88.9 FM
Gullwrack Point
The transmitter. Three watts of drama and a kettle.
101.3 FM
Dunmore Reach
The town relay. Loudest at the harbour steps.
94.6 FM
Harbour Relay, Pier Six
Runs off the pier's original generator.
91.7 FM
The Net
Inland farms. Named for nets, not networks.
103.5 FM
Pelynt Head
The northernmost relay; suffers weather with dignity.
89.4 FM
Crag Moor
The relay that answers twice. See Signal Fires.
Chain notes
- Handover
- Each relay re-boosts the signal within two seconds of the last. The gap is deliberate: it is the sound of the coast breathing.
- Power
- Four relays run on mains, one on the pier's original generator, one on a bicycle the secretaries have not been told about.
- Failures
- Logged in the same ledger as the dramas. Some of the best episodes began as a relay going down.
- Shortwave
- Beyond the chain, the skip takes over after midnight. Iceland has written. The Azores have written. The trawler wrote first and is framed.