{"id":8575,"date":"2023-06-01T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-01T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?p=8575"},"modified":"2023-08-14T15:14:05","modified_gmt":"2023-08-14T14:14:05","slug":"border-series-radio-star-country-heard-near-and-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/border-series-radio-star-country-heard-near-and-far\/","title":{"rendered":"Border series: Radio Star Country heard near and far"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_5587\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-8575-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/SM01.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/SM01.mp3\">https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/SM01.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\/2023\/05\/SM01.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?powerpress_pinw=8575-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/SM01.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"SM01.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\/2023\/05\/024-ireland-uk-sw-eur-brazil-argentina-antenna-behind-barn-to-white-house-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Border series: Radio Star Country heard near and far\" class=\"wp-image-8593\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/024-ireland-uk-sw-eur-brazil-argentina-antenna-behind-barn-to-white-house-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/024-ireland-uk-sw-eur-brazil-argentina-antenna-behind-barn-to-white-house-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/024-ireland-uk-sw-eur-brazil-argentina-antenna-behind-barn-to-white-house-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/024-ireland-uk-sw-eur-brazil-argentina-antenna-behind-barn-to-white-house.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption>A 1980s view of Bud in Norway where Radio Star Country was received (courtesy Svenn Martinsen). <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the joys of AM broadcasting is its propagation that allows radio waves to travel long distances beyond the core listening area during the hours of darkness. In our focus on border station Radio Star Country, today we begin a series of posts showing how the Irish pirate sounded on the west coast of Norway in the late 1980s and 1990s. Recorded over 1,200 km from the transmission site on the Monaghan\/Tyrone border, these tapes capture the unique audio quality of skywave reception of distant radio signals at dawn and dusk between October and March. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"294\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/IMG_2567-1024x294.jpg\" alt=\"Border series: Radio Star Country heard near and far\" class=\"wp-image-8301\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/IMG_2567-1024x294.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/IMG_2567-300x86.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/IMG_2567-768x220.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/IMG_2567-1536x441.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/IMG_2567-2048x588.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption>Radio Star Country sticker from 1988 with the 891 kHz frequency (courtesy Ian Biggar). <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The first such recording begins before 0900 on 17<sup>th<\/sup> November 1988, a few months after Radio Star Country began broadcasting from the Swan Lake Hotel in Monaghan Town. On air is station founder and owner Gerry Byrne with a promo for the forthcoming Radio Star Country Music Awards in Cookstown, Co. Tyrone. The recording was made in Bud, western Norway from 891 kHz on a Hammarlund SP-600 JX1 receiver with a 500-metre Beverage antenna aimed towards the southwest. The antenna ran behind the barn to the left of the large white house (the rectory) on the right in the photo and received stations from Ireland, the UK, southwest Europe, Brazil and Argentina. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We thank Svenn Martinsen for his donation of these unique recordings. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the joys of AM broadcasting is its propagation that allows radio waves to travel long distances beyond the core listening area during the hours of darkness. 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