BANDSCAN THREAD

Glaceon · 28-04-2022 04:49PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118959935#Comment_118959935

I think FM transmitters might be making a bit of a comeback. My wife's one year old car doesn't have an auxiliary input at all now, they're probably assuming you'll use Bluetooth or a phone for everything. So she's back to a good old FM transmitter on 87.5 to run her old iPod.

Declan A Walsh · 02-05-2022 09:52PM

Here are most of the "free radio" stations I picked up on my car radio over the course of the weekend.

FM:

91.6 - Phever - fleetingly on Friday

92.0 - Retro FM - only on yesterday

93.3 - ABC 80s - At one stage, it had an RDS displaying KCR FM. What was that about?

98.4 - The 90s Network - Ever since I manually (and painfully!) tuned into this frequency and saved it, I have been able to pick it up with variable reception!

99.5 - Picked this one up this afternoon. No ID, just continuous oldies: some '70s, but mainly '60s. Stopped later in the afternoon with possibly a blank carrier (had frequency already saved, so cannot be 100% about that bit). Any ideas? It wasn't a relay or stream of Energy Power AM by the way (does not mean it's not connected of course!).

105.7 - The Beach, and earlier in the weekend playing oldies - one of its alter egos I would imagine.

MW:

1440 kh (or 208 metres) - Energy Power AM - there was some live broadcasting yesterday - with Paul Murray, who else! I don't think it was on Friday or Saturday.

DublinsABC · 07-05-2022 01:14AM

This week on Radio Memories on ABC 80's from 18.00 BST Sunday ..It's Radio Annabel "From November 1st 1983, this recording of the Dublin station is off 94.6MHz and features Peter Madison on air from 12.30pm." Join us on 93,3 FM Stereo and online at https://daniel.torontocast.com:3015/stream and Alexa With Thanks to Radiowaves Ireland

Declan A Walsh · 07-05-2022 09:53AM

I heard that station on 99.5FM yesterday evening again. They were playing a mixture of songs from the 1960s and 1970s. Eventually, I heard a jingle identifying themselves as Nostalgia Radio.

end of the road · 07-05-2022 02:49PM

has galaxy in kildare called it a day?

i have heard nothing of it in a while now and there is no working stream or social media for it either that i can find.

Max Power 2010 · 08-05-2022 06:10PM

Small bit of a lift in Wicklow this evening, BBC R2 89.8, BBC R1 99.4 & 99.7 no RDS and 103.6 BBC RD Cymru no RDS, Classic 100.7 no RDS but that almost all year round.

Declan A Walsh · 08-05-2022 06:45PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119026460#Comment_119026460

I have been listening to this online this evening. It is definitely interesting. Radio Anabel is one of those stations I missed out on at the time, and I actually don't think I heard the dulcet tones of Peter Madison before...although I was aware of him for years! Another of those smooth-voiced Englishmen that cropped up a lot on Dublin pirates during the first half of the 1980s!

marno21 · 08-05-2022 07:21PM

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103.6 would be Radio 4 I believe with the C204 PI, from Llanddona (same site as 89.8 and 99.4). On one occasion last year 103.6 was the strongest R4 in Cork out of a selection of 94.1, 94.3, 104.0 and 104.9):

Max Power 2010 · 08-05-2022 07:45PM

Correct, it was R4, I realised after the dinner but was too tired to correct my post 😂

JDxtra · 12-05-2022 09:09AM

FM104 sounding awful this morning, completely distorted. Possibly over modulated signal.

TheBMG · 12-05-2022 02:27PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119049766#Comment_119049766

I heard that myself on the way to work. They apologised a number of times for it, and the Alarm Clock dropped their kids feature saying they’d do it tomorrow instead. It was certainly … loud! For a moment I thought they had gone back to the Omnia days!

JDxtra · 12-05-2022 05:02PM

FreeDAB is off air in Dublin last two days.

Losty Dublin · 12-05-2022 08:28PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119049766#Comment_119049766

More awful than usual?

DublinsABC · 13-05-2022 01:15AM

This week on "Radio Memories" from ABC 80's (18.00 BST Sunday ) we have "Magic 103 May 10th 1985 - This is Dublin pirate Magic 103, the easy listening Radio Nova sister station which was based in 144 Upper Leeson St. This recording features Chris Barry and George Long (pictured) on the station’s Breakfast programme."Tune in on Alexa / Tunein Radio / 93.3 FM Stereo (North Dublin) and https://daniel.torontocast.com:3015/stream "Radio you grew up with" With Thanks to Radiowaves Ireland and Gary Hogg / DXArchive.com

Declan A Walsh · 13-05-2022 11:31AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119055004#Comment_119055004

Interesting. I did not know that Chris and George were involved with Magic 103.

Infoanon · 13-05-2022 12:56PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119056167#Comment_119056167

Chris Barry was breakfast on Magic followed by Peter Madison for mid morning (with Bob Gallico).

All of the 'ABC' news team had programmes on Magic varying from chat to music.

Declan A Walsh · 13-05-2022 02:24PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119056564#Comment_119056564

Those three turned up in various Dublin pirate stations. Besides Radio Nova and Magic 103, here are some other stations they were involved with:

Chris Barry - Capitol Radio (one in town from the mid 1970s) and Q102

Peter Madison - Capitol Radio (short-lived albums-oriented station from Milltown in 1982) and Radio Anabel

Bob Gallicoe: Q102, Energy103 and Treble TR

JDxtra · 14-05-2022 10:08PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119052288#Comment_119052288

Back now. 👍

DublinsABC · 20-05-2022 04:29PM

Radio Memories from ABC 80's this Sunday is of course the famous raids of 18th/19th May 1983 starting with Radio NOVA "May 18th 1983. A famous day in Irish radio history as Declan Meehan and Bob Gallico compose themselves on air whilst Department of P&T officials, accompanied by Gardaí, demand that they switch off Radio Nova. followed by Sunshine Radio This is the morning the Sun went out over Portmarnock. The day after a raid against Radio Nova Sunshine Radio decided to continue broadcasting. First, from 7.43, this is David Lyons on Breakfast. David hands over to Robbie Dale from 9am " See Alexa/Tune-in Radio app/Liveradio.ie and https://daniel.torontocast.com:3015/stream With thanks to Radiowaves Ireland

TheBMG · 20-05-2022 04:53PM

Quick pirate scan in South Dublin (Windy Arbour)

on FM

93.3 ABC 90s

98.4 90s Network

and on AM there was an early sighting of Energy on 1440

Declan A Walsh · 21-05-2022 04:23PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119090720#Comment_119090720

Today around the south-east of Dublin, you can add the following:

94.3 FM - relay of All 80s

105.7 FM - The Beach

kazoo106 · 21-05-2022 06:02PM

What is that muck on 91.6 in Dublin - sounds like the strem receiver is a 2008 Nokia N52 plugged into a rig!

Sounds worse than Hot FM did

end of the road · 22-05-2022 01:01PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119094218#Comment_119094218

were you able to get an ID on this in the end?

GFrancy4stir · 22-05-2022 04:03PM

Wasn't 91.6 used on weekends by the dance station Phever?

Declan A Walsh · 22-05-2022 05:13PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119097717#Comment_119097717

That's right - particularly Fridays. Recently there have been relays of Cork's Kiss FM on 91.6 over part of the weekends.

end of the road · 22-05-2022 05:50PM

that's correct, but the relay of phever and company generally seems to have decent audio from what i can gather, i haven't heard it myself as i am not in the area so can't confirm it but it is just what i have gathered from here.

the description of what was on yesterday sounded quite different though, but it is possible it is the relay.

Declan A Walsh · 22-05-2022 10:34PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119090611#Comment_119090611

I heard some of it this evening online: Declan Meehan on Radio Nova and (presumably) David Lyons on Sunshine. I think I also briefly heard Robbie Dale as well. Did anyone else hear any of these recordings this evening?