BANDSCAN THREAD

Have Chill been on this year (87.6) - no mention since December?

Also, what about The Beach (105.7) - no mention since November? While we are on it, there has been no mention of the other low-powered station on that same frequency for quite some time now (last referred to as Coast).

Infoanon wrote: »

Chill continue you on 87.6 - weekday daytime not sure if 24/7

Had them on myself on Saturday.

JDxtra wrote: »

RetroNow are on 105.2 at the moment and come on in the early afternoon. Over the weekend, I was getting a weak/distant carrier on 88.1. Also on 99.5, I am getting a station with the ID of 'Radio 7'.

That's curious as that was also being used over the weekend on the southside to relay Energy (Power) AM.

JDxtra wrote: »

Is the Energy relay not on 99.3? Or maybe it's both, or is changing often. I can rarely pick it up so not sure.

It moved to 99.3 while Christmas FM was on FM, as Christmas FM had a frequency on 99.5 for the north Wicklow area, which could be picked up on the southside. After Christmas FM finished its FM run, the relay moved back to 99.5. I heard it yesterday.

Maybe it would have made more sense to leave it at 99.3. I remember when Fresh FM was on 99.5 and the relay was on 99.3, and there was no interference between them when they were both on, even where they could both be picked up such as around Ballinteer!

I'm assuming that the station with id "Radio 7" was low-powered or limited to the west of the city, where the relay can hardly be picked up anyway.

Dipole Keith wrote: »

That station Radio 7 was on 99.0 & 99.5 at different times today, the signal was weak enough in west Dublin, at the time it was playing euro dance stuff. I did get RDS ‘Radio 7’ the information was blank

It may be a relay of an online Swedish dance station called Radio 7, if it is still around!

GalaxyFM from Kildare broadcasting on 99.0 FM at the moment, The signal is patchy in Dublin but it’s there.

castle2012 wrote: »

CLUB FM seem to have ceased. Their online stream not working for the last few days.

it has been working for me.

Declan A Walsh wrote: »

Just checked - they are "banging" away on the Radio Garden app! It's a bit of a misnomer calling themselves Club FM!

Yea it's back working now, wasn't playing yesterday and this morning, Glad it's still on.

Dipole Keith wrote: »

Galaxy FM from Kildare on 99.5 FM this evening, A better signal on that frequency than 99.0 earlier with Lyric FM & BBC Radio 1

Is that the station which had the id "Radio 7" at one stage?

end of the road wrote: »

i would suspect it is the one from kildare and it has moved from 94.3.
have no way of confirming for definite however.

Speaking of stations that used to be on 94.3, I don't think the Unid hard dance station returned since last November. Remember it was on various frequencies? Usually too close to others or even on top of them!

end of the road wrote: »

i remember it being mentioned yes, i never heard it for myself though.

I picked it up the odd time. I remember one weekend in 2019 (too lazy to do a search!) where it was battling with All 80s on the same frequency - 94.3! That was when its signal was particularly strong around the southside for some reason. Depending on what street or corner you happened to be on, you heard one or other! It also turned up in other places. I understand it spent some time on 87.5 which was not helping Chill on 87.6!

Today FM and Newstalk were off the air from the Mullaghanish transmitter during the afternoon (Friday afternoon) for around an hour until 3PM approx when returned...

Radiodays2021 wrote: »

Picking up some interference on Galaxy 99.5
Looks like someone trying interfere
Chill FM 87.6 off Air today
Also they have increase the coverage and sound quality chill FM
No activity today and 94.3

94.3 was relaying Charity Radio, as per usual now for a Saturday, later this afternoon.

I heard IceRadio on 91.6 FM this evening, Signal a little weaker than 93.2

According to Facebook, Darren O'Neill, who seems to be involved behind the scenes with Retro Radio, or Retro FM, and occasionally presents on it, is also involved with a station called Rhythm FM. Again, according to Rhythm FM's Facebook account, it was on 91.6 but moved yesterday to 88.8 on account of Ice Radio's move to 91.6. The Facebook Account also mentioned 99.3, suggesting that it used to be on that frequency at some point. Has anyone picked up Rhythm FM on any frequency?

Incidentally, he also presented on Easy Radio in the past.

Declan A Walsh wrote: »

According to Facebook, Darren O'Neill, who seems to be involved behind the scenes with Retro Radio, or Retro FM, and occasionally presents on it, is also involved with a station called Rhythm FM. Again, according to Rhythm FM's Facebook account, it was on 91.6 but moved yesterday to 88.8 on account of Ice Radio's move to 91.6. The Facebook Account also mentioned 99.3, suggesting that it used to be on that frequency at some point. Has anyone picked up Rhythm FM on any frequency?

Incidentally, he also presented on Easy Radio in the past.

i think reception of it was reported here a couple of times, seem to remember 105.2 and possibly 94.3 being mentioned for it.
i suspect it's a very low powered operation, probably very local to it's area of broadcast and no further.

JDxtra wrote: »

The Rhythm FM station appears low powered, so it may not travel too far.

Ice Radio are off air today having previously been on 93.2 and for a brief period on 91.6 yesterday.

There was a strong blank carrier on 107.1 for a time last night.

New arrival Galaxy Kildare on 99.5 had some live presenters yesterday.

RetroNow on 105.2.

Hot FM on 91.0 as normal, deserving if nothing else credit for their resilience!

Club FM mentioned on there Facebook page they would be back this week, this may explain the carrier on 107.1

Max Power 2010 wrote: »

Club FM mentioned on there Facebook page they would be back this week, this may explain the carrier on 107.1

Fair play to them in these difficult times coming back on FM, We will be glad to have club to listen to.
Radio is an expensive business and lack of gigs (advertising revenue) with COVID.
I know you read these posts; Well done Guys ,
And thank you.

Radiodays2021 wrote: »

What stations are on 24-hours
Storm northeast 1042
Hot fm 910
Galaxy fm ???
Any more to add to the list

Storm are 24 hours on the internet but not on FM,
IceRadio on 93.2