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DRM Broadcast on 80th Anniversary of Woofferton Transmitting Station UK (WOF), October 17, 2023
A shortwave transmitting station near Ludlow will be celebrating its 80th birthday tomorrow.
The station was originally built by the BBC during the Second World War to house additional shortwave (HF) broadcasting transmitters.
When it officially started broadcasting on October 17, 1943 it had six 50 kW RCA transmitters, obtained by lend-lease. The site has been modernised many times over the years and is now DRM (Digital Radio Mondiale) capable providing daily digital radio programmes.
To mark its 80th anniversary Encompass Digital Media (a key DRM member) will be running a special programme on HF analogue and DRM, too at Woofferton Transmitting Station (WOF) in south-west UK. Here are the details:
Tuesday 17th October 2023 (Tuesday) from 1330 - 1430 UTC
15245 kHz (250 kW) - Sender 95 Marconi (BD272 from 1963) Array 928 294* for North America
17785 kHz (250 kW) - Sender 96 Riz AMC Array 904A 114* for Europe and beyond.
11725 kHz (110 kW DRM) - Sender 92 Riz Array 909A 114* for Europe and beyond.
There will be an opening interval signal on all three frequencies.
The programme content will be historical facts of WOF in BBC, VoA, Radio Free Europe, R Liberty ,CBC etc and the later privatised times, DW and VoV for example as well as up-to-date information on DRM as well as personal recollections from many former WOF staff. There will be station idents of services over the years.
It will be streamed from London as part of the WRN offering and the details are below.
It will be on WRN English globally, this would then go out on Hotbird 13G, Astra 2G (Sky and Virgin Media), Intelsat 20 and Galaxy 19.
Webstream are also available on the Encompass website.
How to Listen - Encompass Marketing
QSLs will be verified and reports can be sent to: radio@encompass.tv
Sources :
British DX Club
you can find the stream here:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.mixcloud.com/EDMRadioOnline/woofferton80/