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Rotherham's Rother FM heard this evening at the Meadowhall shopping centre car park, with a reasonable signal. RDS is:
ROTHERFM
Spent most of the morning and early evening listening to Radio London / Big L, really enjoyable listening - a real "breath of fresh air", force 12 on the Beaufort scale in fact! As well as the 60's jingles (sound like the original offshore Big L jingles), some more recent sounding jingles heard. A few are "80s retro", at least one sounding like a jingle used on the 80s Dublin super p****e Radio Nova.
Sadly, Big L went off-air at 7pm, followed by a foreign language speech based station being heard on the frequency. Don't get me wrong, I don't mind foreign language stations - I quite like the Dutch stations Arrow Classic Rock and Radio 10 Gold. But speech based radio in any language, including English, is generally a turn off for me. So I started tuning around, to see what I could hear.
At this point, I was in a car park in Chesterfield town centre. On 87.5, an unidentified station was heard weakly, seemed to be playing non-stop music. Commercial dance and R&B (similar to that heard on Galaxy 105) was heard, stayed listening until 7:20 pm - when I went to my weekly Socialist Workers Party meeting.
Following the meeting, at 9pm, the station was heard again. Still no announcements. While driving, the signal disappeared soon after I left Chesterfield (by the East) and - very interestingly - did not resurface as I reached higher ground near Clowne. Strange!
In my not-so-humble opinion, 87.5 is a rather dangerous frequency to use, right at the bottom of the broadcast band and encroaching dangerously on a band used by non-broadcast users. Occasionally in the past, I have heard stations on 108.0 - stupidly near the Aircraft band, asking not only for a raid, but also for squarks from the Establishment media about "interference to aircraft communications" (their favourite type of interference to use as a bogey-man against free radio).
ROTHERFM
Spent most of the morning and early evening listening to Radio London / Big L, really enjoyable listening - a real "breath of fresh air", force 12 on the Beaufort scale in fact! As well as the 60's jingles (sound like the original offshore Big L jingles), some more recent sounding jingles heard. A few are "80s retro", at least one sounding like a jingle used on the 80s Dublin super p****e Radio Nova.
Sadly, Big L went off-air at 7pm, followed by a foreign language speech based station being heard on the frequency. Don't get me wrong, I don't mind foreign language stations - I quite like the Dutch stations Arrow Classic Rock and Radio 10 Gold. But speech based radio in any language, including English, is generally a turn off for me. So I started tuning around, to see what I could hear.
At this point, I was in a car park in Chesterfield town centre. On 87.5, an unidentified station was heard weakly, seemed to be playing non-stop music. Commercial dance and R&B (similar to that heard on Galaxy 105) was heard, stayed listening until 7:20 pm - when I went to my weekly Socialist Workers Party meeting.
Following the meeting, at 9pm, the station was heard again. Still no announcements. While driving, the signal disappeared soon after I left Chesterfield (by the East) and - very interestingly - did not resurface as I reached higher ground near Clowne. Strange!
In my not-so-humble opinion, 87.5 is a rather dangerous frequency to use, right at the bottom of the broadcast band and encroaching dangerously on a band used by non-broadcast users. Occasionally in the past, I have heard stations on 108.0 - stupidly near the Aircraft band, asking not only for a raid, but also for squarks from the Establishment media about "interference to aircraft communications" (their favourite type of interference to use as a bogey-man against free radio).
Labels: Big L, Radio London
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