itself, [&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":[3,288,43],"tags":[1283,1284,634],"class_list":["post-39776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-radio-history","category-shortwave-radio","tag-bbc-woofferton","tag-bbc-woofferton-history","tag-radio-world"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-aly","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4088,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/shortwave-radio-history-50-years-of-transmitting-at-bbc-woofferton\/","url_meta":{"origin":39776,"position":0},"title":"Shortwave Radio History: 50 years of transmitting at BBC Woofferton","author":"Thomas","date":"August 11, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Thanks to the efforts of a dedicated radio historian and author, Jeff Cant, you can download and read an excellent history of the first fifty years of the BBC's Woofferton transmission station. 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The video is divided in seven parts, thus I've created a playlist that will automatically load each video in order. Click here to start the playlist on YouTube, or simply\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Broadcasters&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Broadcasters","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/broadcasters\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":34529,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/woofferton-transmitting-station-75-years-of-continuous-operation\/","url_meta":{"origin":39776,"position":2},"title":"Woofferton Transmitting Station: 75 years of continuous operation","author":"Thomas","date":"October 18, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Dave Porter, who notes: Pleased to let you know that Woofferton Transmitting Station celebrated 75 years of continuous operation yesterday 17th October 2018. It is now run by Encompass Digital Media to give it its full name! Woofferton has certainly experienced and propagated a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"News","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Woofferton_transmitting_station_2011.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Woofferton_transmitting_station_2011.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Woofferton_transmitting_station_2011.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Woofferton_transmitting_station_2011.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":36690,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/encompass-drm-tests-from-woofferton-march-26-and-27\/","url_meta":{"origin":39776,"position":3},"title":"Encompass DRM tests from Woofferton March 26 and 27","author":"Thomas","date":"March 26, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"(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\" Very strong signal on 11780 kHz now. 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