It only took about an hour after going live on February 20^th to receive our first communication on our GETTING INVOLVED PAGE from DJ Duggy Day who sent us good wishes from CRI Radio in Beijing China!

It was wonderful to receive all your contributions by visiting our site, signing on, making a comment or sending us information to add to our COMMUNITY PAGE or WHATS ON PAGE.

SEE THE DIFFERENCE

Talking of the WHATS ON PAGE we have already changed the format slightly to make it quicker to scan by colour coding the different section heading and corresponding text.

If this proves successful we could extend it throughout the site -that will be up to you,

we will be interested to hear what you think

RESTRICTED BUS SERVICE

Can we also mention at this time that the Dunoon Calendar is presently restricted to events taking place within easy access to the Cowal area.  No matter how wonderful some of the world wide events that you have told us about are it would be very difficult for most of us to attend, as we are a rural area with a restricted bus service.

If this is your first visit to our newly extended site we hope you will spend a few minutes to explore. If this is a return visit—welcome back.

The site has been put together by volunteers from Dunoon Community Radio and although not finished we hope it gives you an indication of what we aim to do and is interesting enough for you to register with us.

Our Studio

The best news is we have eventually found somewhere to lay our mixing desk. Annette from Headcases Aka the Orange Shop located at Ferry Brae has very kindly offered us the lease on the Penthouse (that is what we shall be calling it, should anyone ask!) above the shop. The premises consist of a single room of 5m x 3m with WC and a small kitchen. Small and compact but we shall make it cozy. We are now setting about the task of refurbishing and building the studio and hopefully will be in our first home very shortly. More information on our progress very soon—watch this space!

The main problem in finding a “home” for Dunoon Community Radio was twofold: the first issue we are all too familiar with is finance and the second, is location. In order for as many people as possible to receive our broadcasting signal, we have had to do many tests from different locations in Dunoon to find which is the best location to site our transmitting aerial. Due to the topography of Dunoon, there are not many sites available and some of them are either not practicable or unobtainable. Fortunately this can be done on a laptop and Tony Wood our Technical Director has identified available locations that may suit our purpose. Hopefully we will have a home very soon.

To all the old, new and soon to be new friends and supporters of Dunoon Community Radio.

We have some very exciting and important news to announce in the New Year … so please watch this space.

A big thank you and a big welcome to all the folk who have recently signed on to the web site (we are going to need a very large tea pot).

And a really big thank you to everyone for being so patient

Have a very Happy Christmas and New Year

dha na seann charaidean, na caraidean ura agus a h-uile luch-leanntainn de Reidio Dun Omhainn.

Tha naidheachd uabhasach math ’s inntinneach againn innse dhiubh sa bhliadhna ur. ‘S mar sin, cum ur suil air an larach linn seo…

Moran Taing agus failte chridheil dhan a h-uile duine ’s tapadh leibh airson a bhith cho foighidneach.

Nollaig Chridheil agus Bliadhna Mhath Ur nuair a thig i.