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by radionortheast » Tue Jun 10, 2025 2:48 pm
Peoples fm was on the same frequency for a time as fantasy, remember a signal on 105.6 sounding quite nice for abit, playing some chill out music, hearing it on some of the surrounding hills, to north west of Leeds, low power sounded nice, don't know if it was peoples though.
Fresh fm from sheffield it had no problem over riding dream on 107.8, so you wouldn’t of heard dream in sheffield, dream didn’t last longer than 1995, I don’t think there were any strong signals coming out of Leeds for afew years atferwards. Peoples was always lower, few other asian stations, lower power than dream on 107.8, I could only pick up the other stations weakly in backround. Think they probalby put all their eggs in one basket with dream, no other stations could come about there. There were quite afew stations didn’t seem to have dj’s, until you got to move,test,frequency, didn’t listen to them much not my cup of tea.
I could pick huddersfield better than Leeds were I lived, there was underground fm 106, and unity fm 108, not sure if they came on evenings or weekends, don’t remember much about them, what year unity started. remember hearing underground switch on when we were near emley late afternoon, pretty sure it was around in 1994, think I heard it at home then too, fantasy switched to 105.9 it wouldn’t of been receiveable. Seemed to be more stations come out over there near y2k, love 100, cool/jive 102 and unity, I moved to the top of hill later in 1996 which helped all round with reception. Some powerful signals came out of bradford 106.7/8 late 90’s, Power and Rebel fm, they would of got all the way to sheffield for sure, Power would switch on at weekends, don’t know about rebel, power stopped me tuning to 106.6 to try and hear energy.
the philips hifi i had in the mid 90's, had stereo blend so I wouldn’t known if there was something wrong with the stereo on dance fm. To get stereo I had to connect wire between the signal and ground, it was connected up to long wire or to the dipole in the loft, it did get decent reception. It survived the move, one day I put it on heard buzzing, the caps had gone bad on it. After I moved peoples did come in well in my bedroom on the outdoor aerial I could hear radio derby which was interesting.
