{"id":2598,"date":"2020-09-14T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-14T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?p=2598"},"modified":"2021-08-07T15:10:40","modified_gmt":"2021-08-07T14:10:40","slug":"full-recording-radio-west-mullingar-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/full-recording-radio-west-mullingar-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Full recording: Radio West (Mullingar)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_9080\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2598-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/19840202_Radio_West_0914-1005-online-audio-converter.com_.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/19840202_Radio_West_0914-1005-online-audio-converter.com_.mp3\">https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/19840202_Radio_West_0914-1005-online-audio-converter.com_.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/19840202_Radio_West_0914-1005-online-audio-converter.com_.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?powerpress_pinw=2598-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/19840202_Radio_West_0914-1005-online-audio-converter.com_.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"19840202_Radio_West_0914-1005-online-audio-converter.com_.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=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ireland_mullingar_west_compliments_2-1024x445.jpg\" alt=\"Full recording: Radio West (Mullingar)\" 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 one of the large regional stations of the pirate era and even renamed itself &#8216;West National Radio 3&#8217; in 1988 as it claimed to be broadcasting nationwide. Its 10kW transmitter on 765 kHz (later 702) gave it good coverage over a wide area and an infill AM on 711 kW was added for Galway in 1988. Radio West also had a chain of low-powered FM relays from Dublin to Galway but it was stretching the imagination to claim national coverage. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This recording is of the end of the Mike Young breakfast show from 0918-1003 on 2<sup>nd<\/sup> February 1984, recorded from 765 kHz in Dublin. There is some electrical interference with audio dropout from time to time and there seems to be some drift off channel by the end of the recording. Ads are heard from across the midland counties, some of which feature the voice of station owner Shaun Coyne. Idents are voiced by Tony Allan and interestingly the 10.00 news is a relay of Bob Gallico on Radio Nova in Dublin. We don&#8217;t know if there was ever a formal agreement with Nova to rebroadcast its news or if this is an example of piracy by one pirate from another &#8211; smaller stations were known to relay news from bigger stations and Radio Dublin infamously rebroadcast bulletins from RT\u00c9 for a time.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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>Radio West was one of the large regional stations of the pirate era and even renamed itself &#8216;West National Radio 3&#8217; in 1988 as it claimed to be broadcasting nationwide. 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