SA into Sydney at the moment:
Port Lincoln:
Adelaide:
Murray Bridge:
Kangaroo Island on 90.7, but no RDS.
ABC NewsRadio Western Victoria on 91.7 also coming in. Other frequencies are co-channeled, unfortunately.
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Did go into the garden to check and I got some weak signal on 90.5 mixing with Parramatta with a few guys talking about Cricket, possibly Mt Gambier.
Also a weak RN on 92.5 which must be Western Victoria (First E-Skip from the Garden State at my location)
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Mackay coming into Brisbane.
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Hobart coming in on the mildura server currently.
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I had an unidentified RN signal on 96.9 around 1500 driving to Braidwood. Given that SA was in at the time Iâd say I had 5ABCRN Keith- new logging for me. I thought it was Gympie or even Lismore initially but not a sign of anything on 93.7 or 95.3. Was not parallel with the locals and I think it was airing âGod Forbidâ.
No sign of it driving back either so not a local pirate. It was in consistently from about half way between Braidwood and Bungendore but faded just before I got to Braidwood.
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Was there a car nearby that could have been streaming it on one of those cheap FM transmitters? Might have been moving with you
Tropo to Bendigo tonight. Low powered gold 98.3 audible in Melbourne. Reception seems to be fluctuating quite a lot however.
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Was there RDS? Nothing showed up on todayâs DX map. Hopefully the Mildura serverâs auto-logging isnât down. Interesting seeing all the SA/VIC Es visually represented in any case:
On the 6m (50MHz) band, my FT8 reception looked similar with a lot of reception from SA and Victoria:
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The reception was weak while I was listening, triple J was barely in stereo and ABC Classic was almost inaudible. Iâm guessing it never hit RDS level.
I should setup auto logging on my server, right now I can only see DX logs in the command console so it would be nice to have them plotted on the map automatically.
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Thatâd be great to have your node on the map as well. I use the Scanner plugin on all of my TEF servers to scan continuously when no oneâs connected to the servers. The plugin also manages the auto-logging to FMList (which adds it to the national/world map).
To maximise the likelihood of catching shortlived reception, I get the plugin only to scan frequencies that donât have any local stations on it using the whitelist function. It also only dwells on frequencies where it detects a signal is being received.
On top of that, I also use the DX Alert plugin that sends me IMs everytime DX is received so I can immediately tune in, if Iâm available.
I imagine these automated scanning, logging and notification tools mean that a lot more Es that wouldâve been missed previously are being caught and logged.
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Yeah logging is enabled, I got hits from Adelaide the other morning during the overnight inversions. Itâs also possible the bandwidth was accidentally changed, meaning RDS wasnât being well received if at all.
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Thereâs a setting in the Scanner plugin that will let you set the bandwidth thatâs used when itâs in background scanning mode (overriding what the last user set it to) - it can be set either to a fixed bandwidth or automatic bandwidth.
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That was my initial thought, but it persisted too long for that and the cars ahead of me took off, whilst the ones behind either overtook or dropped further back (on the Kings Highway, people either go at 80 km/h or 120 km/h).
There was strong skip into SA at the time so more likely to be Keith.
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Signals from all over the country are coming into Mildura this morning.
- 96.9 Flow FM had some CCI with what sounded like Hit from Shepparton. Flow is winning out a fair bit now.
- 102.1 which is normally the Goschen relay of ABC Mildura-Swan Hill had some severe CCI with Triple J Broken Hill and what sounded like a rock station - unsure on the origin.
- 104.1 RN from Alice Springs came in at weak to fair strength with again some CCI with ABC Classic Mount Gambier or Wodonga. Pretty impressive for only being a 1kW station.
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And unlikely to be many people using an in car FM transmitter to stream RN in that area when itâs already available on 846AM, or even 603 or 576AM.
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102.1 might be Edge Wangaratta? Might play the odd rock track these days.
104.1 in the Alice is News Radio, not RN⌠are you sure it was RN?
Good catches still!
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My server got HOT FM earlier today. Mustâve been pretty strong to decode RDS over ABC Bendigo on the dipole.
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Yep it was NewsRadio, I always get them backwards (NR vs RN). Whenever I catch interstate NewsRadio itâs always been the same no matter the time zone, so comparing it with my local one (100.3) is a good thing.
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Sadly they donât have a local tech in the bundy region due to him retiring
Finally back on air late this afternoon - thatâs almost 1 week off air.