{"id":59538,"date":"2024-04-21T20:50:40","date_gmt":"2024-04-22T00:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=59538"},"modified":"2024-04-22T07:20:08","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T11:20:08","slug":"patrizio-receives-detailed-information-about-the-woofferton-test-transmission-he-confirmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/patrizio-receives-detailed-information-about-the-woofferton-test-transmission-he-confirmed\/","title":{"rendered":"Patrizio receives detailed information about the Woofferton test transmission he confirmed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_34530\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Woofferton_transmitting_station_2011.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34530\" class=\"size-full wp-image-34530\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Woofferton_transmitting_station_2011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"816\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Woofferton_transmitting_station_2011.jpg 800w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Woofferton_transmitting_station_2011-294x300.jpg 294w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Woofferton_transmitting_station_2011-768x783.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Woofferton_transmitting_station_2011-624x636.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-34530\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Woofferton Transmitting Station (Photo by Shirokazan via Wikimedia Commons.)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> 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:<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Hi Patrizio,<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Thank you for your report and I confirm the details for 9885 kHz are correct. These transmissions were to fault-find on a 250\/300 kW sender at the UK HF transmitter station at Woofferton in England.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">These duration of these tests can be variable as the engineers can sometimes need a long time to establish a fault or they may interrupt the test, make an adjustment and resume. This is particularly so if the fault is of an intermittent nature.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Encompass Digital Media, Woofferton is the only remaining UK HF sender broadcast station and also is the only one with this transmission test audio and email address.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The audio is contained in a file play-out system and incorporates non-copyright music and voice announcements from one of the engineers, Martin, 2E1EKX at the transmitter site.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">There is a Club amateur radio station on site with the callsign M0WOF and the operators are Matt G8XYJ, Dave M0MYA, Gillian M0OVW, John G1JOD and Martin 2E1EKX.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The amateur radio repeater GB3VM that was on site has recently been moved and the history of it is here <a href=\"https:\/\/hbrg.co.uk\/gb3vm\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/hbrg.co.uk\/gb3vm\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Woofferton has recently celebrated 80 years on the air and there was much publicity in the broadcast media.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">My son Matt, G8XYJ was the Transmitter Engineer on duty running the 9885 tests.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">He features it in the following Youtube video:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3xy2uwbJxpY?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. These transmissions were to fault-find on a 250\/300 [&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],"tags":[1283,4716,7275,8496,1917],"class_list":["post-59538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","tag-bbc-woofferton","tag-dave-porter","tag-encompass","tag-patrizio-cardelli","tag-test-transmissions"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-fui","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":17112,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/paul-receives-report-confirmation-from-bbc-test-transmission\/","url_meta":{"origin":59538,"position":0},"title":"Paul receives report confirmation from BBC test transmission","author":"Thomas","date":"January 28, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post reader,\u00a0Paul Walker, who writes: Remember the \"transmission tests\" from Babcock and Wooferton last summer? 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The video is divided in seven parts, thus I've created a playlist that will automatically load each video in order. Click here to start the playlist on YouTube, or simply\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Broadcasters&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Broadcasters","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/broadcasters\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":34529,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/woofferton-transmitting-station-75-years-of-continuous-operation\/","url_meta":{"origin":59538,"position":3},"title":"Woofferton Transmitting Station: 75 years of continuous operation","author":"Thomas","date":"October 18, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Dave Porter, who notes: Pleased to let you know that Woofferton Transmitting Station celebrated 75 years of continuous operation yesterday 17th October 2018. It is now run by Encompass Digital Media to give it its full name! 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