Broadcast Celebrates 80 Years for UK Shortwave Site

One hundred people turned out on Tuesday, the 17th October 2023, for an 80th anniversary celebration at the UK's last remaining shortwave radio transmitting site. Countless others attended the party from a distance -- as shortwave listeners who later sent in reception reports.

The Woofferton Transmitting Station, which was built by the BBC during the Second World War, is owned by Encompass Digital Media. Its celebration broadcast was transmitted to listeners in Europe as an analogue broadcast on 17.785 MHz and as a DRM broadcast on 11.725 MHz.

In a rare turn at programming, the station also used its oldest transmitter - a Marconi BD272 built in Britain in 1963, to send programming to North America on 15.245 MHz.

To hear the anniversary broadcast, click on the link that you can find in the text version of this week's Amateur Radio Newsline Newscast -https://www.mixcloud.com/EDMRadioOnline/woofferton80/