end of the road wrote: » i don't think so, he would be plugging it like hell if it was i would imagine. there was a comparison made between the types of music between hot fm and pulse alright.
pirateradiohed wrote: » Frank Kennedy station isn’t it?
Infoanon wrote: » Any particular reason for the raid? ,what is the pirate situation like in the UK these days - seems to be a lack of websites providing information these days
Dipole Keith wrote: » Still skipping today, Probably just needs a reset, do they even listen to their own station?
JDxtra wrote: » Pulse is still skipping. Its easy to mistake for a dance track, but it's definitely on a very short loop!
SATNAV wrote: » Just listening this evening and their audio seems to have changed ? , I know some people mentioned earlier in the week about audio processing, have to say it's one of the best audio of whats on non official FM at the moment. ?
Infoanon wrote: » Ok now, Retro 92fm,94.3 and Energy 99.3 FM relay all on air this evening (Saturday )
JDxtra wrote: » Just skipping audio on 91.0 Pulse in Dublin.
Oscarziggy wrote: » Spirit on 549 khz always a good signal during the day on south west Wales coast. Out of interest FusionFM on 87.5 in the Midlands UK has been raided .https://m.facebook.com/FusionFmBirmingham/# No rest for the wicked even in this health crisis.
KildareP wrote: » Saggart is 99.9 but is directional so may be out of range for you
ka2 wrote: » Speaking of East Coast, I noticed that the signal on 96.2 had degraded over the last few days since an outage on Wednesday evening. I have an FM dipole and can’t get RDS lock on it anymore. I live in Drogheda so am well outside their service area in fairness, but East Coast, Classic Hits and BBC Radio 2 would be my go-to stations. Nonetheless I dropped them a mail earlier to check. Was quite surprised to receive a call from one of their engineers. Very nice guy to chat with. Long story short, the Bray Head TX was replaced at short notice on Wednesday evening, hence the outages, but the new unit is 2kW ERP and the old one was rated for 3kW. So I probably have to live with it, it’s not terrible but there’s a noticeable hiss. I actually thought I was getting my signal from Saggart all this time.
marno21 wrote: » Daytime bandscan, Cork City. Stations in bold are listenable549 - IRL - Spirit Radio - Carrickroe (25kW).
Infoanon wrote: » Reinforces Losty point that the audio setup has to take into account the stations output and listener's hence FM104s processing. The noticeable difference between I Radio 1047 and 105 date back to a transmitter failure,other stations eg East Coast-the tx source is the root course while Today FM 101.8 3 Rock is not hosted by RTENL
Losty Dublin wrote: » Amazing story, and one that has never ever got mention in the annals of Anorakadom!! Ger, what pray tell was the Cap'n using with this behemoth by way of an aerial rig?
mick masterson wrote: » only moved into the new studio so it might be a while before were on line be a w
KildareP wrote: » Some of the pirates have better audio than the legals these days! Fm104 have gone back to days of old, turn everything up to the max, base thumping away
Ger Roe wrote: » Just an observation on the Radio Dublin AM audio comments : When the big AM rig arrived over from USA, in and around 1981, it was the biggest rig I had ever seen - one of the tall cabinet jobs, the like of which I had only seen in pictures of the offshore stations (see Caroline and RNI transmitter halls). There were high hopes for it to far outperform the home made cobbled together units that had been in use up until then. It was supposed to operate at 10kw max but I am not sure if local conditions ever allowed for that - the mast lit up with RF arcs a couple of times when it was tried at full whack. The audio quality however was terrible, but despite making the mighty 253 sound like it was being fed from a telephone line, power was considered to be more important than quality and the considerable step back in audio quality was ignored. The rig had a name plate on it that said it once belonged to The Philidelphia Power Company, and therein lay the problem. They were a utility company and not a radio service, the rig was used as a repeater relay for their fleet of service trucks and so was only rated to operate at a reduced voice frequency bandwidth. It couldn't handle the full frequency AM bandwidth. The rig remained in situ at Inchicore road (cemented to the floor) until a forensic post legislation raid in 1989 when it was removed....very carefully, to avoid collapsing the practically derelict building.
Infoanon wrote: » Losty you have started the cogs in the old memory - wasn't there a battlebetween Kiss and the unscrupulous rival for the Q102 prism ! Radio Dublins FM audio improved immenselywhen the 5kw AM was seized ! , Pulse 103 had an optimod, as did KIC104 (Pulses ! Iirc) , Freedom had an Omnia iirc and Sunset had the famous BartImod ! Sun 101 had a wonderful processor in the early day. Losty - wasn't the Kiss desk the old Nova desk ? These days Energy AM are afaik the only pirate using an optimod. Speaking of Nova and the posting about the difficulties in setting up the audio processing chain - Chris Cary used to comment that Novas AM processing gave him a headache after 15 minutes - good audio processing is an Art form !
