Three Rock Transmitter Service Announcement

Ger Roe

There are adds running on RTE Radio One at the moment, warning of possible outages on the Three Rock transmitter over the next few days.

One of the adds says to tune to the Kippure service instead and it announces the frequency as 89.1 Kilohertz

Radio awareness must certainly be in decline if an add can go out on the national radio service without anyone in there noticing that the announced frequency is incorrect. :rolleyes:

Odyssey 2005

Ger Roe wrote: »

There are adds running on RTE Radio One at the moment, warning of possible outages on the Three Rock transmitter over the next few days.

One of the adds says to tune to the Kippure service instead and it announces the frequency as 89.1 Kilohertz

Radio awareness must certainly be in decline if an add can go out on the national radio service without anyone in there noticing that the announced frequency is incorrect. :rolleyes:

Pity they didn't run the same as when they were doing maintenance on the kippure mast recently.

Ger Roe

I sent a text in to RTE yesterday morning and the ad was changed (new voice with correct freq) shortly afterwards.

Anoraks have standards that we are not prepared to let slip...

L1011

Ger Roe wrote: »

I sent a text in to RTE yesterday morning and the ad was changed (new voice with correct freq) shortly afterwards.

Anoraks have standards that we are not prepared to let slip...

Weirdly I noticed the change in VO but not the error!

SPDUB

L1011 wrote: »

Weirdly I noticed the change in VO but not the error!

The error seemed to be just on one version of the ad , the one broadcast during liveline .

All the other ones broadcast that afternoon just said 89.1 with no mention of mhz or khz

TheBMG

Imagine the scenes around some parts of Dalkey and Killiney where a disappearing Lyric on 96.7 could easily be replaced by Radio City from Liverpool on the same channel .. the well heeled punters of Vico Road won’t know what’s hit them!

SPDUB

According to technical info page on Aertel it's off the air again Tuesday 11th from 2pm to 430pm

I wonder will they give the ad another outing or just do an annoucement on 88.5 Mhz as they did the previous time

marno21

TheBMG wrote: »

Imagine the scenes around some parts of Dalkey and Killiney where a disappearing Lyric on 96.7 could easily be replaced by Radio City from Liverpool on the same channel .. the well heeled punters of Vico Road won’t know what’s hit them!

Do stations from that area make it into the Dublin area often? The Merseyside high power stations (95.8, 96.7 & 105.9) are all either on or cochannel with high power Dublin signals, but some other nearby ones (Capital Wirral 97.1, Heart N Wales 88.0, Capital NW & N Wales 103.4) are not as badly affected.

During enhanced conditions last year, 95.8/96.7/105.9 along with the Winter Hill signals (100.4 & 105.4) were receivable in Cork Harbour.

TheBMG

marno21 wrote: »

Do stations from that area make it into the Dublin area often? The Merseyside high power stations (95.8, 96.7 & 105.9) are all either on or cochannel with high power Dublin signals, but some other nearby ones (Capital Wirral 97.1, Heart N Wales 88.0, Capital NW & N Wales 103.4) are not as badly affected.

During enhanced conditions last year, 95.8/96.7/105.9 along with the Winter Hill signals (100.4 & 105.4) were receivable in Cork Harbour.

Very rarely. Vico Road was always a great DX spot (where the street parking has been replaced by the bicycles!). Slightly sheltered from Three Rock but a good clear view to Britain.

Further down in Greystones I’ve heard Radio City wipe out Lyric, and 98FM being replaced by BBC Radio One during very good conditions in 2013!

Ger Roe

marno21 wrote: »

Do stations from that area make it into the Dublin area often? The Merseyside high power stations (95.8, 96.7 & 105.9) are all either on or cochannel with high power Dublin signals, but some other nearby ones (Capital Wirral 97.1, Heart N Wales 88.0, Capital NW & N Wales 103.4) are not as badly affected.

During enhanced conditions last year, 95.8/96.7/105.9 along with the Winter Hill signals (100.4 & 105.4) were receivable in Cork Harbour.

I remember one time in the early days of legal Phantom, the transmitter on three rock went off due to a power failure at the Rock Solid installation. We always monitored off air, so were confused when there was still music being played in the studio headphones. Eventually we realised it was a station in Wales. I think it was Real Radio at the time, now Heart??

In the early pirate days we linked at somewhere around around 88mhz from the studio (shed) in Sandyford to the 91.6 site at Three Rock... a stones throw away, but in summer months the link was sometimes wiped out by lift signals coming in from BBC transmitters on the UK west coast.

Dublin and the east coast region are more hampered than most people realise by co channel and adjacent stations on the UK coast and in Northern Ireland.
In my early anorak days (when the FM band was less occupied), I was a regular listener to Manx Radio on FM at home in Sandyford and I also have a recording somewhere of Red Rose Radio in Preston (Lancashire) with a young Kay Burley reading news.

TheBMG

Ger Roe wrote: »

I remember one time in the early days of legal Phantom, the transmitter on three rock went off due to a power failure at the Rock Solid installation. We always monitored off air, so were confused when there was still music being played in the studio headphones. Eventually we realised it was a station in Wales. I think it was Real Radio at the time, now Heart??

In the early pirate days we linked at somewhere around around 88mhz from the studio (shed) in Sandyford to the 91.6 site at Three Rock... a stones throw away, but in summer months the link was sometimes wiped out by lift signals coming in from BBC transmitters on the UK west coast.

Dublin and the east coast region are more hampered than most people realise by co channel and adjacent stations on the UK coast and in Northern Ireland.
In my early anorak days (when the FM band was less occupied), I was a regular listener to Manx Radio on FM at home in Sandyford and I also have a recording somewhere of Red Rose Radio in Preston (Lancashire) with a young Kay Burley reading news.

Chris Carey had a story about the first few days of Nova on 88 where he drove around the Bay Area (how ironic!) to see if the BBC were doing his signal much damage.

Antenna

Ger Roe wrote: »

I remember one time in the early days of legal Phantom, the transmitter on three rock went off due to a power failure at the Rock Solid installation. We always monitored off air, so were confused when there was still music being played in the studio headphones. Eventually we realised it was a station in Wales. I think it was Real Radio at the time, now Heart??

105.2
It would have been the 'Carmel' transmitter roughly in the middle of south Wales:

http://tx.mb21.co.uk/gallery/gallerypage.php?txid=787

TheBMG wrote: »

Chris Carey had a story about the first few days of Nova on 88 where he drove around the Bay Area (how ironic!) to see if the BBC were doing his signal much damage.

It appears they were initially on 88.1 according to http://dxarchive.com/downloads_radio_nova.html
but they must have realized it wasn't the clearest (Sandale, a main BBC transmitter in Cumbria was/is on 88.1). Moved 0.1 away to reduce any incoming interference as 88.2 subsequently listed. Did they also try 88.0?

(radios with digital tuning must have been extremely rare back then (1981), to see stations' exact frequency if uncertain !)