{"id":49338,"date":"2021-06-21T01:00:17","date_gmt":"2021-06-21T05:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=49338"},"modified":"2021-06-20T12:11:42","modified_gmt":"2021-06-20T16:11:42","slug":"help-record-the-2021-bbc-antarctic-midwinter-broadcast-today-june-21-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/help-record-the-2021-bbc-antarctic-midwinter-broadcast-today-june-21-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Help record the 2021 BBC Antarctic Midwinter Broadcast today (June 21, 2021)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_38278\" style=\"width: 635px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Halleywinter-BAS-Antarctica-Survey-e1561117722151.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-38278\" class=\"size-large wp-image-38278\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Halleywinter-BAS-Antarctica-Survey-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"416\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-38278\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Halley VI Research Station on the Brunt Ice Shelf in Antarctica (Source: British Antarctic Survey Team)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Every year, the BBC broadcasts a special program to the scientists and support staff in the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.antarctica.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">British Antarctic Survey Team<\/a>. The BBC plays music requests and sends special messages to the small team&#8211;<a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/four-frequencies-will-be-used-for-the-2021-bbc-midwinter-broadcast\/\">35 individuals this year<\/a>&#8211;located at various Antarctic research stations. Each year, the thirty minute show is guaranteed to be quirky, nostalgic, and certainly a DX-worthy catch!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/listening-across-the-globe-2016-bbc-antarctic-midwinter-broadcast\/\">After successful listener events from years past<\/a>, I\u2019m once again calling on all\u00a0<em>SWLing Post\u00a0<\/em>readers and shortwave radio listeners to make a short recording (say, 30-60 seconds) of the\u00a0<strong>BBC Antarctic Midwinter Broadcast<\/strong> today and share it here on the SWLing Post. Details on this below.<\/p>\n<h1>Time and frequencies<\/h1>\n<p>The 2021 Midwinter Broadcast will take place from 21:30-22:00 UTC on June 21, 2021 and will be broadcast on the following four frequencies:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>6035 kHz from Dhabbaya<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>6170 kHz from Ascension<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>7305 kHz from Woofferton<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>9505 kHz from Woofferton<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Recording the Midwinter Broadcast has become an\u00a0<em>SWLing Post<\/em>\u00a0community tradition!\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/help-record-the-2020-bbc-antarctic-midwinter-broadcast-on-june-21\/\">Read our previous post for more details<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m especially fond of this broadcast as it always falls on my birthday and it&#8217;s always fun capturing this unique DX!<\/p>\n<h1>Share your recording and notes with us!<\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Sony-ICF-SW55-Midwinter-Antarctica.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19616\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Sony-ICF-SW55-Midwinter-Antarctica.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Sony-ICF-SW55-Midwinter-Antarctica.jpg 450w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Sony-ICF-SW55-Midwinter-Antarctica-169x300.jpg 169w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In years past, I&#8217;ve created a post with all of the Midwinter recordings curated in one article. This usually takes me 12+ hours to prepare over a couple of weeks as many of the audio clips and video recordings must be formatted for the site and embedded. There is also a lot of discussions back\/forth confirming details with listeners. This year, my schedule is such that if I try to piece one of these articles together I might not have it published for many, many weeks. That and I will not have reliable internet service over the next couple of weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, I&#8217;d like to try something new!<\/p>\n<h1>Comment with your recording!<\/h1>\n<p>During the Midwinter broadcast, I will publish a dedicated post where you can comment and include links to audio and video of your 2021 Midwinter Broadcast recordings. When this post is available, I will link to it here. This will allow you to post your logs and recordings at your convenience without my availability becoming the bottleneck.<\/p>\n<p>So that there&#8217;s no confusion, I&#8217;ve turned off comments on <em>this<\/em> post so that comments are left on the appropriate article.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the format I&#8217;d like you to leave in your comment of the dedicated post:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Name:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Listening location:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Notes: <\/strong><em>(Include frequencies and any details about your receiver and antenna.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Link to audio or video: <\/strong><em>(YouTube, Vimeo, Internet Archive, SoundCloud, etc.)<\/em><\/p>\n<h1>Video and Audio Recordings<\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Elecraft-KX2-Zoom-H2N-Midwinter-Broadcast.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26640\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Elecraft-KX2-Zoom-H2N-Midwinter-Broadcast.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"848\" height=\"636\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Elecraft-KX2-Zoom-H2N-Midwinter-Broadcast.jpg 848w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Elecraft-KX2-Zoom-H2N-Midwinter-Broadcast-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Elecraft-KX2-Zoom-H2N-Midwinter-Broadcast-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Elecraft-KX2-Zoom-H2N-Midwinter-Broadcast-624x468.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 848px) 100vw, 848px\" \/><\/a>There is no way to directly upload audio in your comments, however, you can link to the recordings if you upload them to the Internet Archive (which I&#8217;d highly recommend) or any of the video streaming services&#8211;like YouTube and Vimeo&#8211;or audio services like SoundCloud.<\/p>\n<p>If you have a photo you&#8217;d like to include in your comment, send me an email from the same address you used in your comment. I&#8217;ll manually post the image at the top of your comment when time allows.<\/p>\n<p>As with each year, I&#8217;ll make sure the BAS team and the BBC receive a link with all of your recordings!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year, the BBC broadcasts a special program to the scientists and support staff in the\u00a0British Antarctic Survey Team. The BBC plays music requests and sends special messages to the small team&#8211;35 individuals this year&#8211;located at various Antarctic research stations. Each year, the thirty minute show is guaranteed to be quirky, nostalgic, and certainly a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":[3,43,1167],"tags":[9318,3892,3921,327,9325],"class_list":["post-49338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","category-whats-on-shortwave","tag-2021-antarctic-bbc-midwinter-broadcast","tag-antarctic-midwinter-broadcast","tag-antarctic-midwinter-broadcast-recordings","tag-bbc-world-service","tag-boffin-media"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-cPM","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":43861,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/british-antarctic-survey-annual-midwinter-broadcast-test-today-june-14-2020-at-2130-utc\/","url_meta":{"origin":49338,"position":0},"title":"British Antarctic Survey Annual Midwinter Broadcast test today (June 14, 2020) at 2130 UTC","author":"Thomas","date":"June 14, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to the British DX Club who shares the following information about a BBC Midwinter Broadcast test being held later today: The annual 30-minute Midwinter broadcast to British Antarctic Survey staff in Antarctica is scheduled by BBC WS for Sunday 21st June. 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