BANDSCAN THREAD

East Coast having audio problems on 99.9 this evening while iRadio was on blank carrier for the guts of half on hour on all frequencies within range of Kildare.

You are right, it's absolutely awful. The modulation levels on 97.6 are way too low looking at the measurements here, I mean there's playing it safe and then there's KFM!

Some speech based program on right now and there's also a massive hum from the audio.

Not much.

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Ice Radio on 99.3. RetroNow on 105.2.

Further to above posts, I could pick up Star1057 and Retro FM on 92.0FM and also Energy Power AM on 1395kh MW.

Edit: Energy Power was also on 99.5 FM this evening. It has a similar problem to Retro FM with a British station coming in on it. Earlier on, I could make out the British station - Radio 1 I think.

1494AM playing old recordings of Sunshine and Energy.

On which frequencies did you pick up signals from Spain?

I personally have picked up 106.1 often when I was in the south of England. Quite possible it was Monte Higa in Spain?

However the signal was often fading in and out and reception was more temporary than permanent.

I would think the radio is actually receiving these stations on FM due to some glitch of the radio whilst displaying an AM frequency on the display. Did you try turning the radio off and back on ?

There have been good long distance FM conditions recently so you might be getting BBC R4 where you normally do not.

Last night on 104.9 on a road outside Cork city I had a mixture of Classic Hits from a Galway transmitter and BBC R4 on 104.9 fading between one or the other as drove along...

there is no other sensible explanation.

You say that the R4 is less than FM quality. Modern car radio will narrow down the bandwidth with challenging reception (like being 0.1MHz away from other station/s) - this will have reduced audio quality but is is the price to be paid to actually hear the station.

Thanks for the info lads, they are there again today, rock solid. On reflection, I'm thinking is the radio somehow tuning in 198 and 252 LW , even though it doesn't have a LW option on the menu ? It's FM, MW and DAB on the menu option. I did notice severe interference when I drove or parked under electrical wires. If it is LW, its the best reception of Radio 4 on LW I've heard for a long time. Must be a great tuner in the van, it's a Ford Courier.

102.5 seems to be a new home for Ice Radio. Just noted there with live broadcasts. 90s network also playing on the usual 98.4.

I was tickled to receive said 102.5 on Wednesday, in and around the Dunshaghlin area.

Having heard their programming, I was delighted that it was a weak signal and promptlywent back to listening to Lyric FM.

The RTE DAB was from the top of Three Rock and I doubt any unlicensed operator will get access to any of those sites.

As for more unofficial sites? I believe Comreg have been quite active recently reminding landowners around the Dublin mountains about the perils of pirate broadcasting (plus the potential fines that may follow!).

They expect to be back on air on the 12th Sept.

Anything from the other frequencies?

I get occasional reception in Dundalk from LLanddano, Cymru, Radio 1 and Radio 4.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llanddona_transmitting_station

If they are going to broadcast from Three Rock to Dublin, I'd say they'll be using the 92.1 FM frequency.

Also I am guessing the 87,7 in Cork ?