Radio Barnsley back again

Radio Barnsley is back, on 87.7 FM.

RDS = BARNSLEY

Can once again be heard all the way from Leeds to Clowne, although reception occasionally fades out on stretches of the A1. Also, near Leeds, Radio Barnsley is in competition with an Asian RSL on 87.7. And 87.9 is again un-used; bloody typical :-(

Radio Barnsley website

The website url seems to confirm a suspicion I have had for some time - that Radio Barnsley is descended from "YMCA Radio Barnsley", which used to run RSL's as long ago as the late 1990's.

Radio Barnsley and Akash Radio

Radio Barnsley currently on-air, on 87.7.
RDS = BARNSLEY
Visit their website

Heard here in clowne, and as far north as junction 39 of the M1 motorway. Further north, another station on 87.7 starts to become dominant on the frequency, namely ...

Akash Radio
an Asian station, on-air during Diwali.
Mostly religious programmes in the Hindi language heard.

In my humble opinion, it was a mistake putting two RSL's on the same frequency so close together geographically. Surely one could have been licenced on 87.6 (preferred) or 87.8 (not quite so good, as it may impinge upon Vixen FM 87.9), to increase the coverage area of both slightly.