heard someone running a stationary FM transmitter on 87.5. Was playing James Reyne “Living & a working on the land” on repeat. Fairly weak signal.
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“Way Out West” was that great song - a duet with James Blundell. Loved that song.
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Though the original by The Dingoes is pretty good as well. I played both versions back to back on my show last year . You can hear the original on the ‘Red Dog’ soundtrack; one of those films that had an unusually good soundtrack. Dumb & Dumber is another one.
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Been doing some early morning AM listening last few days. I was curious as to how the Carnarvon broadcasters held up after record Gascoyne floods this week.
Both ABC 846 and Triple M 666 booming in like local stations to me 1000km away. Both with a garbled foreign language program underneath.
However 666 Triple M appear to be running back up music only. Usually the same overnight program as my local Triple M Southwest, but not the last 2 nights. No ads, no news bulletins. Obviously impacted by power outages and road closures around Carnarvon, I am interested to see how much longer this will go on for.
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Low level Rockhampton signals in SEQ tonight.
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SpE Hobart on FM into Sydney.
Never had FM SpE this late in the season.
Caught 7ABCFM 93.9 in/out a couple of times just moments ago.
WSPR Net shows 6m band active between both locations
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Had a brief bit of NZ on the car radio today: Hedgehope 89.2 to 92.4 and a bit of The Hits 90.4 Te Anau.
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high QRM prevented any FMDX yesterday - I mean, 3 bars strength on the Sony type QRM…
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Another 93.9 log.
This time Roccy FM - Young, NSW in via tropo.
First summer log of station. Nothing else in.
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today one of the best ever car mp3 FM transmitter chase! - what I call the “wow” signal.
91.6 is back on air in Sydney, pretty much killing any chance of me getting 91.7 2ST for the next (?) few weeks.
If the Aus Govt was serious about payback to China, they’d set up over northern Aus a signal on 909 kHz with night time overspill towards China. @dxer2_2000
What’s the southern extent of good coverage of 1314 Sky Sports Wollongong? The former 2WL site at Windang is right on the coast, excellent earth mat at Lake Illawarra, akin to if 2GO’s site at Chittaway Point was at The Entrance North instead.
With limitations to the SW to Ballarat and Adelaide (now Canberra on similar trajectory), it should make it south a fair distance?
It hasn’t been on my mind to check when driving in that area in the past. @Ant5476
Cenn Cruaich is Band III for TV, easy to combine a Band II/III antenna for in building reception. Or a separate three element Band II that I see often in adjacent markets to metros in more affluent neighbourhoods where the antenna installer has been able to convince owners for an additional sale. @Ant5476
But their 70’s car had an FM radio. Impressive. May have been a Datsun, but it was Jap and it did have FM.
Video unavailable. Available anywhere? @dxer2_2000
Gone FM? Like my sorely missed 666 from New Caledonia.
It’d be a state legacy, some invested in maintaining, others didn’t sadly. @tvcl
Great effort @TV.Cynic, West Papua is a sad case of intentional neglect, all countries turned their back when Indonesian colonists annexed the region and considering locals did so much to help Australians in WWII.
AM 540 is fine on most of the GOR to Apollo Bay, some distance from 531 at Buln Buln, so easy to separate on a good car radio. @dxnerd
More east than you, but not as east as @TV.Cynic , I can receive 4QB Dundowran, 2NR Lawrence & 2GL Glen Innes (Lambs Valley). Of commercials, with some noise floor, 4WK at Allora can be received constantly in the day (same on the Gold Coast too). Can pick 2LM up on seek function on the highway beyond Ipswich, after Willowbank when the road settles in at a constant 100km/h.
4SB Wooroolin between Kingaroy and Wondai also stops on seek in Robertson Qld. It’s a suburb of mostly underground power and rich, red soil. Used to get watchable reception of DDQ-0 from Mt Mowbullan there too. @tamago_otoko
That’s a great effort, well done.
The Vic Govt are splashing radio ad spend all over Australia, a sort of anti tourism ad with passion killer messages as ‘traffic light system’, ‘corona virus’ etc. @Shaun1997
Sold due to the media legislation, below the number of diverse voices in a market as only TV and radio counted in CT. @ozbark
FM is analogue @ozbark, so bit error rate I don’t understand why it would be used as a form of measurement.
That’s reflecting the established antenna pattern. The book specs didn’t match the actual output, now they do @TV-Expert. The fires have done us a favour of more accurate specs available.
@dxnerd and that’s all an ABC problem? We can’t blame it on the rubbish intermod thanks to Capital?
@dxer2_2000 I’m certain as the ABC pointed out @RFBurns point as the sole submission to that consultation.
Yes, still has RDS.
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Whilst the audio component of FM is analogue, isn’t the data in RDS digital?
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The BER is an indicator of reception level. If the BER is 0 that is “perfect” reception with no lost bits while the higher the error rate climbs the worse the reception. Though it is affected by multipath and co channel so not always a measure of signal strength.
So this was strong reception from new Guinea last month
But a week or so later the opening wasn’t as strong
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Complete opposite at my location. Last few years the TCBL on 91.6 can be received where I live when its on air. But due to 2ST on 91.7 being a good-strong signal. I have no chance of receiving 91.6.
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Was wondering how the signal might be received to the west of the TX site.
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I was down in Windang again this afternoon, where I have managed to receive a heardable but scratchy signal of Braidwood FM on my car radio. @dxnerd was on-air that afternoon, doing his Retro Countdown. 
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Oh nice, thanks. I suspected it might get a little further north than Gerringong in places. The absolute furthest north would probably be Bald Hill or Otford.
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