Well after being In hospital down In Melbourne for a week & a couple of weeks recovering at home I finally managed to do a bit of DXing not the most active morning In Ouyen but pulling In 3ABCRN from Hopetoun (Vic) is always good seeing that they only transmit at a power of 500 watts:
88.3: 3ABCRN Hopetoun (Vic)
89.3: 3PNN Horsham
93.1: 5RIV Renmark
93.9: 5PNN Renmark
95.7: 3ABCRN Nhill
101.3: 3WWM (MIXX-FM Horsham)
102.1: 3MIL Murray Valley
103.7: 3ABCFM Murray Valley
105.3: 3JJJ Murray Valley
Now in Armidale.
DXed at Mallanganee Lookout on the way from Ballina (roughly halfway between Lismore and Tenterfield).
FM bandscan 11am Partly Cloudy
88.5 4ABC Gold Coast fair
88.9 2RBR Coraki - good, could be nulled to get 2NWR Tenterfield with RDS, good
89.3 4CRB Gold Coast fair
89.5 2GF Grafton good with RDS
89.7 2TEN Tenterfield good with RDS
90.1 4ABCRN Gold Coast fair
90.5 2ABCRN Tenterfield good with RDS
90.7 2PNN Coffs Harbour good with RDS
90.9 4SEA Gold Coast fair
91.1 4MCY Sunshine Coast very weak
91.3 2NRR Bonalbo good with RDS
91.5 2JJJ Coffs Harbour good with RDS
91.7 4ABCRR Gold Coast fair
91.9 4RGD Warwick fair
92.1 2ABCRN Bonalbo good with RDS
92.3 2MRR Coffs Harbour good with RDS
92.5 4GLD Gold Coast fair
92.9 2NCR Lismore good
93.3 4SBS fair to good with RDS
93.5 2TLC Yamba fair
93.7 4RBL Tenterfield good with RDS
94.1 TCBL Gold Coast fair
94.5 2NNR Lismore strong with RDS
94.9 4MIX Ipswich good with RDS
95.3 2ABC Lismore strong with RDS
95.7 4PNN Gold Coast fair
96.1 2JJJ Lismore strong with RDS
96.3 4PNN Warwick fair
96.5 4FRB Brisbane fair
96.7 2ABC Upper Namoi fair
96.9 2ABCRN Lismore strong with RDS
97.1 4RBL Stanthorpe weak to fair
97.3 4BFM Brisbane weak
97.7 4JJJ Gold Coast fair
97.9 2ABC Coffs Harbour good with RDS
98.1 4EB Brisbane weak
98.5 2PNN Lismore strong with RDS
98.7 2TEN Stanthorpe weak
98.9 4AAA Brisbane weak
99.1 2NWR Upper Namoi fair
99.5 2ABCRN Coffs Harbour good with RDS
99.9 2BAY Byron Bay good with RDS
100.3 think this was 4GR Stanthorpe mixing with 4BAY Redland Bay, both weak
100.7 2ABCRN Upper Namoi mixing with 4RGD Toowoomba
100.9 2ZZZ Lismore strong with RDS
101.1 think this was 4CBL Loganholme weak
101.3 TCBL Murwillumbah fair to good
101.5 HPON Grafton fair
101.7 4ABC Southern Downs good with RDS
101.9 2PAR Ballina good with RDS
102.1 4ZZZ Brisbane weak
102.3 2NIM Nimbin fair
102.5 4BRZ Tenterfield good with RDS
102.9 4HTB Gold Coast fair
103.1 2CVC Grafton fair
103.3 4JJJ Southern Downs good with RDS
103.5 2MW Mullumbimby fair
103.7 4MBS Brisbane weak
104.1 was 2MW Currumbin mixing with 4JJJ Darling Downs both fair
104.3 2LM Kyogle good
104.5 4MMM Brisbane weak
104.7 2CLR Grafton good with RDS
104.9 4QS Southern Downs good with RDS
105.3 4BBB Brisbane weak
105.5 2CSF Coffs Harbour weak
105.7 was 4MET Gold Coast mixing with 4ABCRN Darling Downs
106.1 4ABC Brisbane fair
106.3 2CFS Coffs Harbour fair
106.5 4ABCRN Southern Downs good with RDS
106.9 4BNE Brisbane weak
107.3 was 4CAB Gold Coast mixing with 4ABC Darling Downs
107.7 4JJJ Brisbane weak
107.9 2COW Casino good with RDS
Great log, plenty of roaches and toads alike in that.
Nice to see you logged the rarely heard Bonalbo ABCs. I’m surprised both have RDS, though they might be off air relays from Mount Nardi?
2NIM Nimbin is also rarely logged. Nice to see their smoke signals are still working 
Very interesting mix of stations from NSW and QLD. I suppose influenced by a good location at the lookout.
A bit of a good night on the TEF on the AM Band after seeing NSW lift that shield.
The usual China on 765 (under 5CC), 783 and 909.
1287 under Newstalk ZB was JOHR Sapporo with a Japanese female voice who turns out to be Nako Yabuki who used to be part of the Jpop group HKT48 until she left in 2023 in order to host the Wednesday edition of the Recommendation show that is networked across Japan.
Although the other day under Glen Innes and Tauranga on 819 was some weak music. Knowing the style, I assume it would be KCBS Pyongyang, North Korea
The Dear Leader’s music leader.
Well done on those. 1287 Sapporo is regularly logged in North America but I don’t think I’ve read a report from SE Australia. If only we could steal a bit of Sapporo’s snow as well as its radio signals!
Worth noting that KCBS can usually be heard also on 3250khz AM and on 3205khz DRM on HF, though I don’t know if a portable can receive it as both can be rather weak. 3250 at least would be a good reference point for picking it out on MW underneath other stations.
Went down to Candelo and back today.
On the way back up Mount Darragh, I noted 3MGB Genoa (96.9) back on air. This was off air/malfunctioning for quite some time. Towamba 88.0 still going as well which is good to see.
2BRW is a permanent signal in parts of Toothdale and Wolumla also; wanted to go down on a westerly day in winter to confirm this. With lots of snow on the Snowies and a balmy 18.5C at Bega today, tropo was as low as it’s going to get.
When I first heard about radio dx I thought it was so weird, but it’s actually a good thing to have as a hobby or passion. The travelling idea and learning about technology, just to capture radio stations. It’s better than most people waste time on.
Precisely. Whenever someone queries my passion for radio and DXing, I retort that at least I’m not drinking, smoking or gambling away my time.
And it’s a comparatively cheap hobby too, compared to say doing up old cars, which can cost thousands.
Big phat high replacing the westerlies. This could be a theme of the non winter we’re having in the SE. I see Melbourne is around 17 all week; Bungendore will be around 15 all week and Adelaide as high as 19.
Crazy tropo this morning, can hear Port Pirie fms including 105.1 TRAX and 103.5 JJJ in Buxton, 840kms or so!
(recording of jjj over 3MBS on the Buxton server)
Triple M Adelaide on the Buxton server
It’s also the reason why the Adelaide FMs are going so far. For me they are stronger than the local commercials.
Bendigo into Mildura now, Hit 91.9 receiving partial RDS decode indoors on the portable, via multipath. ABCs are also there, though weaker than the commercials.
5AU 97.9 coming in at midday now in Buxton,
(Weak but you can hear the ID here, and matching current song played)
Receiving ABCs from Bethungra / South West Slopes now with RDS, including 90.7 Triple J over the top of Hot FM Wentworth.
Did some Dab+ Dxing on a snow chase out on the Oberon Plateau early Sunday morning, did not focus on Fm as the DAB+ out performs FM on the GWM Haval H6.
Due to Victoria Pass being shut I travelled along the Bells Line. DAB+ was solid from Sydney until just west of Kurrajong Heights where the road cuts between the hills just east of the Bowling club. Past this point it was solid until Mt Wilson with some dropouts on the western side of Mt Tomah.
It was then patchy to Clarence and no reception of course in Lithgow. Now here is where I got some unexpected reception.
Great Western Highway at Hartley just east of Lithgow.
Sydney fm is strong here and there is a small patch of Sydney DAB+ but you loose it when going around the hill into Lithgow.
Hampden, on the eastern side of the escarpment with LOS to the east, pretty consistent reception up to around the pub.
Oberon no reception
Shooters Hill Cemetery, a small patch of Sydney DAB+ reception on the access road into the cemetery. I am sure at the summit of Shooters Hill reception would have been more stable but the road was covered in snow, and my car is not AWD so was not going to attempt it.
Mt Trickett, this is where I got the strongest and most consistent Sydney DAB+ this is helped by an elevation of over 1300m and excellent LOS to the east over the Blue Mountains.
I did try for Canberra DAB+ on the southern facing hills without luck. I would think south of Shooters Hill towards Crookwell would be a better chance.
I thought that was you on the Ski Forum. Pretty pathetic snowfall for Shooters but looks like that will be the new norm.
Yeah, if you go around to the Gurnang State Forest (south of Shooters Hill Road on the Goulburn Rd), you get Braidwood FM quite well. This is the northernmost spot of permanent reception that I’ve found.*** I’ve never tried Canberra DAB but I daresay it would be possible, if not there then just before you drop down to the Abercrombie Gorge.
I have had Sydney DAB decode in Oberon- whilst snow was falling as well. It was at the toilet block on the southeast end of town, towards Edith/Oberon Dam.
***I got 2BRW extremely weakly via As from Hassans Walls, Lithgow in a null of 2RSR. But only fluttered up for about 10-15 seconds; luckily we were playing sponsorship ads that I instantly recognised.
