Medium Wave Logs & Digital Special, February 2007

REPORTING From The Fox Tower begins today with my Medium Wave logs, dated 12 February 2007, received on my Roberts R881 receiver:

1734 UTC – 837 kHz : BBC Radio Cumbria (Barrow in Furness transmitter, Richard Nankivell, pictured left, on air). 1 kW.

1918 UTC – 846 kHz : Radio North, Rep IRL (Ireland) (Presumed). 100 kW.

1940 UTC – 855 kHz : RNE 1, Murcia, E (Spain). 300 kW.

2000 UTC – 864 kHz : La City Radio / France Bleu, Paris, F (France) (Presumed). 300 kW.

2012 UTC – 873 kHz : American Forces Network, Frankfurt, D (Germany), 150 kW.

2027 UTC – 882 kHz : BBC Radio Wales (Multi transmitter network).

2115 UTC – 891 kHz : UNID : Dutch music channel.

2123 UTC – 900 kHz : RAI Uno, Milan, I (Italy). 600 kW.

2134 UTC – 909 kHz : BBC Radio Five Live (Multi transmitter network).

2148 UTC – 918 kHz : Radio Slovenia, Domzale, SVN (Slovenia). 100 – 600 kW.

Another mixed bag this month, what an amazing waveband 'AM' can be!

DIGITAL SPECIAL - February 2007

I thought I would encompass all areas of my interest in broadcasting and bring you a 'Digital Special', in which here I will extensively list all channels I can receive via DAB Digital Radio and Freeview Digital Television. No, it will be interesting and fun, really. . .

Crown CDR 240 DAB Digital & FM Radio (Digital channels):

BBC Radio 1

theJazz

talkSPORT

Virgin Radio

1Xtra BBC

BBC 6 Music

BBC Radio Five Live

BBC Radio Five Live Sports Extra

BBC Asian Network

BBC World Service

BBC 7

BBC Radio 2

BBC Radio 3

BBC Radio 4

Classic FM

Core

Capital Life

oneword

Planet Rock

I haven't included the technical data for the channels as I'm not totally sure I understand it myself. Hey ho, let's go...

Matsui DTR-2 Digital Terrestrial Receiver (Freeview Television & Radio Channels):

Television (in numerical order):

BBC One

BBC Two

ITV1

Channel 4

five

ITV2

BBC Three

BBC Four

ITV3

Sky Three

UKTV History

More 4

E4

abc1

QVC

UKTV Gold

The HITS

UKTV Bright Ideas

f tn

TMF

Ideal World

bid tv

price-drop tv

TCM

UKTV Style

Discovery

ITV4

Film4

E4 + 1

ITV Play

Film4 + 1

Eurosport UK

Setanta Sports

Five US

Five Life

smileTV

TopUp Anytime 1

TopUp Anytime 2

TopUp Anytime 3

Discovery RealTime

TopUp TV Promo

CBBC Channel

CBeebies

Cartoon Network

CITV

BBC News 24

BBC Parliament

Sky News

Sky Sports News

Community

Teachers' TV

Television X

Red Hot

100: Teletext

101: Teletext Holidays

102: Teletext Cars

103: Teletext Games

104: Teletext on 4

105: BBCi

107: TopUp Active

108: Sky Text

300: 4TVinteractive

301: BBCi 'red button' channel

302: BBCi 'red button' channel

303: BBCi News Multiscreen channel

304: tvtvDIGITAL

305: BBCi News Multiscreen channel

Radio (in numerical order):

BBC Radio 1

1Xtra BBC

BBC Radio 2

BBC Radio 3

BBC Radio 4

BBC Radio Five Live

BBC Radio Five Live Sports Extra

BBC 6 Music

BBC 7

BBC Asian Network

BBC World Service

The Hits Radio

Smash Hits!

Kiss

heat

Magic

Q

oneword

smooth fm

MOJO

Kerrang!

talkSPORT

3c

Premier Radio

Virgin Radio

Heart

Radio Music Shop

And that is it! Every station listed here, from AM to DAB and beyond. I think I shall bid you goodnight at this point, good DXing and 73's . . . !

RBS Six Nations 2007

THE ANNUAL European Rugby Union tournament, the Six Nations, is currently taking place and Reporting From The Fox Tower is pleased to bring you the latest results and forthcoming fixtures for 2007 :

Results up to 2200 GMT 10 February 2007:

Saturday 3 February:
Italy 3 - France 39 (in Rome)
England 42 - Scotland 20 (Twickenham, England regain the Calcutta Cup).

Sunday 4 February:
Wales 9 - Ireland 19 (Millennium Stadium, Cardiff).

Saturday 10 February:
England 20 - Italy 7 (Twickenham)
Scotland 21 - Wales 9 (Murrayfield).

Fixtures :

Sunday 11 February:
Ireland v France (Croke Park, Dublin, 1500 GMT).

Saturday 24 February:
Scotland v Italy (Murrayfield, 1500 GMT)
Ireland v England (Croke Park, 1730 GMT)
France v Wales (Stade de France, 20:00 GMT).

Saturday 10 March:
Scotland v Ireland (Murrayfield, 1330 GMT)
Italy v Wales (Rome, 1530 GMT).

Sunday 11 March:
England v France (Twickenham, 1500 GMT).

Saturday 17 March:
Italy v Ireland (Rome, 1330 GMT)
France v Scotland (Stade de France, 1530 GMT)
Wales v England (Millennium Stadium, 1730 GMT).

Enjoy some top class Rugby!


The Birthday Book, February 2007 : Part 2 !

Reporting From The Fox Tower is pleased to bring you two more Birthday celebrations for February 2007, beginning with Miss Lesley Davidson.

Apologies as this is very slightly late, but as this is a special Birthday, I hope the lateness will be excused.

Raise your glasses and toast Lesley on her 21st Birthday, Friday 9 February!

Those who enjoy reading the Cumberland & Westmorland Herald may have seen the Birthday wishes for Lesley in the current issue and I would also like to add a "Happy Birthday"!


Top up your glasses for the second Birthday being celebrated here, the Birthday of a good friend of Reporting From The Fox Tower, Miss Stine Slettemark!

Stine celebrates her 22nd Birthday next weekend, Sunday 18th February.

Stine will be celebrating her Birthday in Australia, as she is in Sydney, engaging in Further Education.

Previous posts in Reporting From The Fox Tower have included links to Stine's MSN Space / Windows Live Space, though for this post, I am pleased to include a link to "Stine's Super Space!" - Stine's MySpace page, which you may visit here.

Stine's MySpace page is a nice page of background information on herself, which I hope you will find of interest of a resident of Oslo, Norway, who has extensively travelled the world in recent years and currently finds herself in school in Sydney, Australia!

The Birthday Book has, to date, brought you four Birthdays this month and, if you are celebrating your Birthday soon, go easy on the champagne and why not be part of a future Birthday Book here on Reporting From The Fox Tower?

If you would like to contact me, please feel free to leave a message below by clicking on Comments or take the opportunity to email me.

Have a good weekend, take it easy!

The Birthday Book : February 2007

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my cousin, Miss Sarah Cowin, who celebrates her 27th Birthday on Friday 2nd February. The portrait (below) shows Sarah on the right, with Miss Anna Tomlinson on the left, receiving their Degrees from the University of Liverpool (Chester Campus) at a ceremony held in Chester Cathedral, November 2002 :

Also celebrating her Birthday this weekend is Miss Claire Wilkinson, who will be enjoying her 19th Birthday on Saturday 3rd February. Claire has featured previously in Reporting From The Fox Tower, as one half of 'Team 118' in the Brough 'Pram Race' last July (2006). The other half of 'Team 118' was Miss Hollie Steadman. See a photograph of 'Team 118' in action last summer here!

Happy Birthday, Claire & Sarah!

The Season So Far - Part Two . . .
AT THE BEGINNING of November, Reporting From The Fox Tower recorded the first three months of Carlisle United's season in League One. Here are the results of November 2006 to January 31, 2007 :

November :

Sat 4th : United 1 (Kevin Gray) - Rotherham United 1.

Sat 11th : FA Cup 1st Round : Swindon Town 3 - United 1 (Gray).

Sat 18th : Bournemouth 0 - United 1 (Karl Hawley).

Sat 25th : United 3 (Derek Holmes, Hawley, Peter Murphy) - Port Vale 2.

December :

Tue 5th : Bristol City 1 - United 0.

Sat 9th : United 0 - Scunthorpe United 2.

Sat 16th : Swansea City 5 - United 0.

Sat 23rd : United 2 (Derek Holmes, Neale McDermott) - Brentford 0.

Tue 26th : Blackpool 2 - United 1 (Hawley).

Sat 30th : Brighton 1 - United 2 (Zigor Aranalde, McDermott).

January :

Mon 1st : United 1 (Hawley) - Bradford City 0.

Sat 13th : Northampton Town 3 - United 2 (Danny Graham, Kevin Gall).

Sat 20th : United 0 - Crewe Alexandra 2.

Sat 27th : Brentford 0 - United 0.

Wed 31st : Carlisle United 1 (HAWLEY) - Nottingham Forest o.

That completes the latest batch of results. I shall complete this post with a look back - briefly - at the latter end of last season, sharing with you the Carlisle United Matchday Teamsheet:
How times change . . . If you would like to comment on any of the above, please click the Comments link below this post or you may like to take the opportunity to email me.

Take care, be good!