AM and FM DX

[TV-Expert]

From “Central Coast Radio” thread (edited for relevance):

@RFBurns

Weather permitting, Thursday morning 9th June 2016, works will be undertaken to move RhemaFM Central Coast, from their old TX site, to the SEA FM site at Somesby.

RhemaFM 94.9 may be off air for all or part of this time?

This will open up short hop DX’ing opportunities to Newcastle, Central Coast & Sydney. (Surrounding stations on the same or adjacent frequencies that would normally be receivable if these Gosford stations didn’t exist).

During that time, it would be interesting to see how clear and/or how far north 94.9 Power FM can be received into Sydney & potentially beyond without having Rhema FM on the air, like how it was for many years before Rhema came on-air in the early 2000s. I know ‘Radiohead’ has managed to receive Power FM over Rhema during tropo at his home in Charlestown (southern Newcastle).

Likewise for Pulse 94.1 from Saddleback Mountain (near Kiama), which, within Sydney, is normally only received in the south-eastern suburbs (Randwick, Maroubra, Botany etc) & parts of the north-west around Castle Hill, particularly in areas with good line-of-sight towards the south.