Every year the BBC has a short program with family greetings to the staff of the British Antartic Survey. This year the program was aired for the 70th time. It’s a bit of a tradition as unlike 70 years ago the researchers have access to broadband internet enabling them to communicate with friends and family in the UK.
I heard them on 12065 kHz from Woofferton and on 9575 kHz from Ascension Island. A program with family greetings from the UK to the folks at South Georgia and Rothera Base. And with a brief message from King Charles as well. In the 90-ies I as able to receive these BAS stations on 9106 kHz, but I’m not sure whether they are still active on that frequency given modern communication tools.
Below the opening clip taken from the Woofferton broadcast as it was of better quality. The Ascension broadcast had a strange digital signal over it which almost seemed to originate from the station itself.
I sent a report to their eQSL service. Unfortunately it only returns random picture postcards without reception details. But fortunately mine was with a picture of Ascension Island facilities.
