BANDSCAN THREAD

Mr. MooYagi

So what are anybody's views on level of professionalism of FM pirates. As in music, imaging, sound etc. We are all aware of the various levels of signals strength etc so leaving signal issues aside etc....
Be interesting to assess people's views.

Dab is a different discussion I reckon.

castle2012

hibits wrote: »

Kiss fm were off air at the start of January too remember. Seems like the dream was failing and then the wind then killed it off.

There back really soon. They had a huge amount of damage after the high winds. I believe it takes time to ship equipment in

Infoanon

castle2012 wrote: »

Here you go

https://www.independent.ie/regionals/argus/news/illegal-radio-signal-interfered-with-airport-landing-system-26901517.html

Strange one - the station in question is Kiss 106 and 101.2 which was a very professional station with a good signal in North leinster and mid Ulster. An output power of 32kw is mentioned. The Edentubber site was the old Boyne side site. Kiss was not audible in Belfast.

The article seems to allege that a station called Wild was on air at the time of the raid. What's unusual is if a station in Ireland is causing interferance a phone call is made and the TX is switched off. In Northern Ireland the approach has been to raid and then allege interference.

Comreg raid when warnings (especially interference )are ignored

castle2012

Infoanon wrote: »

Strange one - the station in question is Kiss 106 and 101.2 which was a very professional station with a good signal in North leinster and mid Ulster. An output power of 32kw is mentioned. The Edentubber site was the old Boyne side site. Kiss was not audible in Belfast.

The article seems to allege that a station called Wild was on air at the time of the raid. What's unusual is if a station in Ireland is causing interferance a phone call is made and the TX is switched off. In Northern Ireland the approach has been to raid and then allege interference.

Comreg raid when warnings (especially interference )are ignored

Yes they where very professional, both stations are connected. At the start kiss played country music but later the guys split the two. Kiss playing more modern music and wild playing country.
Very professional outfit, kiss had there own studio on a main street in Dundalk back in the day.
There is some utube videos on them.

kazoo106

Don't let this run away lads - it's factually incorrect !

Kiss Dance (7pm to 7am) became Storm 106 in 2002

Kiss continued on and off until 2008 - then split into Frog FM and Lite FM after numerous comreg raids

Frog then morphed into Wild - Kiss came back briefly in 2014

Kiss and Wild were never on at the same time

Franko87

pirateradiohed wrote: »

Still wish FreeDAB would sort out the muxes they have, instead of always setting up new ones. What’s the point of any of it if hardly anyone can pick it up
They claim to be broadcasting to all these places, reality is they’re not. I’m sorry

Have you tried to us a DAB radio .just asking the obvious. It just seems you are the only person who seems to have massive issues with the FreeDAB network. However I will comment with this (first hand experience ) all appart form one multiplex is high powered (300watt rms is the minimum) Waterford is a minimux 100watts rms all multiplexes are performing perfectly. (Dublin is on reduced power due to damage on the amplfier (which is being rectified ) .I would do my research first rather than just come out all with tunnel vision claiming you have all the facts .our Facebook page is regularly updates on new multiplexes signal and services that comes from listeners rather than freedab itself. All the above is food for taught. ðŸ˜

castle2012

kazoo106 wrote: »

Don't let this run away lads - it's factually incorrect !

Kiss Dance (7pm to 7am) became Storm 106 in 2002

Kiss continued on and off until 2008 - then split into Frog FM and Lite FM after numerous comreg raids

Frog then morphed into Wild - Kiss came back briefly in 2014

Kiss and Wild were never on at the same time

Interesting. Never heard of Frog FM. But I'm sure your right, would I be right in saying kiss played country music for a period. I do remember listening to Country during the day and dance at night

kazoo106

They had a some country with "Big O" on Sunday mornings and a limited amount on his weekday shows - but generally it was CHR - anyway this thread going off topic.
Anyone know where the carrier on 99.5 is from?

JDxtra

I have noticed that the BAI have not updated their list of upcoming temporary licence stations for some time (since October/November?). Maybe there are no new additions? Maybe they forgot? Or could it be deliberate? It was useful to see what was coming.

castle2012

kazoo106 wrote: »

They had a some country with "Big O" on Sunday mornings and a limited amount on his weekday shows - but generally it was CHR - anyway this thread going off topic.
Anyone know where the carrier on 99.5 is from?

This the one in Dublin with the rds fresh? Signal seems very strong round the Tallaght

radioguru02

Franko87 wrote: »

Have you tried to us a DAB radio .just asking the obvious. It just seems you are the only person who seems to have massive issues with the FreeDAB network. However I will comment with this (first hand experience ) all appart form one multiplex is high powered (300watt rms is the minimum) Waterford is a minimux 100watts rms all multiplexes are performing perfectly. (Dublin is on reduced power due to damage on the amplfier (which is being rectified ) .I would do my research first rather than just come out all with tunnel vision claiming you have all the facts .our Facebook page is regularly updates on new multiplexes signal and services that comes from listeners rather than freedab itself. All the above is food for taught. ðŸ˜

I apologise if my comments seem flippant. All I can say is I struggle to pick up the muxes in Cork, or at least I did a month ago the last time I was there
If it’s my radio, fantastic! Glad everyone else is enjoying it!

Declan A Walsh

Curious things with the Dublin oldies stations tonight. Retro FM was on 92.0 but it was also on 94.3 with an RDS of Testing! Last weekend, All 80s was on that frequency.

Dipole Keith

Came across a station on 94.3 this evening in Dublin playing easy listening with ‘Testing’ on the RDS, Good signal

Declan A Walsh

Dipole Keith wrote: »

Came across a station on 94.3 this evening in Dublin playing easy listening with ‘Testing’ on the RDS, Good signal

Look at the post just above yours!

Lord Nelson

JDxtra wrote: »

I have noticed that the BAI have not updated their list of upcoming temporary licence stations for some time (since October/November?). Maybe there are no new additions? Maybe they forgot? Or could it be deliberate? It was useful to see what was coming.

It only seems to get updated sporadically these days. Typical of their careless, slipshod approach to most things I guess?

Mr. MooYagi

Anybody do bandsxan ?

radioguru02

Now receiving FreeDAB from Waterford City Centre as far as the outer-ring road Without drop-out
Fair play

Oscarziggy

Does anyone know anything about "With the allowing of many new am licences in Ireland as from January 2020" please?
See here -- https://mediumwave.info/news.html

castle2012

Looks like now fm on the way back

Dipole Keith

castle2012 wrote: »

Looks like now fm on the way back

Oh no, the playlist was all over the place the last time, They didn’t know if they where a dance station or a pop station, Please say it’s not true 😂😂

castle2012

Dipole Keith wrote: »

Oh no, the playlist was all over the place the last time, They didn’t know if they where a dance station or a pop station, Please say it’s no true 😂😂

There back active on social media, first time in months

castle2012

There also saying there the new pirate fm

Dipole Keith

castle2012 wrote: »

There also saying there the new pirate fm

Just what we need, do you need a locksmith?, you’ve tanned at the rest now tan at the best ffs

castle2012

Dipole Keith wrote: »

Just what we need, do you need a locksmith?, you’ve tanned at the rest now tan at the best ffs

Now Fm stream is putting out pirate fm, they must be behind Pirate FM. To be fair to them Pirate fm (while not my type of music) sounds good and is very consistant. Best of luck to them with there venture

JDxtra

FM bandscan for this evening...

87.6 Chill FM
88.1 Pirate FM
92.0 Retro FM
94.3 Blank carrier (was All 80s earlier)
99.5 Fresh 99
105.2 Easy
107.1 Blank carrier

Not able to get a signal for 87.5, 98.4 or 105.7.

JDxtra

DAB scan this evening...

Free-DAB Dublin (5A):

Atlantis (AAC 56kbps stereo)
CFM Canaries (AAC 40kbps stereo)
Coast 2 Coast (AAC 64kbps stereo)
Dublin's ABC (AAC 64kbps stereo)
GOLDEN Oldies (AAC 32kbps stereo)
Hit Music (AAC 64kbps stereo)
NINETIES+ (AAC 128kbps stereo)
NINETIES- (MP2 64kbps mono)
Polish Radio IRL (AAC 64kbps stereo)
Radio Sylvia (AAC 56kbps stereo)
Soul City (AAC 64kbps stereo)
Sovereign Gold (AAC 32kbps stereo)
Spektrum (AAC 64kbps stereo)
Storm North East (AAC 96kbps stereo)
Trance Pulse (AAC 64kbps stereo)
Trax Dublin (AAC 72kbps stereo)
Wild Country (AAC 64kbps stereo)
Zenith Rock (AAC 64kbps stereo)

coylemj

JDxtra wrote: »

DAB scan this evening...

Free-DAB Dublin (5A):

I did an autotune on my Pure One Midi Series 3 DAB radio in Dublin this evening and can't find anything other than the RTE stations.

Radio fan 88.1

Starting the night shift just came across audio on 107.1 rds as club fm dance music being played happy days sick listening to CDs for my dance fix

Max Power 2010

Radio fan 88.1 wrote: »

Starting the night shift just came across audio on 107.1 rds as club fm dance music being played happy days sick listening to CDs for my dance fix

Nice one, I'll have a listen tomorrow, hopefully there isn't a prisoner request show on Sundays.

Dipole Keith

Why are Retro Fm on 3 different frequencies in Dublin today? There covering the same area so what’s the point. All out of sync with each other.
92.0, 94.3 & 99.3