My observations agree with that, however due to my placement it was roughly 50/50 as what lands with stronger signals from SA, Mount Lofty always appears at my second webserver location despite being over 300+km from there, due to optimal pathing.
And also I agree that March/April seems to be the sweetspot for inland tropo, which correlates with what Iāve been receiving. With no noise to contend with, Iāve been seeing a lot more westerly catches.
Iād say no - top one looks like UHF, lower one looks like Band III - channels 6-12 - elements too short for FM which is TV channel 3,4 and 5 (though it could probably pick up something better than an indoor antenna).
Thanks for your help looks like a trip up to Mildura for me at least Iāve been able to change the noise settomgs on my radio when De-Xing so weaker signal can come In a bit better until I sort the antenna issue out.
I can confirm, no big box retailers in Mildura stock anything lower than band III nowadays, and havenāt needed to in nearly 30 years after ABC moved from channel 4 to 6. That being said there are a few local antenna guys that may still have one hiding in the back room, one that comes to mind is David Carson Electronics.
@Casper if youāre looking for a low cost option, Iād see if anyone has an old wideband aerial hiding in a shed or still up on a mast. An old one that used to do ABMV4 and STV8 would do the trick for FM, I run one on my second FMDX webserver and it picks up an insane amount of catches during tropo and sporadic E. You might even be able to score it for free
I might see If I can get a longer antenna which I can screw into the side antenna jack the one I have at the moment works well the furthest Iāve picked up is the Upper Murray, Adelaide & Murray Bridge.
The specs for the radio suggest the external antenna socket is a 3.5 mm jack.
If you stayed with an indoor antenna, you could potentially get better reception if you had an indoor TV antenna on a cable and the antenna was placed near the window.
You would need a 75 Ohm extension TV antenna cable - length depending on distance to window (or the cable that comes with the antenna may be long enough.
So I scanned my Radio & a new frequency got tuned in.
The frequency is 94.9 FM. The thing is - there is no 94.9 FM around the Clarence Valley.
Worth noting - It has itās very own stings & bumpers which goes as following āYouāre listening to 94.9ā.
Update: I think if could be coming from the Gold Coast considering it just played a āGuzman Gomezā ad & a concrete ad saying āacross South East Queenslandā
