{"id":3378,"date":"2021-01-01T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-01T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?p=3378"},"modified":"2022-09-18T13:12:18","modified_gmt":"2022-09-18T12:12:18","slug":"pirates-ring-rte-to-complain-about-1984-jamming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/pirates-ring-rte-to-complain-about-1984-jamming\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirates ring RT\u00c9 to complain about 1984 jamming"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_7121\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-3378-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/19840617_Radio_Annabel_FRC_Gerard_Roe_Robbie_Dale_David_Baker_ring_RTE.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/19840617_Radio_Annabel_FRC_Gerard_Roe_Robbie_Dale_David_Baker_ring_RTE.mp3\">https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/19840617_Radio_Annabel_FRC_Gerard_Roe_Robbie_Dale_David_Baker_ring_RTE.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\/12\/19840617_Radio_Annabel_FRC_Gerard_Roe_Robbie_Dale_David_Baker_ring_RTE.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?powerpress_pinw=3378-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/19840617_Radio_Annabel_FRC_Gerard_Roe_Robbie_Dale_David_Baker_ring_RTE.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"19840617_Radio_Annabel_FRC_Gerard_Roe_Robbie_Dale_David_Baker_ring_RTE.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/R-Annabel-ad-Sunday-World-06-01-85-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Pirates ring RT\u00c9 to complain about 1984 jamming\" class=\"wp-image-3379\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/R-Annabel-ad-Sunday-World-06-01-85-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/R-Annabel-ad-Sunday-World-06-01-85-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/R-Annabel-ad-Sunday-World-06-01-85-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/R-Annabel-ad-Sunday-World-06-01-85-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/R-Annabel-ad-Sunday-World-06-01-85-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption><em>An advert for Radio Annabel listing its own advertisers, Sunday World, 6th January 1985. Annabel would be gone within two months (Alan MacSimoin collection).<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Spring 1984 was the height of the RT\u00c9 jamming campaign against super-pirates such as Radio Nova and Sunshine Radio in Dublin and South Coast Radio in Cork. On 26<sup>th<\/sup> April 1984, Sunshine boss Robbie Dale (Robinson) attempted to ring RT\u00c9 live on air during his mid-morning programme. RT\u00c9 were jamming Sunshine on 531 kHz at the time from the Radio 2 site in Beaumont, claiming that they were testing on the frequency. Robbie Dale spoke to the RT\u00c9 press office but failed to get through to Assistant Director-General Bobby Gahan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img alt=\"Pirates ring RT\u00c9 to complain about 1984 jamming\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.herald.ie\/news\/9fcc8\/34392498.ece\/AUTOCROP\/h800\/2016-01-25_new_16339302_I1.JPG\" style=\"float:left;width:160px;padding:12px\">A few days later on Dublin Community Radio, David Baker was more successful. During a special programme about the radio scene, he managed to speak to Bobby Gahan live on air and ask him about the jamming. According to Peter Mulryan&#8217;s book <em>Radio Radio<\/em>, the Minister for Communications Jim Mitchell requested RT\u00c9 in April 1984 to stop jamming as control of the airwaves was a matter for government and not for the state broadcaster. Such was the audience for pirate radio, it appeared that the government feared the political implications if popular stations couldn&#8217;t be heard.     <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These recordings were broadcast by Gerard Roe on the FRC programme on Radio Annabel on 17<sup>th<\/sup> June 1984. Our recording was made from 1035 kHz AM. The photo is of Bobby Gahan in 2015 when he was Lord Mayor of Stepaside in Dublin and is by the <em>Evening Herald<\/em>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spring 1984 was the height of the RT\u00c9 jamming campaign against super-pirates such as Radio Nova and Sunshine Radio in Dublin and South Coast Radio in Cork. On 26th April 1984, Sunshine boss Robbie Dale (Robinson) attempted to ring RT\u00c9 live on air during his mid-morning programme. RT\u00c9 were jamming Sunshine on 531 kHz at &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/pirates-ring-rte-to-complain-about-1984-jamming\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pirates ring RT\u00c9 to complain about 1984 jamming&#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":[15],"tags":[537,27,153,241,607,30,356,88,191,47],"class_list":["post-3378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airchecks","tag-537","tag-david-baker","tag-dublin","tag-dcr-1979","tag-frc","tag-gerard-roe","tag-jamming","tag-radio-annabel","tag-robbie-robinson","tag-sunshine-radio"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Pirates ring RT\u00c9 to complain about 1984 jamming - 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\/pirates-ring-rte-to-complain-about-1984-jamming\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Pirates ring RT\u00c9 to complain about 1984 jamming - Irish Pirate Radio Audio Archive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Spring 1984 was the height of the RT\u00c9 jamming campaign against super-pirates such as Radio Nova and Sunshine Radio in Dublin and South Coast Radio in Cork. 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