{"id":41212,"date":"2019-12-22T15:59:02","date_gmt":"2019-12-22T19:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=41212"},"modified":"2019-12-24T18:28:04","modified_gmt":"2019-12-24T22:28:04","slug":"christmas-carols-from-antarctica-on-shortwave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/christmas-carols-from-antarctica-on-shortwave\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Carols from Antarctica on Shortwave"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11823\" style=\"width: 655px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/mcmurdo-from-ob-hill.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11823\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11823\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/mcmurdo-from-ob-hill.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"645\" height=\"389\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/mcmurdo-from-ob-hill.jpg 645w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/mcmurdo-from-ob-hill-300x181.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 645px) 100vw, 645px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11823\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">McMurdo Station, Antarctica. (Source: USAP.gov)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>(Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arrl.org\/news\/christmas-carols-to-be-broadcast-on-hf-from-antarctica\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ARRL News<\/a>)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A program of Christmas carols will be broadcast from Antarctica on Christmas Eve. <strong>The transmissions on 7995 kHz USB will begin on December 23 at 2300 UTC<\/strong>, coordinated by McMurdo Communications Operations (MacOps) \u2014 known as \u201cThe Voice of Antarctica.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Each year, the station\u2019s residents celebrate the holiday by singing Christmas Carols to those at remote Antarctic field camps. Participation will be from stations scattered throughout the Antarctic continent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe radios and antenna systems are optimized for on-continent communication, so we will be lucky to hear them in other parts of the world, but it has happened in the past,\u201d said Nathaniel Frissell, W2NAF, who is handling QSL requests and who has participated as part of the chorus in past years while studying in Antarctica. Frissell shared some links of previous concerts, one recorded at McMurdo Station and one from the University of Twente WebSDR in the Netherlands.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.arrl.org\/news\/christmas-carols-to-be-broadcast-on-hf-from-antarctica\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article at the ARRL.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong> Check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/12\/23\/790945955\/a-shortwave-christmas-carol?fbclid=IwAR2i4XZDLxsgySojlIYfso3o56soWtvwbfbl10gOSubNGT6ctpWvafAuU6g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this episode of Short Wave<\/a>&#8211;an NPR podcast&#8211;wher they interview the scientists involved in this tradition:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NPR embedded audio player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/player\/embed\/790945955\/790972834\" width=\"100%\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Source: ARRL News) A program of Christmas carols will be broadcast from Antarctica on Christmas Eve. The transmissions on 7995 kHz USB will begin on December 23 at 2300 UTC, coordinated by McMurdo Communications Operations (MacOps) \u2014 known as \u201cThe Voice of Antarctica.\u201d Each year, the station\u2019s residents celebrate the holiday by singing Christmas Carols [&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],"tags":[419,8110,4116],"class_list":["post-41212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-antarctica","tag-antarctica-shortwave","tag-whats-on-shortwave"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-aII","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11816,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/weak-signal-dx-challenge-christmas-carols-in-antarctica\/","url_meta":{"origin":41212,"position":0},"title":"Weak signal DX challenge: Christmas carols in Antarctica","author":"Thomas","date":"December 23, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"UPDATE: Check out Nathaniel's message with recordings. Many thanks to Mark Phillips (via the SWL Fest group) and Sheldon Harvey \u00a0(via the\u00a0International Radio Report) for sharing the following message from Nathaniel Frissell (KC4\/W2NAF) who is stationed at the McMurdo Station, Antarctica: Hi, everyone. Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, and any other\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"News","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"McMurdo Station, Antarctica. 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They\u2019ll be doing it again in 2017, on Saturday, December 23,\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\/2014\/12\/mcmurdo-from-ob-hill.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/mcmurdo-from-ob-hill.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/mcmurdo-from-ob-hill.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":11873,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/a-report-from-antarctica\/","url_meta":{"origin":41212,"position":2},"title":"A report from Antarctica","author":"Thomas","date":"December 24, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Regarding our post about\u00a0Christmas carols in Antarctica,\u00a0Nathaniel Frissel (KC4\/W2NAF) at the McMurdo Station in Antarctica writes: Hi, everyone! Merry Christmas! We had a wonderful time singing over the radio from Antarctica this\u00a0year on 7995 kHz. We heard carols not only from McMurdo Station, but\u00a0many of the other bases and remote\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"News","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"McMurdo Station, Antarctica. 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