AM and FM DX (2015-2025)

Tropo has hung around here too, i’ve had launceston and west vic ABCs in constantly since this time yesterday. Plus 102.5 Edge FM and 90.5 Triple M this morning.


looks like it will be pretty strong tonight as well

seems like Way FM has a very high RDS subcarrier

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A rare catch, RDS on hit 93.7 from the Eildon transmitter instead of the Yea one.

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Just playing around on one of the Melbourne SDRs given the tropo in the area, and noticed SYN 90.7 is just static. Just a recent/temporary phenomenon I take it?

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It’s been off air all night, nothing on their website about the outage though.

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wow, Adelaide! New tropo record for me.

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Triple M Limestone Coast (90.5FM) quite strong in Renmark, don’t recall picking that station up before

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It is very strong tropo at the moment, I had nearly all of the Adelaide FMs at local strength, and this morning had 95.3 Triple M Shepparton with RDS, as well as the Bendigo FMs.

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You’re also getting Albury strong on 104.1, //with 103.7 Swan Hill. 106.5 was probably Albury as well (was playing music when I tuned).

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105.7 Triple M Wodonga also coming in now too

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Getting ABC from Wide Bay almost local here at Mount Mowballan which is a rare occurrence

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I could be wrong, but I suspect this might still be Yea, but with RDS changes at the Yea TX site.
The RDS RT flag isn’t toggling between the RT A & B flag fields, but RT writes over the RT A field. This is what’s occurring on some of the QLD SCA TX sites due to recent RDS changes there.
Time & investigations or info by others would confirm my suspicions.

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Rare RDS decode & reception of ONE FM Shepparton over semi-local 98.5 Apple FM from the Melbourne TEF webserver earlier this morning.

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The tropo is now so strong from Adelaide that the more powerful FMs are being received on my new Deepelec DP-666 with just the telescopic antenna inside my house, as well as on my Jaycar cheapie. It’s been a very long time since seeing this level of tropo.

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Yep a good night for it

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Yep, Adelaide is back in now.

another rare catch, Hit 99.7 with RDS

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Tonight I was able to head out of town, so naturally I had to take the new Deepelec radio with me. All of the below was done on the telescopic aerial. There were some new catches besides my usuals.

88.3 ABC RN Hopetoun - very weak
88.7 Vision Australia Radio Bendigo - good to strong with stereo
89.3 ABC News Radio Horsham - weak
89.5 ABC News Radio Bendigo - fair
90.3 Triple J Bendigo - good with stereo
90.7 Hot FM 106.7 Wentworth - strong with RDS
91.1 ABC Bendigo - good
91.5 5RM Loxton - local strength with full RDS
91.7 ABC News Radio Mount Dundas - weak to fair
91.9 Hit Bendigo - strong with stereo, spotty RDS
92.5 ABC RN Mount Dundas - fair to good
92.7 ABC Classic Bendigo - strong with stereo
93.1 MAGIC Riverland - strong with RDS
93.3 ABC Classic Launceston - good with stereo (Sporadic E? It faded out quickly)
93.5 Triple M Bendigo - strong with RDS
94.1 ABC South West Vic Mount Dundas - weak to fair
94.9 Triple J Mount Dundas - fair to good with stereo
95.3 Flow FM Turriff - good with stereo, no RDS
95.5 RadioTAB Loxton - good with no stereo
95.7 ABC RN Nhill - strong
95.9 ABC News Radio Goschen - good
96.3 5MU Murray Bridge - weak to fair
97.7 Flow FM Coonalpyn - fair, CCI with ABC Shepparton
100.5 Sky Sports Radio Broken Hill - weak to fair
100.7 Riverland Life FM - fair to good, no stereo
100.9 ABC News Radio Deniliquin - weak to fair
101.3 MIXX FM Horsham - good with stereo
101.5 Fresh FM Bendigo (unsure) - weak
102.1 ABC Mildura Swan Hill Goschen - fair to good
102.5 Triple J Mount Gambier - fair with stereo
102.9 ABC RN Broken Hill - fair
103.1 5EBI Adelaide - very weak
103.3 ABC RN Mount Gambier - good, one direction changes to Triple J Wodonga, also good with stereo
103.7 ABC Classic Goschen - good with stereo
104.1 ABC Classic Wodonga - good with stereo
104.9 Lime FM Mount Gambier - fair with stereo
105.5 Triple J Adelaide - fair with stereo, no RDS, CCI with Classic FM Ballarat
105.7 ABC News Radio Mount Gambier - good, CCI with Triple M Wodonga
106.5 ABC Goulburn Murray - good
106.9 RSN Racing Swan Hill - weak
107.1 Triple J Ballarat - good with stereo
107.7 MIXX FM Swan Hill - good with stereo
107.9 ABC Ballarat - good

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Great log again!

Could this have been Radio Adelaide (given your other ADL catches?).

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It very well could have been, they were playing a song from the 60s so its more probable. I was getting more Victorian stations so I assumed Bendigo.

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Nice logs. :slightly_smiling_face:

@ninkeon58 Did you write down or take a pic of the 90.7 3HOT FM Wentworth RDS details?
We’re not yet to be able to attribute any RDS details to this site/station.
We have just a vague PI code of 3907, PTY Easy Listening & PS of Hot90.7_ to at least one of the presumed 3HOT FM 90.7 sites & that Ouyen site has RDS with a PS of Hot90.7_
An extended RDS details screen snapshot of 90.7 Wentworth would be very helpful.

I’ve heard this station via your webserver many times & am wondering if RDS is still active
for 95.3 Flow FM Speed? Last confirmed RDS log was Feb 2020. It could just have a low RDS subcarrier. :thinking: :man_shrugging:

Caught this one with brief RDS from your webserver on May 30th. :slightly_smiling_face:

90.7 SYN is still off air in Melbourne. Noted 90.7 Triple J SW Slopes/E Riverina on both your webserver & the Melbourne ones at times.
The high powered ABC FM outlets from Griffith were there yesterday too on your webserver.

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Good to hear you’re having some good catches on the webserver also. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to get the PI code for anything on the Deepelec, not sure why it isn’t seeing them. It’s still running the default Megatron firmware, it might need the open source firmware.

That being said, the rest of the data was there, and it was the exact same as the main Mildura TX, unlike Ouyen which had different text for its repeater.

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