Had a quadfecta of News Radios on 91.3 Lithgow, 91.5 SW Slopes, 91.7 Tamworth and 91.9 Orange. Not had that before
Also heard
93.9 Roccy FM Young
All main Canberra stations (all with RDS except 102.3)
96.7 ??? was not Classic or RN, suspect QBN FM given the above
All Orange stations except the 94.7 2MCE relay (only 105.9 and 106.7 with RDS).
Bathurst 92.3 2MCE, 95.1 2BS
Mudgee 97.1 2MG in a null of RN Taree.
News Radio 102.7 Armidale
Also this afternoon had 2GCR Goulburn 103.3 for a bit, and 99.9 News mixing with SWR.
I’ve done the reconfiguration on the FMList auto-logging now:
Set up the Canlog server now, so hopefully that means if DX is picked on multiple servers, it only gets reported once overall instead of once per server
Increased the minimum reporting distance to exclude Eagle FM
Set minimum re-reporting frequency to half a day (up from 1 hour) so that the Canberra reception reports don’t get “spammy” either
I’ve also manually gone through all of my FMList uploads for the year to date to remove all the duplicates (so each station only appears once per day).
That’s cool to know what CanLogServer does. I’ve heard of it but never looked into it. I have another server running on a separate dipole, it receives most local stations at the same strength as the main server, but rarely logs any DX. So duplicates are rarely an issue what that running.
As for the scanner plugin, I’ve made a couple of small changes that I’ve just proposed to Highpoint. These are only useful for servers with multiple antennas, such as your “North” server.
First one is when someone tunes in and autoscan halts, it restores not only the last used frequency as it currently does, but also the last used antenna.
And the second, it logs the antenna used at the time of RDS decode. For example:
Autologged PS: _io?, PI: 7057, Signal: 23 dBf, Antenna: Ant V, via fmdx.org webserver
V obviously meaning dipole, and H I use for horizontal Yagi.
Sounds like some good improvements. For me, in addition to which antenna is doing the logging, it’d also be useful to know which one of my servers logged the reception. Perhaps a shorter alias can be assigned using Canlog - for me, I’d have the aliases of North, East, South, West and Omni for my five servers.
I thought about that too, but I’ll leave it to him. Might be something worth mentioning. Maybe this will put the idea in his head to implement a setting for a short server name to be added to FMLIST logs, for servers with only one antenna.
No- just the portable TEF and whip! Going up to that hill (900 m vs 700 m) really makes a difference with tropo. I only DX at home for Es these days. The QLD reception required sharp nulling of Sydney which only the portable can provide. Didn’t check on the home setup but I’d say I would have only got Sydney.
All of these were into Cooma as well early this morning, except for 107.3 Darling Downs.
QLD to Melbourne E-skip is fairly common during the summer months. I was mainly wondering if during a really strong opening it might be possible to receive via tropo here and if anyone has logged it before.
Mallacoota yes…I’ve had Taree belting in down there. The ranges to the north and the inland path over the drier hotter plains of NSW would make it very difficult to receive Queensland via tropo in Melbourne. I won’t say impossible but very unlikely.
The maritime NE’ly from the Tasman only penetrates so far inland over NSW. This was a classic Great Dividing Range duct, following the ranges all the way to Toowoomba. The Melbourne-Toowoomba great circle path goes a fair way inland and in most cases the duct would be east of this path.
You’re more likely to receive WA in Melbourne across the GAB- the problem is channel blockage. The reverse has been done on a couple of occasions: our Bunbury correspondent received strong Melbourne FM via tropo a couple of seasons ago, and Mount Dandenong has also been received in Perth.
Down in the Highlands.
Canberra stronger than usual, I only took the TEF outside but I assume I would had got DAB have I taken the Sony out.
Bega/Cooma commercials in nulls of Sydney.
Good signal of Orange commercials in nulls of Batemans Bay/Ulladulla (which itself was stronger than usual)
2MNO on 93.3 over 2RPH
Brown Mountain, a good signal.
Hit 93.1 Wagga, Roccy FM Young.
Well done on Wagga. Real FM again prevented me from getting Hit93.1 RDS
All in all, a stronger version of last night, with Triple M Orange also received with RDS. But also meant there was a bit of coastal tropo as well (mostly to the south). ABC Batemans Bay prevented RDS on 103.5 FM Orange. Didn’t see any RDS on 107.5 though, so can’t be sure whether that “accidental” RDS on 2OCW is still there or not.
Canberra was quite strong, Triple J dominated 101.5 over Great Lakes… 90.3 Tuggeranong was replaced with Goulburn not long after my earlier post. SW Slopes ABCs also strong, ABC Riverina coming in over Pulse FM Hawkesbury.
I nulled out 95.5 ABC Taree to almost static, but couldn’t get either Sky Racing Wagga, or ROK FM Parkes. Has anyone in Sydney received these, or if Dani has had them down in the Highlands?
