Remember when Select were on 99.4 during the week?

teckniqs · Post by **teckniqs** » Mon Feb 02, 2015 11:36 pm

...And only used 99.3 in the weekends? Anyone remember what reason they said they decided to do that?? This is when they first came on 99.3 after moving from 89.6.

Mitter · Post by **Mitter** » Tue Feb 03, 2015 10:19 pm

....and before they played House music!

sproggy · Post by **sproggy** » Tue Feb 03, 2015 10:59 pm

Yep I remember that. Used to have to keep both frequencies in the presets on the car radio. 99.4 gets out better in all directions around London due to R1 relays on 99.3, so 99.4 is the clearer dial. But Galaxy were established on 99.5 as a weekend-only station at the time so they had to bump down to 99.3 to avoid clashing.

fuze · Post by **fuze** » Wed Feb 04, 2015 2:28 pm

Mitter wrote:....and before they played House music!

I remember that, they used to play a bit of everything, they even had a happy hardcore dj i think was on a saturday morning, a lot of garage and dnb, that was when they were on 89.6, i think i have a tape somewhere of select fm on 103.4 or somewhere up around 103 fm, is this the same station?

pure94 · Post by **pure94** » Thu Feb 05, 2015 1:09 pm

Select was uk select on 89.6..... then complete policy change of music then uk select as now 99.3/4.....south London stations always on 99.3..i.e. Destiny then upfront then flashback who was also on 97.6 @the same time....now upfront......used to love the "Destiny 99.3" jingles

teckniqs · Post by **teckniqs** » Thu Feb 05, 2015 2:48 pm

Yeah I first heard Upfront in early 1995 playing Jungle at the time. Never heard Destiny but heard of it.

fuze · Post by **fuze** » Thu Feb 05, 2015 6:25 pm

upfront was one of my favourite stations of all time

SOTS 87 7 · Post by **SOTS 87 7** » Thu Feb 05, 2015 7:25 pm

Now to date, Select get out well and sound nice too. Its a shame we Can't get them here in Oxfordshire because of Radio 1 on 99.1, but you can from Stokenchurch and more towards High Wycombe very well. Be interesting to know what sort of power they put out.

LockingNut · Post by **LockingNut** » Thu Feb 05, 2015 8:31 pm

Rumour has it 300w and a double off the hills.

SOTS 87 7 · Post by **SOTS 87 7** » Thu Feb 05, 2015 8:50 pm

As little as that, well whatever it is, it works well.

LockingNut · Post by **LockingNut** » Thu Feb 05, 2015 9:06 pm

300 and a double off good ground on a good dial can run some serious signal, but defo agree, they got the formula!

teckniqs · Post by **teckniqs** » Fri Feb 06, 2015 12:10 am

It's all about the TX location and the antenna system. They have people who 'engineer' for them who know how to set up. Nuff said...

pure94 · Post by **pure94** » Fri Feb 06, 2015 12:26 pm

Destiny was run by 2blokes who worked in reds records in elephant and castle back in the day

Pants · Post by **Pants** » Sun Feb 08, 2015 7:35 pm

Remember when edge was on 99.3 and they got took off by polish saying they owned the dial then select came on a week later?

teckniqs · Post by **teckniqs** » Sun Feb 08, 2015 9:40 pm

Edge was on 99.2 around 1998/1999 from NW London, sounded like it was people from Transmission One and only played DnB.

What sort of time was this you are talking of? Sounds like it was a few years later, was it the same Edge?

sproggy · Post by **sproggy** » Sun Feb 08, 2015 10:41 pm

Pants wrote:Remember when edge was on 99.3 and they got took off by polish saying they owned the dial then select came on a week later?

Those Poles were on 99.3 for a while. I remember being in despair at the waste of good clear bandwidth.

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