Newsybits roundup, 27 November 2017.

His Royal Highness Prince Henry of Wales and Ms Meghan Markle.

AS Monday comes to a close, you may have missed the biggest news stories of the day: An English cricketer causing havoc in Australia (Google 'Flintoff' for past examples); Durham University students having to cancel their annual social event (Something to do with a 'Miners Strike' theme) and the #ChennaiSix having their incarceration brought to an end*.

[*At the time of publication; There is still time for Boris Johnson to fck this one up.]

You may have missed the footnote news story of the engagement of Harry and Meghan, as announced by Clarence House earlier today:

"HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCE HENRY OF WALES AND MS MEGHAN MARKLE ARE ENGAGED TO BE MARRIED

His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales is delighted to announce the engagement of Prince Harry to Ms. Meghan Markle.

The wedding will take place in Spring 2018. Further details about the wedding day will be announced in due course.

His Royal Highness and Ms Markle became engaged in London earlier this month. Prince Harry has informed Her Majesty The Queen and other close members of his family. Prince Harry has also sought and received the blessing of Ms Markle's parents.

The couple will live in Nottingham Cottage at Kensington Palace."

Congratulations to the happy couple!

Season 2017/18: The Season So Far - Part 4

ANOTHER month has come and gone, Carlisle United have completed their November fixtures, and in a moment I will bring you the fixtures for December.

Here, in The Season So Far - Part 4, are the results for November:

November 2017: Results

Saturday 4th: FA Cup: United 3 - Oldham Athletic 2

Wednesday 8th: Football League (EFL / Checkatrade) Trophy: United 1 - Fleetwood Town 2

Saturday 11th: Sky Bet League Two: United 4 - Yeovil Town 0

Saturday 18th: Sky Bet League Two: Grimsby Town 0 - United 1

Tuesday 21st: Sky Bet League Two: Luton Town 3 - United 0

Saturday 25th: Sky Bet League Two: United 1 - Morecambe 1

December 2017: Fixtures

Saturday 2nd: FA Cup: Gillingham v United (3pm)

Saturday 9th: Sky Bet League Two: Newport County v United (3pm)

Saturday 16th: Sky Bet League Two: United v Port Vale (3pm)

Saturday 23rd: Sky Bet League Two: Forest Green Rovers v United (3pm)

Tuesday 26th: Sky Bet League Two: United v Accrington Stanley (3pm)

Saturday 30th: Sky Bet League Two: United v Coventry City (3pm)

As always . . .

C'mon Ye BLUES!

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My DX Archive: Spring 1993

INTRODUCING memories of March 1993 onwards in this post, following on from the memories of Winter 1992-93 in the previous 'DX Archive' post. These memories were created by listening to Short Wave and Medium Wave radio broadcasts, mostly using a Hitachi TRK-5854 E receiver. Learn more about the broadcast bands by visiting the British DX Club.

The logs which follow are notes of what I heard on air in the Spring of 1993.

[Housekeeping notes: Times in UTC (GMT), frequencies in kiloHertz (kHz), MegaHertz (MHz) and/or metrebands (m). Logs transcribed from the original notes.]

If you are interested in the picture postcard from Radio Netherlands above, the other side of the card is below.

March 1993

• 20 March [1993]: 1302 UTC: 5955 kHz: Radio Netherlands "Airtime Africa" Music from The Wailers Band, African writers, John Fashanu teaching African boys to play football in England. To 1320 UTC.
• 20 March: 1344 UTC: 9750 kHz: BBC World Service "Newshour" John Major meets the Asian community. Latvian elections: Protests in Riga. British retail price index. Breaking news: Bomb in Warrington: 2 dead. News at 14 UTC. Music programme with John Peel.
• 20 March: 1433 UTC: 12095 kHz: BBC World Service Sport: 5 Nations Rugby: France 10 - Wales 0.
• 20 March: 1448 UTC: 15590 kHz: BBC World Service Sport: Five Nations Rugby: Ireland - England, France 16 - Wales 3.
• 20 March: 1452 UTC: 15665 kHz: Christian Science Monitor 'Christian Science Sentinel' To Europe via WCSN, Scotts Corner, ME (Maine) USA. 'Herald of Christian Science', News update from APR. German broadcast.
• 25 March: 2205 UTC: 9620 / 9720 kHz: Radio Yugoslavia SINPO: 44434, Interference, News programme: Latest events in the former Yugoslavia, Russia & it's President, Economies of the Balkan nations (esp Bosnia) following sanctions by the United Nations. [QSL for this broadcast below]

April 1993

• 11 April: 1311 UTC: 5955 kHz: Radio Netherlands 'East of Edam' on 50.38 metres: 'Search for the Easter Egg' (Easter Sunday broadcast).
• 11 April: 1346 UTC: 9410 / 9750 kHz: BBC World Service 'Newshour' IRA. Sport: Golf, Cricket (Pakistan), Motor racing. Football (Manchester United) & Tennis (Pete Sampras). Headline: Anglo-French relations.
• 11 April: 21 UTC: 1179 kHz Medium Wave: Radio Sweden SINPO: 43343 'Sounds Nordic' with intro by Roxette and ABBA. Music from lady who sang song written by ex-ABBA member. Information of the 'Au-Pair Bear'.
• 12 April: 2103 UTC: 1179 kHz: Radio Sweden SINPO: 32233
• 19 April: 21 UTC: 1179 kHz: Radio Sweden SINPO: 54454
• 26 April: 2030 UTC: 17880 kHz: Voice Of America SIO: 544 'Africa World Tonight'.

• 26 April: 2052 UTC: 15010 kHz: Voice of Vietnam SINPO: 43443 News of a Bridge pathway being rebuilt in connection with America. Music.

May 1993

• 10 May: 1844 UTC: 5800 kHz: Radio Australia 'World of Country Music' The Late Hank Williams. Rex Lindsay.
• 10 May: 1907 UTC: 6040 kHz: Voice of America 'Newsline' Beijing hopes to win the Olympics, Businessman Azil Nadir, in Cyprus. The Former Yugoslavia. Robert Burns is the host. Bosnian UN ceasefire. Lord Owen in Geneva & Brussels. Paraguay's first free & fair elections.Israeli President's reshuffle & vote of no confidence.
• 10 May: 2040 UTC: 11720 kHz: Radio Bulgaria 'Business & Finance'. 'Sports Roundup': Football, gymnastics, motor rally, wrestling, boxing.
• 10 May: 21 UTC: 11745 / 11770 / 11950 kHz: Radio Moscow News: Moscow Summit, Russian-Turk meeting in Ankara. Bosnian ceasefire. Nelson Mandela meets Chancellor Kohl. 'Great Women of Russia'. Catherine 2nd.
• 16 May: 1127 UTC: 5955 kHz: Radio Netherlands Intro & news with Jackie Spears: Bosnia. 'Happy Station' with Pete Myers: 'Off The Shelf' programme. Meeting Ertha Kitt. 'Brief Encounters' show. Glenda Jackson.

The Happy Station / Estación de la Alegría Team, from left to right: Pete Myers, Jaime Báguena, Lupita Kingma-Velázquez, Rosemarie Ninaber.

• 20 May: 1219 UTC: 5955 kHz: Radio Netherlands 'Media Network' : Launch of a commercial radio station in Scarborough, UK, Radio Brussels BRT  'Open Day'. Competition details, propagation report. SINPO: 54444.
• 24 May: 21 UTC: 1179 kHz: Radio Sweden '60° Degrees North' News with Alan Pryke: Swedish Medical Company launches HIV product, Chile President visits Sweden. EC meeting in Copenhagen. Danes protest against police shootings. Swedish politics: Sweden recognises Eritrea. Weather. KGB involvement in Swedish institute? Green Party talk Economy. Ad for 'In Touch With Stockholm'. Theatre conference. Sport: Table tennis, lawn tennis, Women's bike race. Football: Sweden - Austria. Boxing.

I do hope you have found the above of interest. 73's, Good DX! Martin.

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My DX Archive: Winter 1992-93

ALLOW me to take you back, twenty-five years, to the radio broadcasts I listened to on Short Wave and Medium Wave, mostly using a Hitachi TRK-5854 E, over the course of the winter of 1992-93.

[Housekeeping notes: Times in UTC (GMT), frequencies in kiloHertz (kHz), MegaHertz (MHz) and/or metrebands (m). Logs transcribed from the original notes.]

November 1992

• 19 November [1992]: 1137 UTC: 5955 kHz: Radio Netherlands 'Newsline' followed by 'Media Network', presented by Jonathan Marks: Voice of America plans conference, TRT Turkey on satellite & Short Wave. Testing the Sony ICF-SW-33. Radio Luxembourg. End of show at 1225 UTC.
• 23 November: 1848 UTC: 6045 kHz: BBC World Service "Multitrack 1: UK Top 20": "Yesterdays" by Guns 'n' Roses.
• 23 November: 1915 UTC: 7260 kHz: Radio Australia : Sports.
• 23 November: 2001 UTC: 7/8 MHz: KOL Israel Radio : News of deaths of soldier & boy, Jerusalem road tunnel. Headlines.
• 23 November: 2030 UTC: 7510 kHz: Christian Science Monitor News: World Markets. Monitor Radio feature on Windsor Castle.
• 23 November: 2158 UTC: 12 MHz: Deutsche Welle with opening signature tune, Announces German broadcast relayed via Malta.

The Xrobb l-Għaġin transmission site, Malta [Archive image]

December 1992

• 16 December: 1918 UTC: 5 MHz: Radio Australia Sports: Rugby Union, Motor Racing, Golf. International Olympic Committee plan for Atlanta 1996 Olympics. "One World" Environment programme, broadcast to the Pacific.
• 16 December: 1944 UTC: 5945 kHz: Radio Austria International Reports by Nigel Jones and David Ward.
• 16 December: 2247 UTC: 7/8 MHz: Radio Ukraine International "Ukraine And The World, from Kiev".
• 16 December: 2312 UTC: 7 MHz: Radio Moscow "Commonwealth Update" Reviewing one year of independence of Khazakstan.
• 25 December: 2136 UTC: 1179 kHz [Medium Wave]: Radio Sweden "Radio Sweden Christmas Special" Presenter speaks to Scandinavians in Norway, Finland, Iceland and Denmark. (Christmas Day, Friday 25 December 1992).

The Stockholm skyline

January 1993

• 14 January [1993]: 1931 UTC: 6155 kHz: Radio Austria International : Austrian newspapers review: Bombing in Iraq, nuclear weapons, Bosnia.
• 14 January: 2004 UTC: 15590 kHz: BBC World Service news: Malcolm Rifkind, Bosnian leader to go to Geneva to see the UN. Search & rescue of a Polish ferry called off by Germany. UN nations sign treaty to stop manufacture of chemical weapons. Chernobyl fire.
• 14 January: 2040 UTC: 7510 kHz: Christian Science Monitor (WCSN) : Saddam Hussein, New York, Cuba.
• 14 January: 2108 UTC: 5930 kHz: Radio Prague English news: Chemical weapons, Czech President's election comments. 'Press Review' by Jeremy Smith: 'Telegraph' story regarding a homeless charity.
• 29 January: 1130 UTC: 9535 kHz: Swiss Radio Europe Music request programme: Michael Jackson "Heal The World", request for Sandra Jones in London: KWS "Rock Your Baby", Sadé, end of show at 1145 UTC (1245 Central European Time / CET) Programme address: Swiss Radio Europe (Swiss Radio International), 3000 BERNE - 15 SWITZERLAND.

February 1993

• 5 February: 2009 UTC: 5800 kHz: Radio Australia "International Report": Relations between Iran and Turkey. Killings in Turkey. Rockets fired at people in an Islamic state. Interference.
• 5 February: 2034 UTC: 5955 kHz: Radio Netherlands broadcasting in an international language.
• 5 February: 2116 UTC: 6235 kHz: Radio Sofia Bulgaria Young people looking for work, sports news to 2130 UTC.
• 5 February: 2228 UTC: 7510 kHz: Christian Science Monitor - WCSN "Letterbox" PO 860, BOSTON MA 02123 USA , K. Shippey trails up coming WCSN shows.
• 11 February: 1955 UTC: 1197 / 1260 kHz Medium wave: Voice of America - VOA Europe "Magazine Show" Chuck Wich reviews the "Chaplin" movie. Barbara Klein anchor. News at 20 UTC, Valentine's Day message. Music from Cher "Love & Understanding".

Thank you for joining me on this journey back to the winter of 1992-93. Until the next time, 73s, Good DX and enjoy this lovely image of Homer Simpson beside his radio.

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Eden Country playlist, 12 November 2017

EDEN Country is two hours of classic, contemporary and bluegrass Country music on Eden FM.

The show is broadcast every Sunday, from 12 noon to 2pm (UK Time) on 107.5 FM in Penrith and the Eden Valley, online via the website and the TuneIn app.

Here is the playlist for the show, broadcast Sunday 12 November 2017:

Hour 1:

Rascal Flatts - 'She Goes All the Way’

Billie Jo Spears – ‘Blanket On The Ground’

Shania Twain - 'Any Man Of Mine'

Rick Trevino – ‘Bobbie Ann Mason’

Jim Reeves – ‘He’ll Have To Go’

Darius Rucker – ‘Wagon Wheel’

Gram Parsons – ‘Hickory Wind’

Rodney Crowell – ‘I Couldn't Leave You If I Tried’

Don Williams – ‘I Recall a Gypsy Woman’

Hank Williams – ‘I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry’

Radney Foster – ‘Just Call Me Lonesome’

Little Big Town – ‘Fine Line’

Johnny Cash – ‘Belshazar’

Junior Brown – ‘My Wife Thinks You’re Dead’

Hour 2:

Charlie Rich – ‘The Most Beautiful Girl’

Nanci Griffith – ‘This Heart’

Jimmie Dale Gilmore – ‘Treat Me Like A Saturday Night’

Kathy Mattea – ‘Walking Away a Winner’

Joy Lynn White – ‘Wild Love’

Beth Nielsen Chapman – ‘Even As It All Goes By’

West Virginia – ‘Light Years Away’

Mick Flavin – ‘Take Me Back Home To Mayo’

Glen Campbell – ‘Honey Come Back’

Alan Borders – ‘Waycross Georgia Blues’

Raul Malo – ‘Moonlight Kiss’

Joni Bishop – ‘Everyday Miracles’

Steve Earle – ‘Copperhead Road’

Lonestar – ‘Amazed’

Willie Nelson – ‘On The Road Again’

That was the playlist for Eden Country, broadcast Sunday 12 November 2017.

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Wallpaper of the Week: Caitlin + Sidney. ♥

Facing West

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Sidney Powell

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