Swu fm Bristol

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Swu fm Bristol

Post by cheese ranger » Fri Jan 29, 2021 7:19 pm

Just found them on Instagram, looks like a community legal launched last year.

Nice drone footage of them putting up their aerial
On fb https://fb.watch/3k5YaUxQ6y/


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Re: Swu fm Bristol

Post by fmuser877 » Sat Jan 30, 2021 10:40 am

if only I had a block like that but then it would be an easy target and not be on long unless it was a community thing like them.

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Re: Swu fm Bristol

Post by bristolpirates » Thu Feb 25, 2021 7:10 pm

They were supposed to launch earlier last year, but then Covid hit. They eventually got going later in the year though.

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Re: Swu fm Bristol

Post by teckniqs » Thu Feb 25, 2021 8:27 pm

Signal is crap around the city due to a BBC Bristol relay on 103.6. Stupid Ofcom

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Post by bristolpirates » Fri Feb 26, 2021 5:01 pm

teckniqs wrote: Thu Feb 25, 2021 8:27 pm Signal is crap around the city due to a BBC Bristol relay on 103.6. Stupid Ofcom
Yeah, it's a really bad decision. The signal is not as bad as I thought it would be in my area, but I know it's patchy along Southmead road.

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Re: Swu fm Bristol

Post by stretchyman » Sun Jan 23, 2022 9:42 am

Signal is fine and the content is good. Barely hear a tune I've heard before. Good on 'em. What local radio should be, promoting local talent. SWU!

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Re: Swu fm Bristol

Post by Albert H » Sun Jan 23, 2022 2:53 pm

Once again, OFCOM do all they can to ruin a radio project. What a stupid choice of frequency.
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Re: Swu fm Bristol

Post by stretchyman » Mon Jan 24, 2022 9:26 am

It's absolutely fine what are you winging about?

I'm no fan of Ofcom either but the signal is fine.

I'm over in Newport btw, a fair way from Bris..

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Re: Swu fm Bristol

Post by teckniqs » Thu Jan 27, 2022 5:26 pm

Some parts of outer Bristol suffering with bad interference from BBC Radio Bristol 103.6 from Weston-SM.

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Re: Swu fm Bristol

Post by Albert H » Sun Jan 30, 2022 3:33 am

The truly frustrating thing that is with just a bit of proper band planning, there would be room on Band II for twice as many stations, without them causing interference to each other.
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Re: Swu fm Bristol

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Re: Swu fm Bristol

Post by jvok » Thu Sep 08, 2022 10:17 am

Shame they played some decent stuff especially some of the late night shows.

Whose gonna put a rig up on 103.7 then?

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Re: Swu fm Bristol

Post by mixfm » Thu Sep 08, 2022 1:36 pm

im sure someone in bristol has a few boxes, nice block too..

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Re: Swu fm Bristol

Post by Casual » Fri Sep 09, 2022 5:40 pm

jvok wrote: Thu Sep 08, 2022 10:17 am Shame they played some decent stuff especially some of the late night shows......
I concur. I've listened to SWU randomly at times scanning my saved streams on VRadio & I've heard some very decent stuff being played on there occasionally. Shame they've now ceased operations.

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Re: Swu fm Bristol

Post by tokingmenace » Fri Sep 16, 2022 5:55 pm

103.7 tx is still on. Same audio as web stream.

Maybe they have found some new funding?

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Re: Swu fm Bristol

Post by radionortheast » Mon Feb 05, 2024 1:37 pm

Rinse fm acquires Swu fm, don’t think i’ve ever seen a community station taken over before, it cost too much to run Swu fm, they kind of blamed covid aswell https://mixmag.net/read/rinse-fm-acquir ... wu-fm-news

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