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Radio Dublin 25th Anniversary Press Release 1991 [front cover] I think this is the release they had when they hired the Mansion House for the 253 Birthday Party (but I could be wrong)

RadioActive International will start broadcasts in the coming weeks, it will also relay its shows via the internet in stream and on demand formats backed up by social media. European services will be heard on the 49 meterband shortwave and FM relays of the internet stream will be encouraged and sponsored in cities around the world.

RadioActive is looking for Presenters/DJs who can make shows in their own space and time and deliver it by electronic or postal service, where it will be placed in the schedule. There will be no formats or adverts and the open access policy has little rules, no fascists and no religions. And a common understanding that we are not going to break the law to do this only to play similar music to the legal stations.

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more details soon
facebook http://url.ie/fn7v
web http://RadioActive101.com

UPDATE September 2012 

Radioactive is back http://radioactiveinternational.org/

twitter @radioactiveint 

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• • Saturday, July 21, 2012
  • 8:00pm

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God is never short of a transmission tower. 1 day before Vatican Radio stops European / American AM broadcasts, Irish religious station Spirit Radio begins MW transmission from a Co. Monaghan transmission site on 549kHz. Test are underway and the local are is being checked for interference.

view from the tower uploaded June 2nd 2012

While most of Rome’s focus this week is on IEC 2012 in Dublin Ireland, some bad news not buried from the Holy See is that they are dropping Europe & American broadcasts of Vatican Radio on shortwave & mediumwave from July 1st 2012.

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Full details
http://www.news.va/en/news/vatican-radio-new-communications-strategies

On July 1st, Short and Medium Wave broadcasts from Vatican Radio???s Santa Maria di Galeria Transmission Centre, to most of Europe and the Americas, will be suspended. These areas of the world are already well served by Vatican Radio???s local rebroadcasting partners and by widespread internet access to its services and language programming.

The reduction of Short and Medium Wave broadcasts to these areas accounts for about 50% of the Centre???s transmission time and will allow Vatican Radio to restructure the Centre according to more innovative technological criteria. Short Wave broadcasts will be further reduced over the next few years ??? but not at the expense of those poor, needy and suffering parts of the world (like Africa, the Middle East and Asia) which have no alternative means of receiving news of the Church and the voice of the Pope.

radio_war_reporting

via http://www.progressive-concepts.com/info/item.php?id=137 

The SWR meter or VSWR (voltage standing wave ratio) meter measures the standing wave ratio in a transmission line. The meter can be used to indicate the degree of mismatch between a transmission line and its load (usually a radio antenna), or evaluate the effectiveness of impedance matching efforts.

via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWR_meter

On Saturday June 10th 2012 you might have noticed your FM radio turned into what normally happens on Shortwave Radio.

Science bit: The E layer of the atmosphere became ionized and reflected back FM signals that normally travel out to the moon and into outer space. This is known as Sporadic E. coz its rare and Layer E. 🙂 here is my recording.

If you can speak Italian, please help me identify this station so I can write to them and share this recording.