My Short Wave Archive: May 2013

 DEAR Friends, thank you for returning to a continuous thread of memories of radio broadcasts, heard via Short Wave Radio. 

The previous post of the thread, My Short Wave Archive: March 2013, can be found here.

This post brings memories of Short Wave radio broadcasts heard Monday, May 27, 2013.

What is Short Wave Radio?

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

Receiver used: Roberts R881.

May 2013 : Short Wave

• [Monday] 27 May [2013]: 1948 UTC: 5950 kHz: Voice Of Tigray Revolution  [Addis Ababa, Ethiopia]  British DX Club shows this broadcast on air with Horn of Africa music at this time.
  Fair to poor reception.
  Continuous music.
  Logged as a tentative reception to 1954 UTC.
• 27 May: 2000 UTC: 5960 kHz: China Radio International  'Beyond Beijing' (Male voice ID) News: China creates links with Germany, links with the USA and a visit to the USA. European political ministers gather to discuss Syria. Chinese man sentenced following murder of baby. Statistics show businesses in profit. Membership cards are discussed by Chinese political parties. News by Rebecca Hume.
  'China Drive' presented by Mark Griffiths. Topic of conversation: designers. Weather: Beijing: cloud. Shanghai: rain. Hong Kong: rain. World weather outlook for Tokyo, Sydney, London. Health: World Health Organisation reports a health gap between developed and developing countries has narrowed.
  Strong to good reception.
  English to Europe, Middle East, Africa via Albania.
  Logged to 2013 UTC.
• 27 May: 2030 UTC: 6080 kHz: Voice Of America  Male host with IDs for Voice Of America.
  'Africa Beat' contact details include an email address. Music from Nigeria.
  Strong to fair reception.
  English to Africa via Botswana.
  Logged to 2040 UTC.

[Cup of tea break]

Original notes logging International Radio Serbia, Monday, May 27, 2013, 2058-2116 UTC, 6100 kHz.
Good to fair reception, English to Europe via Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Thank you for visiting Reporting From The Fox Tower!

Summertime with Sharapova.

IT is now officially Summer! The Met Office designates the first day of June as the first day of Meteorological Summer, a fact and a title that deserves the use of italics. The first day of June has passed, and the previous post here on Reporting From The Fox Tower, 'Springtime with Sharapova', becomes 'Summertime with Sharapova'.

To mark 'Summertime with Sharapova', above is an image taken from Esquire Latin America's May 2013 cover shoot. The shoot was one of Maria Sharapova's most popular photoshoots.

'Springtime with Sharapova' celebrated Maria Sharapova's 2014 Roland-Garros French Open Championship victory. 'Summertime with Sharapova' can bring you news of the result of the 2016 French Open Ladies Final: Spain's Garbine Muguruza beat world number one Serena Williams in straight sets to win her first Grand Slam title at the French Open.

'Springtime with Sharapova' closed with a video of Maria's photoshoot following the Roland-Garros victory; 'Summertime with Sharapova' closes with a video of Maria's Esquire photoshoot.

Until the next time, enjoy.

🌟

Maria's Easter Birthday 2014

THE MAGNIFICENT Maria Sharapova, pictured above, celebrates her birthday this coming weekend, the weekend is also Easter 2014, hence the title of this post. To mark Maria's birthday on Saturday, 19 April, this blog presents the above image, from the May 2013 edition of Esquire Latin America, which featured a stunning photoshoot with Maria. Miss Sharapova celebrates her twenty seventh birthday on Saturday.

Happy Birthday Maria!

Reporting From ... The Fox Tower!

A WHILE has passed since I first started this blog - November 2005, I believe - during which time the only photograph I have published of the Fox Tower itself is the profile picture in the top left of the page. Here is a nice image of the Tower, taken by myself in May 2013, when the landowners allowed visitors to reach the Fox Tower and neighbouring Bluebell Wood. I am pleased it was a beautiful, sunny day, which was very enjoyable 'up Helbeck' and provided great panoramic views. I do hope you are enjoying the weekend too.

Welcome to February!

WELCOME to another Wallpaper of the Week. Following the post regarding Penrith last week, I'm posting an image of back home, Brough. On closer inspection, the image may be a little blurry, as I had to use the zoom to achieve the image above. This image is from 25 May 2013, taken from Helbeck, the farming hamlet to the north of Brough. The Castle stands in the centre of the image, with the distant Wild Boar Fell, looming large, behind in the distance. Hope you enjoy this image.

Wallpaper of the Week, 19 January 2014

THE FINAL image of the series of photographs taken at Ullswater, May 2013, is of the stone steps which lead from the roadside down to the water. I like the low sun shining at an angle, showing the greenery at its best and giving good light on this shot. I do hope you have enjoyed these images and will continue to visit Reporting From The Fox Tower.

Wallpaper of the Week, 12 January 2014

WALLPAPER of the Week takes one final look - for now - at Ullswater. This image, as with the previous images in the series, was taken one evening in May 2013. I hope you have enjoyed this selection of images of the water and surrounding country. I still have one more image which will be in the next posting, then I intend to post a few more items closer to home in the near future. Until then, enjoy this week's image of Ullswater.

Wallpaper of the Week, 22 December 2013

SUNDAY afternoon, listening to Eden FM, the sun is shining, a nice picture from Springtime, so it must be the weekend before Christmas. Yes, welcome along to this latest post on RFTFT, I do try to remember to use the word 'post' or 'posting', rather than 'edition' or 'issue', or even 'release'. If you would like a one-off paper edition of RFTFT, I may consider it during 2014. I have also used italics quite a lot so far, so will move onto the subject of this post. Please enjoy this week's image of Ullswater, taken at 6:15pm on 14 May 2013, by myself. I was hoping that the Eden Valley may have been festooned by the snow by now, which would have heralded some traditionally festive images for 'WotW', but I don't think images of heavy rainfall would elicit the same wistful thoughts of Christmas and Winter, so that's why I am posting the nice blue sky images of Ullswater.

I would also like to take this opportunity to wish you and yours a very Merry Christmas.