Does Triple M use RDS there on its Stanthorpe translator? Interesting given its natively an AM ststion in that market.
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In 2018/9, the Stanthorpe, Mt Marlay signals of 2TEN, Breeze and Rebel had RDS, perhaps SCA later with Triple M (4GR) and Hit and none for Super Radio Network.
4TAB are on HPON in town I think, no RDS. @4TAB-1008kHz may have more recent details if thereās been a change.
@tamago_otoko will have the 2020 observations.
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@Shaun1997 The junctions of Curio Rd B84 and Thiele Hwy is about the highest ridge around Eudunda.
Many north/south ridges of the Flinders around there.
The Adel FM signals improve around west of Morgan, approaching Eudunda.
Fantastic coverage from Mt Lofty and the topography of SA surrounding it allows for a much wider coverage than the constraints of the Great Dividing Range on the eastern capitals or the Darling Scarp in WA.
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I see @tamago_otoko is getting his Victorian weather fix on the Granite Belt.
@dxer2_2000 and I went to Mount Cooper (near Nimmitabel) this morning. Some video:
(s)hit 94.3 Warragul
Gold 98.3 Bairnsdale
7JJJ Launceston
3JJJ Melbourne
3ABCFM Melbourne
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All correct in your points there. Rebel, Breeze, Ten FM and the two SCA stations have RDS, the rest do not. 93.1 is 4TAB in town (not from the mountain as I understand) with no RDS.
Iām sure Iāve made this point before, but with six commercial stations and one community station broadcasting into this town of 5,000 people, itās got to be one of the greatest number of radio choices per capita anywhere across the nation.
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Todayās notes
Mildura 9am (could be some AM sky wave impacts here)
801 5RM clear here too (as you thought @Shaun1997).
Also, 1062 5MV from Renmark clear as well, 1305 Radio National not as good though.
Broken Hill 567 and 999 signal was fair
Adelaide ABCs on 729 and 891 weak. Nothing from 972, or commercials.
Mixx FM Horsham 101.3 was weak, nothing from Mixx Swan Hill 107.7 yet, splatter from 3MPH was present though. Though ABCs Swan Hill 102.1, 103,7 and 105.3 was fair. 95.9 not present.
Magic 93.1 Renmark was weak, ABCs 93.9, 101.9 and 105.1 was fair.
Flow FM Speed 95.3 was weak, nothing from Flow FM 96.9 yet but that was detected on the Calder Hwy midway Mildura and Ouyen.
Weak ABC Classic 105.5 from Ballarat. Nothing else from there though.
Ouyen 11am
531 something weak, probably 3GG? Possibly Adelaide HPON
549 2CR fair (that thing sure gets out a LONG way @dxnerdā¦ itās probably been on my car radio in some form since I left home in Newcastle on Wednesday!).
567 2BH fair
594 3WV strong (auto seek)
621 RN Melbourne fair, but 774 was good. For other Melb, 927 was weak, 1422 faint
639 5CK Crystal Brook fair
801 5RM strong (auto seek
945 HPON Bendigo good
963 Triple M Griffith was good (checked that it wasnāt Mt Gambier).
981 3HA weak
1089 3WM Horsham strong (auto seek)
1260 3SP Shepparton weak
1332 3SH Swan Hill strong (auto seek)
1521 2QN Deniliquin fair
88.3 ABC RN Hopetoun weak
ABC Bendigo 90.3 and 91.1, but not others
92.5 ABC RN West Vic weak
93.1 Magic Renmark weak, ABCs from Renmark were good though.
95.3 Flow was full stereo with RDS
95.7 ABC RN Nhill weak
96.9 Hit Shepparton fair, nothing else from there
ABCs 99.3 and 100.9 from Deniliquin weakish
101.3 Mixx Horsham still weak
ABCs from Swan Hill all fair, though 106.9 and 107.7 was weak.
102.5 Edge Deniliquin good with RDS
107,1 JJJ Ballarat weak
Swan Hill 1.30pm
549 2CR very weak
594 3WV good (auto seek).
621 RN fair, 774 ABC Melb also fair
675 ABC Corowa also fair, had NRL on due to no AFL.
729 RN Adelaide very weak, 891 not present
801 5RM Renmark weak
Following Melb stations all weak but there: 855, 927, 1026, 1116, 1179, 1422. Nothing from 1224 or 1377.
963 Griffith, 981 Hamilton, 1134 Colac, 1152 Wagga, 1260 Shepparton, 1467 Mildura all weak
1071 3CV (picked up on seek tuning) and 1521 2QN now good.
Weak 1314 3BT Ballarat detected under 3SH splatter.
1566 3NE Wangaratta very weak
FM
89.5 News Bendigo fair. Other main Bendigo stations all good.
RDS on Hit and MMM detected near Kerang.
Shepparton MMM 95.3 and 96.9, but still nothing from their ABCs all trip yet!
Weak ABC Griffith on 96.5, 98.1 and 100.5
Something on 99.3 playing modern music. Donāt know what this was
Mildura ABCs now weak, though reception improved again towards Kerang.
Weak Fresh FM Bendigo on 101.5
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@Radiohead Is 92.9 3MBR Ouyen still on air?
I was looking at their Facebook page & there was a May 25th posting there to save
3MBR from closing down.
Is Mixx FM Swan Hill 107.7 & Kerang 98.7 still doing RDS?
Artist / Title info?
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No, there was nothing on 92.9 in Ouyen.
Didnāt get 3MBR on 103.5 either, may not have been close enough to Murrayville to get it.
Yes, Mixx 107.7 and 98.7 have RDS but COVID safe message only at the moment.
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Not a good year for Victorian community radio it seems, after the closure of 97.4 Foot-is-grey which was very surprising .
ArtSound in Canberra have steered into some choppy financial waters as well; they are still calling on listeners to support them. There seems to be a lot of automation on there.
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Did a day trip down to Carrington Falls and Tree Tops yesterday so of course did some dxing on the Tucson car radio.
Firstly on the way down I went via Range Rd from Mittagong to Kangaloon. Unlike previous trips Snow fm did not cut over the top of SBS,
XL fm did not cut over the Edge 96.1 either. Maybe abit of Tropo was at play on previous trips. It was only 7āc and completely fogged in during the middle of the day.
The Robertson pie shop was quite a good spot for dxing. Here were some of the catches
89.9 Hawkesbury TCL
89.1 2BLU fm
91.3 C91.3 quite good across the highlands and into Robertson
91.7 2ST Jervis Bay
93.5 Eagle fm starting to get weak
102.9 2ST starting to get weak, 91.7 from Nowra will be stronger in Robertson then 102.9.
103.5 ABC local Radio Batemans Bay
104.3 Power fm
106.7 2ST Ulladulla
Most of the Sydney community radio stations could be received from this location.
All of the Nowra community fm stations could be received too.
At Knights Hill in the Tree Tops car park under the blow torches I could not receive 2ST on 91.7 or 102.9 at all , instead there were Spurs of Wave fm and i98 on these frequencies surprisingly there were no spurs of power fm on any frequencies considering power fm was at 50kW in the direction of the car park and the others were at 40KW. Eagle was now very weak. All the Sydney fm stations could be received quite well at Knights Hill.
Re Reception of Wave and i98 towards Bowral / Mittagong, it has improved greatly since they installed their new Broadcast arrays at Knights Hill. I had good signal until Bowral / Mittagong where the Gib obstructed the signal. Previously they would drop out at Burrawang.
Lastly went and saw a movie at the Blacktown drive in last night, they used 91.0 to broadcast the audio of the movie. Problem was News Radio from Wollongong at the drive in was so strong that it was causing slight co-channel interference to 91.0.
Now the dxing part how far does 91.0 go outside of the drive in??
I still had it in stereo in the centre of Blacktown, and some very faint signal on the ridge near the M7 on Sunnyholt Rd.
I could not find any information on ACMA for their transmissions but I am guessing about 1W. They also used 92.4 for the audio of the other movie but it did not carry as well as 91.0.
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Theyāve used those frequencies forever at the drive in and yes 91.0 has been a problem ever since 90.9 started up. Particularly annoying on quiet parts of the movie, for that reason 91.0 is gone for me by the gate. As for how far it gets out, @dxnerd has the record on that one Iām pretty sure.
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Yes it was very annoying in the quiet parts as you could hear it snipping away underneath.
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What is his record??
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I heard a faint signal from 91.0 from Oatley with my Yagi. I confirmed it over the phone with @matt86 . Not enough to tell what movie it was though and I think NewsRadio was on then, so the signal was also distorted as the Sony narrows its bandwidth for enhanced selectivity.
I have also had 91.6 from Randwick Racecourse; that was a lot stronger. There was a pop up drive-in there one year.
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with our DX trip to Mt Cooper yesterday - even though we could receive ABC Classic 105.9 & Triple J 107.5 clear, there was no trace of SBS on 93.1 [wha???]. The videos we did came out very well until the battery died in my camera & I found that all the other batteries also were flat 
- even though I had charged them up ready to go.
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for those curious - a demo of the Yamaha TX-950 tuner
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Just arrived in Griffith via Hay, on the way to Wagga.
Just south of Griffith, could still get ABCs and commercials from Albury, Shepparton and Deniliquin, faint Bendigo too.
Wagga commercials and SW Slopes ABCs seem to be pretty decent here too, better than Griffith reception Iāve received in Wagga in the past.
Mildura ABCs were just hanging on about 60 kms east of Hay, now Orange ABCs are coming through on 101.9, 102.7 and 104.3.
Also had infrequent reception of Willans Hill ABCs from 200 ks west of Wagga. Not bad. Obviously hampered by Orange to the north, where in the past around Junee Orange could be heard instead of Willans Hill.
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Was there a period of zero signal between Mildura and Orange/Wagga? A tribute to the power of āAgent Orangeā when the distance to Hay just outside Bathurst reads over 500 kmā¦,
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I was able to hear the Blacktown Drive In at the southern end of Toongabbie where my wife used to live, and that is 2.5km away from the drive in.
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I didnāt drive directly between them (went via Swan Hill and Deniliquin), so not sure.
But my guess is that, based on the above, there will be SOMETHING present from one or the other pretty much all the way across, even if itās only a weak signal.
Only caveat is that Willians Hill ABCs will make the Wagga to Narrandera stretch at least a no contest.
But I would like to do the drive right across the Hay Plains from Wagga to Mildura one day.
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