At the Hoo Hoo Lookout car park.
Swan Hill and Launceston ABC stations coming into Melbourne.
Coast FM Warrnambool over Triple M Shepparton
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Thanks so in Mount Gambier, interesting that the Mixx 93.7 RDS seems to get out okay to the west, but not east.
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Similar stuff here last night/ earlier this morning with Mt Gambier, Launceston and King Island all listenable.
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Can’t get 2XL Perisher from the south facing hill here (normally a fair signal), so they might well be off air. I could easily get 2MNO on both 90.5 and 93.3, though nothing from Jindabyne.
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Just had a possible 5 second Ms ping of Hit Albany 95.3 while listening to Coast fm. I checked the webstream of every high power 95.3 in Australia and it was the only one that matched. The 10-element antenna is also pointed right at it.
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Long log time! DXed from a few different spots around Mt Hotham this morning as it wasn’t possible to find a single spot with a good takeoff in all directions, so this is a combined log. So some frequencies will have two or more stations listed.
88.1 3ABC Bright fair
88.3 2ABC SW Slppes fair to good
88.5 2MOR (Edge FM) Cobram weak
88.7 8SAT Urana good with RDS, also 3BPH Bendigo no RDS
88.9 3ABCRN Bright fair
89.1 2ABCRN SW Slopes fair to good
89.3 3NE Mt Hotham local with RDS
89.5 3PNN Bendigo fair under severe splatter from 3NE
89.7 3MRR Bright fair
89.9 2RVR SW Slopes fair to good, also HPON Lakes Entrance
90.1 3NE Myrtleford fair, also 2BDR Omeo good with RDS
90.3 3JJJ Bendigo good
90.7 2JJJ SW Slopes fair to good, also 3REG Lakes Entrance good
90.9 7JJJ Nth Tasmania fair to good
91.1 3CRR Bendigo good
91.3 3NE Bright fair
91.5 2PNN SW Slopes fair to good
91.7 7NT Nth Tasmania fair to good
91.9 3BDG Bendigo good with RDS, also HPON Latrobe Valley fair with RDS
92.1 3NE Wangaratta strong with RDS
92.5 7PNN Nth Tasmania fair to good
92.7 3ABC Bendigo good
92.9 3VKV Bright fair
93.1 2WZD Wagga Wagga fair to good with RDS (pic below)
93.3 7ABC Nth Tasmania fair to good
93.5 3BBO Bendigo good with RDS
93.7 3NNN Bright fair
93.9 3BAY Geelong very weak
94.1 7ABCRN Nth Tasmania fair to good
94.3 3SEA Warragul fair no RDS
94.5 3JJJ Shepparton strong
95.1 3PNN Gippsland good
95.3 3SRR Shepparton good with RDS
95.5 HPON Orbost fair
95.7 2AAY Corryong fair partial RDS
95.9 3PNN Swan Hill weak
96.1 3ABC Shepparton strong
96.5 2BDR Corryong fair with partial RDS, also 3VKV Mt Beauty fair
96.7 3JJJ Gippsland good
96.9 3SUN Shepparton good with RDS
97.1 3GLR Orbost fair
97.3 3HCR Omeo good
97.5 HPON Bairnsdale fair
97.7 3GVR Shepparton strong
98.3 3GV Bairnsdale fair to good with RDS
98.5 3ONE fair to good with RDS
98.7 3ABCRR - not sure where this from, not listed in latest ACMA PDF book, reception was good north/west facing, also had fair 3ABCRN Orbost
99.1 3NE Mt Buffalo good
99.3 2ABC Bega/Cooma fair to good
99.5 3TFM Traralgon good with RDS
99.7 3ABCRN Omeo fair to good
99.9 3TFM Bairnsdale fair to good with RDS
100.1 3SPH Shepparton fair to good with RDS
100.5 2AAY Falls Creek good with RDS
100.7 3GLR Gippsland good
100.9 3PNN Albury good
101.3 3WPR Wangaratta fair
101.5 3ABC Gippsland good
101.7 2APH Albury fair to good with RDS
102.1 3NNN Wangaratta strong with RDS
102.3 3RBA Ballarat weak
102.5 2MOR Deniliquin fair with partial RDS
102.9 3GVR Alexandra fair
103.1 3BBR Drouin and 3BBA Ballarat both weak
103.3 3JJJ Albury strong
103.5 3ABCRN Swifts Creek fair to good
103.7 3GVR Mansfield fair
103.9 3GCB Latrobe fair to good
104.1 3ABC Albury strong
104.5 3ABCRN Alexandra weak
104.9 2AAY Albury strong with RDS
105.3 3ABCRN Mansfield fair
105.5 3REG Bairnsdale good
105.7 2BDR Albury strong with RDS
105.9 3ABC Melbourne fair also weak 3ABCRN Mildura
106.1 HPON (2QN) Deniliquin weak
106.3 3ABCRN Bairnsdale fair to good
106.5 3MRR Albury strong
106.9 3UGE Alexandra weak
107.1 3JJJ Ballarat weak
107.3 2REM Albury fair
107.5 3JJJ Melbourne fair, also heard 3NE,must be a spur?
107.7 3PNN Shepparton fair
107.9 3PNN Bairnsdale fair to good
Also did a quick bandscan at Jemmys Lookout Lakes Entrance (for once, the weather here today is NICE!). Had a few Tasmanian stations, all weak to fair, but the Nth Tasmania ABCs were all good here too
95.7 7SD Scottsdale
100.5 7NT Devonport
101.3 HPON Devonport
Oddly no 7AD/Sea though or Chili.
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Possibly a spur from 89.7 Bright?
Bright was only weak here, i can’t imagine it’d be that… but yes that has me stumped… was running same content as 97.1 Orbost and 97.7 Shepparton.
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Mt Tassie is a pretty impressive beast to the north east… Tonight in my motel room at Lakes Entrance, 137 km away as the crow flies, I can get decent ABC reception from all 4 networks, even TRFM 99.5 can be received okay too, despite all the motel room hash.
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Triple J 107.5 very strong into Colac tonight up to 50 dbuv and stronger than local 107.1 triple j by 5 dbuv
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Tropo going back the other way too now, getting western stuff like strong Mixx 106.3, Coast 95.3 and Mt Gambier
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Currently at Bombala NSW for lunch (on the way back home via tCanberra for a couple of nights).
Had Ntn Tasmania ABCs pretty much all the way from Lakes Entrance to about 30 kms south of Bombala since some stations share frequencies eg. 91.7 and 92.5. Thought was quite impressive (about 500 kms).
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Tropo coming in from all directions in Sydney today:
Managed to get Tamworth, which is one of the rarer tropo targets to receive from my locaiton.
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It’s from Harrietville, the town at the foot of Hotham on the NW side. That had me stumped too. I think it’s listed on the ACMA radcomms but not on the official lists.
I had Hobart, Mount Gambier and Warrnambool from Mount Hotham back in January. Hobart was huge one night with clear reception of Vision 104.3. I had Warrnambool on 92.1 which you can’t do now, unless the Star becomes a black hole of course.
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Thanks! First time I’ve heard an ABC Local Radio station in the 98 mhz range.
There’s also meant to be a 3VKV (Alpine Radio) translator for Harrietville on 94.5, but I’ve never heard that one on air. I could receive JJJ Shepparton even in the town during my visit, so not the best choice of frequency for that one.
Both 3VKV and 3ABCRR are self help services from what I understand. Harrietville is a nice place with a stonking good bakery.
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I don’t recall hearing 3VKV on 94.5 but like you say easy to miss it given how strong Triple J is there. And yes, very odd choice of frequency!
I don’t find 98.7 3ABCRR TX listed in ACMA RadComm either, but it is listed on the wikipedia page:
From the webpage of Alpine FM from a August 2025 posting they don’t mention 94.5FM either, just;
“Listen in on 96.5 FM in the Kiewa Valley, 92.9 FM in the Ovens Valley, or stream us live at www.alpinefm.org.au. Happy listening.”
Probably never got to air, but I thought I recall seeing it listed years ago on their website, but I could be totally wrong about that.
I assume 98.7 from this TX site:
https://web.acma.gov.au/rrl/site_proximity.for_site?pSITE_ID=153115
Can anyone find the ACMA LAP doc for this location?
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Good reception from Central Q in SEQ this afternoon.