- Martin
- I was born in the beautiful city of Carlisle, resident of Cumbria. The view from my home includes the Fox Tower, after which I named this blog.
Friday, April 28, 2006
Thursday, April 20, 2006
Thursday night notes
HOPE you like the new addition to Reporting From The Fox Tower - The real time clock in the sidebar! I've set the clock to show GMT, two reasons :
- My radio hobby dictates times to be recorded in GMT (also known as UTC - Universal Time Co-ordination), therefore the clock on my radio (Roberts R881) is always set to GMT. I also feel my journal would benefit from having a reference point to 'local time', which here in the UK is GMT (+1 in summer).
- The second reason is that in the latter part of the first reason - The change between GMT and GMT+1 when the clocks change twice a year in the UK. We know the time it takes to alter all the clocks at home - This makes that job one clock more convenient.
I'll close for tonight - Hope you report back to Reporting From The Fox Tower again soon!
Saturday, April 15, 2006
Happy Easter
WISHING you all an enjoyable and peaceful Easter weekend. If you have some good memories of the weekend, please use the comments link below this post and write up your memories of the weekend, share with us how you spent the Easter weekend. Nice idea, I think!
A Final Traveller's Tale
AS the Easter weekend is with us, the Summer season has now begun and this post hosts the final in the series of World of Blog / Traveller's Tales.
Today's link is to Hayley, pictured left, who has a Where Are You Now site, which can be viewed here.
As said in previous posts, I hope all those featured in the series give you some interesting ideas for the summer, and also a chance to catch up on life with people in various areas of the world.
Visit Cumbria in 2006 (A Revival)
SOMETIME over the Winter I made a post titled Visit Cumbria in 2006, in which I pledged to start a series promoting all areas of Cumbria to give you an excellent reason to visit the County this Summer. In that post made during the cold, dark months, I placed a link to the Historic Carlisle site, which I hope you found of interest. As this is the introduction to the series, I won't rush to place any posts today, I will continue my research and give you some good ideas for the season ahead.
Hoping to see you in Cumbria very soon!
Easter on the Wireless
I spent the afternoon of Good Friday (14 April) taking advantage of some free time which I spent with my radio, listening to the Medium Wave band. True to form, here are the stations I heard. As some broadcasters use several frequencies on the Medium Wave (AM) band, some of the stations featured here in this list have been featured previously on Reporting From The Fox Tower, so today's list won't feature links to the broadcasters' websites, but if you see a station you are interested in and would like to see more, please use Google. (Other popular search engines are available).
Friday 14 April 2006 :
1314 kHz : NRK Euuropakanalen (Norwegian Domestic Service)
1341 kHz : BBC Radio Ulster (Northern Ireland)
1368 kHz : Manx Radio (Isle of Man)
1377 kHz : France Info (French Domestic Service, Lille transmitter)
1404 kHz : France Info (Brest transmitter)
1422 kHz : Deutschlandfunk (German Domestic Service)
There were other broadcasts too, which I could not fully identify, which would have been nice to bolster the list, but hopefully, next time . . . !
Well that concludes the post for today, Enjoy your Easter!
A Final Traveller's Tale
AS the Easter weekend is with us, the Summer season has now begun and this post hosts the final in the series of World of Blog / Traveller's Tales.Today's link is to Hayley, pictured left, who has a Where Are You Now site, which can be viewed here.
As said in previous posts, I hope all those featured in the series give you some interesting ideas for the summer, and also a chance to catch up on life with people in various areas of the world.
Visit Cumbria in 2006 (A Revival)
SOMETIME over the Winter I made a post titled Visit Cumbria in 2006, in which I pledged to start a series promoting all areas of Cumbria to give you an excellent reason to visit the County this Summer. In that post made during the cold, dark months, I placed a link to the Historic Carlisle site, which I hope you found of interest. As this is the introduction to the series, I won't rush to place any posts today, I will continue my research and give you some good ideas for the season ahead.
Hoping to see you in Cumbria very soon!
Easter on the Wireless
I spent the afternoon of Good Friday (14 April) taking advantage of some free time which I spent with my radio, listening to the Medium Wave band. True to form, here are the stations I heard. As some broadcasters use several frequencies on the Medium Wave (AM) band, some of the stations featured here in this list have been featured previously on Reporting From The Fox Tower, so today's list won't feature links to the broadcasters' websites, but if you see a station you are interested in and would like to see more, please use Google. (Other popular search engines are available).
Friday 14 April 2006 :
1314 kHz : NRK Euuropakanalen (Norwegian Domestic Service)
1341 kHz : BBC Radio Ulster (Northern Ireland)
1368 kHz : Manx Radio (Isle of Man)
1377 kHz : France Info (French Domestic Service, Lille transmitter)
1404 kHz : France Info (Brest transmitter)
1422 kHz : Deutschlandfunk (German Domestic Service)
There were other broadcasts too, which I could not fully identify, which would have been nice to bolster the list, but hopefully, next time . . . !
Well that concludes the post for today, Enjoy your Easter!
Wednesday, April 5, 2006
Cardiff Day Out - FM Logs
Yesterday (Tuesday) I wrote of Sunday's trip to Cardiff for the Football League Trophy Final.
Whilst on the bus, I listened to various broadcasters on the FM band on a pocket radio. Here is a list of the stations I heard with links to their websites:
BBC Lancashire Online
97.4 Rock FM (Preston) Online
100.4 Smooth FM Online
Signal One Cheshire & Staffordshire Online
Kerrang 105 FM Online
97.2 Beacon Radio Online
Saga 105.7 FM Online
BBC Hereford & Worcester Online
Vibe FM Online
BBC Radio Cymru (Welsh language site)
BBC Radio Bristol Online
95.6 BBC WM (West Midlands) Online
Century FM Online
BBC Manchester Online
And that is the list of what I heard Sunday 2 April 2006! Hours approximately 7am to 12 noon, 4pm to 10pm, with breaks from listening.
With regards to my radio listening hobby on Medium Wave and Short Wave, I plan to do some listening over Easter, so I will probably post what I heard on this blog so something else to look forward to!
World of Blog : Traveller's Tales 2
Catch up on life with Alice as she travels the world, logged by her page on the Where Are You Now website, which you can visit here.
You may note from Alice's page she's a Cumbrian girl which is always good to see! Quite a few exotic trips too, a few ideas for a summer getaway. Those hoping for a summer getaway with Alice may be disappointed, pictures seem to show she is attached.
Hope you will get over your disappointment - till next time...
Whilst on the bus, I listened to various broadcasters on the FM band on a pocket radio. Here is a list of the stations I heard with links to their websites:
BBC Lancashire Online
97.4 Rock FM (Preston) Online
100.4 Smooth FM Online
Signal One Cheshire & Staffordshire Online
Kerrang 105 FM Online
97.2 Beacon Radio Online
Saga 105.7 FM Online
BBC Hereford & Worcester Online
Vibe FM Online
BBC Radio Cymru (Welsh language site)
BBC Radio Bristol Online
95.6 BBC WM (West Midlands) Online
Century FM Online
BBC Manchester Online
And that is the list of what I heard Sunday 2 April 2006! Hours approximately 7am to 12 noon, 4pm to 10pm, with breaks from listening.
With regards to my radio listening hobby on Medium Wave and Short Wave, I plan to do some listening over Easter, so I will probably post what I heard on this blog so something else to look forward to!
World of Blog : Traveller's Tales 2
Catch up on life with Alice as she travels the world, logged by her page on the Where Are You Now website, which you can visit here.
You may note from Alice's page she's a Cumbrian girl which is always good to see! Quite a few exotic trips too, a few ideas for a summer getaway. Those hoping for a summer getaway with Alice may be disappointed, pictures seem to show she is attached.
Hope you will get over your disappointment - till next time...
Tuesday, April 4, 2006
'On The Road' with Carlisle United
Sunday was an amazing day. I was a bit dubious of what the day would bring when the alarm rang out at 5am, slightly groggy due to the cold I have been carrying since mid week. I switched on my radio to find BBC Radio Cumbria's transmitters relaying the 'over-night' service from Five Live... which happened to be live coverage of the Australian Formula 1 Grand Prix! Thanks to Phil Jones at Brough Post Office for allowing customers to interrupt his sorting of the morning papers, yup, that was me. The Grand Prix bus arrived at 6am and carried us to Cardiff, from what I have seen, a very beautiful city.
The Millennium Stadium is an imposing structure, there is no other way to describe it. All the plaudits to Carlisle United, losing 2-1 but united in defeat, defiant and strong. And so back on the bus, for another six or seven hours travel.
I took a couple of pocket FM radios on the journey, pencil and paper noting down stations I heard there and back. I will log the stations, with links to their web pages, in a future post on Reporting From The Fox Tower.
And for the anorak in me, we passed close to the BBC transmitter site at Droitwich, responsible for broadcasting BBC Radio 4 Long Wave on 198 kHz and BBC Radio Five Live on 693 kHz Medium Wave.
Just so you know.
And as for Carlisle United ... I expect to see you all, Saturday, Brunton Park, for the game against Grimsby Town. It's gonna be a good 'un!
World of Blog ( part three ) : Traveller's Tales
CATCH UP ON LIFE in Oslo (Norway) with Stine.
I've mentioned Stine previously in Reporting From The Fox Tower, on the occasion of her Twenty - First Birthday, which included a link to her MSN Space, which I have included again here.
I have subtitled this item ' Traveller's Tales' as Stine has travelled the World in recent years, and for those of you who share Stine's enthusiasm for World travel, take a look at Stine's page on the web site 'Where Are You Now' which might give you some ideas for your holiday this summer.
All change - on (or off) the air
That's all for this edition, as some media outlets like to say, especially some radio broadcasts. The turning of March to April has brought about changes to various radio broadcasts in, or from, the United Kingdom. First of all a wind of change - BBC GMR has now reverted to BBC Manchester, whilst it is end of the line for BBC Radio 4's early morning UK Theme and the BBC World Service closed their Calling The Falklands broadcast after many years.
BBC Radio 2 said goodbye to Colin Berry and Ed 'Stewpot' Stewart, veteran pirate broadcaster Johnnie Walker vacated his weekday drivetime show to take over Stewpot's Sunday show, whilst young upstart Chris Evans (age 40) left his Saturday show to take up Johnnie's drivetime. Confused? Questions later...
Will leave you in peace now - for a day or two at least !
Stay tuned to this frequency . . . . .
The Millennium Stadium is an imposing structure, there is no other way to describe it. All the plaudits to Carlisle United, losing 2-1 but united in defeat, defiant and strong. And so back on the bus, for another six or seven hours travel.
I took a couple of pocket FM radios on the journey, pencil and paper noting down stations I heard there and back. I will log the stations, with links to their web pages, in a future post on Reporting From The Fox Tower.
And for the anorak in me, we passed close to the BBC transmitter site at Droitwich, responsible for broadcasting BBC Radio 4 Long Wave on 198 kHz and BBC Radio Five Live on 693 kHz Medium Wave.
Just so you know.
And as for Carlisle United ... I expect to see you all, Saturday, Brunton Park, for the game against Grimsby Town. It's gonna be a good 'un!
World of Blog ( part three ) : Traveller's Tales
CATCH UP ON LIFE in Oslo (Norway) with Stine.
I've mentioned Stine previously in Reporting From The Fox Tower, on the occasion of her Twenty - First Birthday, which included a link to her MSN Space, which I have included again here.
I have subtitled this item ' Traveller's Tales' as Stine has travelled the World in recent years, and for those of you who share Stine's enthusiasm for World travel, take a look at Stine's page on the web site 'Where Are You Now' which might give you some ideas for your holiday this summer.
All change - on (or off) the air
That's all for this edition, as some media outlets like to say, especially some radio broadcasts. The turning of March to April has brought about changes to various radio broadcasts in, or from, the United Kingdom. First of all a wind of change - BBC GMR has now reverted to BBC Manchester, whilst it is end of the line for BBC Radio 4's early morning UK Theme and the BBC World Service closed their Calling The Falklands broadcast after many years.
BBC Radio 2 said goodbye to Colin Berry and Ed 'Stewpot' Stewart, veteran pirate broadcaster Johnnie Walker vacated his weekday drivetime show to take over Stewpot's Sunday show, whilst young upstart Chris Evans (age 40) left his Saturday show to take up Johnnie's drivetime. Confused? Questions later...
Will leave you in peace now - for a day or two at least !
Stay tuned to this frequency . . . . .
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