September Sunday Round-up, 12 Sept 2010

WELCOME to another RFTFT post. First, npower League 1, Saturday 11 September 2010:

Bournemouth 3 - Dagenham & Redbridge 0

Brighton 2 - MK Dons 0

Bristol Rovers 0 - Brentford 0

Charlton 1 - Notts County 0

Colchester 1 - Plymouth 1

Hartlepool 2 - Exeter 3

Leyton Orient 1 - Huddersfield 2

Peterborough 5 - Oldham 2

Rochdale 3 - Walsall 2

Sheffield Wednesday 0 - Carlisle United 1 (Curran)

Swindon 1 - Southampton 0

Yeovil 3 - Tranmere 1

Radio Round-up, August - September 2010

In a previous post (September 1st), I logged the Short Wave stations I heard Monday 30 August. I failed to include links to the websites on that post, so I shall post them here now :

China Radio International (English)

All India Radio (English index)

Radio Pakistan (Front door to English & Urdu services)

Medium Wave logs, Tuesday 7 September 2010, times in UTC, frequencies in kiloHertz :

• 1828 UTC, 1413 kHz : BBC Radio Gloucestershire via Bourton-on-the-water / Berkeley Heath transmitter. BBC Gloucestershire homepage
• 1857 UTC, 1413 kHz : Premier Christian Radio via East London / West London transmitter. Premier Christian Radio page
• 1921 UTC, 1422 kHz : Deutschlandfunk (DLF) via Heusweiler transmitter, Germany. DLF website
• 1957 UTC, 1440 kHz : RTL Radio Luxembourg via Marnach transmitter, Luxembourg, relaying China Radio International German - French services. RTL homepage
• 2022 UTC, 1458 kHz : Sunrise Radio via Brookman's Park transmitter, London. Sunrise Radio website
• 2022 UTC, 1458 kHz : Gold [Capital Gold Manchester] via Ashton Moss transmitter, Manchester. Gold website

Weblog of the week : Abby's Blog

Abby on board Wild Eyes :

Earlier this year, Abby Sunderland attempted to sail around the world. Unfortunately, Abby was unsuccessful in her attempt, but she did use wireless and satellite technology to link to the internet during her sailing, when she kept a blog, which she has continued to update now she is home. Visit Soloround, Abby's blog on Blogspot (Blogger), by clicking here.

That's it for the time being, have a good week!

Football results, Wallpaper of the week and a couple of notes

npower League One, matches played Saturday and Sunday, 4 and 5 September 2010 :

Brentford 1 - Sheffield Wednesday 0

Carlisle 0 - Swindon 0

Dagenham & Redbridge 2 - Leyton Orient 0

Exeter 1 - Charlton 0

Huddersfield 2 - Bournemouth 2

MK Dons 1 - Hartlepool 0

Notts County 4 - Yeovil 0

Oldham 1 - Bristol Rovers 1

Southampton 0 - Rochdale 2

Tranmere 1 - Peterborough 0

Walsall 0 - Colchester 1.

Plymouth v Brighton postponed.

Wallpaper of the week : Silloth, May 2010.

This is the Church on Criffel Street, Silloth, Cumbria, May 2010.

Finally, may I thank the hundreds of you who visited RFTFT at the latter end of the week - The hit counter almost went into meltdown and the referrers / recent hits list could not keep up; seems all the Turkish waiters love Kirstie Day!

I plan to browse the Medium Wave band one evening this week, so I hope to bring you the results here on RFTFT later in the week or at the weekend.

Have a good week!

Morecambe, May 2010

Kirstie Day @ Miss England 2010 - The Result

REPORTING FROM THE FOX TOWER brought you the result of the Miss Cumbria 2010 contest, which was won by Kirstie Day, pictured left. Kirstie, age 18, of Hayton, Carlisle, went on to represent Cumbria at the final of the Miss England 2010 contest, which was held this week in Birmingham.

Although Kirstie lost out on the title of Miss England - That went to 21-year-old Miss Nottingham, Jessica Linley - Kirstie was awarded the Miss Variety Club title, as she raised the most money for the Variety Club, the contest's chosen charity. Kirstie now holds the record for the highest total raised for the charity through the Miss England competition. Well done Kirstie!

This brings the Miss Cumbria - Miss England story full circle and to a close.

PICTURED RIGHT is Beyonce Knowles, once of the group Destiny's Child, now a popular solo artist and wife of Jay - Z. Beyonce celebrates her 29th Birthday on Saturday - Happy Birthday!

August Bank Holiday DX and a midweek wallpaper

MONDAY 30 AUGUST 2010 was a Bank Holiday (public holiday) in the UK, so I used the morning to listen to some of the highest frequencies on the Short Wave band and here are the results:

• 0925 UTC, 17490 kHz : China Radio International. English to Europe, Africa, Asia, Australasia via Kashi, China. 'Beijing Hour'.
• 1019 UTC, 17510 kHz : All India Radio - General Overseas Service to Asia and Australasia. Music of the SubContinent.
• 1030 UTC, 17540 kHz : China Radio International. Chinese language service.
• 1049 UTC, 17720 kHz : Radio Pakistan. Urdu / Tamil service up to 1100 UTC, followed by news in English for four minutes.

And that is what I heard on the Short Wave band.

Wallpaper of the Midweek

I have decided to publish the view of Morecambe sea front unhindered by football results. Enjoy.