Seems my recordings have attracted some intrest, in the form of none other than Nick himself! My site is featured in his blog on the official hallam fm site :D

For fans of Nick @ Night's programme, theres a brand new forum (new - so sign up and post now to start the ball rolling) online at this address : http://www.retfordforum.co.uk/hallam - Gogogo!

Slightly off topic, but I've added a 'feature' to the recording section of a collection of mp3s/wma informing the youth of today on how to behave in an orderly manor, courtesy of radio phone-in programs hosted by Tom Davies and Nick Margerrison, Heh. So; calling all charvers/goths and any other member of a scene, I'm presenting you with some material you should listen to, it's time to open your mind. Long live the resistance. Budding philosphers may also be intrested in some of the recordings.

We'll be back to anoraking later on....

Today, radio legend and John Peel had a heart attack while on a working holiday in Peru. For more info see BBC News
As a fan of his program on BBC Radio 1 aswell, its a big shock indeed.

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Almost a month since the last update to the site... The fm dial has been pretty quiet and I've been concentrating more on Satellite recently.
My current setup is 2x 80cm dishes (old sky analogue type, free from local tip!!), a 0.3 Invacom LNB (£20 from Ebay) and a 0.6 Universal LNB (£10 from CPC) controled by a 2x1 DiSEqC. One is normally tuned to Astra 19.2 East and the other to Hotbird 13.0, all controled by a DVB (digital video broadcasting) SkyStar 2 PCI card.
However - I decided to be adventerous and go for some more exotic satellites, so I picked up the dish I normally use for Astra 19.2 (with 0.3 Invacom LNB) and within minutes I was picking up 7 East, 1 West and 4 West, all at approx 50-60% sig. More than enough for digital reception.
Here are some screen grabs from setup4pc - the skystar2 tuning application:

7 East 7 East(2) (Eutelsat w3a)
1 West 1 West(2) (Thor 2/3)
4 West (Amos 1/2)
And the normal setup:
13 East 13 East(2) (Eutelsat Hotbird)
19.2 East (Astra 19.2 80%+ on some transponders)

I'm really getting keen on satellites now, but my main intrest will remain radio.
To see my current satellite setup in pictures click here

More update will follow soon... maybe.... :-)

Added a link to fellow radio DXer David Hamilton's own TV/FM DX site. Features RDS images, images of his ants, TV DX, and DX audio. Click here to see it, or here to see more radio related links.

Added screen grabs of RDS DX of various stations picked up during the recent tropo. Click here to see them.

More DX on the FM dial today! A great day for me as I got a personal target. London's capital fm! Goto the logs to see more UK2UK catches! I also got a great catch from a 1kW TX in South Dublin called 'Dublins Country' on 106.8.
I've also uploaded some of the DX into the recordings section for you all to listen to, and is it just me, or does the DJ on sun fm say North Yorkshire? Ironic?!

Another great day of DX today the germans taking first place, the band was completly full of those germans at one point... There was also the Irish, Danish, French and Norweigian. Aswell as a great run of uk2uk later at night. Added to the logs page and to my all time uk2uk list! Looks like it's gonna be a good day tomorow too...

German, Danish and Norway were amongst some catches today, all at great strength. Upto 45dB at some points. See the logs page.

After much work I managed to recover the cool edit pro TMP file of the last Tom's Talk-in (see below), however it was full of jumps throughout the entire of the file.
I did however manage to rip the 2 on air mentions Tom gave me which I have now uploaded to the TFM page

Well, I didnt think I'd be writing this so soon... Tom Davies presenter of TFM's popular Tom's Talkin is moving to breakfast and is to be replaced by current breakfast DJ, Mojo. Sad news indeed for all us die hard Tom Davies fans, he's the best in his field and will be sorely missed!
According to the last show, where colin paterson program director of TFM made an appearance, Mojo's new show will be a mix of music and talk, so we've lost our dedicated talk-in... Time to retune the dial on a night time? Time will tell!

It was a great 'last show' though, and I did record it, However it was just my luck that my machine decided to play up, it crashed 45minutes into it! Just typical, considering the machine had performed flawlessly for 2weeks on the trot without a reboot, and as soon as I do something important, CRASH! Needless to say I was gutted. I also lost my 2 on air mention's which were made at the start of the show. Ah well. Such is life.

The show has been added to the TFM Page as a compressed wma (@28.8kbps mono), so dial up users can stream it from the site without rebuffering.

I've added a link to Lynton's, from the skywaves IRC chat, very own DX page to the links page.

I've added a link to the TFM Page to a very informative TFM/Metro Radio nostalgia website which includes Jingles.

The past few nights have been quite good in the way of DX. I've managed to RDS Leicester Sound on 105.4 (a personal target), Saga 106, BBC Radio Norfolk and Broadland102 on 102.4! I also managed SGR 97.1 + 96.4, Q103, Vibe 106.1, Hereward 102.7, Ram FM, Century 106, Trax FM on 107.9 and Paigaam 107.2 - An RSL from Huddersfield while out mobile.
I've also uploaded my entire uk2uk list as a txt file

Also manged various Dutch station including Sky Radio on 101.2 and Neu City Classik Rock on 97.6!

Added a pic of my new satellite set up of 2dishes and fixed a few errors on some pages.

Added a 'foul up' wma from the galaxy weekend to the galaxy 105 page

Added one of the new 2004 TFM Jingles and The Charver Song 'to the beat 1, 2' to the tfm page.

Blimey, 3 updates in 24hours!
Added info to the TFM page from AircheckUK.

Added an old Minster FM jingle from the '90s to the minster fm page, brings back some fond memories for me.

Added the pictures of the SB920 to the equipment section, including pictures of the modded filters and rds chip, go now!

....Well almost. I've got a new script in the other section, please feel free to post your comments about my site to it! :-) Id like to get everyone of my visitors to post at least one message or im throwing in the towel :P Go Now!

I've added the remaining 'Mrs Mad' calls I had which were on a d90 tape to the TFM section, totalling in 8 mrs mad calls! Re-live the days now!

I've added a page for my new tuner - the ST-SB920 to the equipment section. go go go!

Added the 2004 Minster/YCR jingle package thanks to an email from David Hemsley. It's on both the ycr and minster pages.
I've also fixed the palace fm closure links while I had the advantage of a ADSL connection!

More DX today including Norway and Denmark. For more info see the logs

The first sporadic E of the year for me today brought in italy/portugal & spain, see logs for the details!

The PJIRC chat applet has been upgraded and should now be fully functional, try it out!

Last night, at about 2:50am, I scanned the dial and came across what I thought was DX on 107.3, It was playing a dance session by DJ Tiesto and had no jingles/advert breaks etc so I couldnt ID it, there was also no rds. At about 4am I realised the track playing was being repeated and this probarbly wasnt DX... Then the station all of a sudden cut off, so my guess is a small fm transmitter in Malton (my antenna picked the signal up best when beaming west, toward malton) kind of like my 50mW transmitter. If this was you - or know anything about this - please get in touch, I'd be intrested to know where you were and what you were using - the signal was at a comfortable 27dBto35dB in Settrington, some 4 miles away from Malton/Norton.

I've finally got around to doing the Band Scan with my Triax 5 antenna. Some of the dB's are left blank, these will be filled in when I get new narrow filters for my new Sony ST-SB920!!
I will be adding a page on the recently won (from ebay) ST-SB920 Tuner later on.

I've just uploaded the barebones of the site, gifs/htmls, the rest.. mp3s/wmas/jpgs will be up shortly!

Rest of the website is down for a while, will be back soon .... :-)

Only a minor update.. i've added some MultipMap links to the bilsdale page.
On another note, the site may go down soon, due to hosting issues, hope to have it all sorted soon though!

I've added RDS info to the individual station pages, click here to see.

I've got rid of that pesky, and defunct, forum link and added a 'Recordings' section. This will mostly consist of DX Recordings however I may upload some other recordings that I've made.
I've also added pictures on the main Equipment page.

Fixed the 'TfmTalkIn.wma' link on the TFM page

Last night between [approx] 01:10am and 02:26am and between 02:47am and 02:59am FM from Bilsdale was interrupted (Due to transmitter work). TFM 96.6, Galaxy 106.4 and Classic FM on 101.6 were all affected, Century 100.7, BBC National Radio and BBC Radio Cleveland were not affected.
During this time I managed to find BCB Radio on 96.7 from Bradford, with radio city bursting through at times. Radio Aire was also managing to get through on 96.4 which is normally taken up by TFMs huge signal here. Saga was also coming through on 106.6.
More intrestingly I also found a Blank Carrier on 101.5 at a massive 33dB! I have no idea where this originates from but I found the signal strongest while beaming South West.

PS:
After Bilsdale came back the first time, I noted reception of Classical on 101.6 was a lot poorer than normal and I could still hear the blank carrier on 101.4 (101.5 now swamped by Classic on 101.6), at 02:32am THIS was heared!

I've added 3 new images of my setup of computers in my new room, go to the 'My Stuff' gallery to see them!

Local radio station Minster FM have finally added 'TP' (Traffic Programme) to their RDS, this means your EON equipped radio will be able to change to Minster automatically if they are broadcasting a Traffic Programme. The only station in the local area yet to have the TP flag enabled is yorkshire coast radio scarborough on 96.2

I've added a set of 5 images of Emley Moor from a distance which I took last year. Check them out at the transmitter section!

Hey - Hope you all had a good holiday and got everything you wanted off santa!
I got myself a Yupiteru MVT-3300 Scanner and I've been listening to all sorts of stuff on it!
Anyway - down to business.
As you can see I've decided to Archive the news - the page was getting very big indeed!
I've also archived the DX Logs aswell!
It's been a great first year for 'The Anoraks Guide to Radio In North Yorkshire' - lets hope it continues into the next.. and beyond!!