{"id":66419,"date":"2026-06-21T07:10:52","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T11:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=66419"},"modified":"2026-06-19T14:12:43","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T18:12:43","slug":"help-record-the-2026-bbc-antarctic-midwinter-broadcast-later-today-june-21-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/help-record-the-2026-bbc-antarctic-midwinter-broadcast-later-today-june-21-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Help record the 2026 BBC Antarctic Midwinter Broadcast later today (June 21, 2026)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/1024px-Antarctica_6400px_from_Blue_Marble.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13662\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/1024px-Antarctica_6400px_from_Blue_Marble.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/1024px-Antarctica_6400px_from_Blue_Marble.jpg 650w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/1024px-Antarctica_6400px_from_Blue_Marble-300x127.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Every year, the BBC broadcasts a special program to the scientists and support staff in the <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 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>After successful listener events from years past, I\u2019m once again calling on all <em>SWLing Post<\/em> readers and shortwave radio listeners to make a short recording (say, 30\u201360 seconds) of the <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>Thanks to Dave Porter who has confirmed these three shortwave frequencies for the annual BBC Antarctic Midwinter Broadcast (2130\u20132200 UTC Sunday, June 21, 2026):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>9460 kHz from Woofferton<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>9510 kHz from Ascension<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>12070 kHz from Woofferton<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Also on DAB in the UK at 2130 UTC (2230 BST).<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Recording the Midwinter Broadcast has become an <em>SWLing Post<\/em> community tradition! <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\/2022\/06\/Tecsun-PL-330-BBC-Midwinter-Antarctica.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-53184\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Tecsun-PL-330-BBC-Midwinter-Antarctica.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Tecsun-PL-330-BBC-Midwinter-Antarctica.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Tecsun-PL-330-BBC-Midwinter-Antarctica-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Tecsun-PL-330-BBC-Midwinter-Antarctica-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Tecsun-PL-330-BBC-Midwinter-Antarctica-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Tecsun-PL-330-BBC-Midwinter-Antarctica-624x468.jpeg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Comment with your recording!<\/h1>\n<p><strong>During the Midwinter Broadcast, I will publish a dedicated post where you can comment and include links to audio and video of your 2026 Midwinter Broadcast recordings.<\/strong> 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><strong>So that there&#8217;s no confusion, I&#8217;ve turned off comments on <em>this<\/em> post<\/strong> 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 on 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><\/p>\n<p>There is no way to directly upload audio in your comments, however, you can link to the recordings if you upload them to the <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Internet Archive<\/a> (which I&#8217;d highly recommend) or any of the video streaming services\u2014like <a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vimeo<\/a>\u2014or 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 British Antarctic Survey Team. The BBC plays music requests and sends special messages to the small team located at various Antarctic research stations. Each year, the thirty minute show is guaranteed to be quirky, nostalgic, and certainly a DX-worthy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5935,3,651,43],"tags":[11139,3892],"class_list":["post-66419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dx","category-news","category-schedules-and-frequencies","category-shortwave-radio","tag-2026-antarctic-midwinter-broadcast","tag-antarctic-midwinter-broadcast"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-hhh","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":66415,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/antarctic-midwinter-broadcast-2026-tune-in-sunday-june-21-2026\/","url_meta":{"origin":66419,"position":0},"title":"Antarctic Midwinter Broadcast 2026: Tune in Sunday, June 21, 2026","author":"Thomas","date":"June 19, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"Each year, we look forward to one of the most unique traditions in the world of shortwave radio: the BBC\u2019s Antarctic Midwinter Broadcast\u2014a special program beamed to a handful of overwintering scientists and support staff at British Antarctic research stations. 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