Richard Staines, left, and Dave Hunt, right, on Suirside Radio, at the very end of March 1982. A nice old image of The Mall is seen on the wall behind them, and on their left, are the cassettes with the ads and jingles.

In 2013, these two fellows are still in the Waterford area, and both are still very much into radio!! Richard / Steve Silby can still be heard on Radio Caroline in 2013.

After the publication of the book, Radio Blaa Blaa, these images have been upgraded to a decent scan, in January 2013. Some of these images were included in the book, although no source was published sadly. (We need publicity as well!!)

Left: QSL sheet sent to Stuart from Suirside Radio, 1981, which verifies the date of the frequency change to 227m, from 257m as 2nd July 1981.

Right: A QSL sheet from a short wave transmission, made via the Suirside Radio transmitter in 1981. The header suggests that Suirside may have been on 257m around this time. I wonder if the owner Mick Daly was aware of these broadcasts?

Only months after this SW ABC was on the air, another ABC was being born in nearby Tramore, completely unconnected!!

Notice that there are Suirside Radio headers, ABC Radio SW QSL, and the slogan, WATERFORD COMMUNITY RADIO at the bottom. (Like three station names on the one sheet..lol)

Suirside Radio summer 1981 booklet, which was seen by us during a visit to the station in August of that year, but we failed to bring any back home!! This was on our wanted list for 31 years. I remember asking Steve Silby about these at the Radio Day in Amsterdam a few years ago, but he never knew of any kicking around!! Well done, and bravo to Colin Kennedy for hoarding the above for all these years.

The initial scans were updated slightly where the first efforts were missing some text.

Click the image above for a 13 meg pdf of the complete booklet, courtesy of Colin Kennedy.

The Suirside Radio FM transmitter, pictured in 1982, with the car battery to power the oscilator stage to give less humm.

The SW transmitter used by Suriside Radio, photographed in 1983. It looks like a self osc 807, and ecc82/3 and el34 in modulation stage. This transmitter was widely heard as first of all ABC International around 1980, then ABC from Waterford in 1981, both on 48m. QSOing took place as CM1 or ABC. Suirside was relayed for some time, and Radio Telstar from Waterford also used the rig.

ABC Tramore/ Waterford was aired on SW with the same rig, until it was sold on to Jolly Roger Radio. As mentioned above, in 1981 during our visit, the rig was at 7 The Mall.