{"id":2519,"date":"2020-08-24T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-24T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?p=2519"},"modified":"2021-08-07T15:06:18","modified_gmt":"2021-08-07T14:06:18","slug":"full-recording-radio-skywave-international","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/full-recording-radio-skywave-international\/","title":{"rendered":"Full recording: Radio Skywave International"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_6069\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2519-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/19861102_Radio_Skywave_Int_6260.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/19861102_Radio_Skywave_Int_6260.mp3\">http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/19861102_Radio_Skywave_Int_6260.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\/19861102_Radio_Skywave_Int_6260.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?powerpress_pinw=2519-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/19861102_Radio_Skywave_Int_6260.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"19861102_Radio_Skywave_Int_6260.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"725\" src=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/1532882330910-1024x725.jpg\" alt=\"Full recording: Radio Skywave International\" class=\"wp-image-319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/1532882330910-1024x725.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/1532882330910-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/1532882330910-768x544.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/1532882330910.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>We are processing hundreds of hours of recordings made by Radio Skywave International on an ongoing basis, and the Skywave Tapes Collection is one of the largest donations made to Pirate.ie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today we feature Radio Skywave International itself, as part of a mini-series this week on shortwave pirates of the 1980s. Like the many Irish shortwave pirates, Skywave was a part-time operation, usually on air on Sunday mornings. the first broadcast on was 28<sup>th<\/sup> July 1985 on 6260 kHz and they were first logged by Anoraks UK on August 11<sup>th<\/sup>. The address was 58 Seagrange Road, Baldoyle, Dublin 13 and later and later PO Box 1686, Dublin 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"668\" height=\"445\" src=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/58-Seagrange-Road-rear-view.jpg\" alt=\"Full recording: Radio Skywave International\" class=\"wp-image-2520\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/58-Seagrange-Road-rear-view.jpg 668w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/58-Seagrange-Road-rear-view-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 668px) 100vw, 668px\" \/><figcaption>A rear view of 58 Seagrange Road, Baldoyle from where Radio Skywave broadcast (photo for house sale in 2020 as advertised by Movehome Estate Agents on myhome.ie). <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Skywave broadcast almost every Sunday for the rest on 1985 on 6260 kHz and into 1986.&nbsp;There were occasional forays onto other shortwave frequencies. On 12<sup>th<\/sup> October 1986 the station was noticed relaying the religious programme Good News Radio on 6261 kHz which appeared to become part of their regular Sunday schedule from then on. Skywave seemed to take a break for a few weeks around April 1987 and was not logged until 17<sup>th<\/sup> May 1987 when noted on a new frequency of 6850 kHz.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"668\" height=\"445\" src=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/58-Seagrange-Road-garden-shed.jpg\" alt=\"Full recording: Radio Skywave International\" class=\"wp-image-2521\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/58-Seagrange-Road-garden-shed.jpg 668w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/58-Seagrange-Road-garden-shed-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 668px) 100vw, 668px\" \/><figcaption>In the Skywave days, there was a long wire down this garden, which contained a 6&#215;4 shed (photo from myhome.ie). <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>An Anoraks UK report of 31<sup>st<\/sup> May 1987 included a letter from station operator Michael Caine (Hegarty) stating that shortwave was being suspended in order to concentrate on an FM station called Downtown Radio. It had a 50-watt transmitter operating on 88 MHz and aimed to be a community station serving Dublin&#8217;s north inner city. There was another operation called the Irish Radio Relay Service that carried mostly an English pirate called Falcon Radio (which also used the PO Box in Dublin). This mainly used 6850 kHz, but&nbsp;Skywave&nbsp;appeared there on 23<sup>rd<\/sup> August 1987 and became regular towards the end of the year. The station continued into 1988 but was not logged every week. The final logging was on 6850 kHz on 12<sup>th<\/sup> June 1988. We thank Ian Biggar from compiling this station history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This recording is from 6260 kHz from 1045-1200 on 2<sup>nd<\/sup> November 1986 and features Dominic Dillon on air, who beings his programme with the Radio Dublin theme song. For more information about the shortwave pirates see the <a href=\"http:\/\/dxarchive.com\/ireland__sw_a_to_z_irish_sw_pirates.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">DX Archive<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/piratememories.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Pirate Memories<\/a> websites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are processing hundreds of hours of recordings made by Radio Skywave International on an ongoing basis, and the Skywave Tapes Collection is one of the largest donations made to Pirate.ie. Today we feature Radio Skywave International itself, as part of a mini-series this week on shortwave pirates of the 1980s. Like the many Irish &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/full-recording-radio-skywave-international\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Full recording: Radio Skywave International&#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":[536,153,89,22,390,34,545],"class_list":["post-2519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-full-recordings","tag-536","tag-dublin","tag-dx","tag-hobby-station","tag-radio-skywave-international","tag-shortwave","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: Radio Skywave International - 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-radio-skywave-international\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Full recording: Radio Skywave International - Irish Pirate Radio Audio Archive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"We are processing hundreds of hours of recordings made by Radio Skywave International on an ongoing basis, and the Skywave Tapes Collection is one of the largest donations made to Pirate.ie. 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