That would be ABC Newsradio from Mid North Coast (Middle Brother), but it would come in weaker than the other ABC services from there, hence the buzzy mono signal.
Off-Topic, historically, before the Port Stephens TV translator was set-up as a digital-only site back in 2006, plenty of people in the Port Stephens area, particularly around Nelson Bay & Shoal Bay, used to get better TV reception from Middle Brother than from Mt Sugarloaf. However, that meant getting local news bulletins from the Mid North Coast rather than from Newcastle.
4GY is only at 2.3kw due to been on the backup Transmitter which is only a 2.5kw BEā¦ The 10kw BE is currently out of service after been belted by a storm over Christmas
93.9 Radio National Tamworth
99.9 Radio Rhema Port Macquarie
101.1 Triple J Armidale
101.9 Local Radio Armidale
None of these would be permanent reception in the area, definitely seems like youāve got some enhancement there!
And areas that are shaded by hills from the south are definitely better suited to Middle Brother than Sugarloaf reception. There are a number of houses along Government Rd at Shoal Bay that had VHF and UHF antennas pointed north at Middle Brother during the analogue era.
Good to know that I picked up some enhancement. Itāll be interesting to see if thereās more tomorrow and particularly on Thursday when itās expected to be quite warm (mid-high twenties) before the change comes in on Friday for my return home to Sydney.
I think few places in Shoal Bay might still have TV antennas for Middle Brother, certainly thereās a few high masts around anyway.
But of course these days, most set-ups in the area would probably be for the Port Stephens retransmissions of more relevant Newcastle stations.
Great bandscan. Probably some slight enhancement to Canberra and Orange.
Iād say 92.7 was Zoo FM Dubbo given the strength of Orange. If it was 2BAB, 91.7 2ST should have been in. Itās unlikely to be Artsound playing that 1927 song***, and you should have had 1WAY (91.9) and 2XX (98.3) in with it. I generally need strong reception of 104.7 for Artsound to show up.
Zoo FM can be received via aircraft scatter quite regularly, even in non tropo conditions.
***Though Artsound have surprised me recently by playing the occasional pop track.
Thanks, Dxnerd. I did another band scan tonight just driving around and positively identified 92.7 as Zoo FM Dubbo. Also got Real FM on 93.1 and Hit 93.5 Dubbo fighting it out with Eagle FM.
Two more additions to the list of Shoal Bay DXing during my final full day here before returning home to Sydney - the 105.1 & 106.7 Kempsey signals of Hit & Triple M Mid North Coast respectively.
Obviously far more exciting to receive from a distance perspective rather than a content one (the exact same feed(s) go to air on 102.3/105.1 and 100.7/106.7, right?)!
Indeed. I have received those signals at my home near Campbelltown through my DX setup via coastal tropo, which in the case of Triple M Mid North Coast, was the only way to receive the station, due to 100.7 being blocked by WOW Penrith.
I still have fond memories of 'The Coastās Music Leader", they had great music and were mostly live and local, even at night for the first year or two.
To answer @SydneyCityTV 's question re feeds, yes Hit (and Triple M) are the same on both frequencies pretty much ever since the networking began in May 2000.
Before that, STAR/ROX had separate ID sweepers on 102.3 and 105.1 that would mention only that frequency and their own āStreetbeatā community announcements on each.
2MC FM has always been the same on air on all three frequencies though.
Picked these up on my car radio this morning in Renmark S.A (car is a '04 Toyota Camry with an OEM radio). Some signals had a some static but you could hear what was on the stations, some were heavily dominated by static.
Fresh 92.7 Adelaide
Three D 93.7 Adelaide
Triple M 97.9 Mildura
99.5, possibly Mildura and Kapunda coming in on the same bandwidth
