WELCOME
TO "MDS975".
Thank you for taking
time
to visit! We have recently changed our web hosting and hence
the
address - the URL - of our site and all its pages has changed. Read
more further down this page
here.
"MDS975" is a personal website devoted to our
various
interests which include pussycats, radio and broadcasting, amateur
radio (my callsign is MØMTJ), music and
vinyl records,
a little bit of photography and computers, and some other favourite
things.
You
will find links to the other pages on the left hand side of
this page and via further navigation from our
site
map. We hope you enjoy your visit.
Baltic Capital Cities Cruise 2009
Jules and I
enjoyed an amazing holiday on the Royal Caribbean ship Jewel Of The
Seas in June 2009. See some of our photographs here >
Our
Wedding & Honeymoon in Canada
I am very pleased to be able to announce that Julie and I got
married in November 2008. (She did not know what she was
letting herself
in for!!) You can see our honeymoon photographs in Western
Canada
here >
and some photographs from our wedding day
here >
Amateur
Radio Exam
I am also pleased to say that I passed the first of my Amateur
Radio
exams on 2nd March gaining the call sign M3WNQ . After some more hard
work I passed the Intermediate exam and received the Intermediate
Licence call sign of 2E0MDS.
After a great deal more study I sat the final Advanced exam
22nd
May 2008. I learned that I had passed on 26th June 2008, obtaining my
new callsign MØMTJ . Read more
here >
Why
Not Get Out Your Record Collection?
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
>
Norway & Fjords Cruise
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 >
Canada
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 >
Radio
& Memorabilia
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.
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.
Our
Website
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.
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!
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!
[Spell checker broken - dictionary lost - brains all mush! In fact
someone called me and asked "Where's your grammar? I replied "She's
in
the kitchen making a pot of tea".]
Thanks
for
popping in.
Please
do come back again soon.