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22nd Mar 2022, 10:39 am | #81 |
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Re: BBC WS restarts SW services
I listened to the BBC WS over the weekend on 15730Khz and made me appreciate the magic of Short Waves again.
Has the Skelton site been mothballed or totally dismantled like Rampisham which is now a solar power farm.
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22nd Mar 2022, 12:22 pm | #82 | |
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Re: BBC WS restarts SW services
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A small party was held on the Evening Shift of 30 October 2011 at 23:15 when the last AM transmission closed at the end of the Summer Schedule. The transmission went out from Sender 54, a MWT B6122. Skelton 'C' was mothballed with the best of intentions in 2013 and up until 2018 I reckoned we could've got a couple of senders back on-air, if we had to. But there's no chance now. Woofferton salvaged the Marconi B6126s for spares for their Marconi B6124s. Some HF antennas remain at Skelton 'C' but not many. The site is now used for other customers further down the spectrum. The last I heard about Rampisham was that the transmitters were still extant. It's a handy tap-in point for the grid, being on the main transmission line between Yeovil and Maiden Newton, or something like that.
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23rd Mar 2022, 11:13 am | #83 |
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Re: BBC WS restarts SW services
Thanks Russel for the interesting reply. Sad to hear but inevitable I suppose. So its just Woofferton that survives.
So some of the 500Kw transmitters at Rampisham were saved? but I know all the aerials have been bought down.
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23rd Mar 2022, 3:28 pm | #84 |
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Not saved deliberately, as far as I can tell, but just not scrapped yet! I'll try to find out what the current state is inside the place. It's a bit since I heard anything.
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23rd Mar 2022, 7:46 pm | #85 | |
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Re: BBC WS restarts SW services
Supposedly Rampisham is to have a few small businesses run from it.
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23rd Mar 2022, 10:13 pm | #86 |
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Re: BBC WS restarts SW services
5875khZ is from Wooferton @ 300kW...(the site is near to me) My friend G8XYJ is an engineer there.
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13th Apr 2022, 5:34 pm | #87 | ||
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Re: BBC WS restarts SW services
A dash of cold water, perhaps, from the Engineering Radio website.
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13th Apr 2022, 5:51 pm | #88 |
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Re: BBC WS restarts SW services
The BBC were made to start paying for the World Service by the government, who had previously funded it separately, about ten years ago.
Presumably, this would still apply. Not sure that the beeb would want to do this now, what with all their constraints. Cheers Aub
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13th Apr 2022, 6:24 pm | #89 |
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Re: BBC WS restarts SW services
The WS funding arrangements have changed again, with the Foreign Office apparently accepting that zero government funding is unsustainable if the service is to continue. If funding all has to come from the licence fee, then there's nothing to stop the BBC just closing the WS down, which is definitely not what the government wants at the moment.
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14th Apr 2022, 10:58 am | #90 |
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Re: BBC WS restarts SW services
I read somewhere that some Foreign Office/Government funding had been reinstated some time ago, so well before the Ukraine crisis.
This seemed to coincide with an improvement in the content. Probably like many on here I listened to the WS long before it became generally available to domestic listeners on DAB and before overnight availability on Radio 4. IMHO today’s WS is poor in comparison. |
17th Apr 2022, 10:27 pm | #91 |
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Re: BBC WS restarts SW services
I read elsewhere that the 49m band service has ended. Current schedule:
15740kHz: 1400-1500 Monday to Friday; 1200-1300 Saturday and Sunday 11680kHz: 1900-2000 Monday to Friday; 2000-2100 Saturday and Sunday |
10th May 2022, 12:23 pm | #92 |
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Re: BBC WS restarts SW services
Pity the old Radio Liberty antennas in Playa de Pals, Spain, were demolished years ago. They would prove useful now!
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3rd Jun 2022, 2:30 pm | #93 |
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Re: BBC WS restarts SW services
The 15740 khz service does not appear to be airing today, contrary to the service schedule on the World Service website. Has this now ended or is Wooferton having transmitter issues?
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3rd Jun 2022, 8:07 pm | #94 |
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Re: BBC WS restarts SW services
Hi,
I have been listening to bbc ws for a few weeks now on my solid state single conversion superhet(still on breadboard, currently working on pcb) on 7.8965MHz-0.455KHz=7.4415MHz uk time=6pm to ? daily. Last edited by commie1; 3rd Jun 2022 at 8:36 pm. |
3rd Jun 2022, 9:03 pm | #95 |
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Re: BBC WS restarts SW services
Just an update, looks like the station runs from 6-9pm.cheers
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8th Oct 2022, 7:46 pm | #96 |
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Re: BBC WS restarts SW services
Just wondering, have these broadcasts ceased or still going on?
Any one have frequencies and time if they are on please? Adrian |
10th Oct 2022, 8:09 am | #97 |
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Re: BBC WS restarts SW services
They are still going. When tuning around on a communications set I had completed yesterday, I heard them pretty clearly. Sorry, didn't note the frequency though! Will have another tune this evening and see if I can note it. However, they are not often heard in the UK as the transmission is aimed the wrong way.
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10th Oct 2022, 8:16 am | #98 |
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Re: BBC WS restarts SW services
Thanks for the response, trying to find them with the Eddystone 870 I have brought fettled and not sure if I could hear them, plenty of other stations but the set is a bit barn door'ish.
Thinking of making a pre-selector to help with image response. Adrian |
10th Oct 2022, 10:18 am | #99 |
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Re: BBC WS restarts SW services
I think the lesson here is 'Don't burn your boats'. J.
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10th Oct 2022, 2:45 pm | #100 | |
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