{"id":1241,"date":"2020-04-24T14:41:03","date_gmt":"2020-04-24T13:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?p=1241"},"modified":"2021-08-07T15:18:58","modified_gmt":"2021-08-07T14:18:58","slug":"full-recording-diamond-radio-dublin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/full-recording-diamond-radio-dublin\/","title":{"rendered":"Full recording: Diamond Radio (Dublin)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_9486\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1241-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Diamond-Radio-192M-1135-03-03-1984.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Diamond-Radio-192M-1135-03-03-1984.mp3\">http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Diamond-Radio-192M-1135-03-03-1984.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Diamond-Radio-192M-1135-03-03-1984.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?powerpress_pinw=1241-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Diamond-Radio-192M-1135-03-03-1984.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Diamond-Radio-192M-1135-03-03-1984.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"636\" src=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/flyer-1024x636.jpeg\" alt=\"Full recording: Diamond Radio (Dublin)\" class=\"wp-image-1244\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/flyer-1024x636.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/flyer-300x186.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/flyer-768x477.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption>Diamond Radio flyer courtesy of Ian Biggar. <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Diamond Radio broadcast on and off from 1981 to 1985. They began on the 30th of May 1981 and were heard in August by DX Archive on a visit to Dublin. The station was logged on 1580 kHz and thought to be a hobby pirate at the time. <em>Short Wave News<\/em> from December 1981 states: &#8216;Diamond Radio, now on 1557-59 with 500 watts. It has two teenage owners, a one bedroom office\/studio and a spirit of improvisation&#8217;. The January 1982 issue said it was putting out about 170 watts and gave an address of Annadale Drive in the Marino\/Whitehall area of Dublin 9. Diamond was listed by Anoraks UK on 1557 kHz in May 1984 but there was no mention of the station in a later list from August that year.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In <em>Contact<\/em> (World DX Club) in February 1984 Paul Davidson wrote: &#8216;Diamond Radio, a hobby station last heard summer 1982 are back on 1556 kHz with a very clear second harmonic on 3114 kHz&#8217;. The same address was reported and hours of transmission were said to be irregular, circa 1100-2400 daily. Paul did an update for <em>Contact<\/em> in early 1985 in which he listed Diamond Radio on 1556 kHz from Marino with broadcasting hours from 1600-2300. People involved in the station have confirmed to us that it was an irregular hobby pirate operating from 1981 to 1985. In Anoraks Ireland reports from 1986 and 1987 a Radio Diamond is listed on 106.1 MHz with addresses in Ballyfermot or Crumlin but was a different operator. We thank Ian Biggar and Niall Cassidy for providing information about the station&#8217;s history.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This recording is from 1557 kHz and starts at 11.27am on the 3rd of March 1984. Audio is scratchy and over-modulated but it gives a sense of the station. The recording is from the Skywave Tapes Collection. Skywave Radio International broadcast a shortwave station in the 1980s from Baldoyle in northeast Dublin. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diamond Radio broadcast on and off from 1981 to 1985. They began on the 30th of May 1981 and were heard in August by DX Archive on a visit to Dublin. The station was logged on 1580 kHz and thought to be a hobby pirate at the time. Short Wave News from December 1981 states: &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/full-recording-diamond-radio-dublin\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Full recording: Diamond Radio (Dublin)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[152],"tags":[537,46,262,153,22,545],"class_list":["post-1241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-full-recordings","tag-537","tag-am","tag-diamond-radio","tag-dublin","tag-hobby-station","tag-skywave-collection"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Full recording: Diamond Radio (Dublin) - Irish Pirate Radio Audio Archive<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/full-recording-diamond-radio-dublin\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Full recording: Diamond Radio (Dublin) - Irish Pirate Radio Audio Archive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Diamond Radio broadcast on and off from 1981 to 1985. They began on the 30th of May 1981 and were heard in August by DX Archive on a visit to Dublin. The station was logged on 1580 kHz and thought to be a hobby pirate at the time. Short Wave News from December 1981 states: &hellip; Continue reading &quot;Full recording: Diamond Radio (Dublin)&quot;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/full-recording-diamond-radio-dublin\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Irish Pirate Radio Audio Archive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-04-24T13:41:03+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-08-07T14:18:58+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/flyer-1024x636.jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"John Walsh\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"John Walsh\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Estimated reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/full-recording-diamond-radio-dublin\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/full-recording-diamond-radio-dublin\/\",\"name\":\"Full recording: Diamond Radio (Dublin) - Irish Pirate Radio Audio Archive\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/full-recording-diamond-radio-dublin\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/full-recording-diamond-radio-dublin\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/flyer-1024x636.jpeg\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-04-24T13:41:03+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-08-07T14:18:58+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/#\/schema\/person\/a6eb579c7ad730e14f91e6455b207f00\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/full-recording-diamond-radio-dublin\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/full-recording-diamond-radio-dublin\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/full-recording-diamond-radio-dublin\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/flyer-1024x636.jpeg\",\"contentUrl\":\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/flyer-1024x636.jpeg\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/full-recording-diamond-radio-dublin\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Full recording: Diamond Radio (Dublin)\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/\",\"name\":\"Irish Pirate Radio Audio Archive\",\"description\":\"Open Free Radio Archive\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/#\/schema\/person\/a6eb579c7ad730e14f91e6455b207f00\",\"name\":\"John Walsh\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/80a5b6baea2fd739c3be046233f2ad61?s=96&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/80a5b6baea2fd739c3be046233f2ad61?s=96&r=g\",\"caption\":\"John Walsh\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/author\/john\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Full recording: Diamond Radio (Dublin) - Irish Pirate Radio Audio Archive","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/full-recording-diamond-radio-dublin\/","og_locale":"en_GB","og_type":"article","og_title":"Full recording: Diamond Radio (Dublin) - Irish Pirate Radio Audio Archive","og_description":"Diamond Radio broadcast on and off from 1981 to 1985. They began on the 30th of May 1981 and were heard in August by DX Archive on a visit to Dublin. The station was logged on 1580 kHz and thought to be a hobby pirate at the time. Short Wave News from December 1981 states: &hellip; Continue reading \"Full recording: Diamond Radio (Dublin)\"","og_url":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/full-recording-diamond-radio-dublin\/","og_site_name":"Irish Pirate Radio Audio Archive","article_published_time":"2020-04-24T13:41:03+00:00","article_modified_time":"2021-08-07T14:18:58+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/flyer-1024x636.jpeg"}],"author":"John Walsh","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"John Walsh","Estimated reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/full-recording-diamond-radio-dublin\/","url":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/full-recording-diamond-radio-dublin\/","name":"Full recording: Diamond Radio (Dublin) - Irish Pirate Radio Audio Archive","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/full-recording-diamond-radio-dublin\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/full-recording-diamond-radio-dublin\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/flyer-1024x636.jpeg","datePublished":"2020-04-24T13:41:03+00:00","dateModified":"2021-08-07T14:18:58+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/#\/schema\/person\/a6eb579c7ad730e14f91e6455b207f00"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/full-recording-diamond-radio-dublin\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-GB","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/full-recording-diamond-radio-dublin\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-GB","@id":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/full-recording-diamond-radio-dublin\/#primaryimage","url":"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/flyer-1024x636.jpeg","contentUrl":"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/flyer-1024x636.jpeg"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/full-recording-diamond-radio-dublin\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Full recording: Diamond Radio (Dublin)"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/#website","url":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/","name":"Irish Pirate Radio Audio Archive","description":"Open Free Radio Archive","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-GB"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/#\/schema\/person\/a6eb579c7ad730e14f91e6455b207f00","name":"John Walsh","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-GB","@id":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/80a5b6baea2fd739c3be046233f2ad61?s=96&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/80a5b6baea2fd739c3be046233f2ad61?s=96&r=g","caption":"John Walsh"},"url":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/author\/john\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1241"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1293,"href":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241\/revisions\/1293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}