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One More Toy · 30-12-2017 10:24pm

Rock Solid wrote: »

It may happen in 2018, Lots of us ex pirate djs have been discussing the prospect of a new professional station, lack of top of the range Tx and studio equipment isn't a problem in fact between us all we have more than enough, it's just having the time to run it, most of us are busy with our own jobs and other work and seldom find the time to meet up.

Sounds good! What kind of music? Fm I assume?

Infoanon · 03-01-2018 7:43pm

Apart from the one off 'Fun FM' it was a very quiet Christmas on the FM band in Dublin.
Phever 91.6,Trax 107.1 and Energy 1395 where the only stations logged on New Years Eve.

Connect has not reappeared though now have an audio stream, Chill87.6 and Space remain off air.

There was a carrier on 96.0 - low power but sufficient to block BBC R4.

Lots of legal AM stations audible alas no Caroline on 648 - though significant technical issues resulted in the link to the Caroline TX failing and an announcement of technical issues and the same song (time passages) - well half the same song on repeat ensued for a number of days over the Christmas period.

Christmas 2018 may be a little bit busier - 30 years and all that.

Rock Solid · 05-01-2018 11:16pm

Infoanon wrote: »

Apart from the one off 'Fun FM' it was a very quiet Christmas on the FM band in Dublin.
Phever 91.6,Trax 107.1 and Energy 1395 where the only stations logged on New Years Eve.

Connect has not reappeared though now have an audio stream, Chill87.6 and Space remain off air.

There was a carrier on 96.0 - low power but sufficient to block BBC R4.

Lots of legal AM stations audible alas no Caroline on 648 - though significant technical issues resulted in the link to the Caroline TX failing and an announcement of technical issues and the same song (time passages) - well half the same song on repeat ensued for a number of days over the Christmas period.

Christmas 2018 may be a little bit busier - 30 years and all that.

Kiss Fm on 101.4 Tallaght area.

radioguru02 · 05-01-2018 11:26pm

Rock Solid wrote: »

Infoanon wrote: »

Apart from the one off 'Fun FM' it was a very quiet Christmas on the FM band in Dublin.
Phever 91.6,Trax 107.1 and Energy 1395 where the only stations logged on New Years Eve.

Connect has not reappeared though now have an audio stream, Chill87.6 and Space remain off air.

There was a carrier on 96.0 - low power but sufficient to block BBC R4.

Lots of legal AM stations audible alas no Caroline on 648 - though significant technical issues resulted in the link to the Caroline TX failing and an announcement of technical issues and the same song (time passages) - well half the same song on repeat ensued for a number of days over the Christmas period.

Christmas 2018 may be a little bit busier - 30 years and all that.

Kiss Fm on 101.4 Tallaght area.

Is the other Kiss FM which is receivable in that area still on 105.7 from Meath do you know?

Rock Solid · 06-01-2018 1:22am

pirateradiohed wrote: »

Is the other Kiss FM which is receivable in that area still on 105.7 from Meath do you know?

Not sure haven't heard it lately.

Infoanon · 06-01-2018 1:45am

Rock Solid wrote: »

Kiss Fm on 101.4 Tallaght area.

its a low power relay of Kiss FM UK - 10.7Mhz from 2FM 90.7 might not be the cleverest move........,additionally suffers a lot of interference from Today FM

JDxtra · 06-01-2018 12:11pm

pirateradiohed wrote: »

Is the other Kiss FM which is receivable in that area still on 105.7 from Meath do you know?

This appears to have been renamed to "RetroNow". Picked it up a few weeks ago when I was in Dunboyne.

Infoanon · 06-01-2018 7:31pm

Today Jan 6th 2018:
Dublin:
87.6 Chill FM
91.0 Retro FM - sounding tighter and audio quality improving
91.6 Phever FM
101.2 Oldies FM - low power mainly 80s - good quality audio
105.7 UNID
107.1 Trax FM
1395AM - Energy

Kildare - Flirt 106.6 FM - Good quality signal and audio
Athy -
106.0 UNID - C&W/Irish format - mono TX with poor quality audio-possibly fed from an ipod
107.0 Strong blank carrier

radioguru02 · 06-01-2018 7:36pm

Infoanon wrote: »

Today Jan 6th 2018:
Dublin:
87.6 Chill FM
91.0 Retro FM - sounding tighter and audio quality improving
91.6 Phever FM
101.2 Oldies FM - low power mainly 80s - good quality audio
105.7 UNID
107.1 Trax FM
1395AM - Energy

Kildare - Flirt 106.6 FM - Good quality signal and audio
Athy -
106.0 UNID - C&W/Irish format - mono TX with poor quality audio-possibly fed from an ipod
107.0 Strong blank carrier

106.0 is Redrock Country from Carlow. What type of music was on 105.7?

Infoanon · 06-01-2018 7:41pm

pirateradiohed wrote: »

106.0 is Redrock Country from Carlow. What type of music was on 105.7?

Thanks for that - listened for approx half an hour with no IDs

105.7 it was a mix of one of the low power relay stations afaik - not sure what station it was relaying and another low power station. NT on 105.8 made identification difficult.

radioguru02 · 06-01-2018 7:45pm

Infoanon wrote: »

pirateradiohed wrote: »

106.0 is Redrock Country from Carlow. What type of music was on 105.7?

Thanks for that - listened for approx half an hour with no IDs

105.7 it was a mix of one of the low power relay stations afaik - not sure what station it was relaying and another low power station. NT on 105.8 made identification difficult.

Probably either No. 1FM or Absolute 80’s.
Flirt 106.6 is the massive coverage signal from Laois

Rock Solid · 06-01-2018 8:59pm

pirateradiohed wrote: »

Probably either No. 1FM or Absolute 80’s.
Flirt 106.6 is the massive coverage signal from Laois

Kiss Fm usually on around 10pm _ 8am most weekends. 101.4

kazoo106 · 07-01-2018 8:47pm

612kHz active from somewhere in Donegal - continuous music on Saturday 6th with a fairly decent signal in the Letterkenny area.
Radio Star seem to be off air on 981kHz since Storm Eleanor.

radioguru02 · 12-01-2018 8:15pm

As well as Redrock Country106 today in Carlow, I also picked up an chillout/country station on 93.7FM. Like Redrock it had no ID’s.
The carrier on 107.4 in Athy seems to be gone.
Btw for those interested, it seems a radio war has begun between True Radio and Play FM in Cork, refer to comments made on True Radio Cork’s FB page.

radioguru02 · 12-01-2018 8:59pm

So in a nutshell:
True’s plan was to return to air, but Play have begun to conduct test broadcasts anyway, with the intent to use the frequency.

Rock Solid · 12-01-2018 11:31pm

Kiss Fm on 101.4 Tallaght / Citywest area.

DopeTech · 14-01-2018 10:43pm

RETRONOW and No.1fm fighting over 105.7 in Blanch area. RETRONOW not to be confused with retro fm which is on 91.0

radioguru02 · 14-01-2018 11:09pm

Sir Dosser wrote: »

RETRONOW and No.1fm fighting over 105.7 in Blanch area. RETRONOW not to be confused with retro fm which is on 92.0.

Is this the same relay of a Turkish pop station which appears now and again on that frequency? No.1FM I mean

DopeTech · 14-01-2018 11:28pm

pirateradiohed wrote: »

Is this the same relay of a Turkish pop station which appears now and again on that frequency? No.1FM I mean

Yes, that and metro fm share that frequency, the would appear to be broadcasting/relaying from clondalkin as the signal seems strongest there. Is RETRONOW coming from Meath does anyone know?

radioguru02 · 14-01-2018 11:31pm

Sir Dosser wrote: »

pirateradiohed wrote: »

Is this the same relay of a Turkish pop station which appears now and again on that frequency? No.1FM I mean

Yes, that and metro fm share that frequency, the would appear to be broadcasting/relaying from clondalkin as the signal seems strongest there. Is RETRONOW coming from Meath does anyone know?

Yes, it is.

JDxtra · 14-01-2018 11:32pm

Sir Dosser wrote: »

RETRONOW not to be confused with retro fm which is on 92.0.

91.0 FM.

EIDW · 15-01-2018 8:27am

For anyone with a Japanese import car here are some of the frequencies for the car radio in Dublin
2FM (79.0MHz)
98FM (80.1MHz)
Q102 (84.2MHz)
Spin 103.8 (85.8MHz
FM104 (86.4MHz
Today FM (83.8MHz)

Infoanon · 15-01-2018 11:42am

pirateradiohed wrote: »

Is this the same relay of a Turkish pop station which appears now and again on that frequency? No.1FM I mean

'now and again' - No.1 FM has been on 105.7 consistently for a number of years now

Infoanon · 15-01-2018 11:43am

Rock Solid wrote: »

Kiss Fm on 101.4 Tallaght / Citywest area.

A KISS FM appeared on 99.4FM yesterday evening in the Tallaght area - it was playing 'easy' music and had RDS.

Infoanon · 15-01-2018 11:44am

Retro 91.0 and Energy 1395AM carrying the same programming on Sunday 14th.
On Friday12th Energy relayed 'all 80s Jukebox'

marno21 · 15-01-2018 12:26pm

EIDW wrote: »

For anyone with a Japanese import car here are some of the frequencies for the car radio in Dublin
2FM (79.0MHz)
98FM (80.1MHz)
Q102 (84.2MHz)
Spin 103.8 (85.8MHz
FM104 (86.4MHz
Today FM (83.8MHz)

Some kind of downconversion going on there. All frequencies moved down by 18MHz (97.0 -> 79.0, 98.1-> 80.1 etc)

kazoo106 · 15-01-2018 4:16pm

Would that not put RTE2FM 3 rock on 72.7 (out of range on the Japanese FM Band)

marno21 · 15-01-2018 5:05pm

kazoo106 wrote: »

Would that not put RTE2FM 3 rock on 72.7 (out of range on the Japanese FM Band)

It would. The poster above was receiving 2FM from Clermont Carn on 97.0

Tallaght Twin · 16-01-2018 3:20pm

Heard a Country and Irish station in Cavan/Virginia at the weekend. It was on 99.4FM with no RDS. No liners either, with a ‘flat’ sound. The music seemed to be playing from a ‘Winamp’ style application or iPod in that the music was random selection with no cross fade. Any ideas what this station is, history, etc?

end of the road · 16-01-2018 3:25pm

Tallaght Twin wrote: »

Heard a Country and Irish station in Cavan/Virginia at the weekend. It was on 99.4FM with no RDS. No liners either, with a ‘flat’ sound. The music seemed to be playing from a ‘Winamp’ style application or iPod in that the music was random selection with no cross fade. Any ideas what this station is, history, etc?

it could be misty mountain radio. they have been around for a long time i believe

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