BBC Midwinter Broadcast to Antarctica: June 21, 2026
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This episode features the BBC Midwinter Broadcast to Antarctica recorded on June 21, 2026, highlighting the unique celebration for scientists in Antarctica.
This is the BBC Midwinter Broadcast to Antarctica recorded on June 21, 2026 at 09:30 UTC in Foulden, Scotland, UK. The radio was an Elecraft KX2 connected to a 31-foot 9:1 random wire antenna in the back garden. The broadcast starts on 9460 kHz, but I then move to 12070 kHz because it had slightly less local noise. BBC Midwinter Broadcast to Antarctica: June 21, 2026 Thomas Witherspoon Download Personal note The BBC Midwinter Broadcast remains one of my favorite SWLing events of the year. I simply love the idea that the BBC would broadcast from two different sites on three different frequencies via shortwave to a relatively small audience of British Antarctic Survey scientists wintering over in Antarctica. It's always a joy to listen live, knowing that they're celebrating midwinter with parties at their stations and hearing the voices, messages, laughter, and well-wishes of loved ones carried to them over the air by shortwave radio. In an age of instant communications, there's still something magical about that.
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