Hello and welcome to this week’s update on what’s been happening at Ayrshire’s first and original community radio station, 3TFM Community Radio for Health broadcasting to Ardrossan, Stevenston, Saltcoats and beyond on 103.1FM or to the world via our online stream by logging on to our website at www.3tfm.org.

No doubt many listeners to 3TFM and readers of the Ardrossan and Saltcoats Herald have during the Easter holidays been rolling and enjoying their Easter eggs. Flakes are my favourite – hint there for next year.

Unfortunately for yours truly, I have been recovering from an accident at home and apart from the physiotherapy almost every day, the medicine that’s helped me recover quickest has definitely been the radio. It’s everywhere. In the car, on the hi-fi, PCs. It’s even on your mobile phone and apart from the cost to power the source you listen to the radio from it’s FREE. It got me thinking how often people rely on this part of the media in their everyday lives without even thinking about it.

Radio is a very hi-tech business and the people whose job it is to keep the nerve centre of radio station operational are the radio engineers. Whether it be simple repairs to headphones, replacing panels on mixing desks, upgrading broadcast software packages, adjusting clocks to the accurate second so as to enable synchronised news bulletins to take place or doing the technical duties required to enable outside broadcasts to proceed, the engineering team work hard to keep broadcasts running smoothly. So to all engineers involved in radio everywhere I personally thank you for making the technical aspect of radio happen.

Programme-wise, tonight (Thursday) on the monthly 3TFM Paranormal Show the 3TFM listeners can tune into Rabb C and his co-host David Shaw who will be joined by their guests including Debbie Tripp from Tennessee who claims to have had experience of UFO and extra-terrestrial/inter-dimensional contact and Kurt Smith who claims to have been regularly taken by aliens.

So if you have a liking for what can be revealed from the other side or are like myself and get ‘awfy feart’ of things that could go bump in the night, tune in to the show between 10pm and midnight.

So, until next week’s update do keep your radio tuned to 103.1FM Community Radio for Health or listen in online via our website on www.3tfm.org, for great music, interesting guests, competitions and health info which is all provided free of charge through the radio and brought to you by our volunteers.

If you’d like to be part of the 3TFM team and would like more information regarding volunteer recruitment, feel you can contribute towards the running of the station or you would like us to promote your community groups work locally on the 3TFM airwaves to the towns of Ardrossan, Saltcoats and Stevenston then contact Louis Ferguson the Station Manager on either 01294 604612 or e-mail louisb@3TFM.org.

(Everyone at The Herald wishes Louis a speedy recovery.)