{"id":1492,"date":"2020-05-18T06:01:19","date_gmt":"2020-05-18T05:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?p=1492"},"modified":"2024-05-02T16:25:50","modified_gmt":"2024-05-02T15:25:50","slug":"radio-west-1983-raids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/radio-west-1983-raids\/","title":{"rendered":"Radio West during 1983 raids"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_1204\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1492-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/19830518_Radio_West_Davina_Carr_1908-1925.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/19830518_Radio_West_Davina_Carr_1908-1925.mp3\">http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/19830518_Radio_West_Davina_Carr_1908-1925.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\/05\/19830518_Radio_West_Davina_Carr_1908-1925.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?powerpress_pinw=1492-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/19830518_Radio_West_Davina_Carr_1908-1925.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"19830518_Radio_West_Davina_Carr_1908-1925.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"445\" src=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ireland_mullingar_west_compliments_2-1024x445.jpg\" alt=\"Radio West during 1983 raids\" class=\"wp-image-1493\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ireland_mullingar_west_compliments_2-1024x445.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ireland_mullingar_west_compliments_2-300x130.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ireland_mullingar_west_compliments_2-768x333.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ireland_mullingar_west_compliments_2.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption>Radio West compliments slip courtesy of DX Archive. <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Radio West was a large station broadcasting to the midlands from 1982, first on 1071 kHz and then on 765 kHz as in the compliments slip. Acquiring the old Radio Nova 10kW transmitter, it could be heard far and wide especially when it moved to the clearer channel of 702 kHz. By 1988 Radio West was styling itself as &#8216;West National Radio 3&#8217; and claiming to be nationwide, based on the 10kW AM rig and a chain of FM transmitters stretching from Dublin to Galway. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This recording is from the 18th of May 1983 from 1908-1925 and features Davina Carr on air with a country programme, a style of music popularised by rural stations such as Radio West. There is no mention of the raid on Radio Nova that morning, although Davina explains that the station had been off the air earlier due to technical issues. Radio West was among those stations to close down temporarily following the other <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/dxarchive.com\/raids_1983_sunshine_radio_raid.html\" target=\"_blank\">raid on Sunshine Radio<\/a> on the 19th of May. You can hear airchecks and jingles from Radio West <a href=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/airchecks-radio-west\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Radio West was a large station broadcasting to the midlands from 1982, first on 1071 kHz and then on 765 kHz as in the compliments slip. Acquiring the old Radio Nova 10kW transmitter, it could be heard far and wide especially when it moved to the clearer channel of 702 kHz. By 1988 Radio West &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/radio-west-1983-raids\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Radio West during 1983 raids&#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":[709,501,171,46,282,156,71,303],"class_list":["post-1492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-full-recordings","tag-18th-may-1983","tag-501","tag-1983-raids","tag-am","tag-country-music","tag-midlands","tag-radio-west","tag-westmeath"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Radio West during 1983 raids - 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\/radio-west-1983-raids\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Radio West during 1983 raids - Irish Pirate Radio Audio Archive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Radio West was a large station broadcasting to the midlands from 1982, first on 1071 kHz and then on 765 kHz as in the compliments slip. 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