Well sorry for the delay....It's seems I have been a bit lazy on the blog front of late. I guess like a lot of people, I have been enjoying the summer, and with less radio listening over the summer and more daylight, you tend not to turn the PC on as much.
That being said, my hobbies have now started back up, Medium Wave is slowly returning, Newport County are back playing football, so the normal life has resumed.
Something I haven't mentioned, is that my wife and I have been running now for a number of my months, actually my wife hasn't stopped,and have lost quite a bit of weight ( Well done! ). I was doing pretty good myself, until a foot injury, laid me off for two months. So slowly I am getting myself back into shape.
We are still flat out on the movie watching, my oldest watched "Saving Private Ryan", which I think blew his mind a bit, and I'm glad it did it's job, as most young kids have no idea about the ugly side of war, and there feelings are so remote to life when playing on a X Box.
Apart from other films, we also watched "Billy Elliott", my youngest son, can't stop dancing. He loves "Hairspray", and is able to do most of the dance moves, I really wish we could talk him into going to dance lessons, as he is really good. Anyway we enjoyed the film, and I was surprised how much swearing there was in the film, that aside, we all enjoyed the film, a film that tells you to reach for your dreams!
Before I sign off, I have just uploaded Retro Nouveau 7 for your listening pleasure, you can listen on Cloudmix or you can download to your device on the Retro Nouveau Archive section, and listen to it wherever you want!
73'
Damien
Saturday, 10 August 2013
Tuesday, 9 July 2013
Cancer Demon
I understand that the title of my latest blog may be eye catching, indeed I'm sure you will agree that Cancer is a truly bad illness, that touches every human.
I'm sure that like myself, you have your own stories, in a nutshell, even if you are not the victim, the effect of Cancer effects everyone.
If you are a regular reader of my blog, you will no doubt be aware of my love for music. I recently purchased Jorn latest CD "Traveller". Jorn Lande is a heavy rock/melodic rock artist, that was born in Norway, in my view he is the modern day "Ronnie James Dio".
What also sets Jorn apart from other "Metal" artists, is the subject matter of his songs, he has also written songs about subjects like Global Warming, which is pretty unique. On his latest album, Jorn tackles head on the subject of Cancer, which again, I believe a first. Take a watch and a listen to the "Cancer Demon" video.
Jorn - Cancer Demon
Well,now to change the mood a little, ,my family and I have just returned from a weeks holiday in Cornwall, we stayed in Hollywell Bay (About 4 miles south of Newquay), at a Park Dean Caravan Park. I'm pleased to report we all had a great time, and we all returned with tanned faces.
I only spent two hours DXing, and that was on the FM Band II, so it was quick band scan. It was great to hear the likes of RED FM for Ireland, but in a strange twist, I was also receiving strong signals from France, I wasn't sure if this was normal reception for the location, but I did manage some recordings via my Degen DE1103 and Sony Recorder. I positioned myself, right on top of the dunes that overlooked the bay.
DXing at Hollywell Bay Cornwall
While I was walking the costal path, I came across the MOD site that is sat right next the the coastal path. I believe that the army base was used for training, however it is no longer in use. What did catch my eye, was one of there antenna arrays. They were fenced off, but also came with warnings, of Danger Non Ionizing Radiation.
They seem to have two of these unusual antenna arrays on the base around a quarter of a mile apart. I wonder does anyone have an idea what these antenna would be used for listening or transmitting for? Photo below.
Mystery Antennas
Well that's all for now folks, where I will try to keep you updated, with my orginary life!
73' Damien
I'm sure that like myself, you have your own stories, in a nutshell, even if you are not the victim, the effect of Cancer effects everyone.
If you are a regular reader of my blog, you will no doubt be aware of my love for music. I recently purchased Jorn latest CD "Traveller". Jorn Lande is a heavy rock/melodic rock artist, that was born in Norway, in my view he is the modern day "Ronnie James Dio".
What also sets Jorn apart from other "Metal" artists, is the subject matter of his songs, he has also written songs about subjects like Global Warming, which is pretty unique. On his latest album, Jorn tackles head on the subject of Cancer, which again, I believe a first. Take a watch and a listen to the "Cancer Demon" video.
Well,now to change the mood a little, ,my family and I have just returned from a weeks holiday in Cornwall, we stayed in Hollywell Bay (About 4 miles south of Newquay), at a Park Dean Caravan Park. I'm pleased to report we all had a great time, and we all returned with tanned faces.
I only spent two hours DXing, and that was on the FM Band II, so it was quick band scan. It was great to hear the likes of RED FM for Ireland, but in a strange twist, I was also receiving strong signals from France, I wasn't sure if this was normal reception for the location, but I did manage some recordings via my Degen DE1103 and Sony Recorder. I positioned myself, right on top of the dunes that overlooked the bay.
While I was walking the costal path, I came across the MOD site that is sat right next the the coastal path. I believe that the army base was used for training, however it is no longer in use. What did catch my eye, was one of there antenna arrays. They were fenced off, but also came with warnings, of Danger Non Ionizing Radiation.
They seem to have two of these unusual antenna arrays on the base around a quarter of a mile apart. I wonder does anyone have an idea what these antenna would be used for listening or transmitting for? Photo below.
Well that's all for now folks, where I will try to keep you updated, with my orginary life!
73' Damien
Thursday, 20 June 2013
Music Non Stop
If you are a regular listener to "Retro Nouveau" on Cloudmix, it will be no surprise to yourself, that I listen to a lot of music, new and old. It's strange, sometimes, like waiting for a Bus, nothing shows. Then out of know where, a pile up!
Where to start..... Phew, a ZZ Top 10 Album Box Set that selling at a silly price £23.00p approx, A complete John Denver Box Set that has 25 Albums, another superb Box Set from Jean Luc Ponty "Electric Fusion", a five disc set by Otis Redding.
New albums by Inner Road, Lindsey Stirling, Laura Marling and yet another fantastic metal album by Jorn.
As you can imagine, this will take time to digest, but rest assured you will get to hear them and more on forth coming editions of "Retro Nouveau".
If you don't succeed, try, try again. I finally manage to get my new Blake FM8 antenna up and running on the weekend. It's funny, my new QTH is only a quarter a mile for my last home, so you wouldn't really expect that much in regards to a change in reception. A few finding so far, as I haven't had chance to do a full band scan. I used to receive "City Talk" 105.9Mhz from Liverpool, that's now gone, due to yet another Sunshine Radio Relay in Wooferton Doh!!
On the positive side, it's seems I can now get LBC 97.3Mhz and BBC Radio London 94.9Mhz most of the time, which isn't to shabby, being that I am in the West Midlands. I will of course, when completed, post a full band scan.
As you may have noticed, I am really enjoying these old movies, that are now being released on Blu Ray. My all time favourite comedy, The Jerk staring Steve Martin is due out in August. If you have never seen it, it really is Steve Martin at his best, but be warned, it really is silly humour.
Fathers Day was really kind to me, I received a Spike Milligan DVD, and a Frank Carson Live DVD...."It's a cracker!"
On the TV front, we have been enjoying the new series of "Mad Dogs" on Sky 1 which is now in it's 3rd Series, and the fantastic "Playhouse Presents" on Sky Arts 1, Playhouse is superb, really I don't know whats going to happen next, week after week, it covers so many topics and themes. I can recommend this Series for a purchase on DVD.
Well, I guess I should sign off now, until the next update, and take a look back soon for the next release of Retro Nouveau.
73's
Damien
Where to start..... Phew, a ZZ Top 10 Album Box Set that selling at a silly price £23.00p approx, A complete John Denver Box Set that has 25 Albums, another superb Box Set from Jean Luc Ponty "Electric Fusion", a five disc set by Otis Redding.
New albums by Inner Road, Lindsey Stirling, Laura Marling and yet another fantastic metal album by Jorn.
As you can imagine, this will take time to digest, but rest assured you will get to hear them and more on forth coming editions of "Retro Nouveau".
On the positive side, it's seems I can now get LBC 97.3Mhz and BBC Radio London 94.9Mhz most of the time, which isn't to shabby, being that I am in the West Midlands. I will of course, when completed, post a full band scan.
Fathers Day was really kind to me, I received a Spike Milligan DVD, and a Frank Carson Live DVD...."It's a cracker!"
On the TV front, we have been enjoying the new series of "Mad Dogs" on Sky 1 which is now in it's 3rd Series, and the fantastic "Playhouse Presents" on Sky Arts 1, Playhouse is superb, really I don't know whats going to happen next, week after week, it covers so many topics and themes. I can recommend this Series for a purchase on DVD.
Well, I guess I should sign off now, until the next update, and take a look back soon for the next release of Retro Nouveau.
73's
Damien
Thursday, 13 June 2013
WiNRADiO WR-G35DDCi SDR as good as it gets?
Over the last week Win Radio released details of their new SDR reciever. The WiNRADiO WR-G35DDCi has really seemed caused a bit of a debate on discussion forums ,due to yet another advancement in technology.
Little did I know when I joked in my BDXC review of the G33DCC , that I would be eating my words so soon. So whats the amazing advancement, Win Radio's new unit will captured a staggering 32Mhz of bandwidth, yes...you have read correctly. Although this is the DXer's dream, it does come at big price, I believe it is going to be over $5000 US dollars, no UK price has been mentioned yet.
So the dream will be shortly the reality, but I have to admit, the G35DCCi is clearly aimed for commercial uses, GCHQ etc, rather than the average DXer. Being a user of the G33DCC I struggle to use it's full 4Mhz of bandwidth, so the jump to 32Mhz seems crazy. Valid points have been mentioned about the unit, when would one get the time to listen to such a vast amount of bandwidth, apparently a 4TB hard drive covering 32Mhz will last 7 hours. Thankfully you don't have use the maximum bandwidth, although I would imagine we could see follow DXers swapping Hard Drives.
Of course all this power comes at a cost, you will realistically have to use a fast PC to get your monies worth, probably a Intel i7 with at least 8Gb of Ram, forget going portable with a laptop, as unlike the G31DCC or G33DCC, the G35DCCi runs as a PCI-e card that sits straight on your motherboard. The G35DCCi specs are pretty similar to the G33DCC, I do wonder about the unit having only one pre-selector, this may be a major problem if you suffer with overload from various different ends of the frequency spectrum and you want to record 32Mhz in one hit.
I have to admit, I can't wait to read the first review, and being that no one has had a play with unit yet, there may be some more surprises install. Personally, I wish someone would release some dedicated software for playing Win Radio DCC recordings back, if the price was reasonable, it would make a good amount of cash for Win Radio, and in reality most users are after a clearer, and not so crammed screen, for the playback of files.
My next post should be soon, where you will see a return of my usual gossip of music,films and life in general!
73's
Damien
Little did I know when I joked in my BDXC review of the G33DCC , that I would be eating my words so soon. So whats the amazing advancement, Win Radio's new unit will captured a staggering 32Mhz of bandwidth, yes...you have read correctly. Although this is the DXer's dream, it does come at big price, I believe it is going to be over $5000 US dollars, no UK price has been mentioned yet.
Of course all this power comes at a cost, you will realistically have to use a fast PC to get your monies worth, probably a Intel i7 with at least 8Gb of Ram, forget going portable with a laptop, as unlike the G31DCC or G33DCC, the G35DCCi runs as a PCI-e card that sits straight on your motherboard. The G35DCCi specs are pretty similar to the G33DCC, I do wonder about the unit having only one pre-selector, this may be a major problem if you suffer with overload from various different ends of the frequency spectrum and you want to record 32Mhz in one hit.
I have to admit, I can't wait to read the first review, and being that no one has had a play with unit yet, there may be some more surprises install. Personally, I wish someone would release some dedicated software for playing Win Radio DCC recordings back, if the price was reasonable, it would make a good amount of cash for Win Radio, and in reality most users are after a clearer, and not so crammed screen, for the playback of files.
My next post should be soon, where you will see a return of my usual gossip of music,films and life in general!
73's
Damien
Monday, 27 May 2013
JC your alright by me...
Well it's been a while, since my last blog, and it's May Day Bank Holiday, giving me a time to catch up.
Now that the dust has settled on the football front, you would think I would be flat DX-ing. It's not that I haven't tried, last weekend I tried to install my Blake FM8 antenna, and in a small lapse of concentration, I dropped the antenna and snapped the centre boom in half, I also managed to cut my wrist in the process. As you can imagine, I was annoyed and gutted, as this was at the final stage of fitting!
So I order another Blake FM8 that's landed this Saturday, and yes, just my luck it's arrived damaged in transit, however it's not a surprise, as they shipped in just in a hessian sack! So, no antenna, however I have to say Blake themselves have superb customer services, I emailed "Paul Blake" at 6pm, just to report the damaged, and he personally emailed back to apologize, saying that it was shipped out in error, without being packed properly. I believe you can only tell how good a company is, by how well they respond to problems, "Well Done Blake".
The family has been catching up on films and TV, my wife and I have been watching series five of "Fringe", we also have been enjoying "The Voice"and "Playhouse Presents". On the film front my lads loved "Forest Gump" and have also watched "Robocop 1 & 2"
Yesterday we watched my all time favorite musical "Jesus Christ Superstar", I've been waiting for this to be released on Blu Ray for sometime, and it's best I have ever seen the film. My eldest son seemed to absorb the film, as I briefly explained what was happening in between songs, he really liked the song "I Don't Know How To Love Him". Although I had a Catholic up bringing, and I no longer believe in religion, the story of Jesus has to be the best stories in ever, and JCS still moves me today. While we were watching JCS, we all had the wind sucked out of us by "Ted Neeley" performance on "Gethsemane", when it finished, I looked at my wife and we knew it was one of those moments. Have a look at his magical clip via You Tube below
If you managed to compose your after that, I was watching "Breakfast" on BBC 1 this morning and stumbled across a really interesting artist named " Lindsey Stirling", in a nutshell she is an American, plays the Violin, and fuses Classical Music with Modern Dance Music "Trip Hop" and ballet and dance, she also has a big following on "You Tube", have a listen, this lady has got something going on, have a look at this fun video "Moon Trance", it's a bit of a spoof of "Michael Jackson's Thriller", so it's fun on the eyes, having played some samples on Amazon, I will be purchasing this album, and no doubt will be appearing on my next edition of "Retro Nouveau"
73's Till Next Time
Damien
Now that the dust has settled on the football front, you would think I would be flat DX-ing. It's not that I haven't tried, last weekend I tried to install my Blake FM8 antenna, and in a small lapse of concentration, I dropped the antenna and snapped the centre boom in half, I also managed to cut my wrist in the process. As you can imagine, I was annoyed and gutted, as this was at the final stage of fitting!
So I order another Blake FM8 that's landed this Saturday, and yes, just my luck it's arrived damaged in transit, however it's not a surprise, as they shipped in just in a hessian sack! So, no antenna, however I have to say Blake themselves have superb customer services, I emailed "Paul Blake" at 6pm, just to report the damaged, and he personally emailed back to apologize, saying that it was shipped out in error, without being packed properly. I believe you can only tell how good a company is, by how well they respond to problems, "Well Done Blake".
The family has been catching up on films and TV, my wife and I have been watching series five of "Fringe", we also have been enjoying "The Voice"and "Playhouse Presents". On the film front my lads loved "Forest Gump" and have also watched "Robocop 1 & 2"
Yesterday we watched my all time favorite musical "Jesus Christ Superstar", I've been waiting for this to be released on Blu Ray for sometime, and it's best I have ever seen the film. My eldest son seemed to absorb the film, as I briefly explained what was happening in between songs, he really liked the song "I Don't Know How To Love Him". Although I had a Catholic up bringing, and I no longer believe in religion, the story of Jesus has to be the best stories in ever, and JCS still moves me today. While we were watching JCS, we all had the wind sucked out of us by "Ted Neeley" performance on "Gethsemane", when it finished, I looked at my wife and we knew it was one of those moments. Have a look at his magical clip via You Tube below
If you managed to compose your after that, I was watching "Breakfast" on BBC 1 this morning and stumbled across a really interesting artist named " Lindsey Stirling", in a nutshell she is an American, plays the Violin, and fuses Classical Music with Modern Dance Music "Trip Hop" and ballet and dance, she also has a big following on "You Tube", have a listen, this lady has got something going on, have a look at this fun video "Moon Trance", it's a bit of a spoof of "Michael Jackson's Thriller", so it's fun on the eyes, having played some samples on Amazon, I will be purchasing this album, and no doubt will be appearing on my next edition of "Retro Nouveau"
73's Till Next Time
Damien
Wednesday, 8 May 2013
Wembley,Victory....The Perfect Weekend!
Well, as promised a round up on my visit to Wembley Stadium for the Blue Square Premier League Play Offs. Being thats it's now old news,my side Newport County won promotion to League two, but more on that, as I tell you about my perfect weekend.
So, part of the plan to visit Wembley was to take my two lads to London, so they could do some site seeing. Both had never been to London, my youngest couldn't wait to see Big Ben and the London Eye. We set off from Stourport on Severn, Worcs around 07.30am and after some 130miles approx arrived at Stanmore Underground Station Car Park at 09.30am. Being that it was Sunday, parking was cheap, a crazy £1.50p for all day!
We then purchased tube tickets from Zone 5 to Zone 1, it's worth pointing out that Kids travel for free if under 10 years old.. Both my kids were really excited as we travelled down Jubilee Line to Westsminster, and it was great to see big smiles on both faces as they got to see Big Ben, and the London Eye, we even walked over Westminster Bridge, which was really hard, due to tourists taking photo's.
Well we didn't stop then, a quick meal at MacDonalds then off to Buckingham Place, this was a bit of a disappointment, as there was a guards parade inside, and it was totally packed out. Next we went to Piccadilly Circle, then Oxford Street for a very quick look in HMV megastore, then back on the tube to Wembley. My kids loved it, it was a shame it was a flying visit, but we plan to all go back, with more of a plan, rather than a trolly dash!
After walking around outside Wembley we stop at a Ice Cream van that was outside Wembley Arena, it made myself laugh, the Ice Cream seller couldn't stop praising both Wrexham and Newport Supporters, saying we are so friendly, it reminds himself of being back home in Turkey.
So fast forward, and we are now in the Stadium, the first thing I noticed was the poor turn out from the Newport Supporters, with only 16,000 ish Wembley and Wrexham bringing 10,000 we where really outnumbered, not that it bothered me. One of the downsides to the play off were, only five days notice and it's also on May Day Bank Holiday and a price rise from £36.00 to over £40.00p on a ticket, I'm pretty sure this was the reason for the low attendance, I know of people would just couldn't arranged the time off due to short notice, or they had a plannned holiday booked.
The match itself was a nervous affair, Wrexham missing a number of chances, and with thankfully Newport's keeper playing a blinder. It wasn't to the until 87 minute that Newport broke the deadlock, with Christian Jolley managing to get a yard on Wrexham defence, to be honest it was when substitute Arron O'Conner came on that made the difference, Wrexham defence,with all there experience, simply tired, and lucky for Newport, there two forwards where just to fast, which resulted in the 2nd goal from Arron O'Conner. Yes, it was smash and grab win for Newport, and it's not very often a goal keeper gets awared man of the match! Newport's keeper Lenny Pidgeley had an outstanding match, and that just shows you how hard Wrexham tried.
I can tell you, I was simply on cloud 9, when 1st when in, you don't get carried away, then when the second came, every Newport Supporter went crazy, I am still buzzing 5 days later! Having followed the club through thick and thin, I still have to pinch myself, we are back into the football league, some 25 years later. And to think, Newport County will now appear on FIFA 14!
I feel I should also say a thank you to both parties of fans, no trouble, fighting etc that I was aware of, a perfect day if you are a Newport fan. My heart does go out to my fellow Welshmen, Wrexham.... I am pretty sure that you will be up in the football league soon, don't give up hope!
The following day, my phone rang with congratulation messages via text and facebook. Being that it was a Bank Holiday, we had a family picnic at Holt Near Worcester, yes...it's really was a perfect weekend.
My next blog will be back to normal, less football...honestly! And more of a general mix of comments on music,film radio and life.
I will leave you with a 30 second video clip, taken by myself at Wembley while in the crowd, as all the Newport Fans Celebrate. Just click on the link below.
73's
Damien
So, part of the plan to visit Wembley was to take my two lads to London, so they could do some site seeing. Both had never been to London, my youngest couldn't wait to see Big Ben and the London Eye. We set off from Stourport on Severn, Worcs around 07.30am and after some 130miles approx arrived at Stanmore Underground Station Car Park at 09.30am. Being that it was Sunday, parking was cheap, a crazy £1.50p for all day!
We then purchased tube tickets from Zone 5 to Zone 1, it's worth pointing out that Kids travel for free if under 10 years old.. Both my kids were really excited as we travelled down Jubilee Line to Westsminster, and it was great to see big smiles on both faces as they got to see Big Ben, and the London Eye, we even walked over Westminster Bridge, which was really hard, due to tourists taking photo's.
Well we didn't stop then, a quick meal at MacDonalds then off to Buckingham Place, this was a bit of a disappointment, as there was a guards parade inside, and it was totally packed out. Next we went to Piccadilly Circle, then Oxford Street for a very quick look in HMV megastore, then back on the tube to Wembley. My kids loved it, it was a shame it was a flying visit, but we plan to all go back, with more of a plan, rather than a trolly dash!
After walking around outside Wembley we stop at a Ice Cream van that was outside Wembley Arena, it made myself laugh, the Ice Cream seller couldn't stop praising both Wrexham and Newport Supporters, saying we are so friendly, it reminds himself of being back home in Turkey.
So fast forward, and we are now in the Stadium, the first thing I noticed was the poor turn out from the Newport Supporters, with only 16,000 ish Wembley and Wrexham bringing 10,000 we where really outnumbered, not that it bothered me. One of the downsides to the play off were, only five days notice and it's also on May Day Bank Holiday and a price rise from £36.00 to over £40.00p on a ticket, I'm pretty sure this was the reason for the low attendance, I know of people would just couldn't arranged the time off due to short notice, or they had a plannned holiday booked.
The match itself was a nervous affair, Wrexham missing a number of chances, and with thankfully Newport's keeper playing a blinder. It wasn't to the until 87 minute that Newport broke the deadlock, with Christian Jolley managing to get a yard on Wrexham defence, to be honest it was when substitute Arron O'Conner came on that made the difference, Wrexham defence,with all there experience, simply tired, and lucky for Newport, there two forwards where just to fast, which resulted in the 2nd goal from Arron O'Conner. Yes, it was smash and grab win for Newport, and it's not very often a goal keeper gets awared man of the match! Newport's keeper Lenny Pidgeley had an outstanding match, and that just shows you how hard Wrexham tried.
I can tell you, I was simply on cloud 9, when 1st when in, you don't get carried away, then when the second came, every Newport Supporter went crazy, I am still buzzing 5 days later! Having followed the club through thick and thin, I still have to pinch myself, we are back into the football league, some 25 years later. And to think, Newport County will now appear on FIFA 14!
I feel I should also say a thank you to both parties of fans, no trouble, fighting etc that I was aware of, a perfect day if you are a Newport fan. My heart does go out to my fellow Welshmen, Wrexham.... I am pretty sure that you will be up in the football league soon, don't give up hope!
The following day, my phone rang with congratulation messages via text and facebook. Being that it was a Bank Holiday, we had a family picnic at Holt Near Worcester, yes...it's really was a perfect weekend.
My next blog will be back to normal, less football...honestly! And more of a general mix of comments on music,film radio and life.
I will leave you with a 30 second video clip, taken by myself at Wembley while in the crowd, as all the Newport Fans Celebrate. Just click on the link below.
73's
Damien
Sunday, 28 April 2013
Wembley...! Come on Newport!
Yes, indeed...Wembley again! I have to pinch myself, that I am off the Wembley for the 2nd time, as my football team Newport County have made it the Conference play off finals after beating Grimsby Town today. And just to add to the excitement, it will be a all Wales final, as Newport County take on Wrexham for that final promotion spot. Of course I can't wait, but I will admit, I'm going to be really nervous on the day.
So now I have got that off my chest, you may have noticed a few changes to the Music And Wires Site. As you can see, I'm starting to get to grips on how to get things working. So I have added DX Robot and HF propagation gadgets for all the DXer's.
As some of you may be aware, I've been a pretty active member of the British DX Club for a number of years, and occasionally I have written the odd article or equipment review. You can now view all my articles via a PDF download.
The Medium Wave DX conditions haven't been up to much (Last Months Logs Below), so it's given me more time to do household tasks, painting and mowing the lawn. I have also decided to back track on using Mixcloud for Retro Nouveau. It's seems that most people like to use this service these days, so why not ? Speaking of which Retro Nouveau 3 is now available for download (Click on links Below) or have a listen on Mixcloud. Feel free to post some comments.
Retro Nouveau 3 Retro Nouveau 3 Track Listing
Now that we are into FM season, I am really missing the fact I don't have my FM Beam up anyone. Although I am planning on erecting a simple dipole, so I can capture some Sporadic E's, and get to play with the new SDR dongle a bit more.
We will just have to wait and see how time pans out, as I want to do as much as possible (Don't we all) I am really behind on doing some planned articles for the BDXC, so I need also sort that out. I want to try and make a new MW antenna design that was posted on SkywavesMW via Mark Davies of Anglesea (Where have Gone Mark?). Try and make a small wooden cabinet for my Blunkpunt Car Radio.....I doubt all of this will be done, but I will give it a go.
With a bit of luck, I will be reporting back on my visit to Wembley next week. So as promised here are last months MW TA Logs, also a special thanks to Chrissy Brand for the mention of my logs in her superb section in "Radio User".
73's
Damien
So now I have got that off my chest, you may have noticed a few changes to the Music And Wires Site. As you can see, I'm starting to get to grips on how to get things working. So I have added DX Robot and HF propagation gadgets for all the DXer's.
As some of you may be aware, I've been a pretty active member of the British DX Club for a number of years, and occasionally I have written the odd article or equipment review. You can now view all my articles via a PDF download.
The Medium Wave DX conditions haven't been up to much (Last Months Logs Below), so it's given me more time to do household tasks, painting and mowing the lawn. I have also decided to back track on using Mixcloud for Retro Nouveau. It's seems that most people like to use this service these days, so why not ? Speaking of which Retro Nouveau 3 is now available for download (Click on links Below) or have a listen on Mixcloud. Feel free to post some comments.
Retro Nouveau 3 Retro Nouveau 3 Track Listing
Now that we are into FM season, I am really missing the fact I don't have my FM Beam up anyone. Although I am planning on erecting a simple dipole, so I can capture some Sporadic E's, and get to play with the new SDR dongle a bit more.
We will just have to wait and see how time pans out, as I want to do as much as possible (Don't we all) I am really behind on doing some planned articles for the BDXC, so I need also sort that out. I want to try and make a new MW antenna design that was posted on SkywavesMW via Mark Davies of Anglesea (Where have Gone Mark?). Try and make a small wooden cabinet for my Blunkpunt Car Radio.....I doubt all of this will be done, but I will give it a go.
With a bit of luck, I will be reporting back on my visit to Wembley next week. So as promised here are last months MW TA Logs, also a special thanks to Chrissy Brand for the mention of my logs in her superb section in "Radio User".
73's
Damien
930 06.02 CFBC,St Johns,NB, ID “93 CFBC” 211 23/04 DER
1130 06.00 WBBR,New York,
“Bloomberg News” 222 21/04 DER
1370 06.06 WDEA,Ellsworth,ME ID at end of news 212 23/04 DER
1390 06.04 WEGP,Presque Island,ME, ID after adverts 111 23/04 DER
1400 06.02 CBC,Gander,NL “CBC News” 111 23/04 DER
1430 06.03 WENE,Endicott,NY. Sports chat 111 23/04 DER
1510 06.36 WUFC,Boston, NBC Sports Radio 323 28/03 DER
1520 06.44 WVOZ,San Juan,PR, Religious Preecing in SS ID “RadioVoz” 232 28/03 DER
1520 07.01 WWKB,Buffalo,NY. NBC News on the Hour 221 21/04 DER
1560 06.38 WQEW,New York, Radio Disney, Great Signal Back To
Back Mx 333 28/03 DER
1570 06.35 CJLV,Laval,QC Back To Back MX, ID in FF 212 28/03 DER
1600 06.32 WUNR,Brookline,MA ID in SS, LSB 211 28/03 DER
1620 06.30 WNRP,Gulf Breeze,FL. AM 1620 your “Coast to
Coast Staion” 211 21/04 DER
1620 06.30 Radio Rebelde Cuba, Big Organ Theme and
ID 212 23/04 DER
1650 06.41 CINA,Mississagna, Radio Seena. Asian pop mx 323 20/04 DER
1660 06.05 WCNZ,Marco Island, FL ID during back to back
MX 323 28/03 DER
1670 05.41 CJEU,Gatineau,QC. Usual mix of FF music 211 21/04 DER
1700 06.02 KVNS,Brownsville,TX
“Fox Sport Radio” Very weak! 101 21/04 DER
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