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BBC World Service at last has some details on the special half hour
Antarctic Midwinter Broadcast tonight:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/pr...ic_midwinter_\

special_2010.shtml

The broadcast can be heard in the South Atlantic on Monday 21 June at 21:30 -
22:00 GMT on the following short-wave frequencies:
5950 kHz (49 metre band)
7295 kHz (41 metre band)
7360 kHz (41 metre band)

First broadcast 21st June 2010

(can also listen to the programme via this link)

Via Alan Pennington, DXLD
Caversham, UK

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Heard here on all three frequencies, with 7360 being the best by far.



dxAce wrote:

BBC World Service at last has some details on the special half hour
Antarctic Midwinter Broadcast tonight:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/pr...ic_midwinter_\

special_2010.shtml

The broadcast can be heard in the South Atlantic on Monday 21 June at 21:30 -
22:00 GMT on the following short-wave frequencies:
5950 kHz (49 metre band)
7295 kHz (41 metre band)
7360 kHz (41 metre band)

First broadcast 21st June 2010

(can also listen to the programme via this link)

Via Alan Pennington, DXLD
Caversham, UK

====================

dxAce
Michigan
USA


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On 6/21/10 16:33 , dxAce wrote:
Heard here on all three frequencies, with 7360 being the best by far.



Nothing here on any frequency.



dxAce wrote:

BBC World Service at last has some details on the special half hour
Antarctic Midwinter Broadcast tonight:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/pr...ic_midwinter_\

special_2010.shtml

The broadcast can be heard in the South Atlantic on Monday 21 June at 21:30 -
22:00 GMT on the following short-wave frequencies:
5950 kHz (49 metre band)
7295 kHz (41 metre band)
7360 kHz (41 metre band)

First broadcast 21st June 2010

(can also listen to the programme via this link)

Via Alan Pennington, DXLD
Caversham, UK

====================

dxAce
Michigan
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"D. Peter Maus" wrote:

On 6/21/10 16:33 , dxAce wrote:
Heard here on all three frequencies, with 7360 being the best by far.



Nothing here on any frequency.


7360 via Ascension about S7 on the 200' W-E wire with only a whisper from Radio Belarus
underneath.




dxAce wrote:

BBC World Service at last has some details on the special half hour
Antarctic Midwinter Broadcast tonight:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/pr...ic_midwinter_\

special_2010.shtml

The broadcast can be heard in the South Atlantic on Monday 21 June at 21:30 -
22:00 GMT on the following short-wave frequencies:
5950 kHz (49 metre band)
7295 kHz (41 metre band)
7360 kHz (41 metre band)

First broadcast 21st June 2010

(can also listen to the programme via this link)

Via Alan Pennington, DXLD
Caversham, UK

====================

dxAce
Michigan
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dxAce wrote:

"D. Peter Maus" wrote:

On 6/21/10 16:33 , dxAce wrote:
Heard here on all three frequencies, with 7360 being the best by far.



Nothing here on any frequency.


7360 via Ascension about S7 on the 200' W-E wire with only a whisper from Radio Belarus
underneath.


Finished up singing "Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow..."

Very nice.






dxAce wrote:

BBC World Service at last has some details on the special half hour
Antarctic Midwinter Broadcast tonight:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/pr...ic_midwinter_\

special_2010.shtml

The broadcast can be heard in the South Atlantic on Monday 21 June at 21:30 -
22:00 GMT on the following short-wave frequencies:
5950 kHz (49 metre band)
7295 kHz (41 metre band)
7360 kHz (41 metre band)

First broadcast 21st June 2010

(can also listen to the programme via this link)

Via Alan Pennington, DXLD
Caversham, UK

====================

dxAce
Michigan
USA




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These frequencies seem odd to use beaming to a location that is in 24
daylight. I would think 11mHz and 13mHz would be the optimum. Any
thoughts?


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BBC World Service at last has some details on the special half hour
Antarctic Midwinter Broadcast tonight:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/pr...ic_midwinter_\

special_2010.shtml

The broadcast can be heard in the South Atlantic on Monday 21 June at
21:30 -
22:00 GMT on the following short-wave frequencies:
5950 kHz (49 metre band)
7295 kHz (41 metre band)
7360 kHz (41 metre band)

First broadcast 21st June 2010

(can also listen to the programme via this link)

Via Alan Pennington, DXLD
Caversham, UK

====================

dxAce
Michigan
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VegasNightOwl wrote:

These frequencies seem odd to use beaming to a location that is in 24
daylight. I would think 11mHz and 13mHz would be the optimum. Any
thoughts?


Thoughts? Just why would you think that Antarctica is in 24 hour daylight at this time
of year?

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