On the night of July 29 to the early hours of July 30, two meteor showers — the Delta Aquariids and the Alpha Capricornids — will light up the sky together in a rare celestial event!
Expect to see 20 or more meteors per hour, some of them colorful and slow-moving, leaving glowing trails across the night sky. These twin showers overlap just once a year, making this a spectacular and unique viewing opportunity.
For the best view, find a dark, open area away from city lights. Peak activity is expected after midnight, when the radiant points climb higher in the sky.
This extracted post above was from the Beauty of the Earth’s post from Facebook.
Pity about the clouds, but there’s always the radio
With 774 ABC Radio Melbourne off-air it might be a good time for our AM DXers to start searching for whatever radio stations can be found on 774 AM whilst you have the opportunity to do so. (Paging @tvcl, @AustraliaRadio232 ,@ninkeon58 and @dxnerd)
I might start seeing what I can pick up on that frequency too. It’s usually the dominant local AM station where I am in terms of reception, i.e ABC Radio Melbourne.
If I ever pick up a single distant radio station from interstate on that frequency I’ll update back!
Got a couple of distant stations on 774 at my location. Gold New Plymouth and JOUB (NHK Radio 2 and yes this is the same NHK whose TV Channel aired anime such as “Chou Kuse Ni Narisou”, “Azuki-Chan” and “Card captor Sakura”) Akita, Japan at a distance of 8350km
Kanga Island is on the to do list: just a hop, skip and a jump from Bungendore via Tooleybuc!
I daresay Adelaide, Victor Harbor and Murray Bridge FM would be strong over much of KI. On the more remote western side you’d have a chance at Port Lincoln and possibly Flow FM Yorke Peninsula.
5KIX 90.7 has been received several times via Es in Sydney.
I look forward to hearing your report on your hop, skip and jump from Bungendore Mr Knievel!
I wasn’t going to let the cat out of the bag yet, but I’m off to Adelaide, Barossa and Victor in early September with my trusty TEF. It’s been 6 years since I’ve been there so looking forward to hearing/seeing what’s changed on the radio/ RDS front since.
You can see TV reception on MySwitch from Adelaide - on Google street view most seem to have standard large fringe VHF antennas, though rarely anything too elaborate.
Had a listen to 774 kHz on my AirSpy and seem to be getting Gold from New Zealand (checked against their web stream). I will leave it recording overnight to see if anything else comes in.
I did a baseband recording of the whole AM band overnight from about 11:30pm onwards and looking at the spectrum waterfall, it’s interesting to see that 774 goes back on air for short periods throughout the night. 774 has a red dashed line around it below:
On my road trip down to the Mallee this morning, and while I was in Ouyen I managed to log some enhancement that normally isn’t around. The Mildura commercial FMs are usually on their very last leg here so was surprising to see them.
91.5 5RM Loxton - good with stereo, no RDS
93.1 MAGIC Loxton - fair with stereo, no RDS
93.9 ABC NewsRadio Loxton - fair
95.3 FlowFM Turriff - strong with stereo, no RDS
95.7 ABC RN Nhill - strong
95.9 ABC NewsRadio Goschen - weak
96.9 FlowFM Meringur - fair with stereo, no RDS
97.9 Triple M Mildura - weak to good with stereo, weak RDS
99.5 Hit Mildura - weak to good with stereo and RDS
100.3 ABC NewsRadio Mildura - good
101.1 Triple J Mildura - good with stereo
101.9 Triple J Loxton - fair with stereo
102.1 ABC Swan Hill - weak
102.7 ABC Classic - good with stereo
104.3 ABC Mildura - strong
105.1 ABC Classic Loxton - good with stereo
105.3 Triple J Goschen - fair with no stereo
105.5 Triple J Adelaide - weak / CCI with Classic Ballarat, also weak, both had stereo
105.9 ABC RN Mildura - good
No sign of the commercials from Goschen or Horsham, nor 3MBS from Murrayville, but there was some signs of Bendigo, too weak to demodulate however.
On the AM front, it’s just about the same as what I get back in Mildura, the only things of real note was River 1467 being very weak at only 100km away. In the past I’ve had it come in strongly at the same place, so I wonder if something is failing on the ground wave antenna. Gold Central Victoria on 1071 was about the same signal level.
Not sure about groundwave, but it’s still booming into Sydney on skywave. Here’s a recording from my SDR yesterday evening: Vocaroo | Online voice recorder
DOUBLE METEOR SHOWER ALERT! 
For the best view, find a dark, open area away from city lights. Peak activity is expected after midnight, when the radiant points climb higher in the sky.
