Did the drive from Cobar to Broken Hill today.
Cobar stations stayed in range for about 80 kms west, which was better than in, where east of Cobar they only appeared from about 40 kms out. Elevation seemed to keep arising, which probably explains it.
Mt Cenn Cruaich ABCs returned west of Cobar town (Cobar town seems to be a bit of a gully), stayed thereabouts also until about 80 kms west.
Some early morning sky waves (between 8-9am) brought in 4QD with no audible static, picked up on auto seek tuning. Stations like 891 ABC Adelaide were listenable for a while too, both faded out not long after 9am.
Found a good DX spot about 20 kms west of Wilcannia, at Netallie Hill.
Got the following there
95.3 & 96.9 Shepparton (ABCs didn’t seem to be there though)
90.3, 91.1, 91.9, 92.7, 93.5 Bendigo
97.9, 99.5, 100.3 and 101.1 Mildura (104.3 and 105.9 didn’t seem to be there though).
102.7 seemed to be playing Classical music… couldn’t possibly be Classic FM Orange?
Cenn Crauich made a brief return here too… all five stations noted.
Something on 106.1… probably ABC Local Cobar?
None of these were strong, not enough to be picked up on auto seek tuning.
Didn’t really check AM stations there.
Wilcannia itself had 98.3 (not sure what), 99.9 2WEB and what appears to be a new station (possibly a TCBL) on 103.1 … https://redie.org.au/what-we-do/programs/wilcannia-river-radio#. Plus RN on 1485 and 2WA 1584 (“ABC Broken Hill”).
In Broken Hill. went up to Living Sculptures 10 kms north of town in an effort to minimise overload from local 4kw TXs which are either right in or on the edge of town. FM wasn’t a total success in that respect, but got the following not already mentioned
Renmark - 93.1 Magic, 93.9 News, 105.1 Classic. Not 101.9 though.
Spencer Gulf - 106.7 RN
Also got Mildura and weak Bendigo again too.
Did an AM check there too. Got these (was 2pm EST when there).
531 HPON Adelaide
549 2CR (still there @dxnerd ! ). Though very staticty and suffering 2BH splatter.
594 3WV Horsham
639 5CK Crystal Brook (Spencer Gulf).
657 2BY. Reasonable reception too.
675 2CO Corowa, Fair
729 & 891 Adelaide. Fair
801 5RM. Reasonable
963 5SE Faint
1044 5CS Port Pirie. Faint
1089 3WM Horsham. Weak
1062 5MV Renmark. 1305 5RN only fair though.
1161 5PA Naracoorte Faint
1467 3ML Mildura. Faint
No commercials from Murray Bridge or Adelaide.