{"id":284,"date":"2018-12-31T11:43:41","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T11:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?p=284"},"modified":"2022-12-04T16:42:19","modified_gmt":"2022-12-04T16:42:19","slug":"signal-106-from-south-dublin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/signal-106-from-south-dublin\/","title":{"rendered":"Signal 106 from south Dublin"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_1127\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-284-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/1988_Signal_106_TOTH.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/1988_Signal_106_TOTH.mp3\">http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/1988_Signal_106_TOTH.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\/2018\/12\/1988_Signal_106_TOTH.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?powerpress_pinw=284-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/1988_Signal_106_TOTH.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"1988_Signal_106_TOTH.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"544\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/pirate-dot-ie-red-logo.jpg\" alt=\"Signal 106 from south Dublin\" class=\"wp-image-4287\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/pirate-dot-ie-red-logo.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/pirate-dot-ie-red-logo-300x213.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Signal 106 was a hobby station from the southside of Dublin which broadcast at the end of the pirate era. It was set up at Christmas 1978 by the youthful Kevin Branigan and Mike Ormonde and broadcast from Rathfarnham then and during the following summer holidays, returning for a final run at Christmas 1988. Because its antenna was on a height, Signal got out well despite its low power on 106 FM, as indicated by the good reception across the city in Bayside where these recordings were made.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the first clip we hear Graham Turner (aka Justin Leonard) and Dave Adams (aka Andrew Mangan). The top of the hour jingle is by Se\u00e1n Ashmore who did many station idents in the late 1980s. The second and third clips feature Graham Turner. The date is 29<sup>th<\/sup> December 1988, the day before Signal closed down. These recordings are from the Pirate.ie collection. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/1988_Signal_106_link.mp3\"><\/audio><figcaption>Clip 1<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/1988_Signal_106_link_2.mp3\"><\/audio><figcaption>Clips 2 and 3<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Signal 106 was a hobby station from the southside of Dublin which broadcast at the end of the pirate era. It was set up at Christmas 1978 by the youthful Kevin Branigan and Mike Ormonde and broadcast from Rathfarnham then and during the following summer holidays, returning for a final run at Christmas 1988. Because &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/signal-106-from-south-dublin\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Signal 106 from south Dublin&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,16],"tags":[487,153,22,75],"class_list":["post-284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airchecks","category-jingles","tag-487","tag-dublin","tag-hobby-station","tag-signal-106"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Signal 106 from south Dublin - 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\/signal-106-from-south-dublin\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Signal 106 from south Dublin - Irish Pirate Radio Audio Archive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Signal 106 was a hobby station from the southside of Dublin which broadcast at the end of the pirate era. 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