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Also, how well were you receiving 801 SEN Track from Chittaway Point ? after some severe weather a few months back the station went off the air, then returned a week later with a much weaker signal, then went back off air, and has now returned with a weak signal. I cal null out 801 on my AR1780 just a few km south of the TX site. Reception in Gosford is pretty much non existent. Prior to this, 801 covered gosford and the southern end of the coast quite well, after the site had some extensive maintenance on the site in 2020. I think the TX hut got flooded and the origninal TX (2GOs old Harris 5kW tube TX). I think this site needs a complete re build, as the signal has slowly degraded over the years.

@SW-DX

I suspect the hut got flooded during bad weather a few months back. And the signal is definitely not radiating properly as the signal shows obvious phasing issues that you can hear as you mentioned. I think this is one of those sites that slowly went to ruins over the years. Rete Italia basically crumbled due to the times and technology.

This is the reason SEN Track 801 Gosford is not a good signal currently, I posted this about a month ago, I have spoken directly with the tech who looks after the site, as an addition to this he said, that all 3 masts work, but he thinks the phasing needs testing & adjusting, it hasn’t been done since SEN took over the site & he doesn’t know how many years since it was last checked, whether SEN will get him to do it or not is another matter.

The hut was never flooded, the tech showed me photos of the damaged transmitter, it’s pretty bad & is a major rebuild, personally I would’ve replaced the transmitter, but I doubt SEN have the money to do it, it’s not a tube TX either it’s a solid state BE.

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