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International Pirate Radio / Re: Radio Dinosaur, R.A.M and Underground (SW)
« Last post by Schmellenschmellen on August 05, 2026, 12:16:28 pm »
I have some weird feeling he went to Australia, but it is a guess no evidence. He sounded like someone who might have moved to the sunshine. Or maybe he packed
up his radio kits and gave up on it all, he was a regular appearance on SW MW and FM. Seems to have knocked it all on the head.

Hope he is ok and not got unwell.
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International Pirate Radio / Re: 94.6 pirate from holland
« Last post by Schmellenschmellen on August 05, 2026, 12:13:53 pm »
Dutch have been doing well in the UK this summer, often very clear and late into the night.
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London Pirate Radio / Re: Playback UK
« Last post by Schmellenschmellen on August 05, 2026, 12:11:03 pm »
I can get them extremely weakly, with wire gymnastics they become listenable. Try again those who may not have normally been to able to hear them might
have a nice surprise to listen to, in the car or at home. Not 105.6 though.
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Irish Pirate Radio / Re: 106.7 cork
« Last post by radionortheast on August 05, 2026, 09:39:35 am »
thankyou I will have a look at true 80’s, i’ve been having a look at online music box seeing if theres anything over there worth listening too
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Technical Corner / Re: MW sufficient ground ?
« Last post by Schmellenschmellen on August 04, 2026, 01:06:08 pm »
Just clarifying my post, 3 miles each way from the antenna roughly speaking, 6 miles total coverage, although I think I have a quite good rx antenna and radio in the car as a friend
did not pick it up quite as good. I just made a coil out of ordinary cheap CCA speaker wire. put 35 turns on a 6 inch waste pipe and 12-13m vertical wire... use white plastic only. Black seems not to work well with RF probably more lossy dye or something) Then tap the coil the more 10-12m radials the better. SWR 1.2:1 no problems at all 30 loops seems to be enough inductance.

Its a ground mounted coil loaded GPA - 1/4 wave vertical... albeit very, very short for the frequency.

Was a good fun test but realistically not going to continue with it as it was a lot of effort to do.

If you want to do a Blackbeard you really want to have a better antenna than a coil loaded vertical. It is very inefficient but was fun just to tick a box.

Something for a mess around when you have time on your hands.
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Irish Pirate Radio / Re: 106.7 cork
« Last post by dancemusicdj on August 01, 2026, 03:40:07 pm »
106.7 is a relay of the online station true 80s. Kiss on 104.9 is on FM at weekends only but are online all the time.
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Irish Pirate Radio / 106.7 cork
« Last post by radionortheast on August 01, 2026, 10:07:20 am »
there was a post on the gary stevens forum, I ended up listening to a station on 106.7 on the cork sdr or one near to it, upbeat 80’s music mixed together with a cross fade at the end, making a contious mix.
https://corcaigh.fmdx.ie/?

I heard never stop me from loving you and comment te dire adieu, if anyone is interested.

I could also hear kiss fm 104.9, when I tuned in a different time, they come and go alot.
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London Pirate Radio / Re: Playback UK
« Last post by radionortheast on August 01, 2026, 10:03:22 am »
Its gone quiet lately when I tune to south London sdr, it could be often heard on it
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London Pirate Radio / wk-end link possible?
« Last post by radionortheast on August 01, 2026, 10:00:17 am »
I never know how to spell it, there was a post about it last night on dx watch dogs been heard on 85.9, must be the link, i’ve heard coms just below the frequency here
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General Discussion / Re: False alarms do you think your hearing a pirate then its something else?
« Last post by radionortheast on August 01, 2026, 09:44:00 am »
I thought I was hearing another afew weeks ago, I was thinking of a combination of things, I watched a video about the laughing policeman jammer on ham bands, lot of times in the past you’d hear hams driving about with fluttery signal, listening to the repeater, the jammer would be mobile too. I don’t think they ever found the jammer in the video just though it was someone in a transit with a big aerial on the roof. It did make me think of that scene at the end of pump up the volume were he starts transmitting from a van, you never hear of it happening with fm with someone driving around with their own station. The fluttery signal of this eskip signal on 87.9 playing a remix of effiel 65 blue made me imediately think of someone driving round in a van, you could imagine it.
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