Season 2017/18: The Season So Far - Part 1

REPORTING From The Fox Tower introduced you to the 2017/18 Season with the 'Are You Ready?' post in July, now I can bring you the first set of results for August 2017:

Saturday 5th: Sky Bet League Two: United 1 - Swindon Town 2
Tuesday 8th: Football League (EFL / Carabao) Cup: Fleetwood Town 1 - United 2
Saturday 12th: Sky Bet League Two: Cambridge United 1 - United 2
Saturday 19th: Sky Bet League Two: United 3 - Cheltenham Town 0
Tuesday 22nd: Football League (EFL / Carabao) Cup: United 1 - Sunderland 2
Saturday 26th: Sky Bet League Two: Lincoln City 4 - United 1
Tuesday 29th: Football League (EFL / Checkatrade) Trophy: Morecambe 0 - United 2

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A reminder that the fixtures for September 2017 are as follows:

Saturday 2nd: Sky Bet League Two: United v Mansfield Town (3pm)
Saturday 9th: Sky Bet League Two: Accrington Stanley v United (3pm)
Tuesday 12th: Sky Bet League Two: Coventry City v United (7:45pm)
Saturday 16th: Sky Bet League Two: United v Barnet (3pm)
Saturday 23rd: Sky Bet League Two: Crewe Alexandra v United (3pm)
Tuesday 26th: Sky Bet League Two: United v Stevenage (7:45pm)
Saturday 30th: Sky Bet League Two: Crawley Town v United (3pm)

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COME ON YOU BLUES!

An island life for Renee

RENEE Somerfield

'An island life for me'

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Renee's Perspective @SomerfieldSwim

A post shared by RENEE SOMERFIELD (@reneesomerfield) on May 2, 2016 at 2:09am PDT

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Meet the Somerfield Swim girls

promoting 'Fresh white combos'

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Look What You Made Me Do.

Taylor Swift

'Look What You Made Me Do'

from the forthcoming album

'reputation'

Composers: Taylor Swift, Jack Antonoff, Richard Fairbrass, Fred Fairbrass & Rob Manzoli.

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Taylor Swift presents Reputation.

AFTER a week of social media blackouts, a 'blank space' on her website and teases which included video snippets, Taylor Swift has posted details of new music - The first was the above image of a new single to be released late Thursday / early Friday, wherever in the world you are at the time of release. Then came the next image . . .

. . . The image of the sleeve of Reputation, the sixth studio album by Taylor.

The third image released by Taylor confirms the album:

#TS6 - Reputation - is here!

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20 Years: Be Here Now.

IT was twenty years ago today - Oasis released their third album

Be Here Now

. . . Which featured this BELTER of a track 'D'You Know What I Mean?'

Enjoy the memories.

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31 metres, August 2017

WELCOME to another collection of radio broadcast logs, here on Reporting From The Fox Tower.
The title of this post, 31 metres, refers to the 31 metreband on short wave radio, where you will find transmissions of 9000 kHz / 9 MHz onwards. 31 metres is also the length of each wave released on a 9 MHz frequency.

On to the logs of broadcasts received August 2017. Housekeeping notes: Times in UTC (GMT), frequencies in kiloHertz (kHz) and transmission powers in watts or KiloWatts (kW).
A log of broadcasts received on the Short Wave band of the Roberts R881, Wednesday 16 August 2017:

Snapshot of the Bible Voice Broadcasting website.

• 16 August: 1740 UTC: 9400 kHz: Bible Voice Broadcasting, Canada. Strong to moderate reception, 100 kW via Kostinbrod, Sofia (Bulgaria) [Spaceline]. Male speech, Persian, music. Female speech, email address, off air at 1759 UTC.
• 16 August: 1804 UTC: 9400 kHz: Overcomer Ministry, USA. Moderate to poor reception, 100 kW via Kostinbrod, Sofia (Bulgaria) [Spaceline]. Brother R G Stair, speech with music. To 1812 UTC.
• 16 August: 1813 UTC: 9410 kHz: BBC World Service, UK. Good to moderate reception, 250 kW via Al Dhabbaya, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. English to East and South Africa. Male speech, studio and on location, female speech with a report regarding trade deals that the United States has, looking at the deal the US has with Canada. Male speech, speaking of a writer? Noise disturbance. UK borders with Republic of Ireland after Brexit. To 1827 UTC.
• 16 August: 1905 UTC: 9410 kHz: BBC World Service, UK. Strong to moderate reception. English to East and South Africa via Al Dhabbaya, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. 250 kW. Top of the hour news bulletin comes to an end with news from India, the feature programme is looking at the affairs of Eastern Africa. Focus moves to South Africa, with the impact of Manchester United Football Club expanding their brand into South Africa. Female reporter speaks to African women about how they feel about their safety, following some high profile crimes. How women use the internet in Africa. To 1935 UTC.
• 16 August: 1942 UTC: 9420 kHz: Voice of Greece [ERT / Helliniki Radiophonia], Greece. Strong to good reception, 170 kW via Avlis, Greece. [Best reception conditions of the night!] Continual music: Female vocalists. Male vocalist, male and female vocal group. Instrumental in the style of Jazz. Speech from a male, Greek, ID. To 1953 UTC.

• 16 August: 2016 UTC: 9440 kHz: China Radio International, China. Strong to moderate reception, English to Europe, Middle East, Africa via Kunming, China, 500 kW. China Radio International appears to have branched off into an audio 'soap' - Male, appears to be on a night out with 'Barbie / Miss Lee', he steps on her foot and she ends up in hospital, then in a taxi to go home... To 2024 UTC.
• 16 August: 2040 UTC: 9600 kHz: China Radio International, China. Strong to good reception, English to Europe, Middle East, Africa via Kashi, China, 500 kW. Narration of a literature; Narrator is named Ian [Sounds British]. This is a celebration of Chinese literature. Butcher Li Ang [with a West Country accent] deals with an agitated customer, who calls him a 'pig fucker'! The customer kills him... To 2049 UTC.
• 16 August: 2053 UTC: 9610 kHz: Radio Romania International, Romania. Strong to good reception, English to Europe, America via Tiganesti, Saftica, Romania, 300 kW. Tourists visiting the UNESCO heritage site in Romania, Moldovan Ministries and caves, tourists like to visit music festivals. Programme identifies as 'This is Romania'. Male has transmission details for Western Europe and North America. Also listen online. Email address. Close of broadcast at 2056 UTC; Interval signal. Transmitter off at 2057 UTC.
• 16 August: 2105 UTC: 9620 kHz: Voice of Turkey, Turkey. Strong to moderate reception, English to Asia, Australasia via Emirler, Turkey, 500 kW. Female speech, male speech, music. Female speech with frequencies, times, contact details, 'Questions of note'. Music: Male and female vocals. Female and male speech, speaking over the music. ID by male: "You have been listening to the Voice of Turkey English Service..." with details of forthcoming transmissions on short wave - Announcement made at 2122 UTC - Also listen online. Music. Off air at 2129 UTC.
• 16 August: 2141 UTC: 9730 kHz: Voice of Vietnam, Vietnam. Good to poor reception, English to Europe via Hanoi-Santay, 100 kW. Music, followed by female speech: "You are listening to the Voice of Vietnam". Result of an election: President celebrates victory. Other news: Ministers hold an emergency meeting. News update from Latin America. Speech from male and female - Speech from male includes details of programme schedules. Deterioration of signal. To 2150 UTC.

Voice of Vietnam QSL, April 1993.

That concludes the log of short wave broadcasts for August 2017. Thank you for visiting Reporting From The Fox Tower and please feel free to leave any comments below this post!

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My DX Archive: February 1992

EVERY month, here on Reporting From The Fox Tower, I bring you a log of broadcasts heard on Short Wave or Medium Wave. This post is different. I'm taking you back to the very beginning of my time listening to the radio, to my very first logs. Taking you back to February 13, 1992. Enjoy.
Housekeeping notes: Times in UTC (GMT), frequencies in kiloHertz (kHz), MegaHertz (MHz) and/or metrebands (m). Logs transcribed from the original notes.

• 13 February [1992]: 2023 UTC: 31m / 9655 kHz: Radio Sweden International "S 105-10 Stockholm Sweden".
• 13 February: 2034 UTC: 25mband: Radio Roma ; Swiss Radio International (Switzerland) 12035 kHz - 25m band (Based in Berne).
• 13 February: 2053 UTC: Radio Canada International - Including Canadian Newspapers.
• 13 February: 2102 UTC: 13700 kHz / 19m / 22m band: Radio Netherlands International "Media Network" Programme.
• 13 February: 2114 UTC: 15 MHz / 19mband: Voice of Algeria "(Or is it Voice of America?)"
• 13 February: 2116 UTC: 15 MHz / 19mband: Radio Portugal International "Broadcasting from Lisbon, Frequency news, 'Portugal Past & Present'".

A more recent logo from "Radio Portugal International"

• 13 February: 2124 UTC: 15566 kHz / 19m or 17750 kHz / 16m: Family Radio (WYFR) "- I think!".
• 13 February: 2152 UTC: 19mband: Voice of America - "Winter Olympics news, logo for '96 Summer Olympics unveiled in Atlanta, Georgia".
• 13 February: 2200 UTC: 19mband: World Harvest Radio "PO Box 12, INDIANA 46624 USA".
• 13 February: 2210 UTC: 17875 kHz / 19mband: C B C (Radio Canada International?) - News.
• 13 February: 2216 UTC: 12095 kHz / 25 m band: B B C World Service : London.
• 13 February: 2227 UTC: 9950 kHz / 31 m band: All India Radio "Open University information (1845 - 2230 UTC)".

All India Radio logo

That concludes the logs from February 1992. The DX Archive may become a regular feature, I am not sure yet. I hope to bring you DX logs for August 2017 in the coming days, so please stay tuned for that. Good DX!

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Stereophonics at Kendal Calling

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STEREOPHONICS at Kendal Calling

Friday 28 July 2017

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Holly Willoughby . . .

. . . is Harley Quinn!

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