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BBC Antarctic Midwinter Broadcast 2023 noted today June 21
at 21.30 to 21.59 GMT on ENC Woofferton units
13810 kHz S=9+30dB signal strength,
12005 kHz S=9+20dBand ENC at Al Dhabayya transmission site on 7255 kHz in the UAE S=9+20dB
some program content to mention
21.37:40 ‘I’m an beliver ...’
21.39      Cambridge mentioned
21.40      ... amazying pictures on Antarctica winter
21.44:20 mid-winter cake babe
21.45:24 mid-winter message from here south of France ...
21.46:37 ...from here in Yorkshire, happy birthday on Sunday
21.47:08 ...looking forward to your pictures ...
21.47:29 ... see your videos soon...
21.48:35 Happy Mid Winter from London
21.48:50 ... from South Dublin
21.49:10 ... from South Africa
21.49:47 song played
21.50:22 ... animals in Antarctica ? what happens there ? Ice Bear ?
21.51:48 rest of the messages ...
21.52:40 ..2nd year not so cold ...
21.53:17 My Darling, the man to come ...
21.54:00 Happy Mid-Winter celebration
21.54:44 Technology ... take care ...
21.56.00 Far Away
21.56:27 ... from Canada, Happy Mid Winter
21.56:50 her’s John Nicols in Bremerhaven
21.58:07 Happy Mid Winter
21.58:50 ... thank you for your work ...
21.59:00 song – Jingle Bells – All The Way ... til 21.59:40 GMT
21.59:59 GMT last string tone of the special transmission
vy73 de wolfie  df5sx
wwdxc germany

From: Alan Pennington via groups.io
Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2023 12:13 AM
To: bdxc-news@groups.io
Subject: Re: [bdxc-news] BBC WS Antarctica
13810-WOF was the best frequency here in Caversham with 12005-WOF also good.
A 2-minute shorter edition is on BBC WS later at 0132 UTC (0232 BST) 
including I presume on R4 198 kHz longwave and DAB.
But also now available to listen to online at 
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3ct5hqt (though always sounds better 
coming through the ether!)
73 Alan AOR 7030plus, longwire
Caversham, UK
From: Alan Pennington via groups.io
Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2023 1:50 PM
Subject: Re: [bdxc-news] BBC Antarctic Midwinter Broadcast 2023
from British Antarctic Survey website:
Celebrating Midwinter in Antarctica (21 June, 2023)
https:www.bas.ac.uk/media-post/celebrating-midwinter-in-antarctica-2/
Today (21 June) marks the longest night in Antarctica and around 40 people
will be celebrating Midwinter in British Antarctic Survey's (BAS) three 
winter stations:

Rothera Research Station on the Antarctic peninsula,
and King Edward Point and Bird Island on South Georgia and the South 
Sandwich Islands. [...]

includes:BBC Antarctic Midwinter Broadcast
The teams gather together at the end of the special day to listen to the
BBC Antarctic Midwinter Broadcast, a unique radio programme featuring 
messages from friends,
family and supporters back in the UK. This year's edition is presented by 
BBC Radio 6
Music's Cerys Matthews and features interviews with Professor Dame Jane 
Francis,
Director of BAS and Nadia Frontier, a marine biologist from BAS and former 
winterer.
The BBC Antarctic Midwinter Broadcast will be transmitted at 21.30 GMT on 21 
June

on shortwave frequencies: 12005 kHz, 13810 kHz and 7255 kHz.
You can also listen to the programme on the BBC World Service at 02.32 BST 
on UK DAB and on BBC Sounds.
On 20/06/2023 16:18, Alan Pennington via groups.io wrote:
Frequencies confirmed for the special 30-minute BBC Antarctic Midwinter 
broadcast are:
7255 kHz Dhabbaya 250 kW
12005 kHz Woofferton 300 kW
13810 kHz Woofferton 250 kW
(Ascension relay - not being used)
Presume these are on air 2130-2200 UTC on 21st June (as tested 14th June) 
though not yet included in BBC schedule?
A slightly shorter version of the programme is also aired 22nd June 0132, 
0432 and 1232 UTC on BBC WS streams mentioned below.
0132 UTC (0232 British Summer Time) should include UK DAB and 198 kHz Long 
Wave plus 1413 kHz -A'Seela(Oman), 7325 kHz -A'Seela(Oman), 17790 
kHz -Kranji(Singapore).

73, AlanOn 14/06/2023 13:42, Alan Pennington via groups.io wrote:
Midwinter's Day in Antarctica is a week away (21st June) and BBC,
as in previous years, will have a half hour broadcast to
British Antarctic Survey (BAS) staff over-wintering at BAS bases there.
"The Antarctic Midwinter Broadcast is unlike anything else on the BBC World 
Service.

Every year, we make this special programme for just 32 listeners:
The team of scientists and support staff isolated at British research 
stations
in the Antarctic midwinter. Presented by Cerys Matthews, the programme 
features messages

from family and friends at home as well as music requests from Antarctica.
For decades it has been part of the traditional midwinter celebrations."
https:www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct5hqtBBC programme website above shows three scheduled broadcasts at:
* Thu 22 Jun 2023 01:32 GMT
BBC World Service UK DAB/Freeview, East and Southern Africa, Europe and the 
Middle East,
Online & West and Central Africa only (also on BBC R4 LW etc at this time 
0230 BST?)

* Thu 22 Jun 2023 04:32 GMT
BBC World Service Americas and the Caribbean
* Thu 22 Jun 2023 12:32 GMT
BBC World Service AustralasiaChecking HFCC today, there are 4 x 15 minute BBC English broadcasts 
registered this
evening (14 June 2023) 2130-2145 UTC to CIRAF zones 67 & 73 (Antarctica) so 
presume these

are the usual tests ahead of the Midwinter's Day broadcast?
Can anyone at Woofferton confirm this, and also if there is still the usual
2130 UTC transmission on 21st June (as well as the three the BBC list 
above)?
Frequencies per HFCC 14 June 2130-2145 UTC: 7255 Dhabbaya; 12005 Woofferton;
12065 Woofferton {sic, not <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<}
and 13810 Woofferton.
73, Alan Pennington 
_

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