{"id":9986,"date":"2014-06-21T12:31:43","date_gmt":"2014-06-21T16:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=9986"},"modified":"2014-06-21T17:08:42","modified_gmt":"2014-06-21T21:08:42","slug":"today-catch-and-record-the-bbcs-broadcast-to-the-british-antarctic-survey-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/today-catch-and-record-the-bbcs-broadcast-to-the-british-antarctic-survey-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Today: Catch and record the BBC&#8217;s broadcast to the British Antarctic Survey Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6744\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/halleyvi_antony_dubber_bas-Antarctica.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6744\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6744\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/halleyvi_antony_dubber_bas-Antarctica-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"Halley VI: The British Antarctic Survey's new base (Source: BBC)\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/halleyvi_antony_dubber_bas-Antarctica-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/halleyvi_antony_dubber_bas-Antarctica-100x56.jpg 100w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/halleyvi_antony_dubber_bas-Antarctica.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6744\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Halley VI: The British Antarctic Survey&#8217;s new base (Source: BBC)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Every year, the BBC broadcasts a special program to the 41 scientists and support staff in the British Antarctic Survey Team.<\/p>\n<p>The BBC will play music requests and send special messages to the team who winter over in this isolated post. The broadcast is guaranteed to be quirky, nostalgic and certainly DX worth catching. <a title=\"Shortwave Radio Recordings: BBC World Service to the British Antarctic Survey\" href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/shortwave-radio-recordings-bbc-world-service-to-the-british-antarctic-survey\/\">Click here to listen to the 2013 broadcast<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The winter program will air today, June 21, 2014 at 21:30 UTC on the following frequencies<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>7,350 kHz; Ascension; 207\u00b0<\/li>\n<li>9,890 kHz; Woofferton; 182\u00b0<\/li>\n<li>5,985 kHz; Dhabayya; 203\u00b0<\/li>\n<li>5,875 kHz; Wooferton; 184\u00b0 (updated)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Readers:<\/strong> If you have a chance, try to record the broadcast as I&#8217;m uncertain if I&#8217;ll have a chance to catch it this year. I would like a good recording for the <a href=\"http:\/\/shortwavearchive.com\" target=\"_blank\">Shortwave Radio Audio Archive<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Many thanks!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 who winter over in this isolated post. The broadcast is guaranteed to be quirky, nostalgic and certainly DX worth catching. Click [&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":[56,3,288,438,1409,1167],"tags":[419,327,420,1998],"class_list":["post-9986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-news","category-radio-history","category-schedules","category-specials","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-2B4","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":9986,"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":9986,"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. 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