Monique however entered into an agreement with Ronan O'Rahilly of Radio Caroline to rent airtime on 963 kHz from October 1984.
In fact, following antenna problems, the station began test transmissions on 15 December 1984 and commenced full programming at midday the following day on 963 kHz.
Radio Caroline had broadcast for over a year from the Ross Revenge but failed to attract enough advertising to be able to continue alone.
Caroline returned fairly quickly with a makeshift aerial but was initially unable to offer Monique a sufficient quality service.
This was largely seen as the successor to Radio Monique, as it contained many of the same programmes, advertisers and disc jockeys.