Yes, Strathfield being pretty close to Homebush where most of the Sydney commercial AM stations had their transmitters would have been an excellent spot for Sydney AM reception… very central.
Yep the other stations were very strong whereas the 1224 transmitter is at Prospect with restrictions in a few directions
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Yes, though the 1224 restrictions were just really north and south to protect 1233 Newcastle and 1215 Bowral. East and west weren’t really affected.
And east too as the signal isn’t good in the city, Eastern suburbs or northern beaches
To the east that’s probably more a product of distance, city noise, big buildings etc hampering the signal.
Had 1224 been at Homebush, reception in the city in the east and on the coast should have been comparable to the other Sydney commercial AM stations to my knowledge.
Has anyone else in the Sydney area noticed any change to 2HHH receotion since it came back on air a couple of weeks ago?
Seems a bit stronger here, and sounding better too to my ears.
Funny the school I went to also based in Strathfield used 2WS as the station to announce if school Saturday sports were called off due to weather. Some people travelled distances to the school even from as far as Cronulla, so too bad if you lived in an area with patchy reception
Awesome catch! I had been trying for this past two days without luck via your webserver.
I did manage a surprise RDS decode of 100.7 4US yesterday & decodes
of Gladstone’s 93.5 & 95.1MHz were nice too. Not sure if RadioTAB Gladstone
on 94.3MHz has reinstated their RDS, was weaker than the commercials.
Your North directed Yagi is performing very nicely.
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Another good night for reception from the north into Brisbane. As well as the the usual Rockhampton stations, Gladstone and Yeppoon at low levels. Mackay also at good levels again.
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Update ABC FM Cairns on 105.9 at stereo strength
Edit: reception improved to static free with massive opening to the north now up to band III TV.
Also received Cairns on 101.1 (over the top of Logan 101)
105.5 and 106.3 are Rockhampton in the image
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Had a brief moment this morning to get up to 82m ASL in West Coffs with a southerly takeoff (albeit slightly blocked by hills) to get a look at the whole FM band on the tinySA. Kempsey, Port Macquarie and Manning River all in at good levels. Local stations at local strength as expected.
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You make me wonder if I should swing my antenna to the north now, that’s excellent reception.
Of course, if I do I’m sure the opening will die off with this cool change coming through.
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Reception was eventually strong enough you wouldn’t have needed to turn the antenna. It was coming in off the back of a south facing one that I used to check where the reception was from.
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This morning was the first of the winter morning DX catches, I had briefly the commercials from Griffith but had dropped off by the time I did the detailed band scan report.
88.3 ABC RN Hopetoun - fair
89.3 ABC News Radio Horsham - good
89.5 ABC News Radio Bendigo - very weak
90.3 Triple J Bendigo - fair no stereo
91.1 ABC Bendigo - fair to weak
91.5 5RM Loxton - strong with RDS
91.7 ABC News Radio Mount Dundas - fair to good
91.9 Hit Bendigo - weak, no stereo or RDS
92.5 ABC RN Mount Dundas - fair to good
92.7 Fresh FM Adelaide - fair no RDS but has stereo
92.9 3WM Nhill / Vision Christian Radio Ararat (strong CCI between them, both weak)
93.1 MAGIC Riverland - strong with RDS
93.3 ABC Classic - good with stereo
93.7 Three D Radio Adelaide - fair no stereo
94.1 ABC South West Vic Mount Dundas - fair
94.5 MIXX FM Nhill - weak with stereo
94.9 Triple J Mount Dundas - weak with fading stereo
95.3 Flow FM Turriff - good with stereo no RDS
95.5 RadioTAB Loxton - good with stereo
95.7 ABC RN Nhill - strong
95.9 ABC News Radio Goschen - weak
96.5 Flow FM Pinnaroo - good carrier and stereo pilot, no audio?
97.7 Flow FM Coonalpyn - good with stereo
98.1 ABC News Radio Griffith - weak
98.9 ABC RN Griffith - very weak
100.5 ABC Riverina - very weak
100.7 Riverland Life FM - strong with RDS
101.3 MIXX FM Horsham - fair with stereo
102.1 ABC Mildura Swan Hill Goschen - fair to good, variable
102.3 Mix Adelaide - weak with fading stereo
102.5 Triple J Mount Gambier - fair with stereo
102.9 ABC RN Broken Hill - fair
103.1 5EBI Adelaide - weak with stereo
103.3 ABC RN Mount Gambier - very weak to fair
103.5 Mallee Border Radio - fair with stereo, has strange audio (sounds tinny?)
103.7 ABC Classic Goschen - good with stereo
103.9 ABC Classic Adelaide - good with stereo, no RDS
104.1 ABC Classic Mount Gambier - fair with stereo
104.5 ABC News Radio Broken Hill - weak
104.7 Triple M Adelaide - weak with no stereo or RDS
104.9 Lime FM Mount Gambier - fair with stereo
105.5 Triple J Adelaide - good with stereo, no RDS
105.7 ABC News Radio Mount Gambier - fair
106.3 5SBS Adelaide - good with stereo, no RDS
106.9 RSN Racing Swan Hill - strong no stereo
107.1 SAFM Adelaide - very weak
107.7 MIXX FM Swan Hill - good with stereo
107.9 ABC Ballarat - very weak
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good log! thanks
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This high is as fat as Paul Vautin, so not surprised that there is inland tropo.
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It’s been very consistent long haul tropo too, as it was around for all of yesterday and still present as of this morning.
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Given that we’re close to the solstice now, you’ll probably find that tropo hangs around to some extent all day. The Sun isn’t strong enough to completely disturb the inversion layer. You can even get all day fogs in the Riverina at this time of year under a high such as this.
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