BANDSCAN THREAD

radioguru02

So Now seem to be gone - once Fresh is gone the band will be much less polluted. Hot will go in time

end of the road

now fm's stream is back on.

hibits

Fisherman Sam wrote: »

Were did you see that

There were lightning strikes on Tuesday. Now reported a power outage at transmission site with no updates since.

Max Power 2010

hibits wrote: »

There were lightning strikes on Tuesday. Now reported a power outage at transmission site with no updates since.

It was on their Insta too, hopefully lightening hit the playout system too.

Fisherman Sam

Max Power 2010 wrote: »

It was on their Insta too, hopefully lightening hit the playout system too.

Hahaha pitty it didnt knock out hot fm while it was at it

Max Power 2010

Fisherman Sam wrote: »

Hahaha pitty it didnt knock out hot fm while it was at it

Ha! If only Spain had lightening storms.

Dipole Keith

I’m enjoying The Cube on 93.2 FM, Nice signal, audio & jingles, Someone has gone to a lot of trouble to get it just right, loving the song information on the RDS.

castle2012

Storm NE now doing tests in Dab+ .really interesting seeing it now been done in other parts of the country

DopeTech

Picked up some possibly German relay on 88.0 while driving out the n7 past saggart.

JDxtra

Dipole Keith wrote: »

I’m enjoying The Cube on 93.2 FM, Nice signal, audio & jingles, Someone has gone to a lot of trouble to get it just right, loving the song information on the RDS.

Agree with this. Just needs consistency with broadcast hours in order to gain momentum.

Dipole Keith

Spoke to soon, The Cube is gone now it’s F U N on 93.2, I just wish the owners would pick a station name and go with it

FunRadio

MASSIVE Thank You to all the kind folks in The Cube, Energy AM and others behind the scenes who donated their airtime to FUN RADIO and allowed us to broadcast 13.5 hours of live free radio today. We had a ball playing music picked and played by humans rather than by computers, playing songs that haven't been played on the air in a while. And no voice tracking!
We assume normal operations have resumed by our kind hosts.



Keep radio FUN and have a great weekend everybody!

Declan A Walsh

Dipole Keith wrote: »

Spoke to soon, The Cube is gone now it’s F U N on 93.2, I just wish the owners would pick a station name and go with it

FunRadio wrote: »

MASSIVE Thank You to all the kind folks in The Cube, Energy AM and others behind the scenes who donated their airtime to FUN RADIO and allowed us to broadcast 13.5 hours of live free radio today. We had a ball playing music picked and played by humans rather than by computers, playing songs that haven't been played on the air in a while. And no voice tracking!
We assume normal operations have resumed by our kind hosts.



Keep radio FUN and have a great weekend everybody!

Dipole Keith: this is something that has happened before. A number of oldies-oriented stations come together and do a joint broadcast for the day. What was unusual this time was that it seems only two frequencies were involved: 93.2 FM (The Cube) and 1395 mh (Energy AM). Maybe, some of the other players have left the scene (where is Retro FM?) or they were just not available this time.

Energy AM is always involved with these joint broadcasts. Indeed, I was listening to it yesterday morning when the presenter mentioned that Paul Murray would be on later that day. He is one of the guys behind Energy. I'm not sure who the presenter was - Brian Kelly of Energy maybe? Paul Wilson of Easy Radio (and a few others beside!) took over at lunchtime and I heard him briefly. What struck me was that I could pick up 93.2 load and clear in Ashbourne, Co. Meath, yesterday morning. In fact, the reception on 93.2 was better around that area and the M2 heading towards the M50 then it was around Ballinteer!

radioguru02

Has Retro left the actual airwaves and is Chill 87.6 gone?

radioguru02

Out to all pirates:
I just wanna say this - it’s not easy to run a station, produce/present a show etc added to the fact that’s always the slight risk that you’ll lose everything you’ve put in. If you’re going to take the risk and spend time money, blood, sweat and tears building up a station make it worthwile. Don’t fill your playout system with the syndicated podcasts every dance station is playing - if you can’t get live or pre-recorded shows of your own, at least curate your own automated playlists: make the station yours. Make the playout library plentiful: use mixes, get music sent in etc.
Just make it worth it, that’s all I’m saying. Be consistent, be proud of your sound and make your station your own. That’s all.

Sunnyboy11

pirateradiohed wrote: »

Has Retro left the actual airwaves and is Chill 87.6 gone?

Just listening in on 92 fm and I hear Retro FM back on be it on low power obviously they must have some technical issue because there signal is always a lot better than it is now.

Infoanon

Country music on 96.0 and the 90s Network stronger on 98.4 though the audio quality is lacking bass and treble ie it's a bit thinny !

Fresh audio distorted on high frequencies on 99.5 , strong carrier on 99.3

Oscarziggy

I seem to recall someone here is in charge of the "8073" online SDR.
There is no reception of MW stations whereas "8074" is working well.
Sorry if in the wrong section .

Dipole Keith

1025Kiss blank all morning, No RDS

JDxtra

Dipole Keith wrote: »

1025Kiss blank all morning, No RDS

Kiss is back now.

dxhound2005

Oscarziggy wrote: »

I seem to recall someone here is in charge of the "8073" online SDR.
There is no reception of MW stations whereas "8074" is working well.
Sorry if in the wrong section .

It is the Hobby Radio forum.

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057777569&page=14

Fisherman Sam

Any one know what kinda power are stations pushing in dublin aprox. ?

Max Power 2010

Fisherman Sam wrote: »

Any one know what kinda power are stations pushing in dublin aprox. ?

Guessing, the most would be around 1kw, most of them would be less.

Fisherman Sam

Max Power 2010 wrote: »

Guessing, the most would be around 1kw, most of them would be less.

I guess hot fresh and phever would be on the lower end? Find them hard to get in places when retronow and kiss come in grand

JDxtra

Many factors to consider like site location, antenna type and configuration. Also listener location too is a factor. Hot is actually one of the stronger stations out my direction (lucky me?).

From a good site, an ERP of 1kw is sufficient for reasonable coverage. If your antennas have decent gain, you could get away with a 200/300w TX.

Fisherman Sam

Thanks for the info thought it would have been alot more

Infoanon

Fisherman Sam wrote: »

Thanks for the info thought it would have been alot more

You don't need a lot of power to cover Dublin - it's site location that's key .

The max allocated power in Dublin is 10kw for an independent with most on a lot less than that. (Only 100.3 and 106.0 have that allowed power iirc)

radioguru02

Today must have a good site on 0.5kW

JDxtra

Infoanon wrote: »

Country music on 96.0 and the 90s Network stronger on 98.4 though the audio quality is lacking bass and treble ie it's a bit thinny !

Fresh audio distorted on high frequencies on 99.5 , strong carrier on 99.3

I'm not a sports fan, so not sure about this - but in the past didn't the IRFU use 96.0 for ref link at the Aviva, or is that long gone?

JDxtra

pirateradiohed wrote: »

Today must have a good site on 0.5kW

Which Today site uses .5kW?