To day here in Logan I picked up 107.5 they were playing We Didn’t Start The Fire but it was heard for about a minute then it just vanished never to be heard again. So I have on idea where it came from.
Most likely an MP3 transmitter. Funny frequency to choose in Brisbane being so close to 4JJJ on 107.7- but most people don’t care about that.
There were no reports of E-skip today so I think we can rule that out, especially given the high frequency.
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Have Hawkesbury Gold changed their TX specs?
As I am now getting it in stereo with RDS, which I’ve never had before, even when tropo is present, which it isn’t today as it’s much cooler than usual today.
It’s not quite as strong as Hawkesbury Radio 2VTR would be though.
What is it and why?
Look for posts by @4TAB-1008kHz, the site move to PP was posted here.
Great memories, lack of attention to detail on the engineering?
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Rockhampton ABC and commercial at low levels tonight.
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Currently in a very cool and blustery Wilson’s Prom (Sandy Point). Tropo conditions are winter-like due to the cool westerly winds. Apparently it snowed at Mount Baw Baw today.
Cranky Kong will be pleased to know that I paid attention to the coverage of the 3GV/Gold relay from Mount Taylor via Bairnsdale on 98.3 MHz. You can receive a patchy signal around Orbost (not in a motel though), with the first signs of life appearing just after Cann River. Its SW boundary is between Seaspray and Yarram. Not sure about towards the Latrobe Valley but my guess would be patchy around Traralgon and unusable after that.
90.3 Sale ID’s as “Faith FM”- not vision as I thought. 90.3 has poor coverage with reception in Stratford fairly average. The TAB outlet for Lakes Entrance on 89.9 also has very local coverage.
105.9 Classic and 107.5 JJJ performed just as well if not better than 93.1 SBS on this occasion. Both of these make it to Lakes Entrance and Lake Tyers. Smooth and Nova were the best of the commercials, fading in around Providence Ponds which is located between Stratford and Bairnsdale.
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Interesting. I recall it was Vision FM feed at some point in time.
No longer listed on Vision FM website & not listed on Faith FM website (yet), but radio licence owned by Faith FM.
BTW. The transmitter is located in Longford rather than Sale, according to ACMA.
Thank you for the update.
At the performance of the 98.3 coverage area, Ace won’t be attaching TNT to the TX mast any time soon.
They boast of coverage far east beyond their licence area which you can only get on AM unless they apply for out of area translators. Unlikely.
In other DX news, Mt Nardi signals last night overpowered the north coast 94.5 sites in the mush zone.
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I went out to Tidal River this afternoon, which is the most southerly point in mainland Australia that is accessible by road.
Tasmanian reception was available with a bit of elevation. King Island 88.5 and Lileah 89.7/91.3 were the clearest. Devonport, Burnie, Wynyard (7DBS), Savage River and 7XS Rosebery were also received. Also benefiting from a total water path were Apollo Bay, Warrnambool, and Mount Gambier.
Deniliquin and Shepparton were also received this morning from Sandy Point, and at Port Welshpool jetty, I had Brown Mountain (Bega/Cooma) fairly well.
Conditions continue to be below average for summer with westerly Bass Strait air dominating.
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Cooler Bass Strait air at the surface but warmer air above allowed tropo to lift this morning about the SE VIC coast.
Sandy Point: Brown Mountain 99.3/100.1/100.9; Hobart 100.9/105.7/107.3; Devonport; Launceston 106.9 and others; 7XS Rosebery; King Island 98.1/100.5 and others; 96.9 Deloraine; Lileah; 7DBS Wynyard; Burnie 101.7; Savage River 104.1; Waratah 103.3/104.9.
Cape Paterson: 92.9 3HA Portland; 95.7 Nhill; Warrnambool; Tassie tropo restricted to NW coast and King Island but Burnie 90.5 strong.
Heading back to the hot state to the north tomorrow.
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Some good catches across the Strait there!
Lovely of you to report in from glorious Gippsland! I know I’ve said it here before but it really is remarkable how much better 91.5/100.3 get out to the east than the other commercial FM stations. Out of curiosity, where were you able to first receive Fox/MMM et al?
And from your report it would appear that 98.3 is fairly similar to the coverage provided by the Bairnsdale TR relay on 99.9? If so, from memory it gets into Sale alright but gets pretty shabby much further west of there - I can’t imagine it would provide a usable signal into Traralgon or the rest of the Valley
And well done on those trans-strait catches - some of those are tricky even in good conditions once you’re a bit further round the bay
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I can recommend the Ned Neale Lookout at Sandy Point- it’s great for Tassie but I also had Brown Mountain (Bega) strong from there.
I can also recommend Mount Nicoll between Foster and Fish Creek. I didn’t have time to do the walk up to the summit but the results from there would be spectacular. Devonport is like a local signal even at its base. Next time.
Most of the Melbourne stations are at least weakly received around Stratford. Smooth and Nova have a lot more oomph and I’ve received them as far east as Marlo before. By Stratford, Smooth/Nova (and JJJ, Classic, SBS) are listenable for the non DXer.
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Bit of tropospheric FM DX around atm.
Canberra (eg 106.3 & 98.3)
Dubbo: 2ZOO 92.7 & a little of 2DBO fighting it out with Eagle FM.
Central Western Slopes: 102.3 2JJJ, 106.3 2PNN
Also had 103.5 Orange with RDS.
Bathurst: 92.3, 96.7, 97.5
Cootamundra: 2JJJ 90.7, 2PNN 91.5
Young 93.9 Roccy FM
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with 2BS gone, I can receive both R.Sport NZ & 3KND clearly
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Daytime MW DX from Wedderburn Victoria:
531 3GG
549 ABC (don’t know where)
558 7BU
567 ABC (don’t know which one)
576 ABC RN Sydney
594 ABC Horsham
621 ABC RN Melbourne
639 ABC North and West SA
657 ABC Western Plains Dubbo
666 ABC Radio Canberra
675 ABC Riverina (Awesome Quality)
693 3AW Melbourne
729 ABC RN SA
756 ABC RN Wangaratta (Awesome Quality)
774 ABC Melbourne
801 5RM Riverland and Mallee (Excellent Quality)
855 3CR Melbourne
891 ABC Adelaide (Excellent Quality)
927 RSN Melbourne
945 RSN Bendigo
963 Triple M Griffith (Excellent Quality)
981 3HA Hamilton (Excellent Quality)
I’ll post recordings of Triple M, 3HA, 5RM later.
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ABC Central West
Could be either ABC North West Queensland or ABC North West WA. Did you confirm this was an ABC station? If not I’d suggest it’s maybe 2BH Broken Hill
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Cheers, they are both ABC as they all matched each other with Grandstand.
I decided to do an AM and FM DX from home earlier this afternoon, just for the sake of it. Here is what I managed to receive on my car radio:
Illawarra,NSW
FM Bandscan
Sunday, 17th February 2019 - 13:32pm AEDT
87.6 - Oldies FM
87.8 - Faith FM
88.0 - *Unknown (still haven’t been able to work out where this signal is coming from)
90.9 - ABCNewsRadio (Wollongong)
91.3 - C91.3 (Macarthur)
91.7 - 2ST (Shoalhaven Heads)
92.1 - 2MFM (Chester Hill)
92.5 - Youth FM (Bowral)
92.7 - Bay & Basin FM (Sussex Inlet)
92.9 - ABC Classic FM (Sydney)
93.7 - Koori Radio (Redfern)
94.1 - Pulse FM (Wollongong)
94.5 - FBi Radio (Sydney)
94.9 - Power FM (Nowra)
95.3 - Smooth FM (Sydney)
95.7 - ABC Classic FM (Wollongong)
96.1 - The Edge (I can receive The Edge better than the Sydney commercial stations)
96.5 - Wave FM (Wollongong)
96.9 - Nova FM (Sydney)
97.3 - ABC Illawarra (Wollongong)
97.7 - SBS Radio (Sydney)
98.1 - i98fm (Wollongong)
98.5 - 2OOO FM (Burwood)
98.9 - Triple J (Wollongong)
99.3 - (The signal was really faint; it was either B-Rock Bathurst or 2NSB Chatswood).
100.3 - 2MCR (Campbelltown)
101.1 - Hot Country (Nowra)
101.7 - WSFM (Sydney)
102.5 - FineMusic (Sydney)
102.9 - 2ST (the signal was stronger on the 91.7 MHz frequency)
103.2 - Hope FM (Sydney)
103.7 - 2KY (Wollongong)
104.1 - 2DayFM (Sydney)
104.5 - 2UUU (Nowra)
104.9 - Triple M (Sydney)
105.3 - Hot Country (Wollongong)
105.7 - Triple J (Sydney)
106.5 - KIIS FM (Sydney)
106.9 - VOX FM (Wollongong)
107.1 - Highland FM (Bowral)
107.3 - 2SER (Sydney)
107.7 - 2GO (Very faint signal, though I have been able to receive it reasonably well before)
107.9 - Move FM (Lithgow)
AM Bandscan
13:59pm AEDT
549 - ABC Central West (Orange)
576 - Radio National (Sydney)
603 - Radio National (Wollongong)
630 - ABC NewsRadio (Sydney)
666 - ABC Radio (Canberra)
702 - ABC Sydney
801 - Niche Radio Network (Gosford)
846 - Radio National (Canberra)
873 - 2GB (Sydney)
954 - 2UE (Sydney)
999 - 2ST [Reception poor]
1017 - Sky Sports Radio (Sydney)
1026 - [Not sure about this. I think it may have been splatter from another signal]
1044 - [Again, not too sure]
1107 - SBS Radio (Sydney)
1143 - 2HD (Newcastle)
1170 - Magic 2CH (Sydney)
1224 - RPH Print Radio (Sydney)
1269 - 2SM (Sydney)
1314 - 2KY (Wollongong)
1431 - Radio National (Wollongong)
1485 - 2EA / SBS (Wollongong)
1539 - Niche Radio Network (Sydney)
1575 - Rete Italia (Wollongong)
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Your splatter on 1026 and 1044 is from your SBS Wollongong station on 1035.
That’s interesting that you’ve listed 2GO, but not SEA FM, also from Gosford, as my experience is that 101.3 has a better signal to the south than 107.7 (and I find the opposite up here in Newcastle).
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