Hearing this on 87.9 at the moment from Leeds, one of the things I like doing is playing about with different small speakers, making enclosures for them, its often harder to get them to sound good when it comes to the radio, I often to flick to it just to see. I’m also hearing the other rsl on 87.7, weakly from Bradford, it comes abit clearer in low points in the music. I think with both rsls they keep the same power/aerial as i’ve not noticed a change in the signals since they last time they came on air. Dance asian is on dab in Leeds and Bradford, also in middlesbrough.

Dance Asia is run by Kalloo Dad and mate Imy, the transmitter location they use for the Leeds Asian RSLs has been in the same place for years, They used to do a lot of Asian pirates in the 90s and 2000s at the same time when Fever FM was a pirate called Radio Apnawaz. All their old pirate dipoles are still scattered around on houses in the Harehills area of Leeds.

There was something there in leeds in late 2000’s early 2010’s on 107.8 it had the rds radio frequency, asian music I guess radio frequency had given them the transmitter. I think there was some later station too, saw a video of on 107.9 called dune fm, have a vague memory of something been there in mono with quite a good signal, sounded like there were no high frequencies present in it, maybe it was been streamed over a phone, there is a legal station which has the same name else were.

I was trying to work out if that was radio Apnawaz on the edit v documentery. I could hear something very weakly around 106.6, when I lived down a hill then, it did suprize me he was tracking it, the signal didn’t seem that strong, it was tracked down 10 minutes in to chappel town area of the city, looks like a yagi below the main vertical aerial, I think the aerial was the same what gets used for 10w rls’s.
Interesting for people living there who have old aerials or who can go round spoting them, I tried to find it on google alot of the houses look the same to me. Sometimes you can get lucky with google, you might get older frames, they only go back 10/15 years, I did look around norfolk park sheffield to see if there were any aerials there but none there now, not possible to know the power the pirates used, its not possible to get radios from the time test the sensitivity. In 1995, on my hifi, I did have a very sensitive radio, radio rod/dipole in the loft, fantasy and dream came in clear with only minor crackles over the top, maybe 106.6 was lower down or lower powered I don’t know, I don’t remember when I was listening to it. I might be the only one who’s wondered about this type of stuff. I do wonder how far a signal would go from the top of bridge water place, it can been seen for miles around is so tall it has to have flashing lights on it.

I’m running 87.7 In bradford here. Most of the time whoever gets the licence if it isn’t me still comes to me and runs from here, Same TX & Antenna nearly every year, if there’s someone else doing it, they usually don’t have their own equipment so rent TX’s and Antenna of Neil Clark… I know Kaloo Very well, Him and me work together. We have our own equipment and aerials. Buy once and save later…

I like the deep voice spooky jingles... 107mhzGood video northeast I bet DJ Mike is doing wedding receptions again now. 1995 still part of the glory days. interesting to see them operating it in the office, those ladies could be insurance clerks. I wonder what they are up to now, kids, driving a 13 year old Nissan, shopping on a Saturday. Or maybe behind techno decks looking jigging around and earning €5,000 a night for set in a Berlin nigthclub.

Dream looked good. A friend of mine went to Machester to uni and there were about 3-4 stations on that we checked out, he was interested in showing us the rough parts of Manchester and we wanted to hear the radio stations that were on, not many. That would have been about something like 1992. It all looks and feels like activity of the past, the last fizzles smouldering out.

Working for an NGo and Amazon it seems. Maybe rig and antennas supplied by Stephen Moss, those ali boxes with black letherette style top look familar and maybe a sunset guy putting up the 12 wave vertical.

https://theculturevulture.co.uk/all/dreamfm/

One of those houses of the studio 7:07 looks very distinctive must be able to find it on google maps.. looks like a small school maybe converted into bedsits of flats. Looks like a nice old big detached building.

ehsanspicedigital wrote: ↑Mon Mar 24, 2025 12:37 am I’m running 87.7 In bradford here. Most of the time whoever gets the licence if it isn’t me still comes to me and runs from here, Same TX & Antenna nearly every year, if there’s someone else doing it, they usually don’t have their own equipment so rent TX’s and Antenna of Neil Clark… I know Kaloo Very well, Him and me work together. We have our own equipment and aerials. Buy once and save later…

I can pick up 87.7 on my pocket radio very weakly in the right place, 87.9 is abit better, they can both be picked up on car radio up the road is higher up.

FMEnjoyer wrote: ↑Mon Mar 24, 2025 9:05 am I like the deep voice spooky jingles... 107mhzGood video northeast I bet DJ Mike is doing wedding receptions again now. 1995 still part of the glory days. interesting to see them operating it in the office, those ladies could be insurance clerks. I wonder what they are up to now, kids, driving a 13 year old Nissan, shopping on a Saturday. Or maybe behind techno decks looking jigging around and earning €5,000 a night for set in a Berlin nigthclub.

Dream looked good. A friend of mine went to Machester to uni and there were about 3-4 stations on that we checked out, he was interested in showing us the rough parts of Manchester and we wanted to hear the radio stations that were on, not many. That would have been about something like 1992. It all looks and feels like activity of the past, the last fizzles smouldering out.

I did like the character of it, the jingles, wonder were they got it from, remember a song called dreams playing on it, dream had an atmospheric quality, blade runner remix too, some of the music from some of the djs was brought over from italy, tc who did that. The frequency was right up at the high end of the band, sometimes you’d get interference from cystral oscilators in tvs on 108 bleeding into it, i’d notice it alot on my pocket radio which we were driving around, the reception was quite good for a pirate. I think some might of tried to join up with kiss 105, i’m not sure, i’m sure I heard one of the women talking on that the test transmission about how much they needed a station like it. Imagine they all have familes of there own, they might be on soundcloud some were, it might be listeners left want to hear something.

I was listening to dream when they were recording edit v, think it was Mike Morrison and John land who put the blade runner track on, that studio looked like it was out building of a big house.

The other place were the other pirate came from, think it was a 3 story building, could of been flats, likely 100 years old at the time of recording, some of it might of changed now but you don’t know.

I will look up and see if I can find any you tube programmes of them. I get the impression they sounded atmospheric, that could make a or break stations the enigmatic it, mysterious draw of the clandestine transmissions. Good you heard them northeast.

Well that was easy enough







I like hearing out of the area old pirates

Plenty here sorry to go away from Dance Asia

https://www.thepiratearchive.net/dream/

Its fine here, people might want to open these in a new window avoid been declared a bot, wonder were the 100 and 100.5 transmitter were, must of been alittle bit before my time. I remember hearing the 107.6 transmitter from york at otley chevin, remember when my parents went there, car was broken into we had drive back with plastic side window through leeds, we parked in the higher up car park from then on, sandwhiches were nolonger left on display.

The york transmitter it came in better than 107.8 transmitter from Leeds, you would get this really good view over the hills, didn’t know were york was, some were out there. I did wonder how the york transmitter worked so well, york is very flat, not on a hill, seemed to go against all the rules, why it was so strong I don't know or how they were able to have another transmitter going at the sametime, some kind of link, 107.8 would of been too close to rebroadcast it. (I did manage to do with a local oscillator, from a hifi, put it out on 107.6, so I could hear it abit better). The woman at dream promotions was nice looking, always nice when they talked to my mum on the phone, which was only twice, think it was the only station were there were women, there was jane and daisy and havok too. I wish i’d of saved the mix tapes, deep in landfill or taken by birds to listen in their nest.

radionortheast wrote: ↑Tue Mar 25, 2025 2:09 pm Its fine here, people might want to open these in a new window avoid been declared a bot, wonder were the 100 and 100.5 transmitter were, must of been alittle bit before my time. I remember hearing the 107.6 transmitter from york at otley chevin, remember when my parents went there, car was broken into we had drive back with plastic side window through leeds, we parked in the higher up car park from then on, sandwhiches were nolonger left on display.

The york transmitter it came in better than 107.8 transmitter from Leeds, you would get this really good view over the hills, didn’t know were york was, some were out there. I did wonder how the york transmitter worked so well, york is very flat, not on a hill, seemed to go against all the rules, why it was so strong I don't know or how they were able to have another transmitter going at the sametime, some kind of link, 107.8 would of been too close to rebroadcast it. (I did manage to do with a local oscillator, from a hifi, put it out on 107.6, so I could hear it abit better). The woman at dream promotions was nice looking, always nice when they talked to my mum on the phone, which was only twice, think it was the only station were there were women, there was jane and daisy and havok too. I wish i’d of saved the mix tapes, deep in landfill or taken by birds to listen in their nest.

The York transmitter was fed audio from a band 4 receiver using a 4 element Yagi that was picking up the main studio link from Leeds. The link transmitter at the studio was located in the Headingley area. The main Leeds transmitter was a stones throw away from the studio so we could point the link transmitter aerial to exactly where it was going to in York without worrying about the Leeds link receiver having adequate signal strength. The link was 15 watts if I recall but it wasn't mpx decoded in York so it went out in mono there to prevent any excessive hiss on the link causing us problems.

The Wakefield relay for Dream FM was receiving and rebroadcast the main Leeds signal when that was on the air for a while using a modified tuner that had an MPX encoded output added to sniff the signal before the decoded audio outputs. A Sony tuner if I remember correctly.

FMEnjoyer wrote: ↑Mon Mar 24, 2025 6:49 pm Well that was easy enough







I like hearing out of the area old pirates

The majority of those old Dream FM recordings are shows of mine and their my original tape rips that have been re-uploaded on various websites and YouTube by various people over the last few years. I'm currently in the process of doing a lot of tape conversions of the 1990s pirate radio stations in the north of England, I've got hundreds of tapes to do.

Thanks for that, I did think it might be kind of uhf link to York, though there might of been two different links going on, fair distance to travel the reason it was in mono and a ruff location for the studio. Admit I had to listen mr roy saved because of the location. I once went past a transmitter for dream when we were on our way to kirkstall, it went all the way down to 107.4 on my radio, it must of been the transmitter that got over the whole of leeds.

Fairly good going that the wakefield transmitter was able to broadcast the main leeds signal, I had to use my sisters hifi at the time remember picking out the stereo, it had better reception that twin cassete cd player I had, engineer had taken my hifi away. The signal would of been coming round the hill, much better than Leeds which would of been coming over the hill. Wonder if it was the same block the old ridings fm transmitter is on, they moved it from birchwood farm unknown reasons maybe the lease had come to and end, some of the applicants who wanted to get it were quite interesting, henna fm. 106.8 signal could be heard weakly on the coast 500w, I could hear it next to my 1w.

Dance asia have now switched off a day or two ago, radio ramadan was still on 87.7 with weak signal yesterday, today it has been replaced with joe fm from Amsterdam, some atmospherics tropospheric ducting going. I can’t advise on the audio quality of 87.7, its been asked else were on here. I could only hear it when there was talking unforunately, I kind of suspect whats going on is human speech lacks bass frequencies, less information to convey so easier to produce in my receiver.