Aldershot Garrison Radio On 1287 kHz AM News Out Jingle

AGR dropped of air before well before 2012 when I moved away from Farnborough. I know this because in about 2009, I was playing with crystal sets when suddenly the loudest thing on the dial was Gurkha Radio, also on 1287. It was hardly surprising that it was loud, as the station and antenna were about 100 metres up the street. The last time I drove up the M3 past junction 4 in 2025, the Gurkhas were still on air. Hearing the station was more difficult than on previous occasions, because on my 'new' car from 2015, the radio is thoroughly built-in and surrounded by annoying, noisy computer systems. The presence of all this radio noise, a rubbish antenna, and the inability to get under the dashboard to make various EMC remediations is now a serious limitation to my anorakky AM radio listening in the car.

On the official Ofcom site, I once looked up the Farnborough Ghurka radio licence. I'll have to check, but I think they were originally allowed substantially more than the standard 1 Watt as a community service low power broadcaster. They should get the Royal Signals on the job to put up a short top-loaded vertical or a wire sloper in the adjacent field, if they still have that higher power allowance. When I was listening, the audio processing was the most basic single-band compressor limiter available. Yak! They are awful.
 
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