BANDSCAN THREAD

anyone know what is the story with trax dublin has it closed?

website says station no longer available and social media is gone so i am assuming it has but maybe someone knows different?

It was time to call it a day. Five years was a milestone, but all good things and all that.

Will compile and upload some tribute audio mix.

Regarding this ICE radio, was it a coincidence or otherwise that this happened just some days after moving frequency from 99.5 to 102.5 ??

It is understood that this FM transmission was from a location approx 5km south-west of Balbriggan in north Co. Dublin.

In some parts of north Co. Dublin the optimum frequency for RnaG is 102.7 ? (instead of 92.9 or 93.5), might the nearby 0.2 adjacency have been an issue?

I can't see them moving that fast.

It takes some time to complete the site analysis, prepare the paperwork and then obtain a warrant. They likely would have had some of this prepared though.

However, no 24/7 pirate seems to last for very long these days. The 99.5 frequency may have also been an issue as temporary stations were due to use it from Bray at the end of the month (Freedom, then Christmas FM).

Energy Power AM on 1440kh (or 208 metres) MW had a good bit of coverage today as well. Incidentally, there was live programming this evening with Paul Murray.

OK here from Mt Leinster -- RTE Chill and RTE Junior playing the same music.

EPG shows RTE Chill "no extra information"

They are no longer digital stations - only available online - already "shut down".

Also available on Virgin Media's digital tv platform. Outside of the tv digital platforms, all those extra RTE stations are available online.

Passing through Cork City and 'Juice' on the air again on 88.7fm tonight

I was listening to ABC 80s on 93.3 FM on the car radio coming up to teatime around the Dundrum area. The reception was very sporadic, coming and going. Curiously, when the relay of Radio Ireland International started shortly after 6pm, the reception improved considerably! Interesting listening - now listening at home online. It is very much hobby horse and anorak territory! It is as far away as you could get from the superpirates of that period......or even the medium-sized pirates!

While I am here, as well as ABC 80s, I picked up the following stations during my travels this weekend.

92.0 FM - Retro FM

94.3 FM - Relay of All Eighties

98.4 FM - The 90s Network

1440 kh (208 metres) MW - Energy Power AM

All the remaining Dublin pirates now are oldies pirates. That is assuming that Phever and The Beach have called it a day (91.6 and 105.7, respectively).

ABC 80's Radio Memories this week is from "Radio Valleri October 19th 1975 - After around a year off the air Dublin shortwave pirate Radio Valleri returned on October 19th 1975 with a repeat broadcast of a documentary about the free radio scene in Dublin.

As it is a shortwave recording there are patches where the audio is difficult to listen to but that should not spoil your enjoyment of what is a fantastic piece of radio history." Tune-in on 93.3 FM / liveradio.ie/Tune-in Radio/Alexa and https://daniel.torontocast.com:3015/stream With thanks to Radiowaves Ireland / DX Archive (Aerial work due Thursday/Friday with luck and weather) 

I heard a good bit of this broadcast this evening online. Anorak heaven! It was interesting to hear about the stations around between the mid-1960s and the mid-1970s and the people involved. It included a pre-Eamon Cooke Radio Dublin, which was often referred to by Derek Jones on his broadcast as "The Big D". That was later to be the name of a breakaway station. A certain Arno St. Jude was mentioned in relation to a number of stations in the early 1970s including Radio Valeri itself. He is better known these days as Declan Meehan on East Coast FM. The late Mike Anderson, who operated Radio Valeri with Dermot Blake, aka Derek Jones, featured near the start of this broadcast.

Irish language station Radio Ri-Ra testing for FM temporary service tonight, silent carriers

I picked up Raidió Rí-Rá in the car this morning driving to work, on 105.5 in Limerick.

Though the RDS just displayed RIRA

I was a bit worried until I read the thread and realised the RDS was missing a dash and fada's 😆

Mike Anderson is definitely not "the late"! He is very much alive and kicking!😀