BANDSCAN THREAD

ABC 80's Radio Memories this Sunday at 18.00 BST is " Radio Dublin Channel 2 -From December 15th 1982, this is Ger Roe with his anoraks programme on Radio Dublin Channel 2, starting at 8.05pm. " Enjoy Tune-in on 93.3 FM / liveradio.ie / Tune-in Radio / Alexa and https://kathy.torontocast.com:4365/stream With thanks to Radiowaves Ireland / ‘Anoraks Ireland’ Digitisation Project.

1206am in Dublin currently banging out old 1980s airchecks. Was enjoying some Tony McKenzie on Energy 103 on the way home.

btw - I suspect I drove past the 1206 site but I’ll keep schtum 😉

ABC 80's Radio Memories this Sunday at 18.00 BST is "Liberty 104 July 16th 1988 - From the evening of July 16th 1988 this is John Murray from 9pm on Liberty 104 in Dublin. The recording was made off 104.9MHz. (Sadly John passed away recently R.I.P.) And as its a bank holiday weekend - Radio Dublin Channel 2 December 22nd 1982 - This is Ger Roe with his Free Radio Programme on Radio Dublin Channel 2 on December 22nd 1982, starting at 8pm " Enjoy Tune-in on 93.3 FM / liveradio.ie / Tune-in Radio / Alexa and https://kathy.torontocast.com:4365/stream With thanks to Radiowaves Ireland / ‘Anoraks Ireland’ Digitisation Project.

1512 kHz from Dundalk is playing recordings of Laser 558 Saturday 29 April. Claiming at the time to have millions of listeners and giving out the New York phone number mentioned in here:

In a desperate attempt to attract potential advertisers in mid-April 1985 the station started to broadcast recordings of commercials which had won the coveted Cleo Awards (the advertising industry's equivalent of an Oscar). At the conclusion of the commercial a Laser DJ congratulated the advertiser on their effective use of radio advertising, and then gave MMI's New York telephone number, blatantly suggesting that the company should buy airtime on the offshore station. It is improbable that this ploy achieved any airtime sales, but to the casual listener it gave the impression that Laser 558 was a commercially successful station.

No sign of it on any SDR, but it might fade in later.

Great to hear something on, it’s been a very long time since anything with a decent signal appeared. It was solid in the car between Templeogue and Leixlip earlier today for me. Enjoyable tunes (even if it was rock, not dance!) and some nice imaging.

I drove from Dundalk to Navan last Sunday daytime, and that was what I found as well. It is being heard well on the North West and Malin SDR's as I write this.

As was the other Dublin AM pirate on 1206

Another appearance on FM in Dublin… 87.6 Chill FM. Seems to be on some sort of test loop. Very strong signal.

Chill Fm 87.6 back again this evening.

Picked up Chill on 87.6 earlier with some nice jazzy house stuff. 90s network chugging away on 98.4 plus there was a relay of Energy 1440 going out on 99.5.FM too.

I tuned in at about 6:45 and there were a couple of songs being played, the last of which was cut off by ABC 80s promo of their pirate memories, followed by a tape of Ger Rowe doing his Free Radio Programme on Radio Channel 2. I presume what I heard at the start was the tail end of that Kiss FM recording! Interesting stuff from Ger as always, from what I heard of it!

The Dundalk station is on 1494 kHz Saturday 13 May. Laser 558 tapes, same as was on 1512 recently. Coming through fairly strong on the North West SDR. 1494 is labelled Coast / Energy FM there, from previous operations.

Heard some of it the car earlier - great memories!

Listening in the car and picked up ABC80s for the first time around town, sounded pretty good, a nice break from the licensed dross.

some nice FMDX out there today including BBC Manchester romping into Dublin on 95.1 and RockFM in Preston overpowering the 97.4 relay of Dublins 98FM.