{"id":4088,"date":"2012-08-11T10:33:59","date_gmt":"2012-08-11T14:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=4088"},"modified":"2012-08-11T10:33:59","modified_gmt":"2012-08-11T14:33:59","slug":"shortwave-radio-history-50-years-of-transmitting-at-bbc-woofferton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/shortwave-radio-history-50-years-of-transmitting-at-bbc-woofferton\/","title":{"rendered":"Shortwave Radio History: 50 years of transmitting at BBC Woofferton"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4163\" style=\"width: 234px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbceng.info\/Operations\/transmitter_ops\/Reminiscences\/Woofferton\/woof50y-v2.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4163\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4163\" title=\"BBC-Woofferton\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/BBC-Woofferton.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/BBC-Woofferton.jpg 224w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/BBC-Woofferton-206x300.jpg 206w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/BBC-Woofferton-68x100.jpg 68w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4163\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click here to download your copy.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>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&#8217;s Woofferton transmission station. Cant began his history as an internal document to the station; he later finished it in his retirement. I wish every shortwave transmitter station had such a well-documented history providing a perspective on the station&#8217;s broadcasting. We owe Mr. Cant a profound debt of gratitude.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"BBC Woofferton (PDF Download)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbceng.info\/Operations\/transmitter_ops\/Reminiscences\/Woofferton\/woof50y-v2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">To download the PDF, simply click here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>A special thanks to <a title=\"Critical Distance\" href=\"http:\/\/criticaldistance.blogspot.nl\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jonathan Marks<\/a> for finding and sharing this great bit of radio history.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Should the link to the PDF above ever become inactive, I&#8217;ve placed\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/woof50y-v2.pdf\">an archive copy available for download on the SWLing Post server<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s Woofferton transmission station. Cant began his history as an internal document to the station; he later finished it in his retirement. I wish every shortwave transmitter [&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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[56,305,288,43],"tags":[104,1283,1284,1285,1286,4082,1098],"class_list":["post-4088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-nostalgia","category-radio-history","category-shortwave-radio","tag-bbc","tag-bbc-woofferton","tag-bbc-woofferton-history","tag-bbc-world-service-history","tag-jeff-cant","tag-shortwave-radio","tag-shortwave-radio-history"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-13W","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7343,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/dave-porters-video-tour-of-the-bbc-woofferton-transmitting-site\/","url_meta":{"origin":4088,"position":0},"title":"Dave Porter&#8217;s video tour of the BBC Woofferton transmitting site","author":"Thomas","date":"September 18, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Check out this brilliant video tour of the BBC Woofferton Transmitting Station, presented by Senior Transmitter Engineer Dave Porter (G40YX). 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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":57978,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/special-program-woofferton-transmitting-stations-80th-anniversary-on-october-17-2023\/","url_meta":{"origin":4088,"position":3},"title":"Special Program: Woofferton Transmitting Station&#8217;s 80th Anniversary on October 17, 2023","author":"Thomas","date":"October 15, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Dave Porter, who shares the following announcement: Woofferton Transmitting Station UK - 80th Anniversary - October 17, 2023 To mark this anniversary Encompass Digital Media at WOF will be running a special programme on HF : Tuesday 17th October 2023 from 1330 - 1430\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\/2023\/10\/image1.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image1.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image1.png?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image1.png?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image1.png?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image1.png?resize=1400%2C800&ssl=1 4x"},"classes":[]},{"id":59538,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/patrizio-receives-detailed-information-about-the-woofferton-test-transmission-he-confirmed\/","url_meta":{"origin":4088,"position":4},"title":"Patrizio receives detailed information about the Woofferton test transmission he confirmed","author":"Thomas","date":"April 21, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Patrizio Cardelli, who shares the following background story (via our friend, Dave Porter) about a Woofferton test transmission received at his QTH in Italy: Hi Patrizio, Thank you for your report and I confirm the details for 9885 kHz are correct. 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