BANDSCAN THREAD

dxhound2005 · 13-03-2026 03:48PM

Radio Six is going to be on every week for an hour.

https://www.radiosix.com/

Another reputed one million watt transmitter is the Trans World Radio operation in Armenia. Can be heard with a strong signal in Ireland in the evenings. On 1377 kHz, in between Manx Radio and the Lithuanian transmitter.

https://www.mwlist.org/mwlist_quick_and_easy.php?area=1&kHz=1377

Orban6 · 13-03-2026 04:00PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124296902#Comment_124296902

I think there is a low power Dutch station on 1440 so maybe Energy were testing on 1431. I believe Daniella will be returning to 1206 Khz.

dxhound2005 · 13-03-2026 04:42PM

The Weekend Music Radio programme last weekend included 15 minutes or so of material from Sunshine 539 from 1980. The programme is 2 hours long, and that segment starts at around 1 hour. It is on their website. The 2 hours, a new one every weekend gets repeated on various frequencies.

I am convinced Energy was never on 1431. Maybe someone listening when that segment was on could have thought they were listening to a live Irish pirate?

Declan A Walsh · 13-03-2026 04:57PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124309643#Comment_124309643

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124309759#Comment_124309759

It was mid-morning last Saturday around Nutgrove when I could not pick up anything properly on 1440kh but the car radio scanned to 1431kh. It was definitely still there around lunchtime. It was the usual automated (not live) music from Energy, including id. I think I had heard the sequence of songs on a previous occasion, i.e. same automated music. Maybe it was only a temporary testing arrangement (as per Orban6's post) and Energy reverted to 1440kh subsequently. I was not listening to * Medium Wave later on Saturday. *Edit: with the possible exception of Manx Radio AM on 1368kh with Radio Caroline North for a brief period in the afternoon.

Antenna · 14-03-2026 07:37PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124296757#Comment_124296757

Declan A Walsh " I also noticed that Energy Power AM moved from 1440kh (208 metres) to 1431kh. Its signal was really good around Nutgrove. What is that in metres?"

210 metres. A local station based in Reading, England which had that MW frequency actually named itself from its wavelength, Radio 2-1-0. (even though modern radio dials were to be in kHz - or 10s of kHz on MW/LW instead of metres) . The frequency was also affected by being alongside the then powerful Radio Luxembourg nighttime service, so if there was a hope they might be able to move to a better frequency on MW, it did not make sense to name the station as it was!. The name even carried over for a while to when the station became FM-only (with Classic Gold on MW), though becoming "Two-Ten FM" instead of 2-1-0"

https://www.radio210.co.uk/

Back to the present I could weakly get Irish part-time AM station KLAS on 1233 a short time ago.

dxhound2005 · 14-03-2026 08:36PM

The formula is based on the speed of light in kilometres per second, which is also the speed radio waves travel at. A shorthand of 300,000 is used, but the exact figure is slightly less. 208 metres works out at 1441.31 kHz

https://www.unitconverters.net/frequency-wavelength/wavelength-in-metres-to-kilohertz.htm

dxhound2005 · 14-03-2026 09:22PM

1593 kHz Kiss AM has been on all day. When I checked just now it is the best I have heard it on the North West SDR's and the one in Castlebar. I was in the North last Saturday, and it was there on the car radio to around half way between Newry and Banbridge.

Declan A Walsh · 15-03-2026 09:27PM

I picked up automated oldies music on 1206 kh around Dublin yesterday. There was no ID between songs but presumably it was Radio Danielle. They did not seem to be on today, and no sign of Energy Power AM this weekend when I was listening.

Infoanon · 15-03-2026 10:09PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124315510#Comment_124315510

No Energy today ,but a relay from 'Daniala' of Yatch 1180

dxhound2005 · 16-03-2026 04:21PM

I notice the Radio Farda transmission on 13755 kHz is not being jammed when I checked just now. Maybe the jamming transmitters were bombed? There is a station on 1611 kHz today playing non stop music, no announcements. Fairly strong with me.

Antenna · 16-03-2026 05:34PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124285941#Comment_124285941

Closest thing to a "numbers" station ever in Ireland?? :

dxarchive.com/downloads/irish/q102/1988_05_18_wed_q102_738am_1530-1945_numbercounting_superq_launch-gh694.mp3

Commercial breaks still went out during this stunt, as if the general public would stay listening to this for any length of time!

Antenna · 18-03-2026 08:39PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124317299#Comment_124317299

Speaking of Jamming, serious jamming was going on last night on the Irish Amateur Radio weekly news broadcast at 8PM Tuesday over several VHF/UHF repeaters (2m/70cms) . Someone in the south-east of Ireland seemingly responsible. Either blanking out the newsreader with just carrier, or playing back couple of second long recordings of people in a repeating loop a few times. Not a once off, this seemingly a semi regular activity on these Tuesday 8PM amateur radio news affecting several repeaters . A ham radio operator last night tried to make light of the situation by saying the person responsible has callsign "0IQ" (Zero IQ)