I’ll post this here, because it may affect more than just the community stations.
Weather permitting, Thursday morning 9th June 2015, works will be undertaken to move RhemaFM Central Coast, from their old TX site, to the SEA FM site at Somesby.
It’s planned that sometime between 8 - 9am, the community stations of CoastFM 96.3, Radio 50+ 93.3, & Todays Country 94.1, will be taken off air, to enable replacement of the antenna array on the tower, & combiner additions. These stations will be off air for approx. 4 hours. RhemaFM 94.9 may be off air for all or part of this time?
SEAFM 101.3 will likely be on low power while the riggers are on the tower, the ABC stations shouldn’t be effected?
I will be at the TX site during this time, but won’t be able to give updates.
This will open up short hop DX’ing opportunities to Newcastle, Central Coast & Sydney. (Surrounding stations on the same or adjacent frequencies that would normally be receivable if these Gosford stations didn’t exist).
Personally I’d be interested to hear where TripleJ Taree on 96.3 is receivable, while Coast FM is off the air. My reception plot models, suggest I should be able to receive it in the car quite well, sitting at the transmitter site, while CoastFM is off air.