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tiswasfan · 13-08-2020 7:52pm

107.1 is a great frequency and Phever is looking for a new home....... just putting that out there. #bringbackphever #pheverbeliever

castle2012 · 13-08-2020 10:34pm

tiswasfan wrote: »

107.1 is a great frequency and Phever is looking for a new home....... just putting that out there. #bringbackphever #pheverbeliever

Club Fm have been clear they will be back on 107.1fm, There social media has the posts.

tiswasfan · 13-08-2020 11:28pm

castle2012 wrote: »

Club Fm have been clear they will be back on 107.1fm, There social media has the posts.

Yadda Yadda Yadda, any idiot can put a carrier on any frequency, let's hear some music, jingles, presenters or stfu and make way for a real station. We've had lotsa talk and very little action.

Radio fan 88.1 · 14-08-2020 12:00am

TheBMG wrote: »

I know this one!

Sure anyone can so its your carrier on 107.1 ?

PARKLIFE!!

Or your just another one of these boards.ie people that sit on there computer typing on here that does noting.

PARKLIFE!!

I know i havent the equipment to put a carrier on so not us all can

PARKLIFE!!

Its true what some people say theres a lot of people on here then can do feck all but can talk the talk

PARKLIFE!!

If its so easy to do whats your station or carrier and your name

PARKLIFE!!

My name is Joe O Sullivan and im a Radio Enthusiast im not hidden behind a username

PARKLIFE!!

Sorry but some people on here really Frustrate me good for typing and giving there Negative views on matters that they could not do themselves.

PARKLIFE!!

This is what im talking about brain on a 10 year old

Radio fan 88.1 · 14-08-2020 12:03am

tiswasfan wrote: »

107.1 is a great frequency and Phever is looking for a new home....... just putting that out there. #bringbackphever #pheverbeliever

And be on fm for how long.
Whats wrong with the rest of the band
What happened the last few times phever came back hey
Wasnt long if i remember they be next on the list 91.6 best place for them i think lol

JDxtra · 14-08-2020 11:26am

I'd love to hear Phever and some other alternative stations back on FM. Phever seem happy enough though on their digital platforms and are doing well.

The only city wide FM pirate in Dublin is Hot, and there aren't too many positives to say about that (weak signal, poor playout, limited music selection, too many ads, lack of imaging, poor audio quality and low modulation). It could have done really well with some effort, even if it was left just in automation.

TheBMG · 14-08-2020 11:53am

JDxtra wrote: »

I'd love to hear Phever and some other alternative stations back on FM. Phever seem happy enough though on their digital platforms and are doing well.

The only city wide FM pirate in Dublin is Hot, and there aren't too many positives to say about that (weak signal, poor playout, limited music selection, too many ads, lack of imaging, poor audio quality and low modulation). It could have done really well with some effort, even if it was left just in automation.

Can you even describe Hot as citywide? I’ve a decent car radio and it struggles to get a consistent signal from them in most parts of Dublin.

JDxtra · 14-08-2020 12:14pm

TheBMG wrote: »

Can you even describe Hot as citywide? I’ve a decent car radio and it struggles to get a consistent signal from them in most parts of Dublin.

Well, that's true! What I mean is that it's not a low powered/local area only station.

Declan A Walsh · 14-08-2020 12:28pm

JDxtra wrote: »

Well, that's true! What I mean is that it's not a low powered/local area only station.

Why is it that practically all the low powered/local area only stations tend to be over the west of the city??

JDxtra · 14-08-2020 2:09pm

Declan A Walsh wrote: »

Why is it that practically all the low powered/local area only stations tend to be over the west of the city??

Coincidence I guess. They generally don't come from high sites, so it's likely just whatever the operators had access to.

The Beach/The Vault on 105.7 were on the south side.

Declan A Walsh · 14-08-2020 2:24pm

JDxtra wrote: »

Coincidence I guess. They generally don't come from high sites, so it's likely just whatever the operators had access to.

The Beach/The Vault on 105.7 were on the south side.

It depends on your definition of low power/local only. I would classify that in a third category: not city-wide but covering a relatively large or dispersed region. I would include Chill FM in that and also The 90s Network on the northside. Energy Power AM kind of hovers between citywide and this third category!

Or to put it another way. There are three main types of geographical spreads for the pirates in Dublin.
1. Only picked up around a specific area of Dublin
2. Picked up to a limited extent in various areas of Dublin
3. Picked up more or less citywide

Max Power 2010 · 14-08-2020 3:30pm

Declan A Walsh wrote: »

Why is it that practically all the low powered/local area only stations tend to be over the west of the city??

The 90s Network are on the Northside I believe.

Declan A Walsh · 14-08-2020 3:31pm

Max Power 2010 wrote: »

The 90s Network are on the Northside I believe.

That's true but how localised are they? See my previous post.

Dipole Keith · 14-08-2020 4:16pm

Blank carrier on 92.0, No RDS, I’d say it’s Retro radio, Very strong in Finglas

radioguru02 · 14-08-2020 4:22pm

Quite simple in terms of Phever and Club imo
Club on 107.1, Phever on 91.6 both where they were before

end of the road · 14-08-2020 4:56pm

that is already how things are.
it's just one individual trying to suggest otherwise to sturr.

JDxtra · 14-08-2020 8:00pm

Getting Storm NE on 104.2 this evening. Also RetroNow on 102.5 reaching me.

StreetLight · 15-08-2020 3:11pm

Retro playing on 92.0 with RDS. Good signal in Phoenix Park area.

Ronan Raver77 · 15-08-2020 5:27pm

Yea its a pain when im workin/driving around every day with no pirates on guys.. and i prefer listing on fm too... Freedom 92 is back but online only. Myself and a few of the freedom crew back doing shows

Wish it was on fm but highly doubt it.Had a quick listen to Hot the other day:eek: Hope Club and Pirate fm back soon!!

JDxtra · 15-08-2020 5:35pm

Ronan Raver77 wrote: »

Yea its a pain when im workin/driving around every day with no pirates on guys.. and i prefer listing on fm too... Freedom 92 is back but only online only. Myself and a few of the freedom crew back doing shows Wish it was on fm but highly doubt it.Had a quick listen to Hot the other day:eek: Hope Club and Pirate fm back soon!!

Freedom sounding great, nice effort put into all aspects of it.

Losty Dublin · 17-08-2020 1:36pm

Ronan Raver77 wrote: »

Hope Club and Pirate fm back soon!!

Pirate are still broadcasting online; at least it's something.

Bubbles2020 · 17-08-2020 8:03pm

Club Fm back on 107.1

Radio fan 88.1 · 17-08-2020 8:17pm

Bubbles2020 wrote: »

Club Fm back on 107.1

All the know alls
They said they were coming back delighted to hear them well done lads tuned in now sounding real nice in clondalkin.

tiswasfan · 17-08-2020 11:46pm

Radio fan 88.1 wrote: »

All the know alls
They said they were coming back delighted to hear them well done lads tuned in now sounding real nice in clondalkin.

Take the chips off your shoulders, we're all delighted to hear stations returning.

Radio fan 88.1 · 18-08-2020 12:23am

tiswasfan wrote: »

Take the chips off your shoulders, we're all delighted to hear stations returning.

No chip your know everting but you know noting and that has been proven
This is what is wrong on this Forum guys like you typing.....
Its like talking when you should be listening but

There is always a few bad apples you are one mouth that im happy to see wrong
I did say i would point out when yous were wrong
At least one thing is we are happy with stations coming back on
But you were wrong lol 😆 GOOD LUCK AND F YA

tiswasfan · 18-08-2020 1:31am

You're VERY invested in the goings-on with 107.1 there Radio Fan, keep it classy lol Great to hear the high-quality adverts rocking the airwaves again.

Radio fan 88.1 · 18-08-2020 3:01am

tiswasfan wrote: »

You're VERY invested in the goings-on with 107.1 there Radio Fan, keep it classy lol Great to hear the high-quality adverts rocking the airwaves again.

Not really at all i like them all easy is my favourite nite nite...

Ronan Raver77 · 18-08-2020 9:27pm

Bubbles2020 wrote: »

Club Fm back on 107.1

JDxtra · 20-08-2020 7:39pm

Extreme FM on 93.2.

Radio fan 88.1 · 20-08-2020 8:11pm

JDxtra wrote: »

Extreme FM on 93.2.

Thats funny Did Club not come from the ash's of Extreme wasn't to long Club Coming along after xtreme it was named then if im right saying.

dbmicrovolt · 20-08-2020 8:32pm

Signal on 93.2 has the same contour as the previous iteration of extrme fm, I won't give the tx location for obvious reasons (despite it being published on this thread previously by someone who should have known better).
This crowd hops around the band going on past form.

Sunnyboy11 · 20-08-2020 8:38pm

dbmicrovolt wrote: »

Signal on 93.2 has the same contour as the previous iteration of extrme fm, I won't give the tx location for obvious reasons (despite it being published on this thread previously by someone who should have known better).
This crowd hops around the band going on past form.

More rubbish

Infoanon · 20-08-2020 10:01pm

94.1 Unid back on air tonight
99.5 Also on this evening

JDxtra · 21-08-2020 4:08pm

Scan from Liffey Valley this afternoon...

88.1 - Phever (weak)
91.0 - HOT FM
93.2 - EXTREME
98.9 - 80S (weak, local only)
105.2 - RetroNow (weak)
105.7 - COAST FM (weak, local only)
107.1 - CLUB FM

castle2012 · 21-08-2020 4:09pm

JDxtra wrote: »

Scan from Liffey Valley this afternoon...

88.1 - Phever (weak)
91.0 - HOT FM
93.2 - EXTREME
98.9 - 80S (weak, local only)
105.2 - RetroNow (weak)
105.7 - COAST FM (weak, local only)
107.1 - CLUB FM

Great to see them all back on the airwaves

Declan A Walsh · 21-08-2020 4:21pm

JDxtra wrote: »

Scan from Liffey Valley this afternoon...

88.1 - Phever (weak)
91.0 - HOT FM
93.2 - EXTREME
98.9 - 80S (weak, local only)
105.2 - RetroNow (weak)
105.7 - COAST FM (weak, local only)
107.1 - CLUB FM

This afternoon from around the Ballinteer area:
Initially, I think I was picking up BBC Radio One on 88,1 and then I heard dance music - that must have been Phever coming in on it. Weak alright.

Extreme has a very strong signal on 93.2.

RetroNow comes in (very weakly) and out on 105.2.

JDxtra · 21-08-2020 4:41pm

Phever is stronger than it has been, it's mono at the moment which is why I thought it was just weak (was only listening on the car radio!).

JDxtra · 21-08-2020 10:08pm

Spirit Radio audio very low and distorted on both 89.9 and 92.2. They had no audio at all earlier.

Infoanon · 21-08-2020 10:22pm

Stereo carrier on 94.3 ,to confirm JDS report Phever is stronger

JDxtra · 22-08-2020 10:45am

JDxtra wrote: »

Spirit Radio audio very low and distorted on both 89.9 and 92.2. They had no audio at all earlier.

Spirit Radio stream also dead, no audio on FM now (tone noise on 92.2).

Sunnyboy11 · 22-08-2020 12:07pm

JDxtra wrote: »

Phever isstronger than it has been, it's mono at the moment which is why I thought it was just weak (was only listening on the car radio!).

Listening to Phever yesterday on 88.1 in Rathfarnham it’s still very low powered and sporadic which is a pity for such a specialist music station

Infoanon · 22-08-2020 12:54pm

JDxtra wrote: »

Spirit Radio stream also dead, no audio on FM now (tone noise on 92.2).

Apparently storm damage

JDxtra · 22-08-2020 6:40pm

87.6 active this evening, didn't catch an ID - presume it is Chill FM. Retro 92 also on air on 92.0. Something also on 99.5 but it was a bit weak for me (oldies music).

Infoanon · 22-08-2020 9:40pm

JDxtra wrote: »

87.6 active this evening, didn't catch an ID - presume it is Chill FM. Retro 92 also on air on 92.0. Something also on 99.5 but it was a bit weak for me (oldies music).

99.5 is the Energy AM relay
The carrier on 94.1 is gone.

Phever also off and didn't receive anything on 87.6 - Chill would have been receivable here in the past.

Beach also off 105.7

castle2012 · 23-08-2020 9:26pm

Club Fm 107.1fm sounding fantastic in East meath and South Drogheda.

Dipole Keith · 24-08-2020 11:53am

Hot FM blank on 91.0 again & Extreme FM playing happy hardcore dance music on 93.2 at 12 O’Clock during the day, My ears lol

Losty Dublin · 24-08-2020 12:29pm

Infoanon wrote: »

Apparently storm damage

Was anybody else on the main 3 Rock mast affected or just them?

Infoanon · 24-08-2020 12:39pm

Losty Dublin wrote: »

Was anybody else on the main 3 Rock mast affected or just them?

Only them afaik - their stream was also down at the time according to reports and other relays where also off so the issue may not have been at 3 Rock (as an aside a problem at 3 Rock could be resolved very quickly )

JDxtra · 24-08-2020 1:29pm

Regarding Spirit, sounds to me as if they had network/data issues at their studio. Their stream was offline (not just no audio, but source was not connected). It's possible they are a using point-to-point provider for data and the antenna took a knock in the wind.

When there was some audio from Three Rock, it was very low (maybe it was some backup audio?). The audio on 92.2 was worse - like an amplified version of the poor audio on 89.9. Maybe they are using FM re-broadcast receivers at some of their smaller sites?

Losty Dublin · 24-08-2020 1:37pm

JDxtra wrote: »

Regarding Spirit, sounds to me as if they had network/data issues at their studio. Their stream was offline (not just no audio, but source was not connected). It's possible they are a using point-to-point provider for data and the antenna took a knock in the wind.

I can almost hear the chink chink chink of them taking out the begging bowl from under the mixing desk to fund a new WIFi modem; €20,000 should do it.

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