MN.19.03.1987 - Ireland Calling on Shortwave

Ireland once had its own shortwave transmitter in Athlone, long before RTE rented airtime on shortwave to broadcast programmes from its broadcast centre just outside Dublin. In 1987, we visited Dublin and met up with colleagues at RTE who had unearthed the (short) history of Ireland on shortwave. (Prof John Campbell later took up the stories of the Irish pirates, but that's for another edition). One of the first uses of shortwave was to relay programmes from the Vatican on the 100 kW transmitter in Athlone. The history of the station goes back in 1939. Note that the transmission date of this programme was corrected in March 2020.