Pirates

Ireland

mw

Re.: https://mediumwave.info/2026/09/12/ireland-91/

Post on HF Underground:

Kiss AM comment two, edited this morning:
Sadly, Radio North 846 kHz, which has broadcast for close on 40 years, was taken off the air on September 10th by Comreg.

After reading comments on another forum, like “I don’t know what, if anything, got taken”, I will add this.
Comreg took everything! Even the connectors from the Heliax. They also took the Nautel Ampfet that used to run at Radio North, which has not been operational in many years. Beautiful transmitter, gone! Tuning unit at the tower base, gone.
Hopefully that’s that cleared up.

Radio Star Country 981 kHz has switched off as a result of the raid on Radio North.

CoastFM in comment 4 says the raid was instigated by temporary AM station Asfalttelegrafen telegraph in Sweden. T
https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,168807.0.html

Mike Barraclough to MWCircle iog (2026-09-12)

Ireland

mw

Irish update:
846 Radio North Still off air
981Star Country still off air
1593 Coast FM relay  radiating blank carrier.
Same as yesterday.

This doesn’t seem to be coincidental technical problems. Any ideas what’s happening?
Nothing apparent on station Facebook pages. I tried calling various phone numbers but all unanswered.

Steve Whitt, MWCircle iog (2026-09-12)

Radio North raided
Star and Coast taking precautions 

Ian Biggar to MWCircle iog (2026-09-12)

That’s taken a very long time to happen – I believe they’ve been on 846kHz since mid 1987.
There is speculation online (only speculation) that this may have been triggered by a complaint from Dutch authorities relating to co-channel interference.
In the absence of R North the Dutch station MCB radio is easily heard on 846kHz  in Ireland at night despite an apparent power of 100W.

Steve Whitt, MWCircle iog (2026-09-12)

Pirate Unid

mw

1431  at 19.10 utc  09/02/25,  NO ID, Greek music non stop. Tried vía kiwi in Thessaloniki, and I heard the same music. It is not RADIO EKFRASI. It has its audio vía zeno.fm

Francisco Sánchez, Barcelona Spain (2025-02-12)

Ireland

mw

I think I’m hearing Radio Danielle from Dublin active on 1206KHz – Disco Inferno playing – I recently improved my antenna here with more height so it seems to be working a little better despite noisy conditions.
Listening in Co. Antrim – random wire inverted L and Kenwood TS870. 13:50 UTC 18/01/2025.

Patrick Wylie to Medium Wave Circle FB group (2025-01-18)

Pirate?

mw

1233 kHz 1849 UT ID “Rock Radio Revolution” with SIO 233 QSB / RX QTH near Bonn, TS-590SG, MW loop – can also be picked up weakly via WebSDR Twente. QTH possibly in the triangle of Belgium/The Netherlands/Germany.

73 Tom Kamp (2024-12-29)

Ireland

mw

Coast FM 1494 kHz.
The station which rebroadcasts Coast FM on 1494 khz is in an Irish county of Sligo. It is a pirate situated ——— in the countryside.
I just listen to it here in East Mayo ———- with a huge signal at 1300 UTC with the news.
The station comes up from time to time and is a very irregular broadcaster. I think the owner of the pirate station just wants to test his equipment from time to time.

Michael Foertig (2024-09-14)

United States

mw

1620 khz pirate heard Sunday night 9/8/2024.
This pirate has been on for a long time. The first time I logged them was in March of 2023. They are on pretty much every Sunday night (eastern time) for 3 to 4 hours playing the same MOR music with never an ID to be heard. Apparent location is somewhere in the northeast. The only times they might not transmit is if there is a holiday or if they’ve had technical difficulties. Given that I check them out pretty much every week, in the time since I first logged them in 2023 I’ve heard them at least 50 times. They’ve been one of the most consistent pirate broadcasters that I can recall. I wonder if the FCC will ever catch up with them.

Cheers, John Hudak to irca iog (2024-09-10)