Last year I put up an appeal for Galaxy Radio "Handbag Heaven" shows on behalf of a reader.
Thanks to Steve Baker who has just added a couple of comments to the original post, we now have a couple of shows to share with you...
Tuesday, 20 December 2016
Monday, 2 May 2016
SWU FM - 87.7 MHz - 1st May to 27th May 2016 (RSL)
http://swu.fm/
https://twitter.com/SWUfm
https://www.facebook.com/swu.fm/
In May 2016 SWU will be celebrating Bristol music culture with an exclusive radio station dedicated to the city’s Urban, Electronic & Dance music.
Finally, a decent station in Bristol, if only temporarily.
Unfortunately, I don't think the FM has been set up to work at it's best. This may be an Ofcom ruling that the aerial should be located on a low building or it could just be a lack of decent transmitter site. It could also be lack of experience in setting up.
This signal isn't all that good outside central Bristol. The 10 Watt rig is putting out a stereo signal with RDS 'SWU FM' and the aerial (gold plated dipole from the looks of it) is located on top of Hamilton House in Stokes Croft / Cheltenham Rd, so this is one reason for the poor signal. It's surrounded by hills and taller buildings. The aerial is also only half way up the thick white flag pole it is on, and may do better with the boom fastened at the top of the pole. I had trouble hearing it on my mp3 player's radio once I started heading towards Whiteladies Rd from Park Street, not that far away! I can only just hear it on my SDR setup at home in North Bristol / South Gloucestershire, the signal gets pretty weak by the time you get to Horfield Sports Center (I was using the Tecsun PL310 on the top deck of a bus for this). That said, if you get onto the M32 at Frenchay and travel into Bristol you'll have decent reception on a car radio all the way in. I've not yet explored how well it does going in other directions.
I've been listening on the stream (link below) and I like the pirate sound of the station. No jingles that I've heard, no ads, just back to back shows.
A lot of Bristol legends are involved, Roni, Krust, Die, Jakes, etc...
https://twitter.com/SWUfm
https://www.facebook.com/swu.fm/
In May 2016 SWU will be celebrating Bristol music culture with an exclusive radio station dedicated to the city’s Urban, Electronic & Dance music.
Finally, a decent station in Bristol, if only temporarily.
Unfortunately, I don't think the FM has been set up to work at it's best. This may be an Ofcom ruling that the aerial should be located on a low building or it could just be a lack of decent transmitter site. It could also be lack of experience in setting up.
This signal isn't all that good outside central Bristol. The 10 Watt rig is putting out a stereo signal with RDS 'SWU FM' and the aerial (gold plated dipole from the looks of it) is located on top of Hamilton House in Stokes Croft / Cheltenham Rd, so this is one reason for the poor signal. It's surrounded by hills and taller buildings. The aerial is also only half way up the thick white flag pole it is on, and may do better with the boom fastened at the top of the pole. I had trouble hearing it on my mp3 player's radio once I started heading towards Whiteladies Rd from Park Street, not that far away! I can only just hear it on my SDR setup at home in North Bristol / South Gloucestershire, the signal gets pretty weak by the time you get to Horfield Sports Center (I was using the Tecsun PL310 on the top deck of a bus for this). That said, if you get onto the M32 at Frenchay and travel into Bristol you'll have decent reception on a car radio all the way in. I've not yet explored how well it does going in other directions.
I've been listening on the stream (link below) and I like the pirate sound of the station. No jingles that I've heard, no ads, just back to back shows.
A lot of Bristol legends are involved, Roni, Krust, Die, Jakes, etc...
Saturday, 9 April 2016
Mixcloud updates
I'm slowly getting Will Morgan's archive of Galaxy Radio shows uploaded to my Mixcloud. Loads more to come...
https://www.mixcloud.com/bristolpirates/
https://www.mixcloud.com/bristolpirates/
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