Your New Year Resolution for 2010

CHRISTMAS 2009 is now behind us and I hope you enjoyed your presents. Thinking ahead to the New Year which arrives this week, have you made a New Year resolution, or thinking of making a resolution?

May I suggest that you take a moment to consider making a donation to the charity which will gain from the monumental effort to be put in by Sarah Cowin (pictured right) in the Summer of 2010.

Sarah is to join a group who will climb Mount Kilimanjaro in June 2010 to raise money for the charity Scope, who work to help those with Cerebral Palsy.

Please sponsor Sarah by visiting her fundraising website at:

http://www.justgiving.com/sarahinafrica

Please give generously!

Wallpaper of the Week, 26 December 2009

WALLPAPER of the Week returns to RFTFT and as it is deepest mid winter, take heart from a photograph I took during the Summer of 2009, showing the track bed of the now long gone Stainmore Railway and the road bridge which still bears the soot of the steam trains which passed under it. It is close to this point that the British Transport Film 'Snowdrift At Bleath Gill' recorded the recovery of the goods train from Kirkby Stephen which became trapped by a snowdrift around half a century ago.

I hope you enjoy the image and are enjoying the festive season.

Radio Round up, 2009

WELCOME to my end of year radio listening round up, details include Short Wave and Medium Wave logs made June to December 2009 :

June 2009 :

• 9510 kHz [Short Wave], IRRS - Shortwave, English to Europe & Middle East via Rimavska Sobota, Slovakia.
• 9895 kHz, Radio Nederland Wereldomroep, Dutch to France, Spain, Portugal and the Balearics.
• 12040 kHz, Voice of Russia, English to Europe, Middle East and Asia via Moscow, Russia.

August 2009 :

• 585 kHz [Medium Wave], BBC Scotland via Dumfries.
• 594 kHz, HR Info via Frankfurt, Germany.
• 603 kHz, BBC Radio 4 via Wrekenton, Newcastle - Upon - Tyne.

October 2009 :

• 12040 kHz, Voice of Russia, English to Europe via Moscow, Russia.
• 12080 kHz, Voice of America, VOA Special English to Africa via Botswana.
• 12095 kHz, BBC World Service, English to East & South Africa via Cyprus.
• 12160 kHz, WWCR-3 Nashville TN USA to America and Europe.
• 13590 kHz, 1Africa, English to Africa via Lusaka, Zambia.
• 13780 kHz, Deutsche Welle, German to East Africa via Skelton, Cumbria, UK.
• 13790 kHz, China Radio International, English to Europe, Africa, Asia & America via Urumchi, China.
• 13845 kHz, WWCR-2 Nashville TN USA, English to Africa (University Network).
• 15225 kHz, Radio Kuwait, Main Arabic Programme to Europe and North America.
• 15400 kHz, BBC World Service, English to West Africa via Ascension Island.
• 15580 kHz, Voice of America, English to Africa via Botswana.

November 2009 :

• 603 kHz, BBC Radio 4 via Wrekenton, Newcastle - Upon - Tyne.
• 603 kHz, France Info via Lyon, France.
• 612 kHz, RNE1 [Radio Nacional Espana] via Vitoria, Spain.
• 621 kHz, RTBF1 via Wavre, Belgium.
• 630 kHz, NRK Euuropakanalen via Vigra, Norway.
• 630 kHz, Voice of Russia, German via Germany / Russia.
• 639 kHz, RNE1, Football commentary in Spanish.
• 639 kHz, Czech Radio 2 via Prague, Czech Republic.
• 648 kHz, BBC World Service via Orford Ness, Suffolk.
• 666 kHz, Sudwestrundfunk via Rohrdorf, Germany.
• 675 kHz, Radio Maria, Dutch via Lopik, Holland

December 2009 :

• 15575 kHz, BBC World Service, English to Middle East via Cyprus.
• 15585 kHz, Radio Exterior de Espana, Spanish to Europe.
• 15595 kHz, Vatican Radio, Angelus (Liturgy) with Pope Benedict XVI to Europe, Asia via Santa Maria di Galeria, The Vatican.
• 15650 kHz, Voice of Greece to Europe, Middle East and Asia.
• 17760 kHz, Radio Romania International, English to Europe and Africa.
• 11675 kHz, Polish Radio External Service, English Section to Europe via Moosbrunn, Austria.

That is all my radio reports for 2009. Happy Christmas!

Merry Christmas, 2009

I WOULD just like to take this opportunity to wish you a Happy Christmas!