WELCOME
TO MDS975!
[Spell checker broken - dictionary lost - brains all mush! In fact
someone e-mailed me and asked "Where's your grammar? I replied "She's
in
the kitchen making a pot of tea".]
Thank you for taking
time
to visit MDS975. This is a personal website devoted to our various
interests which include pussycats, radio and broadcasting, music and vinyl records, computers,
a bit of photography, and some other favourite things. All this you will find from the
brief contents (top right) and from further navigation from this page and our 'site
map'. We hope you enjoy your visit.
I am very pleased to be able to announce that Julie and I are getting
married in November 2008. (Does she know what she's letting herself
in for??)
I am also pleased to say that I passed the first of my Amateur Radio
exams on 2nd March gaining the call sign M3WNQ . Then after much hard
work I passed the Intermediate exam and received the Intermediate
Licence call sign of 2E0MDS.
Read more HERE >>
Have you got a collection of lovely LP's and no decent
turntable to play them on? You are missing some fantastic
audio
delights! Find out which is the only turntable worthy of
playing
your classic albums - read all about the road to your VINYL HEAVEN - HERE!
>>
In
2006 Jules and I
enjoyed a fabulous holiday to the Norwegian Fjords on board the
wonderful cruise ship Arcadia. You can see our photographs HERE >>
We also enjoyed a superb holiday in Toronto, Canada.
In
March we eventually (!) added some of the photographs that we
took. You can view our selection HERE>>
We hope that you will
find our
little web site interesting and trust that
you will also find everything in working order. If you do
happen
to find anything that does not work as expected, such as a broken link
or missing photograph for example, please do let us know and we will
fix it. We'd like to hear from you anyway, of course, and you
can
reach us via the CONTACT
page.
May I take this
opportunity to
thank Julie for all her help and support
while working on putting our website together. Admittedly
most of
the content concerns my own hobbies and interests, but the pages devoted
to some of our holiday photographs, cats and dogs and especially our cat Tabetha are things we both love.
As
my other longstanding interests include radio broadcasting, I am
gradually bringing together a small collection of radio related
material
including a history of radio and other memorabilia. I have
also
added some pages about crystal sets and other simple radio related
circuits.
Also, as I enjoy photography too (and this is where I put my anorak
on), I am including a small collection of mast photographs, often
simply
referred to as transmitters, which may gradually be added to as we
just happen
to drive past a
radio mast
site of interest.
You
can see
our visit to Washford in Somerset HERE, and also a
collection
photographs of Malta's Masts HERE
taken during our holiday in Malta in April 2004. We also have
tribute to some favourite radio stations of yesteryear, including
favourites BRMB
and Mercia Sound.
Additional
radio goodies and memorabilia are gathered in the AIRWAVES
section in the form my own writings together with a selection of old
documents, photographs and accounts published by radio broadcasting
organisations that we hope you'll find interesting. It is
hoped
that this section will be gradually
expanded as time allows, but please also visit my section "UK
Radio - A
Brief
History", located in the Radio Stations and
Memorabilia
section which
details the history of radio from 1920 and includes a section covering
Pirate Radio in the UK.
Apart
from radio, there are other subjects here too including the afore
mentioned cats and dogs for we animal lovers, a page of sundials which
I
find fascinating and a section of 'Other Stuff'
including a
page of
some
funny pictures and jokes.
Competition
Question: How did this website get its name?
Answer:
The answer is
contained somewhere within this site. So go on, have a look
around!
SO:
We
hope you enjoy our
pages, please feel free to browse around and we hope that you will find
some things that are of interest, especially if you are a mast fan or a radio nut or as mad about cats as
we are!
Building
a website has been surprisingly time consuming and seems to be a job
that is never finished - there is always something more to add, be it a
new photograph or an idea for a new page!
Thanks
for
popping in.
Please
do come back again soon.
Happy
and safe
surfing.
Mike and
Julie
MDS975.co.uk
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