Dipole Keith wrote: » Someone said Club FM 107.1 were on the Freedab in Dublin, I did a scan at Liffey Valley car park today and couldn’t receive any stations on DAB.
StreetLight wrote: » FreeDAB is not on the air full time yet. I haven't heard it at all today.
Robdx wrote: » I agree much better than HOT Good imaging on air also Some great dance classics Pity you can't pick them up in Dublin I think it would be a good Dublin Dance station if you could
Antenna wrote: » Spirit 549kHz is just a blank carrier ....
KildareP wrote: » Their FM in Dublin/Saggart were on blank carriers for most of Friday afternoon onwards.
Mr. MooYagi wrote: » Happy Saturday! Sun is shining! Anything happening out there today fellas?
JDxtra wrote: » I think the answer from now on will generally be "very little". Broadcast radio has been in decline for the last few years. Younger generations just aren't interested in it. It simply can't compete against the choice and freshness offered by smartphones, mobile data and streaming services coupled with Bluetooth / Apple Car Play / Android Auto. They are not going to interact with a station for “shout outs”. They have endless other options to communicate online to an audience. Even my parents don’t listen to FM anymore – radios have been replaced with smart speakers. Perfect reception every time was the motivation for them. Any pirates that do appear are either mostly or fully automated. There is no point in pumping time, money and effort into anything better. The risks are just not worth the (very limited) rewards. So any sign of attention from Comreg, and they're gone or on the move. Also noticeable is the lack of stations applying for temporary licences. The BAI hardly ever update the list of upcoming stations. The last 15 months with Covid hasn’t helped either – less people on the roads commuting, means a reduction in FM listeners. To be honest, I think we'll only see the odd pop up pirate from now onwards just doing it for a bit of fun over a weekend or whatever.
James singer wrote: » heard redrock radio got another visit last night and are gone from fb again
cor wrote: » Picked up 1494AM on Sunday morning around 10am on the car radio here (Dublin North). Sounding good, playing oldies with ID “1494AM”. They were gone around midday.
Antenna wrote: » Around 9:30 this morning had "MEDI 1" (Morocco) on 87.6 on car radio by E skip and sounding overmodulated, there were others too but with no RDS decode - in the afternoon I received "R ITALIA" on 87.5
KildareP wrote: » Listening around now I'm back on the road fully the last few weeks. 98FM & FM104 seem to be in an all out balls to the wall battle for loudness lately. FM104 have never gone for clean but 98FM did sound as loud whilst also being fairly clean for quite a while. Not anymore. Although 98FM did fix a strange ringing sound on their low end. Another going balls to the wall is East Coast FM but their 8200 just doesn't have the horsepower to keep up and is pounding and shredding the absolute bijaesus out of everything to stay loud. Spin sounds decent, loud but with much more relaxed processing although they still have the ringing sound on bass that 98FM did. Q102 loud and relatively clean. Maybe lacking bass. Classic Hits sound louder than before but still nice. Probably nicer than Q. Today FM does not sound nice at all IMO. Far too much high end bacon frying, find myself switching off after a few minutes. Their 100.9 and 101.8 frequencies in Dublin seem to have different levels and processing applied which is very annoying as the radio automatically hops back and forward. Radio 1 sounds very nice for speech and music tends to be nice and open although you can tell it is tuned for speech (which is primarily their output anyway). 2FM on the other hand sounds constantly "muddy" and gets easily drowned out in traffic noise. Sunshine sounding a bit quieter than the rest and a bit of distortion but they are on an older processor (8300?) and also going for easy listening format. Nova also that bit quieter and with more noticeable distortion (8200) but with Nova it actually mixes in well with the rock format. iRadio are loud and relatively open but their mics sound awful. Very nasally and pulling up lots of background crap and hiss (you can hear the mics being switched on and off during the news inserts). Beat on 102.0 still sounding absolutely diabolical since early Jan. Are they using Skype to feed the transmitter?! Midlands 103 also a strange setup that sometimes sounds nice and other times very odd. Bass is being heavily limited which creates a pumping effect that causes very dramatic and frankly odd sounding changes throughout many songs driven by what's going on in the low end.
DavidJC wrote: » High pressure back this weekend so will keep my ears peeled.
Mr. MooYagi wrote: » What’s happening out there today lads?
Mr. MooYagi wrote: » Any sunny Sunday operators on air today?
Declan A Walsh wrote: » Briefly picked up the following earlier - wasn't doing a proper scan: 92.0 FM - Retro FM 1395 kh MW - Energy Power AM. Initially it was playing it's own music and then was relaying Retro FM.
Toasted Bread wrote: » Long time listener, first time caller etc etc.
