Making Progress

Few people are prepared to turn out on windy Saturday mornings. Even fewer are prepared to climb ladders and use power tools in the pursuit of music.

Radio Heartbeat would like to thank Garry Hoffman - an aerial specialist from Motherwell - who came out to do just that and help us to get our new Repeater unit up and running. Garry worked very hard with our man John.

We are not on air yet but that's not Garry's fault - he was super - and we will get there shortly.

Thanks to all who turned out to help, bring food, calm our John and provide the laughter and good humour Radio Heartbeat is good at.

Being a volunteer is not easy - keeping your balance is not easy - keeping a sense of perspective when things go wrong is not easy. We just do our best and when we get it wrong we try to make it right. We are working on the Repeater and ourselves all the time.

We'll be back on air just as soon as we can. We will be talking to you!

It's Been a While

Well we no sooner got our beautiful new offices than the hospital decided we should be moving. They allocated us to nice premises across the road and we are just about settled in.

So far, we have one studio built but it doesn't play out to anywhere yet. The hospital bought us a repeater unit to carry the output to the hospital but we need an aerial rigger to connect it up for us.

Our broadcast desk was water damaged when our old premises were flooded just before we were due to move out. We need to get a new one but there isn't enough money yet.

We need new computers and new everything but it is a major trial.

Someone will come up with the answers - they always do - and someone will help - they usually do.

Meanwhile, the team including Denice, Andy, John, Chris, Irene and everyone else is working very hard to ensure that we are back to broadcasting as soon as possible and we will then be talking to you!