{"id":51333,"date":"2021-12-24T10:37:42","date_gmt":"2021-12-24T14:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=51333"},"modified":"2021-12-24T10:37:42","modified_gmt":"2021-12-24T14:37:42","slug":"boxing-day-monitor-the-sydney-to-hobart-race-via-shortwave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/boxing-day-monitor-the-sydney-to-hobart-race-via-shortwave\/","title":{"rendered":"Boxing Day: Monitor the Sydney to Hobart Race via Shortwave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/662px-Sydney_to_hobart_yacht_race_route.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-51334\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/662px-Sydney_to_hobart_yacht_race_route.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"662\" height=\"599\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/662px-Sydney_to_hobart_yacht_race_route.png 662w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/662px-Sydney_to_hobart_yacht_race_route-300x271.png 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/662px-Sydney_to_hobart_yacht_race_route-624x565.png 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 662px) 100vw, 662px\" \/><\/a>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Jack Dully, who shares the following information <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tecsunradios.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">via Tecsun Radios Australia<\/a>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Follow The Sydney to Hobart Race Via Your Radio!<\/h1>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">For the last 76 years, the Sydney to Hobart yacht race has been run on Boxing Day December 26. Sadly last year due to COVID, the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia announced that the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race would not be proceeding in 2020.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The great news is it will be recommencing in 2021<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The race covers 628 nautical miles from Sydney to Hobart. Installation of an operational HF transceiver is mandatory for all vessels entered in the race.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">HF and shortwave radio enthusiasts can listen in to position and weather reports during the race by monitoring the following frequencies:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>Primary HF frequency: 4483 kHz USB<\/li>\n<li>Secondary frequency: 6516 kHz USB<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">6516 kHz USB is constantly monitored by relay vessel \u201cJBW\u201d owned and donated for use during the race by Mr John Winning, owner of Appliances Online. JBW is a 70 foot motor cruiser.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Weather forecasts:<br \/>\n4426 kHz, 8176 kHz, 12365 kHz and 16546 kHz, USB at 1030, 1430 and 1830 AEST daily,<br \/>\n2201 kHz, 6507 kHz, 8176 kHz and 12365 kHz USB at 0230, 0630 and 2230 AEST daily.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Tasmanian weather forecasts on the above frequencies at: 1130 and 1530 AEST<br \/>\nTasmanian maritime radio:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">2524 kHz, 4146 kHz, and 6627 khz USB at 0745, 1345, 1633 and 1903 AEST<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Position reports:<br \/>\n4483 kHz USB at 1935, 2035 and 0635AEST daily<\/p>\n<p><strong>Many thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tecsunradios.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tecsun Radios Australia<\/a> for providing all of this monitoring information. It&#8217;s always a blast for me to listening to live event communications!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Jack Dully, who shares the following information via Tecsun Radios Australia: Follow The Sydney to Hobart Race Via Your Radio! For the last 76 years, the Sydney to Hobart yacht race has been run on Boxing Day December 26. Sadly last year due to COVID, the Cruising Yacht Club [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":[7487,7488,1304],"class_list":["post-51333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","category-whats-on-shortwave","tag-sydney-hobart-yacht-race","tag-sydney-hobart-yacht-race-frequencies","tag-tecsunradio-com"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-dlX","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":35350,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/terry-remembers-monitoring-an-eventful-sydney-to-hobart-yacht-race\/","url_meta":{"origin":51333,"position":0},"title":"Terry remembers monitoring an eventful Sydney to Hobart yacht race","author":"Thomas","date":"December 28, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Terry Cominos, who shred the following story following our recent post about the Sydney to Hobart yacht race. 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I happened to be recording frequency of the\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\/12\/Sydney-Hobart-Yacht-Race-Storm-1998-1024x660.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Sydney-Hobart-Yacht-Race-Storm-1998-1024x660.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Sydney-Hobart-Yacht-Race-Storm-1998-1024x660.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":21943,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/hobart-radio-international-b16-schedule\/","url_meta":{"origin":51333,"position":3},"title":"Hobart Radio International B16 schedule","author":"Thomas","date":"October 26, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"(Source: Hobart Radio International on Facebook) We're getting ready for the B16. 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