Radio Milinda

Radio Milinda

Radio station


name = Radio Milinda
frequency = 300 metres / 1000 kHzcite news| last =| first =| coauthors =| title = Radio Milinda| work = SIRA Magazine| pages =
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power = 100 watts
area = flagicon|Ireland Dublin, Irelandcite web|url= http://www.radiowaves.fm/database/radiomilinda.html|title= Radio Milinda|accessdate= 2008-03-16|format=|work= ]
format = pop to oldies
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Radio Milinda was the first Pirate Radio Station in the republic of Ireland to be raided by police and prosecuted ["Irish Media: A Critical History Since 1922" By John Horgan - Page 125 ( [http://books.google.com/books?id=gjrXMqxGNgcC&pg=PA125&dq=%22radio+melinda%22&sig=i_S6Nh7cQnto2fu9VmkrIDrjK5M Google Books] )] . On Sunday, the 17th of December 1972 [cite web|url=http://www.rte.ie/laweb/brc/brc_timeline.html|title= History of Irish Public Service Broadcasting - Timeline|accessdate= 2008-03-16|format=|work= ] almost 100 police raided the station at 5 North Gloucester Place, Dublin (better known as The Diamond). Seven people were arrested and taken to Store Street police station, where they were later fined £2. The equipment and all records and tapes were confiscated.

History

Radio Milinda was originally the brain-child of Jimmy McCabe who built the guts of the transmitter. The Name “Milinda” which should have been “Melinda”, was taken from the song “Come Away Melinda” as sung by Tim Rose.

The station first began test transmissions early on in 1972 from the upstairs of a youth club in Dublin 1. with a very small transmitter. Ger Wallace designed the Big Transmitter. Jimmy McCabe constructed it in a biscuit tin and the chassis of a broken E.C.G. machine. The aerial was spread from the roof of the tenements in Summerhill to the roof of the tenements in Sean Mc Dermott Street “No Mean Feat” (5 Stories High). It was ⅓ of a kilometer (300Mtrs) long with a tap at 100Mtrs. It came into the station via the roof of 5 North Gloucester Place.

The station was set up in two rooms in the basement. These rooms had been unused since the second world war and were used without alteration other than the cable run for power. There were no windows and the studio "per se" was built of bits of orange boxes and whatever else came to hand. The first DJs were Jimmy Lynch, Jimmy McCabe (McCabe’s Country) and Richie Kearns. They were later joined by Michael Lynch, Declan Meehan and Mark Storey and on one or two occasions by Fran Gleeson. Although it has been stated that the power output was of 50 Watts, Radio Milinda had QSLs from Wales, Brighton and a bit further inland in the U.K.

References

Notes

Bibliography

*Radio Radio, Peter Mulryan, Border Line Publications, ISBN 1870300033

External links

* [http://www.radiomilinda.com Radio Milinda History Page]


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