Reporting From The Fox Tower: December 2010

Sunday, December 26, 2010

Christmas Eve DX 2010 and a Boxing Day Birthday

THE evening of Friday 24 December 2010 was spent listening to the Tropical and HF bands of my Short Wave radio, here are the broadcasts I heard, with links to the broadcasters webpages (Times in UTC/GMT; Frequencies in kHz):

1920 - 1936 UTC, 4005 kHz : Vatican Radio, German language to Europe. Europe & Mediterranean Schedule.
1948 - 1955 UTC, 4780 kHz : Radio Djibouti, Arabic language service. Radio Djibouti Frequencies (French language; may need to be translated).
2022 - 2036 UTC, 5960 kHz : China Radio International, English to Europe, Middle East and Africa via Albania. 'China Drive' programme. Shortwave Frequencies in Europe.
2057 - 2100 UTC, 6030 kHz : Radio Ukraine International, English to Europe. Programmes in the English language.
2107 - 2118 UTC, 6030 kHz : Radio Romania International, French language service. Schedule effective 31 October 2010.

THE Boxing Day Birthday is the 28th Birthday of Carlisle's finest, Miss Roxanne Pallett:

Happy Birthday Roxy, I hope you have had a great day!

Finally, The Ashes cricket series is under way. Give England a helping hand by voting 3-1 England on the ABC Grandstand Sport poll HERE. Show your support for England to win the Ashes in Australia!

That's the over... Enjoy Christmas and the New Year 2011!

Saturday, December 18, 2010

Birthday Babes Christina and Vanessa

FIRST of all, a belated Happy Birthday to Vanessa Hudgens, pictured above, who celebrated her 22nd Birthday through the week. Here's hoping the Birthday celebrations took her mind off her recent separation from her boyfriend, Zac Efron. Keep smiling, Vanessa!

Birthday Babe for Today is Christina Aguilera, who became a true sex symbol with shots like this:

Happy Birthday to Christina Aguilera who celebrates her 30th Birthday today! Christina was in the UK last weekend to appear on popular ITV series 'The X Factor' , where she sang 'Beautiful' with eventual runner-up Rebecca Ferguson and to promote her new movie 'Burlesque', from where the image below was taken: