Storm 106

Storm 106 was a pirate radio station broadcasting to the North East of Ireland between 31 January 2002 and September 9 2006 and during 2007 on 107.7 FM.
The station was based in Dundalk, Ireland and broadcast on 106.2MHz (107.7MHz in 2007) from a transmitter located across the border in Forkhill, Northern Ireland
The station's policy was to play a genre of Dance Music which could not be heard on other radio stations broadcasting to the area and was especially popular among the 15-34 age group.

Origin
Storm 106 was created by ex presenters from Kiss 106 (a popular radio station in the area in the 1990's), and was originally targeted to service, Louth, Meath, Eastern parts of Cavan and Monaghan and North Co. Dublin. Although the transmitter was located in Northern Ireland, the Studio was always located in Dundalk, and the station seemed to go to great difficulty to avoid being heard in Northern Ireland easily.
Action taken against station
In November 2005 the transmission site was visited by Ofcom and was ordered off the air, with the threat of prosecution to the owners of the transmission site. The station has made comebacks since that time, from a host of transmission sites both north and south of the border and transmissions continued until September 2006 on a regular basis.

Move to Internet broadcasting
From September 9 2006 the station is only available on the Internet via the Station's website. The move off FM took place because the stations management were intending to apply for the forthcoming North East youth license subsequently won by I Radio

Current unauthorised FM relays
Throughout 2007 there have beeen a number of unsanctioned FM relays of the stations Webstream, most recently targeting the Newry, Craigavon and Derry areas. Some of these have been removed by Ofcom/ComReg, however as of October 2007 these can still be heard.

October 2007 name change
To distance the station from the unofficial FM relays,Storm 106 renamed themselves to nonstopstorm.com on October 1 2007. The station also dropped all references to 106 on their new web portal as the station's former frequency, 106.2MHz has ironically been allocated to the winner of the North East regional youth license i 104-106FM which is due to commence broadcasting in December 2007.

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