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Author Topic: BBC Winter Solstice bcast to British Antarctic Survey Today! via Ferguson  (Read 1708 times)

Offline clobdell

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The broadcast will occur June 21 at 2130-2200 on

7350 Ascension 207 degrees
9890 Woofferton 182 degrees
5965 Dhabayya 203 degrees

Dan

On 6/13/2013 8:16 AM, Dan Ferguson wrote:
 The BBC 2013 winter solstice broadcast to the British Antarctic Survey
 will occur June 21 at 2130-2200 GMT. I am told tests for the broadcast
 will be conducted June 14 at 2130-2145:

 5905 Kranji 185°
 5965 Dhabayya 203°
 7350 Ascension 207°
 9535 Ascension 207°
 9890 Woofferton 182°


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Hearing them here on 7350 and 9890, 9890 is coming in the best but I'm getting a little interference from 9885, 5965 is occupied by another station at the moment.
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7350 is doing better than 9890 here with messages being read... accompanied by Nine Inch Nails "Every Day Is The Same".. lol
« Last Edit: June 21, 2013, 2139 UTC by Chris Lobdell »
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7350 is about s9+10 with an occasional data burst.
9890 is s7
5965 nothing
Happy Mid Winter
off at 2200utc
« Last Edit: June 21, 2013, 2200 UTC by Bill F »
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9890 is fair to poor here. The others...I got nothing.
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