My AM Archive: Summer 2006

 

REPORTING From The Fox Tower's AM Archive is a continuous thread of logs of Medium Wave broadcasts, heard years gone by.

The previous post in this thread, My AM Archive: Spring 2006, can be found here.

Housekeeping notes: Times in UTC (GMT), frequencies in kiloHertz (kHz). Transmission power in watts or kiloWatts (kW). Logs transcribed from the original notes.

This post remembers Summer 2006: The months of June and August 2006.

June 2006 : Medium Wave

• 25 June [2006]: 0807 UTC: 1413 kHz: Fresh Radio  Poor reception via Skipton 100 watts / Richmond 40 watts / 'Ripon' 3 watts, all North Yorkshire ('Ripon' - Pateley Bridge).
  Music : David Bowie 'Space Oddity'.  Creedence Clearwater Revival 'Bad Moon Rising'.
  [See the Fresh Radio logo of the time at the head of this post]
• 25 June: 0841 UTC: 1458 kHz: BBC Radio Newcastle  Good to fair reception via Wrekenton, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, 2 kW.  Dave Porter is the host, listener in South Shields. Music.
• 25 June: 0902 UTC: 1485 kHz: BBC Radio Four  Poor reception via Carlisle, 1 kW.  Speech.
• 25 June: 0926 UTC: 1557 kHz: BBC Radio Lancashire  Poor reception via Oxcliffe, Lancaster, 250 watts.  Music: Petula Clark.

August 2006 : Medium Wave

• 8 August: 1932 UTC: 567 kHz: RTE Radio One  Excellent to good reception via Tullamore, Ireland, 500 kW.  English Domestic Service.
• 8 August: 1948 UTC: 585 kHz: BBC Radio Scotland  Excellent to good reception via Dumfries, 2 kW.  Football : CIS Insurance Cup : Dundee v Partick Thistle - Goal - Dundee 1 - Thistle 3.

• 8 August: 2004 UTC: 603 kHz: BBC Radio Four  Excellent to good reception via Wrekenton, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, 2 kW.  Speech.
  [The Google Street View image, above, is the Wrekenton transmission site.]
• 8 August: 2019 UTC: 621 kHz: RTBF 1  Belgium  Excellent to good reception via Wavre, Belgium, 300 kW.  Recorded report by male.
• 8 August: 2035 - 2042 UTC: 639 kHz: Czech Radio 2  1500 kW, Excellent to good reception.  Czech language [presumed] via Prague, Czech Republic.  Male speech.
• 8 August: 2045 - 2050 UTC: 639 kHz: RNE 1  Spain  Excellent to good reception.  Spanish language. Male speech, music.
• 8 August: 2054 UTC: 648 kHz: BBC World Service  Excellent to good reception via Orford Ness, Suffolk, 500 kW.  English to Europe.
  Interview with Andrew Strauss, England Cricket Captain, as England beat Pakistan at Headingley. Colombo: Sri Lanka beat South Africa by one wicket. Athletics, football.
  2100 UTC : 'World Briefing'  Lebanon-Israel conflict. Chad & Sudan diplomatic ties.
• 8 August: 2117 - 2130 UTC: 666 kHz: BBC Radio York  500 watts, Excellent to fair reception.  'The Late Show for Yorkshire...'  500 watts via Fulford.

Notes: The BBC Radio Newcastle post, 25 June, features a link to the blog of Dave Porter, the presenter on air at the time.

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My AM Archive: Spring 2006

 

MARCH and April 2006 are from where the following memories of Medium wave radio broadcasts, as heard by myself at the time and noted in my logbook, come.

The previous post in this thread, My AM Archive: Winter 2005-2006, can be found here.
Housekeeping notes: Times in UTC (GMT), frequencies in kiloHertz (kHz). Transmission power in watts or kiloWatts (kW). Logs transcribed from the original notes.

March 2006 : Medium Wave

• 10 March [2006]: 2041 UTC: 756 kHz: BBC Radio Cumbria  Fair to poor reception via Carlisle, 1 kW.  Football commentary: Coca-Cola League Two: Northampton Town v Carlisle United, live from Sixfields, Northampton. Half Time: Town 0 - United 1 (Karl Hawley, 21 minutes). Commentary by Derek Lacey and Mike Corry.
  [Full details of the match can be found here.]

April 2006 : Medium Wave

• 14 April: 1417 UTC: 1314 kHz: NRK Euuropakanalen  Fair reception via Kvitsoy, Norway, 1200 kW.  Norwegian speech, female and male voices. Music. Male speaks to male on telephone.
• 14 April: 1450 UTC: 1323 kHz: BBC Radio Ulster  Fair to poor reception via Lisnagarvey, Co Down, Northern Ireland, 100 kW.  Music: Mamas & Papas 'California Dreaming'. George Jones. Telephone: 0845 955678. ID.  15 UTC news: Newcastle flight disruption. Baby illness.
• 14 April: 1757 UTC: 1368 kHz: Manx Radio  Excellent-good-fair reception via Foxdale, Isle of Man, 20 kW.  Music: Bryan Adams 'Everything I Do I Do It For You'. Sponsored weather report: Freedom Travel Isle of Man. Sport: Football: Sven Goran Eriksson, Ashley Cole.
• 14 April: 2014 UTC: 1422 kHz: DLF Deutschlandfunk  Excellent to good reception via Heusweiler, Germany, 600 - 1200 kW.  Music: Jazz - Blues programme, German language. Male host. Music, English language songs.

Please note the log for BBC Radio Cumbria, 10 March, features a link to the TablesLeague website, which has full details of the Northampton Town - Carlisle United football fixture, as reported in the log.

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Season 2020/21 : Results and Fixtures - Part 2

 

- AND Six Nations Super Saturday (The Results).

- And a little bit about Santa and Christmas.

Reporting From The Fox Tower is pleased to continue following Carlisle United Football Club.

Results: October 2020

Saturday 3rd [October]: League Two: United 1 - Barrow 0

Tuesday 6th: EFL Trophy: Sunderland 5 - United 3

Saturday 10th: League Two: Port Vale 0 - United 1

Saturday 17th: League Two: United 3 - Colchester United 2

Tuesday 20th: League Two: Oldham Athletic 1 - United 1

Saturday 24th: League Two: Grimsby Town 1 - United 1

Tuesday 27th: League Two: United 3 - Morecambe 1

Saturday 31st: League Two: Exeter City 1 - United 0

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Note: On the evening of Saturday 31 October, the "government" issued new instruction regarding the coronavirus pandemic.  United shared an EFL statement on their website.  Read that here.

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Fixtures: November 2020

Tuesday 3rd [November]: League Two: United v Newport County (7pm)

Sunday 8th: FA Cup: Hayes & Yeading v United (12:45pm)

Saturday 14th: League Two: United v Cheltenham Town (3pm)

Tuesday 17th: EFL Trophy: United v Aston Villa (7pm)

Saturday 21st: League Two: Crawley Town v United (3pm)

Tuesday 24th: League Two: Tranmere Rovers v United (7:45pm)

C'mon Ye BLUES!

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Six Nations Super Saturday (The Results)

Nine months ago, the 2020 Six Nations Rugby Championship got underway.

Saturday, 31st October, saw the final round of matches take place, with the title going to any of Ireland, France or England.

The first fixture of the day, Wales v Scotland, resulted in a 14-10 away win for the Scots, who lifted the Doddie Weir Cup for the first time:

Video courtesy of the Guinness Six Nations YouTube Channel.

The second fixture of the day, Italy v England, resulted in a 34-5 bonus point away win for England, who were top of the table prior to the final game of the Championship.

The final fixture of the day, France v Ireland, took place in Paris.  To take the title, France had to overtake the points total of the teams above them in the table at the start of play. The mathematics for Ireland were much more simple: Win by a  seven point margin.

The final score was a 35-27 win for France.  Not enough for France to take the title, also the defeat for Ireland denied them the title.

View the final 2020 Six Nations Championship Table here.

England are the 2020 Six Nations Champions.  See England lift the Trophy:

Video courtesy of the Guinness Six Nations YouTube Channel.

Congratulations England!

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And Finally...

Santa Has an Urgent Message for the British Public in Tongue-in-Cheek Campaign

See the full story here.  Merry [early] Christmas!