MY AM Archive is a continual thread of my Medium Wave logbooks, bringing them online for posterity, and for other like-minded radio listeners to enjoy.
Logs of Short Wave broadcasts are also on this blog, under the My DX Archive thread.
The previous post in this thread, My AM Archive: May Bank Holiday 2008, can be found
here.
Logs in this post date from Summer 2008, specifically June 8 and August 25.
Housekeeping notes: Times in UTC (GMT), frequencies in kiloHertz (kHz). Transmission power in watts or kiloWatts (kW). Logs transcribed from the original notes.
June 2008 : Medium Wave
Sunday 8 June 2008: 1924 UTC: 756 kHz: BBC Radio Cumbria Carlisle transmitter, live relay of Rokker Radio, programme for Gypsies and Travelling People, live from Appleby Horse Fair, presented by Jake Bowers. Interview with musician Catherine Ashcroft, regarding her live performance of her album 'Take Flight & Follow' on Fair Hill, Appleby. Interview with lady regarding the attitude of local authorities to gypsies and travelling people. Project called 'Education On The Hoof'. Appleby Horse Fair is the largest gathering of gypsy and travelling people in the world.
Rokker Radio is usually based in Luton and broadcast to the east & south of England.
Excellent to good reception.
Interview with a gentleman regarding the history of the fair. Interview with Landlord of the White Hart Hotel, Boroughgate, Appleby-in-Westmorland.
Chris (lady) from Colchester, regular listener to Rokker Radio, in Appleby, would like to see more bins, more toilets.
Travel news: J17 M25 Essex. M25 Wycombe Bishops. Cumbria: A6 Penrith, Tynedale Drive. Railway: Carlisle - Glasgow, Carlisle - Edinburgh on Virgin Cross Country. Trailer for BBC HD.
ID: Rokker Radio with Jake Bowers. Story: Vale of Whitworth. Collecting the rubbish. Billy Welsh: Attitude of authority. Inheritance issues. Final song: Live rendition of Johnny Cash song 'Folsom Prison Blues' at Appleby Horse Fair. Miss Price closes this edition of Rokker Radio. Email address for Jake Bowers.
Next in the east of England: Keith Skues. Close of programme at 9pm (20 UTC), BBC Radio Cumbria news.
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| BBC Radio Cumbria postmark, May 2007. |
August 2008 : Medium Wave
Monday 25 August 2008 (August Bank Holiday Monday): 1520 UTC (1620 BST): 756 kHz: BBC Radio Cumbria Excellent to good reception, 1 kW via Carlisle.
'Bank Holiday Sport' Live commentary with James Phillips: York City v Barrow, 1-1 at 62 minutes, attendance: 2664. Live from KitKat Crescent / Bootham Crescent, York. 409 Barrow fans in the crowd.
Full Time at Borough Park, Workington: Workington 4 - Burscough 1.
York v Barrow in the 90th minute, 3 minutes stoppage time at KitKat Crescent / Bootham Crescent. Nicholas Rogan wins a corner for Barrow, shot on goal - past the post. 93rd minute.
Full Time: York City 1 - Barrow 1. To 1555 UTC.
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