Fifty years of transmitting at BBC Woofferton

Thu 18 December 2014

I ran across a paper that was written discussing the shortwave broadcast station at Woofferton, UK, last year, and thought I'd share it.  It's a really interesting read and gives you a perspective of what it took to maintain such a station with a near-constant change to technology.  It's in PDF format so you should be able to read it on most any device.

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