{"id":6950,"date":"2011-07-16T14:56:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-16T04:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/07\/16\/australian-antarctic-antenna-archeology\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T22:00:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T12:00:03","slug":"australian-antarctic-antenna-archeology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/07\/16\/australian-antarctic-antenna-archeology\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian Antarctic Antenna Archeology"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Mac.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Mac.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5629966790464265986\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:78%;\"><span style=\"border-bottom: 2px dotted rgb(54, 99, 136); cursor: pointer; background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent; font-size: 130%;\" class=\"yshortcuts\" id=\"lw_1310828301_1\">Macquarie Island<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 130%;\"><\/span><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Bill,<\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: bold;\" class=\"yiv937203718MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size:130%;\">I caught half of a report on \u201cThe 7:30 Report\u201d on Australia\u2019s public broadcaster ABC TV. Not knowing the full Mawson expedition story, I found this interesting. A conservation group is working to conserve the <\/span><span style=\"border-bottom: 2px dotted rgb(54, 99, 136); cursor: pointer; background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;font-size:130%;\" class=\"yshortcuts\" id=\"lw_1310828301_0\" >old halfway<\/span><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"> point radio repeater mast and whatever other bits have survived on <\/span><span style=\"border-bottom: 2px dotted rgb(54, 99, 136); cursor: pointer; background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;font-size:130%;\" class=\"yshortcuts\" id=\"lw_1310828301_1\" >Macquarie Island<\/span><span style=\"font-size:130%;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: bold;\" class=\"yiv937203718MsoNormal\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: bold;\" class=\"yiv937203718MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size:130%;\">The links are to the transcript and the actual report video. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: bold;\" class=\"yiv937203718MsoNormal\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: bold;\" class=\"yiv937203718MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size:130%;\">Story Transcript:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: bold;\" class=\"yiv937203718MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/7.30\/content\/2011\/s3268909.htm\"><span class=\"yshortcuts\" id=\"lw_1310828301_2\">http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/7.30\/content\/2011\/s3268909.htm<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: bold;\" class=\"yiv937203718MsoNormal\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: bold;\" class=\"yiv937203718MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size:130%;\">Vodcast videos. They are about 26MB in size. Theyr\u2019e both the same video. Just two different formats.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: bold;\" class=\"yiv937203718MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/mpegmedia.abc.net.au\/730report\/video\/podcast\/r799754_7027600.m4v\"><span class=\"yshortcuts\" id=\"lw_1310828301_3\">http:\/\/mpegmedia.abc.net.au\/730report\/video\/podcast\/r799754_7027600.m4v<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: bold;\" class=\"yiv937203718MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/mpegmedia.abc.net.au\/730report\/video\/podcast\/r799754_7027588.wmv\"><span class=\"yshortcuts\" id=\"lw_1310828301_4\">http:\/\/mpegmedia.abc.net.au\/730report\/video\/podcast\/r799754_7027588.wmv<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: bold;\" class=\"yiv937203718MsoNormal\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: bold;\" class=\"yiv937203718MsoNormal\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: bold;\" class=\"yiv937203718MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size:130%;\">John Dowdell<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: bold;\" class=\"yiv937203718MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size:130%;\">Yet to do the test<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: bold;\" class=\"yiv937203718MsoNormal\"><span style=\"border-bottom: 2px dotted rgb(54, 99, 136); cursor: pointer; background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;font-size:130%;\" class=\"yshortcuts\" id=\"lw_1310828301_5\" >Sydney Australia<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Macquarie Island Bill, I caught half of a report on \u201cThe 7:30 Report\u201d on Australia\u2019s public broadcaster ABC TV. Not knowing the full Mawson expedition story, I found this interesting. A conservation group is working to conserve the old halfway point radio repeater mast and whatever other bits have survived on Macquarie Island. The links &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/07\/16\/australian-antarctic-antenna-archeology\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Australian Antarctic Antenna Archeology&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6951,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,69,29,406,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-antarctica","category-antennas","category-australia","category-tasmania","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6950"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6952,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6950\/revisions\/6952"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}