BANDSCAN THREAD

Not MW or VHF but all day yesterday there was a strong signal which I failed to i.d on 6375khz -- oddly playing music and some Radio Caroline recordings on USB - Upper Side Band .

I've no idea Declan -- there were some Irish tunes in there .

I was listening on a XDATA D-808 in the garden and thought the audio sounded terrible .

Turning on my "big" receiver and antenna the penny dropped that it was on Upper sideband .

I can't find any reference to it anywhere -- maybe I was the only listener !

One recording being played kept mentioning Radio Caroline with a male and female presenter on air .

Anyway thought I'd mention it even though it's outside MW and VHF.

Club FM on 107.1 in Dublin this evening, very strong signal. According to their Facebook post, it's there for the bank holiday weekend.

Regarding Dublin, what about 107,9? Wasn't there some kind of "X Radio"? Did they shut down transmission?

Wow, haven’t thought of XFM in years. They were initially on the air as “Alice’s Restaurant” from late summer 1992.

They were a more alternative, less friendly version of what Phantom were doing. Also quite ahead of tht game in terms of online broadcasts etc.

Their music wasn’t my cup of tea but sorry to hear the website and all is gone now

that's right, used by a dance music station which from memory went off air around 2011 called system radio and previously ice radio.

OpenTempo in Waterford conspicuous by their absence at the weekend. Are they still alive or did they take the weekend off?

Picking up 1494AM here in North Dublin today. Playing 80s tunes at the moment. ID “1494AM”.

1395AM also on.

Thats one way to prevent "Joe Public" from listening - do a "Radio Fax" and jump off the end of the band !!!

Anyone picking up a station on 1062 medium wave, playing non stop music, strongest around the Ireland North West sdr today? Is medium wave the new FM?

The Dundalk station is back on 1494 relaying Caroline, about 5 seconds behind Manx Radio on 1368.

90s Network very poor signal for some considerable time now on 98.4 fm It’s been like mumbo jumbo very very poor

On the legals:

Beat sounding normal again on 102.0, only took around 9 months to sort the issues out this time compared to almost 2 years of what sounded like double pre-emphasis the previous time they had problems on that transmitter.

KFM appear to be having some issues on both frequencies too, they are noticeably quieter in comparison to all other stations and quite significantly compared to next up on the band, 98FM.

98FM and FM104 still in all-out loudness wars as are Classic Hits and Q102 from the sounds of things.

Was up Trim direction and spun by Summerhill on the way back home, 252 still off. No sign of any work going on, nothing looks drastically different, visibility lights are still operational. Thought I read previously the maintenance was to have been complete by now? Maybe it is being kept off deliberately to see does anyone notice...

Must be a pretty ancient tx if the meter still accepts old money…..