{"id":2485,"date":"2020-08-21T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-21T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?p=2485"},"modified":"2025-08-14T19:51:43","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T18:51:43","slug":"bandscan-wales-1983","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/bandscan-wales-1983\/","title":{"rendered":"Bandscan: Irish radio as heard in Wales in 1983"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_4541\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2485-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/19830800_Aberystwyth.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/19830800_Aberystwyth.mp3\">http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/19830800_Aberystwyth.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\/08\/19830800_Aberystwyth.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?powerpress_pinw=2485-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/19830800_Aberystwyth.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"19830800_Aberystwyth.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Aber-prom-summer-2025-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Bandscan: Irish radio as heard in Wales in 1983\" class=\"wp-image-10948\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Aber-prom-summer-2025-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Aber-prom-summer-2025-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Aber-prom-summer-2025-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Aber-prom-summer-2025-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Aber-prom-summer-2025-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Aberystwyth promenade with Constitution Hill in the background (photo by John Walsh).<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>&#8216;Hello Again&#8217;, Part 3 of Leon Tipler&#8217;s acclaimed documentary series <em>The Irish Pirates<\/em> was based on a return visit to Dublin in September 1983. The <a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/documentary-the-irish-pirates-volume-5\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">episode<\/a> features an AM and FM bandscan from Aberystwyth on the west Wales coast, recorded by Tipler in August 1983. Having climbed Constitution Hill to the north of the town, Tipler gave himself the best chance of picking up radio signals from Ireland a mere 150km away. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the original, unedited bandscan as recorded by Tipler on both AM and FM from his perch overlooking the Irish Sea on a sunny Saturday afternoon, 13<sup>th<\/sup> August 1983. The pirates heard include Arklow Community Radio, Kilkenny Community Radio, Sunshine Radio and Radio Dublin. RT\u00c9 Radio 1, Radio 2 and Raidi\u00f3 na Gaeltachta are all received loud and clear on FM. There are snippets of unidentified UK stations as well as occasional police communications, which up to the mid-1980s used the middle of the FM band.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This recording is from the Leon Tipler Tapes Collection, donated to us by Steve England.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Hello Again&#8217;, Part 3 of Leon Tipler&#8217;s acclaimed documentary series The Irish Pirates was based on a return visit to Dublin in September 1983. The episode features an AM and FM bandscan from Aberystwyth on the west Wales coast, recorded by Tipler in August 1983. Having climbed Constitution Hill to the north of the town, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/bandscan-wales-1983\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bandscan: Irish radio as heard in Wales in 1983&#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":[254],"tags":[501,46,352,350,342,9,389,195,47,388],"class_list":["post-2485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bandscans","tag-501","tag-am","tag-arklow-community-radio","tag-kilkenny-community-radio","tag-leon-tipler","tag-radio-dublin","tag-rte-radio-1","tag-rte-radio-2","tag-sunshine-radio","tag-wales"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Bandscan: Irish radio as heard in Wales in 1983 - 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\/bandscan-wales-1983\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Bandscan: Irish radio as heard in Wales in 1983 - Irish Pirate Radio Audio Archive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&#8216;Hello Again&#8217;, Part 3 of Leon Tipler&#8217;s acclaimed documentary series The Irish Pirates was based on a return visit to Dublin in September 1983. 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