AM and FM DX

I had something come up very briefly with rap/hip hopish/JJJ music on 95.5MHz & disappear quite quickly. Hope it wasn’t an in car micromitter & not a good choice with 95.3 Smooth close by if it was. It didn’t have that characteristic vehicle motion propagation. Mystery. :man_shrugging:

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Yeah, been pretty flat here in NSW for me today as well.

Had 2EC fade up briefly on 105.9, but only weak Canberra / Batemans Bay ABCs otherwise.

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Es currently in to QLD. Had a bit of Alice Springs and outback QLD (likely Birdsville 106.1) earlier in the day.

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Your tip panned out. Es on 100.7 just now – but not from Gippsland. Power 100 from Townsville with full RDS decode:

Interesting propagation at the moment – it’ll be super strong literally for one second, then completely disappear the next.

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Cairns ABC stations also coming in strongly at the moment – too bad no RDS on the ABC services.

102.3 Townsville with RDS:

100.7 Townsville with RDS:

Some other stations unidentified:
98.3 - Pop music
91.1 - Sports

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Maybe 98.3 is kool FM since you were also receiving Cairns?

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Its been really strange conditions for sure, the spectrum analyser is working overtime to try and ID things. There one second and gone the next.

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98.3 Kool FM into Bowral, mixing with 2XX
Also Cairns ABC services.
Also a weak service with talk on 90.1, Mossman?

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Will be ABC North Queensland (Townsville)

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Thanks for that. I couldn’t find that on ACMA’s listings or on ABC’s website.

Got Star1063 with RDS now too:

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Only a temporary service:

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I always wonder why the ABC just does not switch off 630 and broadcast full time on 91.1, must be something to do with that 50kW AM Transmitter.

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I’d say it’s there so that people can tune in in the remote areas which can pick up the AM signal but not FM during a civil emergency.

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Quite envious of these Es. I’m not getting anything here, must be something to do with being on the wrong side of my apartment building and having a couple floors above me.

I have a bit better luck when they come from south/west, but rarely as strong as that.

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Looks like we have a DX troll trying to crash the server by opening 60+ connections:


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I’ve had this happen to my server on multiple occasions and I’ve noticed it on the Mildura server once too. I wonder if it’s the same person doing it to everyone?

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What is wrong with people?

Today I spent a bit of time restoring & repairing our Aus/NZ RDS List Google Sheet from deliberate damage at 2.19am on Jan 11th AEDST. 6 actions across 3 sheets. :angry:

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Honestly, this is why people suck. There will always be that one brain dead vandal; sorry that this is happening.

To top it all off, just had the insult of hearing 4KZ on Supernetwork programming (via 102.5 Babinda).

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Any ideas what this station on 103.7 was?

Or 97.1?

Or 95.9?

Also, recording from 98.3 that I mentioned earlier. Don’t you just hate it when it fades out just as they’re about to ID? :sweat_smile:

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I did see it a fair bit when I first started hosting a TEF, but after so many connections both CloudFlare and nginx on the proxy side start to block them. Haven’t seen it happen again lately.

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