AM and FM DX

ozbark · June 6, 2026, 2:36am

Thanks for the maps @tvcl - very helpful.

I’m going to guess that 102.9 is the TCBL (TEABBA Radio) from Daly River - as it is closest & heard more frequently. No signals on on 106.1 & 107.7MHz though… ,but these may not be on air or the RX antenna may not favor these higher frequencies.

102.1 & 103.7 is rarer. I haven’t heard any signals on 106.1 & 107.7 which makes the identification process a little more challenging too. Other signals heard at the time were Adelaide River’s 98.9 & 100.5.

I’ll have a think about the frequencies 102.1 & 103.7 a little more.

We should receive some interesting stations over the next 12 months from this RX webserver.

TV.Cynic · June 6, 2026, 2:39am

I thought that 102.9 was Day River recently

ozbark · June 6, 2026, 2:42am

Thanks. Programming on 102.9 & 102.1 was parallel with the local TEABBA outlet on 87.6MHz.

ninkeon58 · June 7, 2026, 5:24am

A little closer to home. I have been hard at work getting the permanent receive antenna set up for the KiwiSDR, located at the same site where I have my second TEF server. Using a 9:1 balun and 71ft of fencing wire, here is what is received on MW and SW (Australia only) during the day. As its a work in progress, there are some extra station carriers I can see hiding in the waterfall and the noise which are not really receivable and not loggable.

The Kiwi is available on the map, http://rx.linkfanel.net/ for all to play with, supporting up to 3 users at once.

531 - 5RTI Adelaide (good)
549 - 2CR Orange (good)
567 - 2BH Broken Hill (strong)
585 - 2WEB Bourke (very weak under strong splatter from 594 3WV)
621 - 3PB Melbourne (fair)
629 - 5CK Crystal Brook (good)
675 - 2CO Corowa (fair)
729 - 5RN Adelaide (fair)
774 - 3LO Melbourne (weak)
891 - 5AN Adelaide (weak)
945 - HPON / 3UZ relay Bendigo (weak)
963 - 2RG Griffith (fair)
972 - 5PB Adelaide (weak)
999 - 2NB Broken Hill (good)
1044 - 5AU Port Pirie (very weak)
1071 - 3EL Maryborough (very weak under splatter from 1062 5MV)
1089 - 3WM Horsham (good)
1116 - 3AK Melbourne (very weak)
1134 - 3CS Colac (weak)
1152 - 2WG Wagga Wagga (very weak)
1161 - 5PA Narracoorte (fair)
1197 - 5RPH Adelaide (weak)
1251 - 2DU Dubbo (weak)
1278 - 3EE Melbourne (very weak)
1323 - 5DN Adelaide (fair, slight splatter from 1332 3SH)
1377 - 3MP Melbourne (very weak)
1422 - 3XY Melbourne (weak)
1503 - 3KND Melbourne (fair, slight splatter from 1467 3ML)
1521 - 2QN Deniliquin (very weak)
1557 - HPON Renmark / iHeart Country (good) [500w]

4835 - Shortwave Australia Bendigo (good)
4970 - XRN / Radio 5-6-7 (fair)
(both affected by solar inverter running)

Receiving both Shortwave Australia and Radio 5-6-7 during the day has been a challenge to say the least, only the Kiwi with the 71ft longwire can receive them. Due to noise only the 4835 frequency of SW Australia is receivable, but one day I hope to clear it all up and get the 2310 night-time channel receivable as well as the 160m amateur bands.

Mrs · June 7, 2026, 9:10am

Respect.

ninkeon58 · June 7, 2026, 9:29am

Years of setting up electric fences for cattle taught me that those would make good radio antennas
I find being crafty with the resources available often work just as well as commercially available ones, if not better in some circumstances.

Mrs · June 7, 2026, 9:35am

Agreed, and the gutter around the roof is pretty useful too.

SWL · June 7, 2026, 11:23am

Cloncurry, north Queensland FM Scan on a DX286

103.7 TAB

104.5 HIT 102.5 MT ISA (RDS) PI402A

105.3 ABC CLASSIC

106.1 SBS

107.7 ABC RN

88.0 FAITH FM (RDS)

AustraliaRadio232 · June 7, 2026, 1:39pm

Getting some good tropo from Lorne tonight.

Non RDS catches:

Triple j 103.3, Faith 90.3, RN 105.3, Triple M 91.3, UGFM 106.9, SEN 91.3, REG FM 105.5, Edge 102.1

RDS Catches:

dxnerd · June 7, 2026, 10:31pm

Assume this is Sale? Wasn’t on when I passed through back in January.

Thanks for the report from Cloncurry too. I am assuming SBS is actually on air?

ninkeon58 · June 8, 2026, 10:46am

And today I got it sorted out. What a huge difference night-time DX has become. Many first time catches here from New Zealand. Many channels were basically multiple stations on top of each other, making it tricky to pick out.

531 - 3GG Warragul (good, slight CCI with 5RTI Adelaide)
540 - 4QL Longreach (fair, CCI with 7SD Scottsdale, splatter from 549 2CR)
558 - 6WA Wagin (weak, CCI with 4GY Gympie)
576 - 2RN Sydney (good)
585 - 2WEB Bourke (fair, splatter from 594 3WV)
603 - 2RN Nowra (fair, CCI with 4CH Charleville, splatter from 594 3WV)
612 - 4QR Brisbane (good, CCI with 6RN Dalwallinu, splatter from 621 3PB Melbourne)
630 - 2PB Sydney (fair, strong CCI with 4QN Townsville and 6AL Albany)
648 - 2NU Tamworth (good, CCI with 6GF Kalgoorlie)
657 - 2BY Byrock (good)
666 - 2CN Canberra (fair, CCI with 4CC Biloela)
684 - 2KP Kempsey (fair)
693 - 3AW Melbourne (fair, CCI with 5SY Streaky Bay, 4KZ Innisfail)
702 - 2BL Sydney (strong)
711 - 4QW St George (good, splatter from 702 2BL)
720 - 3MT Omeo (fair)
738 - 2NR Grafton (good, splatter from 729 5RN)
747 - 4QS Toowoomba (good, CCI from 6SE Esperance and 7PB Hobart)
756 - 3RN Wangaratta (good, CCI from 2TR Taree)
765 - 5CC Port Lincoln (fair, strong splatter from 3LO Melbourne)
792 - 4RN Brisbane (good, splatter from 5RM Renmark)
810 - 2BA Bega (fair, splatter from 5RM Renmark)
819 - RNZ National New Zealand (fair, CCI with 2GL Glen Innes)
828 - 3GI Sale (good, slight CCI with 4GC Charters Towers)
837 - 4RK Rockhampton (good, splatter from 846 2RN Corowa)
846 - 2RN Corowa (strong)
855 - 3CR Melbourne (fair, CCI with 4CO Eidsvold and Radio Rhema NZ)
864 - 4GR Toowoomba (good, CCI with 7RPH Hobart)
873 - 2GB Sydney (good)
882 - 4BC Brisbane (fair, CCI with 3RPH Warrnabool)
900 - 2LT Lithgow (good, CCI with 2LM Lismore)
909 - China National Radio 6 (weak)
918 - 4VL Charleville (strong)
927 - 3UZ Melbourne (fair, CCI with 4CC Gladstone)
936 - 7ZR Hobart (good, CCI with 4PB Brisbane)
954 - 2UE Sydney (strong)
972 - 5PB Adelaide (good)
981 - 3HA Hamilton (good, CCI with 2NM Muswellbrook)
990 - 3RN Albury Wodonga (fair, CCI with 4RO Rockhampton)
1008 - HPONs (fair, Canberra and Launceston, not quite in sync)
1017 - 2KY Sydney (good)
1026 - 3PB Melbourne (good, splatter from 2KY Sydney)
1035 - 2EA Wollongong (fair, CCI from Newstalk ZB New Zealand)
1044 - 5CS Port Lincoln (strong, slight CCI from 2UH Muswellbrook)
1053 - 2CA Canberra (strong)
1071 - 3EL Maryborough (strong)
1080 - 2MO Gunnedah (fair, splatter from 1071 3EL)
1089 - 2EL Orange (fair, strong CCI from 3WM Horsham)
1098 - 4LG Longreach (good)
1107 - 2EA Sydney (good, CCI from Radio Spice New Zealand)
1116 - 3AK Melbourne (fair, CCI from 4BH Brisbane)
1125 - 1RPH Canberra (strong)
1134 - 3CS Colac (good, slight CCI from 2AD Armidale)
1143 - 2HD Newcastle (good, CCI from 4HI Emerald)
1152 - 6PB Busselton (fair, CCI from 2WG Wagga Wagga)
1161 - 7FG Fingal (fair, strong CCI from 5PA Naracoorte)
1170 - 2CH Sydney (fair)
1179 - 3RPH Melbourne (weak)
1188 - 2NZ Inverell (good, slight CCI from 6XM Exmouth - confirmed via livestream)
1197 - 5RPH Adelaide (good, CCI with 4BI Brisbane, confirmed via livestream)
1206 - 2CC Canberra (fair)
1215 - 6NM Northam (weak)
1224 - 2RPH Sydney (weak, CCI with 3EA Melbourne)
1233 - 2NC Newcastle (strong)
1242 - 3GV Sale (good, CCI with 4AK Oakley)
1251 - 2DU Dubbo (good)
1260 - 3SR Shepparton (fair)
1269 - 2SM Sydney (fair)
1278 - 3EE Melbourne (strong)
1287 - NewsTalk ZB New Zealand (fair)
1296 - 6RN Wagin (fair)
1314 - 3BT Ballarat (fair)
1341 - HPON Geelong (good)
1350 - 2LF Young (fair, splatter from HPON Mildura)
1377 - 3MP Melbourne (strong)
1386 - Radio Tarana Auckland (fair)
1395 - 5AA Adelaide (fair)
1404 - 2PK Parkes (good)
1413 - 2EA Newcastle (good, splatter from 1422 3XY)
1422 - 3XY Melbourne (strong)
1431 - 2RN Wollongong (good)
1440 - 1EA Canberra (fair, splatter from 1467 3ML)
1485 - 2RN Wilcannia (good, splatter from 1467 3ML)
1494 - 2AY Albury (fair, CCI from 6EL Margaret River)
1503 - 3KND Melbourne (fair)
1512 - 2RN Newcastle (fair)
1521 - 2QN Deniliquin (fair)
1530 - 2VM Moree (good)
1539 - HPON Adelaide (good)
1548 - 4QD Emerald (strong)
1575 - HPON Wollongong (weak)
1584 - 2WA Wilcannia (fair)
1593 - HPON Melbourne (good)
1602 - 2CP Cooma (fair)

Radiohead · June 8, 2026, 12:29pm

Great log!

Casper · June 9, 2026, 12:38am

Not a bad morning here from Ouyen:

89.3: 3PNN Horsham

91.5: 5RM Renmark

91.7: 3PNN Western Victoria

92.5: 3ABCRN Western Victoria

92.9: 3WM Nhill

93.1: 5RIV (Magic FM Renmark)

93.9: 5PNN Renmark

94.1: 3ABCRR Wester Victoria

95.7: 3ABCRN Nhill

101.9: 5JJJ Renmark

103.9: 5ABCFM Adelaide

105.1: 5ABCFM Renmark

105.5: ABCFM Ballarat

105.7: 5PNN Mt Gambier

107.1: 5JJJ Ballarat

107.9: 3ABCRR Ballarat

ninkeon58 · June 9, 2026, 2:40am

It’s fun doing this with an excellent setup.

Worth noting too that I had a fairly good carrier signal come up as well on 1290khz, Newstalk was too close to identify it under the splatter, but I wonder what that could have been? From the small snippets it didn’t sound like it was in English, Asia don’t use 10khz steppings either so no idea where it’s from.

Radiohead · June 9, 2026, 5:46am

A couple of minor Upper Hunter updates from my trip up there today.

Mangoola Mine

89.3 not on air (was broadcasting 2HVR ABC Upper Hunter)

90.1 is now broadcasting Power FM (previously 2NM)

(90.9 JJJ still on air)

Also the 2 x United Collieries Mines East that now have RDS (as per RDS thread post), but probably useless info for DX since the RDS level is very low.

tvcl · June 10, 2026, 5:16am

Had Hit from Moranbah fading in and out over the top of local c91.3 just now. Es? Or something else?

It was hard to do a screenshot because the RDS kept jumping between c91.3 and Hit Emerald.

Edit: Home Hill coming in now too:

Edit 2: First time RDS catch for me:

Townsville also:

Radiohead · June 10, 2026, 6:01am

I think I had an E (?) when I was out in the car yesterday.. on 89.1 .. was talk content, was only there for about 5-10 seconds… no idea what/where (maybe News Radio Emerald based on the above?)… the car radio picked it on the auto seek tuning.

ninkeon58 · June 10, 2026, 6:37am

I can confirm it was Es, I had both 92.3 Triple M and 93.1 Hit as well going back over the logs, as well as 98.7 Triple M Mackay. Too widespread for Ms?

ninkeon58 · June 10, 2026, 7:40am

Es opening still alive here, currently getting a mixture of Townsville and Bowen ABCs, the latter of 92.7 an 96.7, both 100w stations.

Dani-Chan · June 10, 2026, 2:18pm

After missing out on the Winter E-Skip I was busy with some IRL stuff. To make it up, it’s time to go to the Northern Hemisphere to chase some E-Skip. Went to a Server based in Florida and did receive some stations from the American Midwest, most notable being 92.3 Detroit. Of course you may get a potpourri of stations on one frequency during E-Skip openings in America. Also a few NPR Stations as well as some more Stations from Michigan and Ohio.