Found this old photo of the Colyhurst/Miles Platting blocks in Manchester from 1987 of what's clearly a pirate dipole with what appears to be gaffa tape going up the pole.

....Any ideas who it was??

100.8 after a dead carrier for a while today now appears to be relaying Halo radio. same strength that panacea relay was, and base before it, not great quality at my house though.

teckniqs wrote: ↑Tue Jan 09, 2024 1:12 pm Found this old photo of the Colyhurst/Miles Platting blocks in Manchester from 1987 of what's clearly a pirate dipole with what appears to be gaffa tape going up the pole.

....Any ideas who it was??

Laser, LCR, Unity maybe?

Laser were moss side (well, they were when I went round), soul nation were closer to castlefield.

LeeCavanagh wrote: ↑Thu Jan 11, 2024 7:57 pm 100.8 after a dead carrier for a while today now appears to be relaying Halo radio. same strength that panacea relay was, and base before it, not great quality at my house though.

Deafening silence from Leeroy,, Base fm manager.
Can it be assumed that the partnership between Base fm and the northern connection have parted ways? Such a shame if that's what's happened. Base fm had so much promise to be the dominant force in Manchester only to now fade into oblivion with only the odd relay from other radio stations.

Indeed blackjake, probably busy in Panama jacks,

I was getting halo earlier, but now i’m getting all the Irish stations instead, today 100.9 ,today 101.4 , and a classic station from Dublin 99.2

Also getting Irish commercial station Q 102.2 which I’ve never noticed before driving about Cheshire

Anybody else getting a dead carrier on 87.5 ‘?

Blackjake wrote: ↑Fri Jan 12, 2024 2:33 pmDeafening silence from Leeroy,, Base fm manager.
Can it be assumed that the partnership between Base fm and the northern connection have parted ways? Such a shame if that's what's happened. Base fm had so much promise to be the dominant force in Manchester only to now fade into oblivion with only the odd relay from other radio stations.

I can't make much sense of this whichever way I slice it. On new year's eve (after a couple of weeks of Panacea) the Base stream was restored to 100.8 but only for a couple of hours, and it reverted to Panacea, seemingly derived from one of the local DAB muxes. The power was also tweaked back up. As Lee said earlier, we then had a day or so of Halo (internet only, AFAIK?) and now dead carrier. If there's been a fall-out, why not just switch the rig off.

tvtv wrote: ↑Fri Jan 12, 2024 10:35 pmAnybody else getting a dead carrier on 87.5 ‘?

Not this morning. Hard to tell on 87.5 though, especially in the car as there are a LOT of these car senders on that frequency and half the time they're on dead carrier!

I’m not getting it now either. And all the irish commercial stations seemed to have dropped, but we are due more prorogation so i may go find a large hill.

I cant hear anything on 100.8 either, usually id get (in the back of my box), anyone else confirm if that is still on ? I note too that base fm stream is still turned on (but its silent, except for a base ident at tge top of every hour).

Its still on, dead carrier most the day, god only knows why, but now relaying halo again

My take on it is that they have connections to panacea (sure I recognised one of the djs voices , even tho base started disguising at least one of their voices…and another I seem to recall was on soul nation), and maybe (just maybe but I don’t know , there is a connection to halo which does have an ‘halo player’ on App Store). perhaps it’s always been about publicising other ‘interests’ (their club nights, give dab a bump up on numbers and same for internet streams).
Seems strange too that the base stream on one app was silent but still streaming except for a jingle at the top of the hour with base ident, not sure if base are still going on any other app as can’t be bothered checking )
I’d never heard of panacea (or halo) till it was rebroadcast (and I like a bit of soul, especially Richard sterling wasn’t he on Sunset Radio before it changed to Kiss/Galaxy/Capital, he must be as old as I am). I once bumped into Leaky-fresh at Galaxy102, had a quick chat about the pirate days.

The other reason they could be just hanging onto the frequency so that it doesn’t get used by someone else (as their were four station on that frequency at one point , base were the last to use it, and Carousel have enjoyed broadcasting in London three times since).

That theory's got plenty going for it Lee. I understand the desire to keep hold of the frequency especially with the lack of availability around Manchester and all these other players potentially wanting to use it. Playing someone's legit stream does seem like bait though. Maybe that's a way of obfuscating culpability should anyone in particular get the knock - it wasn't me, your honour - it was just some herbert up there with a rig relaying random streams!

Halo, by the way, just sounds to me like a slightly less abrasive version of Capital. Brings me out in an effin' rash! Next!!

shuffy wrote: ↑Mon Jan 15, 2024 2:27 pmNext!!

Boom.

shuffy wrote: ↑Mon Jan 15, 2024 10:34 pm

shuffy wrote: ↑Mon Jan 15, 2024 2:27 pmNext!!

Boom.

Base FM are planning something massive I think for the better watch this space BASE FM WILL ALWAYS DOMINATE MANCHESTER they will never die out #boom #bigbadbase

Guyofthenorth wrote: ↑Tue Jan 16, 2024 3:05 pm Base FM are planning something massive I think for the better watch this space BASE FM WILL ALWAYS DOMINATE MANCHESTER they will never die out #boom #bigbadbase

Never is a bit strong, but let's hope they have got lots of transmitters, its not a ride in the park staying on air 24/7 , signal seems a little better today, that snow must be helping.

LeeCavanagh wrote: ↑Tue Jan 16, 2024 3:14 pm

Guyofthenorth wrote: ↑Tue Jan 16, 2024 3:05 pm Base FM are planning something massive I think for the better watch this space BASE FM WILL ALWAYS DOMINATE MANCHESTER they will never die out #boom #bigbadbase

Never is a bit strong, but let's hope they have got lots of transmitters, its not a ride in the park staying on air 24/7 , signal seems a little better today, that snow must be helping.

Haha most definitely they got a few I mean how long base been on the FM now 2-3 years I'd say that's probably one of the longest 24/7 stations in Manchester I think the guys/girls do a fantastic job and are due a hell of a lot of respect some of the older generations should learn something from them but that's just my opinion
I'm sure there on again no rds but it's says base on the ids could this mean it's back if so pat on the back for the people behind basefm