{"id":2552,"date":"2020-09-02T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-02T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?p=2552"},"modified":"2024-04-02T18:08:19","modified_gmt":"2024-04-02T17:08:19","slug":"full-recording-capital-radio-international","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/full-recording-capital-radio-international\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday morning on Capital Radio International"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_2429\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2552-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/19850811_Capital_Radio_SK_6268_1120-1205.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/19850811_Capital_Radio_SK_6268_1120-1205.mp3\">http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/19850811_Capital_Radio_SK_6268_1120-1205.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\/19850811_Capital_Radio_SK_6268_1120-1205.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?powerpress_pinw=2552-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/19850811_Capital_Radio_SK_6268_1120-1205.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"19850811_Capital_Radio_SK_6268_1120-1205.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"624\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/QSL-1981-624x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"Sunday morning on Capital Radio International\" class=\"wp-image-2553\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/QSL-1981-624x1024.jpeg 624w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/QSL-1981-183x300.jpeg 183w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/QSL-1981-768x1260.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/QSL-1981-936x1536.jpeg 936w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/QSL-1981-1248x2048.jpeg 1248w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/QSL-1981-scaled.jpeg 1560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/><figcaption>A Capital QSL from 1981 (courtesy of Ian Biggar\/DX Archive). <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Capital Radio International began broadcasting from Dublin in 1981, one of many shortwave pirates from Ireland during that decade. It broadcast for the most part on 6268 kHz with a strong signal &#8211; the QSL above records an output of 180 watts which was well above average for the hobby shortwave stations. Capital Radio sometimes operated from the site of another shortwave pirate Radio Valleri. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our recording was made from 6268 kHz from 1120-1205 on Sunday 11<sup>th<\/sup> August 1985 and features the station operator Aidan Hughes. The signal is indeed strong but over-modulated in places and seems to drift slightly off channel. Capital returned to the air in the early 1990s but came to an end when Aidan Hughes died prematurely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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. This recording is from the Skywave Tapes Collection. Skywave Radio International broadcast a shortwave station in the 1980s from Baldoyle in northeast Dublin. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Capital Radio International began broadcasting from Dublin in 1981, one of many shortwave pirates from Ireland during that decade. It broadcast for the most part on 6268 kHz with a strong signal &#8211; the QSL above records an output of 180 watts which was well above average for the hobby shortwave stations. Capital Radio sometimes &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/full-recording-capital-radio-international\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sunday morning on Capital Radio 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":[488,393,153,89,22,34,545],"class_list":["post-2552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-full-recordings","tag-488","tag-capital-radio-international","tag-dublin","tag-dx","tag-hobby-station","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>Sunday morning on Capital Radio 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-capital-radio-international\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sunday morning on Capital Radio International - Irish Pirate Radio Audio Archive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Capital Radio International began broadcasting from Dublin in 1981, one of many shortwave pirates from Ireland during that decade. 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