BANDSCAN THREAD

Infoanon

Audio drop outs on RTE Radio 1 88.5FM since midday ish

Retro 92fm on as usual on a Sunday

Oscarziggy

Tuned in to 1395 khz about 1am this morning on a small Tecsun portable and Radio Seabreeze was blasting in on the Wales coast with only a little fading .

Infoanon

Easy Radio now on 91.6 FM

Possibly due to some postings alleging interference to (the very high power transmissions) of RTE Radio 1

Declan A Walsh

Infoanon wrote: »

Easy Radio now on 91.6 FM

Possibly due to some postings alleging interference to (the very high power transmissions) of RTE Radio 1

I noticed that yesterday evening!

Radio fan 88.1

Loving the Tracks on extreme at the min I think they might have found there feet listening most of the day sounding very well mostly nice 90s dance best of luck to all involved

Infoanon

Unidentified continuous dance music station has reappeared on 87.5 after a few weeks absence. Poor audio and woeful frequency choice.

This is resulting in considerable interference to Chill on 87.6 ,long established on the frequency.

Antenna

Infoanon wrote: »

Audio drop outs on RTE Radio 1 88.5FM since midday ish

was also a loss of audio on some classic hits transmitters down the country for some minutes, the same day, before midday of last Sunday (15th) also. But a coincidence I presume. I presume satellite link issue in their case.

Wonder did anyone think, or blame, the R1 dropouts you noticed on 88.5 (in Dublin) were being caused by the close pirate (Easy) 0.3 away (since moved) ?

paulwilson

Antenna wrote: »

was also a loss of audio on some classic hits transmitters down the country for some minutes, the same day, before midday of last Sunday (15th) also. But a coincidence I presume. I presume satellite link issue in their case.

Wonder did anyone think, or blame, the R1 dropouts you noticed on 88.5 (in Dublin) were being caused by the close pirate (Easy) 0.3 away (since moved) ?

Can confirm easyradio was not responsible for rte drop outs of last week interference being received to rte was localised as person involved in the rumor lives right below out tx site and using an analog radio

Infoanon

Antenna wrote: »

was also a loss of audio on some classic hits transmitters down the country for some minutes, the same day, before midday of last Sunday (15th) also. But a coincidence I presume. I presume satellite link issue in their case.

Wonder did anyone think, or blame, the R1 dropouts you noticed on 88.5 (in Dublin) were being caused by the close pirate (Easy) 0.3 away (since moved) ?

Highly unlikely - the carrier remained on - there where exceptionally high winds in Dublin at the time. The Kippure site has a different source / feed.

The listener to 88.5 would not be aware of any other station.

john 1000

Radio fan 88.1 wrote: »

Loving the Tracks on extreme at the min I think they might have found there feet listening most of the day sounding very well mostly nice 90s dance best of luck to all involved

I could not agree more I have been listening since they came on I have had 107.1 turned in since retro now were on. Which I still miss I would like to add.

Extreme were a little all over the shop at first but for the last week or so its seeming to me that dublin has a nice dance station to listen to good news since the last sh1t that has been apart from retronow, trax ect.

Playing 90s dance I have heard a bit of chart but seems to be full dance Schedule now Signal is a bit Week in parts but mostly ok I can feel a lot more to come as I have noticed huge differences in the last weeks keep up the good work extreme. I am definitely enjoying so far 👌

end of the road

i have been finding extreme a good listen as well.
retro now is decent enough but i think extreme wins for me now at the moment.

Dublins anorak

end of the road wrote: »

i have been finding extreme a good listen as well.
retro now is decent enough but i think extreme wins for me now at the moment.

Listening all the time on preset 1 for me reminds me of a mix of club 106.4 and pulse 103 we done to all involved very enjoyable so far.

Infoanon

Christmas Eve listening in Dublin :

87.5 Unid
87.6 Chill FM
91.6 Easy FM
98.4 90s Network
99.3 Energy AM relay
102.5 Kiss FM
105.7 The Vault
105.7 RetroNow
107.1 Extreme FM

1395 AM Energy AM

radioguru02

Infoanon wrote: »

Christmas Eve listening in Dublin :

87.5 Unid
87.6 Chill FM
91.6 Easy FM
98.4 90s Network
99.3 Energy AM relay
102.5 Kiss FM
105.7 The Vault
105.7 RetroNow
107.1 Extreme FM

1395 AM Energy AM

No Phever?

hibits

pirateradiohed wrote: »

No Phever?

Phever is not currently on FM. It has been been off for two weeks.

fmfan

Im surprised that no one has picked up on the now defunt NowFm is playing a stream for PirateFm Dublin. Is this the start on something new?

end of the road

fmfan wrote: »

Im surprised that no one has picked up on the now defunt NowFm is playing a stream for PirateFm Dublin. Is this the start on something new?

yeah picked up on it the other day.
pirate fm is another online station, it has nothing to do with now fm.
i am unsure as to why now fm is relaying them, i can only assume that there is an issue at now fm's studio at the moment and they decided just to relay pirate fm, but that is just a guess, nothing on now fm's facebook mentioning any issues.

Fmradiofan

end of the road wrote: »

yeah picked up on it the other day.
pirate fm is another online station, it has nothing to do with now fm.
i am unsure as to why now fm is relaying them, i can only assume that there is an issue at now fm's studio at the moment and they decided just to relay pirate fm, but that is just a guess, nothing on now fm's facebook mentioning any issues.

The two stations are different operations altogether. Now is dead to be brutally honest. They had great potential but due to lack of Management failed miserably unfortunately they had great potential..... A shame really they could have been the next super pirate!

Infoanon

Fmradiofan wrote: »

The two stations are different operations altogether. Now is dead to be brutally honest. They had great potential but due to lack of Management failed miserably unfortunately they had great potential..... A shame really they could have been the next super pirate!

The age of the Super Pirate is long dead - Now and many others have tried to broadcast alas comreg action be it raids or letters to site owners quickly puts an end irregardless of station management.

I did a list of pirates (double digits) in Dublin mid year - how few have made it to the year end.....

castle2012

Infoanon wrote: »

The age of the Super Pirate is long dead - Now and many others have tried to broadcast alas comreg action be it raids or letters to site owners quickly puts an end irregardless of station management.

I did a list of pirates (double digits) in Dublin mid year - how few have made it to the year end.....

In the last 5 years the way younger people listen to radio has changed Spotify, online radio, amazon alexa etc. For a really good station to do well, they need a strong online presence. One thing I have noticed with our pirates in many cases there streams go down and are not consistent. Or they launch apps etc and are not maintained or working properly.

JDxtra

castle2012 wrote: »

In the last 5 years the way younger people listen to radio has changed Spotify, online radio, amazon alexa etc. For a really good station to do well, they need a strong online presence. One thing I have noticed with our pirates in many cases there streams go down and are not consistent. Or they launch apps etc and are not maintained or working properly.

Fully agree there, stations trying to gain momentum and who want to be here for the medium/long term need a good online presence. Attention needs to be given to the availability & quality of an online stream.

Infoanon

JDxtra wrote: »

Fully agree there, stations trying to gain momentum and who want to be here for the medium/long term need a good online presence. Attention needs to be given to the availability & quality of an online stream.

Online presence is important BUT it is all about FM in Dublin, the figures for online listening are woeful with <10 listeners for some stations and one of those is the stream to the TX.

JDxtra

Infoanon wrote: »

Online presence is important BUT it is all about FM in Dublin, the figures for online listening are woeful with <10 listeners for some stations and one of those is the stream to the TX.

Correct there. Even though concurrent listener numbers can be low, expecially for new stations, I would say the expectation these days is that there is an online stream available. They complement each other.

end of the road

remember also that the listener figures given on the stats page of a streaming server are just the connections to the stream from the methods used to listen.
there could be multiple listeners via 1 or more of those connections, for example, a few people listening to the same stream via the same device in a room, but there is no way of actually telling, at least not to my knowledge anyway.

Infoanon

end of the road wrote: »

remember also that the listener figures given on the stats page of a streaming server are just the connections to the stream from the methods used to listen.
there could be multiple listeners via 1 or more of those connections, for example, a few people listening to the same stream via the same device in a room, but there is no way of actually telling, at least not to my knowledge anyway.

In reality that at best would average out at 2 listeners - the figures are still woeful.

Online presence goes hand in hand with FM or Dab , FM being king.

Sunnyboy11

Have to fully agree with you online is good to have. DAB is also good to have but unfortunately the figures for listenership for online and DAB are horrendous. FM is definitely king for transmissions. It’s many years away for a huge take up for online and DAB unfortunately in Ireland.

end of the road

Infoanon wrote: »

In reality that at best would average out at 2 listeners - the figures are still woeful.

only if 2 listener slots are taken up with a single individual listening to each slot. if 2 slots are taken up and 5 people are listening to 1, say they are in a small business, and a single individual is listening to the other, then that is 6 people technically, however the server's stats page wil only show 2, because that is all it can show, as it can only work on the basis of connections to the stream.

Infoanon wrote: »

Online presence goes hand in hand with FM or Dab , FM being king.

agreed, hence i didn't respond to that aspect.

Infoanon

end of the road wrote: »

only if 2 listener slots are taken up with a single individual listening to each slot. if 2 slots are taken up and 5 people are listening to 1, say they are in a small business, and a single individual is listening to the other, then that is 6 people technically, however the server's stats page wil only show 2, because that is all it can show, as it can only work on the basis of connections to the stream.



agreed, hence i didn't respond to that aspect.

I get the point - in your example the average is 3. The figures are miniscule and financially not viable

end of the road

Infoanon wrote: »

I get the point - in your example the average is 3. The figures are miniscule and financially not viable

realistically the only way a station can get true numbers is by doing their own research.
financial viability of internet radio is a whole different ball game and probably for another thread, very little of it actually makes money.

JDxtra

Tribute FM now on 88.1 in Dublin.