Pirate Radio

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Nah - was tempted to take a photo, but got my green crossing light. Next time I’m in the area I’ll grab one.

Eastern suburbs.

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I’ll be around the eastern suburbs tomorrow, I’ll see if I can pick it up.

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You’ll hear it CBD & southern suburbs too I suspect, been on for a while now.

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Yep I’m getting it in the CBD, coming in nice and strong into my Tecsun PL-368 playing rap music.

Edit: Just passed South Yarra now and it’s gone.

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No sign of this mystery station in Dandenong. There goes My theory that Apex were running it.

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From an empty train near Richmond.

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Good catch, does it have any on-air IDs?

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Not that I can tell. I’ll keep an ear out. The playlist seems to be rap and oldies, I heard Queen - your my best friend before.

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Seems like there is two stations mixing on 99.9 - one is rap and the other seems like oldies which might be Voice FM from Ballarat?

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Nice little radio, is it only AM/FM or does it have DAB?

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Thanks, its only AM, FM and Shortwave (SSB included as well). Its a nice little portable unit and it works well enough for me.

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I’ve never heard any either

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Any active pirates in Syd at the moment? I’ll be there on the weekend. Hopefully there’s something I can pick up from the CBD.

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The last one I heard was on 91.8 some months ago now & not heard since.
I’m not aware of any others.
Hopefully COVID doesn’t affect your travel plans to Syd & back.
Difficult times for making travel arrangements, especially with winter fast approaching.

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Just arrived in Syd without any issues and I can honestly say it’s a lot warmer than Melbourne lol.

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Found a great site about pirate radio home-brew in Ireland:

http://homepage.eircom.net/~yellowbeard/

These old ~ FTP websites are the shortwave radio of the internet nowday’s. Looks like Yellowbeard’s designs were to get around import restrictions in Ireland. Those kind of construction skills are a thing of the past. Yellowbeard doesn’t look like he has updated his site for a couple of decades either, so I doubt he is just in gaol for Radiocommunications breaches.

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Hi.

I was in Sydney’s Eastern suburbs in February and I heard a radio station on or around 91.7MHz with someone talking in Chinese or Vietnamese most of the time (can’t remember which) or it could have been another similar sounding language. Was that the 91.8 MHz station that OzBark mentioned above?

UPDATE: I’ve read on another post (Am To Fm Conversions In Solo Markets - #1232 by dxnerd) that 91.6 is used for temporary broadcasts. This was around the time of the Chinese New Year.

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Hi @ron12

Around Chinese NY it would have most definitely have been 2CR China Radio, a temporary special event lic. stn. on 91.6 that you heard.

91.8 pirate was non stop songs/music from memory.

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Thanks.

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