Added photos and high res images of the crap scans that were on line for years on the KELO page. In the background, a load of old KELO recordings have been transferred to mp3, and will be available shortly.

The plan is to go through each page with poor res images and uprate them. It does all take time, loads of time. But work is in progress.

Also finally found the old Sweden Calling DXers theme tune. It does not include the continuity announcement between news and SCDX, but better than nothing. The clip is from 1981, and includes a report about Radio Caroline due back on 1st September 1981!!! It was nearly two years later when they finally made it back to the air. Also added a printed version of SCDX bulletin that used to be mailed out to dxers. The printed bulletin included sinking of the Mi Amigo.

Added a few items from Radio Sweden, including QSL CARDS, and posters and an old audio tape from the Radio Sweden Saturday Show.

RADIO WEST HOME PAGE

MIDWAY RADIO HOME PAGE

Bear with us. Been scanning a load of slides loaned from Steve West, who made three country wide trips in the 80's. 86, 87, 88. Another long task, but worth while archiving for sure.

2010 has certainly been the most active year as far as fixing out navigation and smartening up this site.

Happily all the Irish A/Z files are at least some way semi respectable looking now, and we seem to have got rid of the various menu systems we had over the years, and replaced it with the current navigation system across the board. It has been a long boring task, completing all these pages to our satisfaction, but to be perfectly honect, a well needed upgrade, from the rough and ready approach we used here for many years.

We are now open to contributions from anyone that has material and knowledge to add. We have been promised some slides from a dude who made at least three trips to the republic in the 80's and each time made a major tour of the radio stations. Let's hope he comes good with them, as it would be a pity not to share.

Updated listings pages with site navigation, and started a frequency page of Irish pirates. Long project.

Also adjusted the Merseyside frequency listings.

RADIO WEST (MULLINGAR)

ERI (CORK)

KISS FM (MONAGHAN)

Been working through a lot of the A-Z of the Irish pirates, tidying up their pages. Many of the A/Z had little or nothing on them so far, and have been like this for many years. But gradually they will be updated with many of the scans which have been in the archives for many years. The stations home pages that I have started with are the ones associated with a 1981 tour of Ireland.

The stations that have been sorted out include -

WABC, Carousel, Boyneside, Radio Sligo, North West Drumshanbo, Nova, Capital Cork, City Cork, City Dublin, Carol Ann Athlone, Big L Limerick, WCLR Wexford, Kilkenny, Carlow, Big D, Community Radio Youghal, Waterford Local Radio, Suirside Radio Waterford, Radio Carrick, KCR Kildare, WKRC Newbridge, Tipperary Community Radio, KELO Swords, Southside Radio, Sonic, BLB, Sunshine, ARD, Diamond Radio, Dublin Community Radio, Radio Dublin, Double R Radio, TTTR, Radio Leinster, ABC Tramore, CBC Clonmel, Westside Radio, and a few others.

This is an on going proccess, and after the pages are modernised with the pop up menus, the images will be beefed up to a decent res of the image. When we started this project back in 1996, scans were 8k etc for an image designed for dial up connections. Now our real aim is to provide a decent quality archive.

Bear with us.

The brochure was more of a folder with loose sheets inside and a smaller insert, which is at the end of the pdf file.

Again link takes you to an index page, which in this case is still very scarce of entries.

Added a 5.7 meg pdf file of the ad rates that were sent out from A321, Rosas, Gerona, Spain, in the late 1970's. The large blue booklet had an insert of an ad rate card, which is placed at the end of the pdf.

Once again, link takes you to an index rather than a large pdf file.

Added an old typed 10 page sheet which was circulated from the PO Box 539, Blackpool address which Sunshine used. The file size is relatively high to preserve legibility on this old faded bunch of sheets. 11 meg pdf document. Link to the Sunshine Radio home page rather than the 11 meg pdf file.

Also upgraded the Daily Mail article from 1981 about Sunshine Radio. The original file was a little poor, and lacking res. Like many of our older files, they were cut and compressed for faster dial up speeds, rather than of archival quality. The whole site should eventually be upgraded to decent res photos and decent res recordings.

We have migrated the html pages to a new and hopefully permanent URL. dxarchive.com. This has been our URL for many years, but the old address with the numbers will not work any more.

Webmasters, please update your links. Thank you.