BANDSCAN THREAD

Infoanon · 14-09-2020 9:56am

Very quiet on the airwaves yesterday and this morning - only Club on 107.1 and a carrier on 91.0

Thought it was my antenna ! But picking up Heart on 105.4,BBC Cumbria on 95.6 and Mon FM on 102.5 along with the usual BBC nationals.

marno21 · 14-09-2020 12:58pm

Indeed. Very strong UK signals this morning. I posted a bandscan in August at Myrtleville in Cork with 58 services, there was 69 this morning. Strong signals from Liverpool and Winter Hill were surprising.

88.4 - BBC Radio 2 - Carmel
88.7 - BBC Radio 2 - Blaenplwyf
88.9 - BBC Radio 2 - Llangollen
89.3 - BBC Radio 2 - Haverfordwest
89.5 - BBC Radio 2 - Kilvey Hill
89.7 - BBC Radio 2 – Mynydd Pencarreg
89.8 - BBC Radio 2 - Llanddona
89.9 - BBC Radio 2 - Wenvoe
90.3 - BBC Radio 3 - North Hessary Tor
90.6 - BBC Radio 3 - Carmel
90.9 - BBC Radio 3 - Blaenplwyf
91.1 - BBC Radio Wales - Llangollen
91.5 - BBC Radio 3 - Haverfordwest
91.7 - BBC Radio 3 - Kilvey Hill
91.9 - BBC Radio Wales – Mynydd Pencarreg
92.0 – BBC Radio 3 - Llanddona
92.1 - BBC Radio 3 - Wenvoe
92.5 - BBC Radio 4 - North Hessary Tor
92.8 - BBC Radio 4 - Carmel
93.1 - BBC Radio Cymru - Blaenplwyf
93.3 - BBC Radio 4 - Llangollen
93.7 - BBC Radio Cymru – Haverfordwest
93.9 - BBC Radio Wales - Kilvey Hill
94.1 - BBC Radio Cymru – Mynydd Pencarreg
94.2 - BBC Radio Cymru - Llanddona
94.3 - BBC Radio 4 - Wenvoe
94.6 - BBC Radio 4 - Kilvey Hill
95.3 - BBC Radio Wales - Blaenplwyf
95.8 – BBC Radio Merseyside – Allerton Park
95.9 - BBC Radio Wales - Haverfordwest
96.6 - Nation Radio Wales - Mynydd Pencarreg
96.7 – Radio City – Allerton Park
97.1 - Radio Carmarthenshire – Carmel
97.7 – BBC Radio 1 – North Hessary Tor
98.0 - BBC Radio 1 - Carmel
98.3 - BBC Radio 1 - Blaenplwyf
98.5 - BBC Radio 1 - Llangollen
98.9 - BBC Radio 1 - Haverfordwest
99.1 - BBC Radio 1 - Kilvey Hill
99.3 - BBC Radio 1 - Redruth
99.4 - BBC Radio 1 - Llanddona
99.5 - BBC Radio 1 – Wenvoe
100.4 – Smooth North West – Winter Hill
100.5 - Classic FM – Preseli
100.7 – Classic FM - Arfon
101.1 - Classic FM - Blaenplwyf
101.3 - Classic FM - Kilvey Hill
101.5 - Classic FM - Redruth
101.7 - Classic FM - Wenvoe
102.1 - Swansea Bay Radio - Kilvey Hill
102.5 - Radio Pembrokeshire - Haverfordwest
102.9 - Nation Radio Wales – Carmel
103.3 – Nation Radio Wales - Blaenplwyf
103.6 - BBC Radio 4 – Llanddona
103.9 - BBC Radio Wales – Wenvoe
104.0 – BBC Radio 4 - Blaenplwyf
104.3 - BBC Radio Cymru - Llangollen
104.6 - BBC Radio Cymru - Carmel
104.9 - BBC Radio 4 – Haverfordwest
105.2 – Heart South Wales – Carmel
105.4 – Heart North West – Winter Hill (confirmed not Heart S Wales 105.4 near Cardiff)
105.7 – Heart South Wales – Preseli
105.9 – Greatest Hits Radio Merseyside, North West and North Wales – Allerton Park
106.2 – Heart South Wales - Fishguard
106.8 - Nation Radio Wales - Wenvoe
107.1 - Nation Radio Wales - Preseli
107.3 - Nation Radio Wales - Kilvey Hill
107.7 – Heart North Wales - Blaenplwyf

Losty Dublin · 14-09-2020 1:51pm

I was in Mid Ulster yesterday and braved the whistling and whining of AM for the benefit of the fora. Long stayers Radio North on 846 and Radio Star Country on 981 continue to broadcast, presumably from studios that were fitted out by Moses and on rigs that were supplied by Methuselah. No word of what rigs they use; I guess both are not on huge power as they were lost by the time I hit Newry. Incidentally Star played out a promo declaring them them be heard in Jamaica.....

Jamaica Street in Belfast, that is

Plenty of accordion hymns, Jesus saving and twangy accented Country and Irish songs dominate the playlists on both stations though the audio of the spoken output leaves a lot to be desired on both operations. Given that they both rely a lot on recorded programming it makes for hard listening. Maybe it's on purpose; after all God does love a trier.

Meanwhile Spirit can once again be heard loud and clear on their actual frequency, and unlike the other bible thumpers their signal thumps into Dublin.

JDxtra · 14-09-2020 5:56pm

Infoanon wrote: »

Very quiet on the airwaves yesterday and this morning - only Club on 107.1 and a carrier on 91.0

Thought it was my antenna ! But picking up Heart on 105.4,BBC Cumbria on 95.6 and Mon FM on 102.5 along with the usual BBC nationals.

Extreme returned to FM on 93.2 sometime this afternoon. Hot FM remained on a carrier for most of today - even though on social media they claimed to have a live DJ on, so maybe they were unaware.

fmfan · 14-09-2020 7:56pm

Losty Dublin wrote: »

I was in Mid Ulster yesterday and braved the whistling and whining of AM for the benefit of the fora. Long stayers Radio North on 846 and Radio Star Country on 981 continue to broadcast, presumably from studios that were fitted out by Moses and on rigs that were supplied by Methuselah. No word of what rigs they use; I guess both are not on huge power as they were lost by the time I hit Newry. Incidentally Star played out a promo declaring them them be heard in Jamaica.....

Jamaica Street in Belfast, that is

Plenty of accordion hymns, Jesus saving and twangy accented Country and Irish songs dominate the playlists on both stations though the audio of the spoken output leaves a lot to be desired on both operations. Given that they both rely a lot on recorded programming it makes for hard listening. Maybe it's on purpose; after all God does love a trier.

Meanwhile Spirit can once again be heard loud and clear on their actual frequency, and unlike the other bible thumpers their signal thumps into Dublin.

Not much happening with the radio scene in Mid Ulster, just the dire legals and poor coverage stations you mentioned.

Losty Dublin · 14-09-2020 8:18pm

fmfan wrote: »

Not much happening with the radio scene in Mid Ulster, just the dire legals and poor coverage stations you mentioned.

Northern Ireland radio has more Q's than the last bit of the Jam Song.

end of the road · 14-09-2020 8:34pm

JDxtra wrote: »

Extreme returned to FM on 93.2 sometime this afternoon. Hot FM remained on a carrier for most of today - even though on social media they claimed to have a live DJ on, so maybe they were unaware.

hard to know as they do seem to usually mention 91.0 but didn't today.

Infoanon · 14-09-2020 9:02pm

Losty Dublin wrote: »

Northern Ireland radio has more Q's than the last bit of the Jam Song.

Not that a lot of people know that as Nova edited the part of the song 'Q101 to Joy 108' !

fmfan · 14-09-2020 10:35pm

Losty Dublin wrote: »

Northern Ireland radio has more Q's than the last bit of the Jam Song.

The original Q102.9 in Derry was the best Q, decent djs, decent imaging etc, where did it all go wrong?

kazoo106 · 15-09-2020 9:24am

Infoanon wrote: »

Not that a lot of people know that as Nova edited the part of the song 'Q101 to Joy 108' !

And what a terrible edit it was - Heard it once on Radio West - and every other shout was 6db down - must have had only one output on tape deck - lots of stations used to do this to prevent L+R phase cancellations on tapes

Infoanon · 15-09-2020 11:26am

kazoo106 wrote: »

And what a terrible edit it was - Heard it once on Radio West - and every other shout was 6db down - must have had only one output on tape deck - lots of stations used to do this to prevent L+R phase cancellations on tapes

Radio West - in glorious PT stereo....

kazoo106 · 15-09-2020 12:49pm

correct - signal generator 19khz (probably a 555 timer) in line with the output audio

Dipole Keith · 15-09-2020 6:53pm

Infoanon wrote: »

Radio West - in glorious PT stereo....

Wow, A blast from the past I haven’t heard someone say PT stereo in years.

JDxtra · 18-09-2020 10:12am

Did a DAB scan this morning, picked up a number of stations from a MUX in Wales. Was just using an indoor radio with telescopic antenna.

Dipole Keith · 18-09-2020 4:38pm

I’m picking up a dance station on 87.5 near Clondalkin, No RDS or ID also that over modulated station is on 94.1

Hot, Extreme & Club all on, No sign of Phever they normally switch on Fridays

marno21 · 18-09-2020 6:20pm

Heart South Wales absolutely romping in in Cork Harbour last night on 105.4. Also BBC Devon on 103.4, BBC Somerset on 95.5 and a number of French signals.

Sunnyboy11 · 18-09-2020 8:05pm

Just driving out towards Ratfarnham and just scanning the fm band picked up a carrier on 94.3 and it’s very strong, has RDS reading Testing also heard that Unidentified dance station on 94.1 with over modulated audio sound terrible. No sign of Phever here in Rathfarnham must be off or on very low power if they are on fm

Dipole Keith · 18-09-2020 8:25pm

Sunnyboy11 wrote: »

Just driving out towards Ratfarnham and just scanning the fm band picked up a carrier on 94.3 and it’s very strong, has RDS reading Testing also heard that Unidentified dance station on 94.1 with over modulated audio sound terrible. No sign of Phever here in Rathfarnham must be off or on very low power if they are on fm

When I tuned to 94.3 All80s came up on the RDS and quickly changed to testing so the PI code must be the same. A presenter just said Testing on Am & stereo fm, Something exciting happening tomorrow.

Declan A Walsh · 18-09-2020 10:40pm

Dipole Keith wrote: »

When I tuned to 94.3 All80s came up on the RDS and quickly changed to testing so the PI code must be the same. A presenter just said Testing on Am & stereo fm, Something exciting happening tomorrow.

I heard it this evening. He sounded like an experienced presenter. He played some quirky 80s tunes that you would not hear very often. It was also on 1395kw MW, home of Energy Power AM. When I hit my Info button, the RDS text said something along the lines of "Hi, excuse us, as we're getting things ready".

radioguru02 · 19-09-2020 2:21am

Declan A Walsh wrote: »

I heard it this evening. He sounded like an experienced presenter. He played some quirky 80s tunes that you would not hear very often. It was also on 1395kw MW, home of Energy Power AM. When I hit my Info button, the RDS text said something along the lines of "Hi, excuse us, as we're getting things ready".

So do we know if All 80s themselves are actually behind these broadcasts?

Dipole Keith · 19-09-2020 10:47am

94.3 is now FUN this morning, A few familiar voices from Charity radio on it.
RDS says Fun on the radio all day!

SATNAV · 19-09-2020 11:39am

Listening this morning,
Mike Doyle was on air when I was leaving the house and he mentioned John Troy was on his way . I think they did something like this last year ( can't find the the tried )
I was listening on 1395AM , their audio seems to have improved in the last few weeks? . Will try 94.3 on the way home later.

Any sign of Pirate FM coming back ? loved the tunes they played.

Declan A Walsh · 19-09-2020 4:35pm

pirateradiohed wrote: »

So do we know if All 80s themselves are actually behind these broadcasts?

Dipole Keith wrote: »

94.3 is now FUN this morning, A few familiar voices from Charity radio on it.
RDS says Fun on the radio all day!

SATNAV wrote: »

Listening this morning,
Mike Doyle was on air when I was leaving the house and he mentioned John Troy was on his way . I think they did something like this last year ( can't find the the tried )
I was listening on 1395AM , their audio seems to have improved in the last few weeks? . Will try 94.3 on the way home later.

Any sign of Pirate FM coming back ? loved the tunes they played.

It's another one of those joint broadcasts across various frequencies. Mike Doyle is from Retro FM. I heard John Troy. He mentioned 94.3 FM, 92 FM and 1395 AM. At the time he was on (around lunchtime), I could not get anything from 92FM. Later this afternoon, I heard the by now recognizable Paul Murray from Energy Power AM. He gave out all those frequencies plus one on short wave - 631 on the 48 band I think he said. This time I did pick it up on 92.0, home of Retro FM. I reckon they were about 30 seconds behind. He gave out a number for requests which I think has been used for Energy Power AM. As said above, there are a number of Charity Radio presenters involved, including John Troy and Energy Power AM person Brian Kelly. Other Charity Radio presenters: Alan Hennessy, Tony King, Ger O'Reilly and Aaron Hughes. All of these have done this Fun Radio thing before.

My guess is that 94.3 is operated by someone connected to those guys, and, probably, one of them.

Declan A Walsh · 19-09-2020 4:44pm

SATNAV wrote: »

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Any sign of Pirate FM coming back ? loved the tunes they played.

They don't seem to be coming back. It's curious that they never got involved with these joint broadcasts of oldies - they did not seem to mix with the guys at Energy, Retro, Charity Radio and, previously, Easy Radio.

Actually, the same could be said about The Beach, when they were alternating as oldies type stations The Vault and, more recently, Star1057.

Declan A Walsh · 19-09-2020 4:59pm

I just checked John Troy's biog on Charity Radio. It seems to be the same guy that was on Today FM and CKR and, a few years ago, pirate Non Stop Nineties...although he used to be called Jon Troy if it is all the same guy!

Mr. MooYagi · 19-09-2020 5:00pm

Declan A Walsh wrote: »

They don't seem to be coming back. It's curious that they never got involved with these joint broadcasts of oldies - they did not seem to mix with the guys at Energy, Retro, Charity Radio and, previously, Easy Radio.

Actually, the same could be said about The Beach, when they were alternating as oldies type stations The Vault and, more recently, Star1057.

Fun radio very low on air. Sounds mono to me also the Retro relay is definition mono. Not getting them on shortwave though. AM sounding good. The Beach on air today. Very good audio and good signal out here clontarf direction.

Declan A Walsh · 19-09-2020 5:03pm

Mr. MooYagi wrote: »

Fun radio very low on air. Sounds mono to me also the Retro relay is definition mono. Not getting them on shortwave though. AM sounding good. The Beach on air today. Very good audio and good signal out here clontarf direction.

Fun Radio on 94.3 sounded good around Dundrum area when I was listening a bit earlier.

Declan A Walsh · 19-09-2020 5:19pm

I did a search through Boards and found that Fun Radio had been done before on the following dates: 27/12/2017, 10/03/2018, 14/03/2018, 3/08/2019 and 16/11/2019.

JDxtra · 19-09-2020 5:54pm

Mr. MooYagi wrote: »

Fun radio very low on air. Sounds mono to me also the Retro relay is definition mono. Not getting them on shortwave though. AM sounding good. The Beach on air today. Very good audio and good signal out here clontarf direction.

Good to hear it on air. Signal a little weak out my way (94.3 usually is though), but agree audio wasn't quite right - low modulation and possibly in mono. I'll see if I can get closer to check again in a better signal area.

Dipole Keith · 19-09-2020 6:45pm

I noticed on my travels that Storm NE are on a blank carrier on 104.2 today. No RDS

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