{"id":57978,"date":"2023-10-15T04:30:15","date_gmt":"2023-10-15T08:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=57978"},"modified":"2023-10-12T07:24:33","modified_gmt":"2023-10-12T11:24:33","slug":"special-program-woofferton-transmitting-stations-80th-anniversary-on-october-17-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/special-program-woofferton-transmitting-stations-80th-anniversary-on-october-17-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Special Program: Woofferton Transmitting Station’s 80th Anniversary on October 17, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Dave Porter, who shares the following announcement:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Woofferton Transmitting Station UK – 80th Anniversary – October 17, 2023<\/h1>\n

To mark this anniversary Encompass Digital Media at WOF will be running a special programme on HF :<\/p>\n

Tuesday 17th October 2023 from 1330 – 1430 UTC\/GMT<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sender 95 Marconi (BD272 from 1963) 250 kW AM 15245 kHz Array 928 294* for North America<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sender 96 Riz 250 kW AMC 17785 kHz Array 904A 114* for Europe and beyond.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sender 92 Riz 110 kW DRM 11725 kHz Array 909A 114* for Europe and beyond.<\/strong><\/p>\n

There will be an opening interval signal on all three frequencies.<\/p>\n

The programme content will be historical facts of WOF in BBC, VoA, Radio Free Europe, R Liberty ,CBC etc and the later privatised times, DW and VoV for example as well as up-to-date information on DRM as well as personal recollections from many former WOF staff. There will be station idents of services over the years.<\/p>\n

There will be a special e-QSL card and the chance to enter a competition to win a historic station artifact and an Woofferton 80th mug.<\/p>\n

There may be more details to follow…<\/p>\n

Watch this space<\/p>\n

73<\/p>\n

Dave Porter G4OYX<\/p>\n

Broadcast coverage plots<\/h1>\n

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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 UTC\/GMT Sender 95 Marconi (BD272 […]<\/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":[3,651,43,1409],"tags":[1283,1284,4716],"class_list":["post-57978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-schedules-and-frequencies","category-shortwave-radio","category-specials","tag-bbc-woofferton","tag-bbc-woofferton-history","tag-dave-porter"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-f58","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":59538,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/patrizio-receives-detailed-information-about-the-woofferton-test-transmission-he-confirmed\/","url_meta":{"origin":57978,"position":0},"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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