[A-DX] Fw: [BDXC-UK] Antarctic Midwinter Broadcast 2012 today

["Wolfgang Bueschel" <BueschelWW@xxxxxx>]

FYI  - Also damit sind auch alle Fragezeichen bezüglich dem Sendetag 
obsolet:

> [Scheduled 21 June:
> 2130-2200 UTC on 5950 kHz (via Skelton), 7360 kHz (via
> Ascension) and 9850 kHz (via Skelton)

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "alan_pennington_dx" Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2012 11:42 AM
Subject: [BDXC-UK] Antarctic Midwinter Broadcast 2012 today


> from BBC website:
>
> The BBC's Martin Redfern presents half an hour of music requests and 
> special
> messages for the staff at the British Antarctic Survey.
>
> Produced and presented for an audience of just 44 - the brave and hardy
> scientists and technical staff who keep the Antarctic bases of the British
> Antarctic Survey running through the long, cold darkness of the polar
> winter - the Antarctic Specials are possibly the World Service's most
> unusual broadcasts.
>
> Once a year, on 21 June, in the dark days of the Southern winter, staff at
> the four Antarctic bases cluster round their shortwave radios to hear the
> BBC present half an hour of music requests and special messages from their
> loved ones back home.
>
> This year there are eight people stationed at King Edward Point on South
> Georgia, just four on Bird Island nearby. There are 18 at the biggest 
> base,
> Rothera, on Adelaide Island near the Antarctic Peninsula, and 14 at 
> Halley,
> the furthest South, on the Brunt Ice Shelf. Halley VI is a brand new 
> base -
> the previous one was getting buried in snow and was threatened by a 
> break-up
> of the ice shelf.
>
> [item has photo of Martin Redfern recording for BBC World Service inside 
> an
> ice cave in the Rothera Glacier]
>
> There are special messages in the programme from surprise celebrity 
> guests,
> and a selection of music that reveals a deep longing for sunshine!
>
> This year the broadcast is presented by Martin Redfern, who was fortunate 
> to
> spend a month in Antarctica four years ago, reporting on research and
> visiting field sites and the Rothera base.
>
> As a result, says Martin, "We feel we are talking to friends. We can 
> imagine
> the scene down there.
>
> "And, although we were only there for a few weeks in Summer, we know how
> food fantasies turn to salad and fresh fruit!"
>
> For more details about the work of the British Antarctic Survey visit the
> link on the right - http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/
>
> First broadcast on 21 June 2012
>
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/programmes/2012/06/120620_antarctic_midwinter_broadcast_2012.shtml?bw=bb&mp=wm&bbcws=1&news=1
>
> [Scheduled 21 June:
> 2130-2200 UTC on 5950 kHz (via Skelton), 7360 kHz (via
> Ascension) and 9850 kHz (via Skelton)
> - presumably audio will also appear on the above linked page]
>
> Midwinter's Day this year was actually yesterday, 20th June, per this
> article on British Antarctic Survey's website:
> "Usually Midwinter's Day falls on 21st June, but because 2012 is a leap
> year, it will occur on the 20th June. The last time this happened was more
> than 30 years ago in 1975. Since it takes the Earth 365.25 days to orbit 
> the
> Sun, every four years an extra day is added in February to prevent a 
> gradual
> drift of date through the seasons."
> Full article at:
> http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/about_bas/news/news_story.php?id=1841

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