{"id":6750,"date":"2013-06-21T18:49:20","date_gmt":"2013-06-21T22:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=6750"},"modified":"2013-06-21T18:49:39","modified_gmt":"2013-06-21T22:49:39","slug":"shortwave-radio-recordings-bbc-world-service-to-the-british-antarctic-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/shortwave-radio-recordings-bbc-world-service-to-the-british-antarctic-survey\/","title":{"rendered":"Shortwave Radio Recordings: BBC World Service to the British Antarctic Survey"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6751\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/base_brash_crop2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6751\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6751\" alt=\"View of Bird Island, South Georgia, where one of the British Antarctic research stations is located. (Source: British Antarctic Survey)\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/base_brash_crop2-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/base_brash_crop2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/base_brash_crop2-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/base_brash_crop2-100x66.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6751\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">View of Bird Island, South Georgia, where one of the British Antarctic research stations is located. (Source: British Antarctic Survey)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a title=\"Catch the BBC\u2019s annual broadcast to the British Antarctic Survey Team\" href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/catch-the-bbcs-annual-broadcast-to-the-british-antarctic-survey-team\/\">Mentioned earlier today<\/a>, here is the recording of the BBC World Service&#8217;s thirty minute broadcast to the British Antarctic Survey. I was able to receive a relatively strong signal at 21:30 UTC on 9,890 kHz from the World Service&#8217;s Wooferton transmission site.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Click here to download the MP3\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/download\/BBCBritishAntSurvey9.89MHz21Jun13\/BBCBritishAntSurvey-9.89MHz-21Jun13-.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to download the full recording as an MP3<\/a>, or simply listen via the embedded player below. \u00a0I will also post this on the Shortwave Radio Audio Archive.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/embed\/BBCBritishAntSurvey9.89MHz21Jun13\" height=\"30\" width=\"500\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mentioned earlier today, here is the recording of the BBC World Service&#8217;s thirty minute broadcast to the British Antarctic Survey. I was able to receive a relatively strong signal at 21:30 UTC on 9,890 kHz from the World Service&#8217;s Wooferton transmission site. Click here to download the full recording as an MP3, or simply listen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[56,3,288,746,43,1167],"tags":[419,327,420,1998],"class_list":["post-6750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-news","category-radio-history","category-recordings","category-shortwave-radio","category-whats-on-shortwave","tag-antarctica","tag-bbc-world-service","tag-bbc-ws","tag-british-antarctic-survey-team"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-1KS","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":6750,"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. Ahead of this, two frequencies will be\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\/2019\/06\/Halleywinter-BAS-Antarctica-Survey-e1561117722151.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Halleywinter-BAS-Antarctica-Survey-e1561117722151.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Halleywinter-BAS-Antarctica-Survey-e1561117722151.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Halleywinter-BAS-Antarctica-Survey-e1561117722151.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":6743,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/catch-the-bbcs-annual-broadcast-to-the-british-antarctic-survey-team\/","url_meta":{"origin":6750,"position":1},"title":"Catch the BBC&#8217;s annual broadcast to the British Antarctic Survey Team","author":"Thomas","date":"June 21, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Every year, the BBC broadcasts a special program to the 41 scientists and support staff in the British Antarctic Survey Team. The BBC will play music requests and send special messages to the team of 41.\u00a0It's guaranteed to be quirky, nostalgic and certainly DX worth catching. The British Antarctic Survey\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Broadcasters&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Broadcasters","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/broadcasters\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Halley VI: The British Antarctic Survey's new base (Source: BBC)","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/halleyvi_antony_dubber_bas-Antarctica-300x168.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":13543,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/help-record-the-2015-bbc-antarctic-midwinter-broadcast-on-june-21\/","url_meta":{"origin":6750,"position":2},"title":"Help record the 2015 BBC Antarctic Midwinter Broadcast on June 21","author":"Thomas","date":"June 10, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Every year, the BBC broadcasts a special program to the scientists and support staff in the British Antarctic Survey Team.\u00a0The BBC plays\u00a0music requests and sends special messages to the small team of 40+ located at various Antarctic research stations.\u00a0Each year, the thirty minute show is guaranteed to be quirky, nostalgic,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Broadcasters&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Broadcasters","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/broadcasters\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"800px-Antarctica.svg","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/800px-Antarctica.svg_.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/800px-Antarctica.svg_.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/800px-Antarctica.svg_.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":13713,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/reminder-help-record-the-2015-bbc-antarctic-midwinter-broadcast-today\/","url_meta":{"origin":6750,"position":3},"title":"Reminder: Help record the 2015 BBC Antarctic Midwinter Broadcast today!","author":"Thomas","date":"June 21, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"As a reminder:\u00a0I\u2019m calling on all SWLing Post\u00a0readers and shortwave radio listeners to make a short recording (say, 30-60 seconds) of the BBC Antarctic Midwinter Broadcast and share it\u00a0here at the Post (frequencies and time below). The recording can be audio-only, or even a video taken from any recording device\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Broadcasters&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Broadcasters","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/broadcasters\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"800px-Antarctica.svg","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/800px-Antarctica.svg_.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/800px-Antarctica.svg_.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/800px-Antarctica.svg_.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":19566,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/help-record-the-2016-bbc-antarctic-midwinter-broadcast-today\/","url_meta":{"origin":6750,"position":4},"title":"Help record the 2016 BBC Antarctic Midwinter Broadcast today!","author":"Thomas","date":"June 21, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Every year, the BBC broadcasts a special program to the scientists and support staff in the\u00a0British Antarctic Survey Team.\u00a0The BBC plays\u00a0music requests and sends special messages to the small team of 40+ located at various Antarctic research stations.\u00a0Each year, the thirty minute show is guaranteed to be quirky, nostalgic, and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Broadcasters&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Broadcasters","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/broadcasters\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"800px-Antarctica.svg","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/800px-Antarctica.svg_.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/800px-Antarctica.svg_.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/800px-Antarctica.svg_.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":9991,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/shortwave-radio-recordings-bbc-to-the-2014-british-antarctic-survey\/","url_meta":{"origin":6750,"position":5},"title":"Shortwave Radio Recordings: BBC to the 2014 British Antarctic Survey","author":"Thomas","date":"June 22, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"As\u00a0promised, here are the\u00a0recordings of the BBC World Service\u2019s thirty minute broadcast to the British Antarctic Survey. 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