AM and FM DX

Liddell Mine site also has a ABCRR (2HVR) outlet on 90.1 with 50W according to ACMA in addition to Bulga Mine site, maybe you heard both transmitters?

BTW Liddell Mine site in ACMA records also shows:
89.3 2NM & 90.9 2JJJ - not sure if you observed these or if on air?

Great observation :+1: I note it has also changed within the latest ACMA radio list.

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Ah I must have missed that re 90.1 … in that case, coverage north back to Muswellbrook from there is non existent… that was as far north as I got it.

And there didn’t seem to be any mixing at all down to Singleton and it would be unusual for them to be in sync, you’d think they be at least slightly out.

Ah yes, I did hear 2NM on 89.3 up near Liddell too, and Triple J 90.9.

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I get Power FM 98.1 well via As so will keep an ear out for 90.1. Have only received Sofala so-far (la).

90.1 would potentially come up with intense tropo.

Noticed Taree 97.1 at 2 bars strength via pure As this afternoon. Tropo and Es were both dead as the proverbial today.

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whilst coming back from Bungendore yesterday, I notice a strong clear signal of Power-FM Bega 102.5 near Googong & then spotted a jet coming up from Hobart to Sydney. Ah- strong aircraft scatter - thought it unusual that I would be receiving Bega from Googong ACT.

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Well, we’re having a holiday trip to Anglesea today, I notice a clear signals of Radio National 621 and ABC Radio Melbourne 774 near Geelong and Torquay.

621 3RN Melbourne
774 3LO Melbourne

I got the reception and would be receiving Melbourne from Anglesea VIC.

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these stations are local reception on the surf coast as they are intended to cover it. I recall staying at Anglesea Caravan Park around 2007 and listening to 3AW 693 on my Sony walkman. Melbourne FM stations are a weak signal on the walkman (but fair to good on the car radio), Geelong’s Bay FM and K rock have a much stronger signal. Car reception of Melbourne DAB+ fades out a few kms short of Anglesea.

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Though I do remember listening to 7BU on my first trip down the GOR in 1999; it came in clearer than any music station on FM that I wanted to listen to. This was well before the infills for Mixx/Flow FM existed.

Those days are gone now, though the ā€˜salmon path’ across Bass Strait would bring in northern Tassie on FM quite regularly.

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Some tropo to the north this morning. Alive 90.5 and 2SSR in; 2MCR at 3 bars. KRR FM also heard. Something behind 2MCR which may be Armidale, or just Yass off the back.

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Brief bit of 2RDJ. Pity the presenter didn’t ID in his talk break:

Parallel with stream.

Yeah I miss those days too, up until a year or two ago you could listen to most of northern Tasmania along the Victorian coast and even into Melbourne. In their day I had all of 7BU, 7SD, 7AD, 7LA and 7EX as regulars - I presume Victoria was the same into Tassie.

On that, what is the furthest distance you can hear an AM station from where you are (daytime only)? Excluding the high-powered ABCs, I was always surprised that daytime reception of 5SE was possible where I used to live in Geelong, 300km fully overland path. Also had regular daytime reception of 3HA, 3YB, 3WM from Western Victoria too. Burnie et al was also regular and further away but had a water path. Here in Brisbane I get nothing like that, 4AK is probably the furthest away at only ~120km

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I haven’t tried it recently, but I could hear 5CK Port Pirie in the daytime some months back, as well as 5AN and 5RN Adelaide. 4QR/4RN were there as well. This was from the park opposite my place (and somewhat away from local interference).

What about the lower powered commercial stations? Does Griffith get that far? Or Victoria?

I’ve never properly checked but I wonder if I would have got 549 from Cumnock down in Geelong during the day, though it may take a bit more than the inbuilt antenna to do that. Here in Brisbane Grafton and Glen Innes ABCs are receivable during the day

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I’m able to receive 4BU from the north and 2GF from the south, possibly being closer to the coast.

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For me, that was very weak on my car radio in Albury and Swan Hill, so I reckon you’d need a good set up to get it. Probably not out of the question with the right equipment.

93.1 5ABCFM Port Lincoln in.
Also 91.5 5PNN Tumby Bay & the aspirant community stn on 91.1.
Magic 93.1 Renmark in at good level briefly.
Anybody else hearing anything?

NB 92.5 Music FM, MossVale open carrier at the moment, a couple of stations underneath.

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Yeah no luck with anything north here, and I’m way too close to the 1197 TX to get 2GF here.

That’s about my experience of it too, it gets to both state borders in the car but not really much across it.

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for those curious - I once run out 300m longwire to see what MW I could get in the daytime. This was from Bombala NSW in April 1996 between 11am ~ 12pm. The most distant signal I heard aimed North was 4MB Maryborough 1161khz at 1309km

Rig was a Kenwood R-5000

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I can hear 2WEB Bourke on the headlands at Sawtell on the PK Loop during the day. ABC Central West and ABC Western Victoria can also be heard during the day there with the loop too.

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Griffith is easy enough; I think 3NE is there too. I’ll go out to the BBQ shelter on Sunday in the middle of the wretched heat to see what I can receive. I’ve forgotten what 100F feels like and need to be reminded :slight_smile:

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A lot of variety in Renmark this morning:

  • 102.5 Triple J Mount Gambier
  • 103.3fm, sounded like talkback
  • 89.3fm (ABC news Yorke Peninsula?)
  • 95.7fm
  • 102.3 Adelaide, also co-channel interference with a 102.3 from Victoria as I heard ā€˜Victorian government’ in an ad
  • 99.5 Flow fm and HIT battling it out
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