BANDSCAN THREAD

Newstalk from Mullaghanish (107.4) is off the air since last night

Mr. MooYagi

Carrier on 94.3 very early this morning with RDS reading 'Dizzy943' Was gone by 8.30am.

Thought All 80s was using this frequency intermittently?

Different signal strength so definitely not connected to All 80s.

JDxtra

Even the relay of All 80s changes. It is the same as what was on 93.2 before it moved to current frequency of 94.3. Just very occasional broadcasts of different stations.

Be careful folks - BAI are not updating list of temp stations so one could get allocated to 94.3, even for weekend use.

JDxtra

91.0 does have RDS, but their modulation might be too low for it to be working effectively.

Here's what I can get...

88.1 - PirateFM - Pirate FM Dublin
91.0 - PULSE - www.pulse1.com
105.2 - EASY - Your Relaxing Music Mix
107.1 - CLUB FM - Club FM Dublin

Mr. MooYagi

JDxtra wrote: »

91.0 does have RDS, but their modulation might be too low for it to be working effectively.

Here's what I can get...

88.1 - PirateFM - Pirate FM Dublin
91.0 - PULSE - www.pulse1.com
105.2 - EASY - Your Relaxing Music Mix
107.1 - CLUB FM - Club FM Dublin

Where you listening? Seems very sparse....?

JDxtra

Mr. MooYagi wrote: »

Where you listening? Seems very sparse....?

I'm in Leixlip, I've checked the other usual frequencies but either nothing on them or too weak out this way.

87.6 - blank carrier, no RDS
92.0 - nothing
93.2 - nothing
94.3 - blank carrier, no RDS
98.4 - nothing
99.5 - Fresh, too weak to get the RDS
102.5 - nothing
105.7 - nothing

Here’s what I got today in the Phoenix park at the papal cross car park

87.6 Chill FM (Blank Carrier)
88.1 Pirate FM
91.0 Pulse
94.3 Blank Carrier
99.3 Energy AM Relay
99.5 Fresh
105.2 Easy
105.7 The Beach
107.1 Club FM

Antenna wrote: »

Newstalk from Mullaghanish (107.4) is off the air since last night

Came back on air at around 11:20 this Sunday morning

Max Power 2010

end of the road wrote: »

adds like that would generally be carried across a couple of stations. the rozalla 1 at least.
102.5 kiss fm's facebook seems to have gone however so perhapse they are no more?

They've posted on FB this afternoon with 'Standby'

Religious stations Life FM (93.1) and Spirit FM (90.9) both off the air in Cork for the past few hours, possibly related to a power glitch occurred before 2PM?.

Max Power 2010 wrote: »

They've posted on FB this afternoon with 'Standby'

Great news. Probably one of the best pirates in terms of coverage plus consistency. Best of luck to them

Infoanon

JDxtra wrote: »

91.0 does have RDS, but their modulation might be too low for it to be working effectively.
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RDS is not affected by modulation - signal strength is key.

The other issue that can affect RDS is an incorrectly tuned RDS unit.

I am receiving Pulse at 46db (Pirate FM at 47db for comparison ) near Dublin city - however the RDS on Pulse is not registering which indicate a poorly tuned RDS unit at the transmission site

pirateradiohed wrote: »

Any update on the station you picked up on 102.5?

An update its retro now on 102.5fm. Not good for Kiss as there planning to be back

end of the road

Max Power 2010 wrote: »

They've posted on FB this afternoon with 'Standby'

yes just saw that there.

Easy 105.2 Blank Carrier no RDS, Dance music playing on 94.3 & 102.5, 91.0 Pulse sounding nice plus 99.5 Fresh seem to have sorted out there problems

Dipole Keith wrote: »

Easy 105.2 Blank Carrier no RDS, Dance music playing on 94.3 & 102.5, 91.0 Pulse sounding nice plus 99.5 Fresh seem to have sorted out there problems

Any idea who's on 94.3fm?

castle2012 wrote: »

Any idea who's on 94.3fm?

I’m guessing it’s the same station that was on 87.5 playing heavy dance music, the audio on it wasn’t great.

hustlergraham

Dipole Keith wrote: »

I’m guessing it’s the same station that was on 87.5 playing heavy dance music, the audio on it wasn’t great.

Came across it this morning, audio not good at all.

radioguru02

So is this long unidentified pirate now calling itself ‘Dzzy’?

[Deleted User]

Coast FM from the Canary Islands loud and clear in Sligo on 1494 MW. Sligo DJ Rory O'Brien is on it!

kazoo106

The RTE mini mux which was on from Donnybrook has lodged placeholders on my radio yesterday for the MUX2 channels which were on 5B.
Have no idea where this was from, but I was nowhere near Donnybrook

Infoanon

Dipole Keith wrote: »

I’m guessing it’s the same station that was on 87.5 playing heavy dance music, the audio on it wasn’t great.

Apart from Unid 87.5 being off air there is nothing else to indicate 94.3 is the same station.

The radiation pattern and audio quality (and the problems over the weekend they had with modulating the signal ) would suggest that they are different stations.

Strange weekend - 87.6 Chill and 105.2 Easy end up on blank carriers,90s Network suffers a lightening strike taking it off air ,Kiss hint at a return and RetroNow moves to 102.5 (the Beach signal had improved ), while Retro 92 and All 80s have a weekend off !

Audio quality on 94.3 is dire btw....

end of the road

anyone know what type of dance music 94.3 is playing?

hustlergraham

end of the road wrote: »

anyone know what type of dance music 94.3 is playing?

Trance when I caught it this morning.

Mr. MooYagi

94.3 signal has been hit and miss also with no RDS when I last checked.

Looks like storm took a few stations off the air.

Anybody do bandsxan this evening?

This is what I picked up of the pirates this evening in East Meath

Pirate 88.1fm (strong)
Pulse back on 91.0fm, (Strong )
94.3fm blank carrier no rds (Strong)
99.5fm fresh still testing, (Weak)
102.5fm Retro Now, (Weak)
104.2fm Storm North East, (Strong)
105.8fm (weak)
107.1fm Club Fm (weak)

Have to say out of all of them Pirate Fm seems to have the best coverage

Spirit FM in Cork (90.9) currently still just a silent carrier. It put off the air with lightning on Sunday.
Transmitter went back on yesterday (Monday) but with no audio since then.

Life FM (93.1) returned on Monday morning

Declan A Walsh

castle2012 wrote: »

This is what I picked up of the pirates this evening in East Meath

Pirate 88.1fm (strong)
Pulse back on 91.0fm, (Strong )
94.3fm blank carrier no rds (Strong)
99.5fm fresh still testing, (Weak)
102.5fm Retro Now, (Weak)
104.2fm Storm North East, (Strong)
105.8fm (weak)
107.1fm Club Fm (weak)

Have to say out of all of them Pirate Fm seems to have the best coverage

Any idea what that is and where is it coming from?