Looks like Pulse FM Hawkesbury have a new transmitter site according to this. https://web.acma.gov.au/rrl/assignment_search.lookup?pEFL_ID=10562172
Itâs the Hawkesbury City Council comms tower which is only a few hundred metres away from the Grass Ski Park.
The new site is listed as the main with former site as an alternative site.
The elevation of the new site is higher & the antenna is mounted higher.
Additionally the radiation patterns are quite different & odd.
750W max erp directed mainly to unpopulated hills & 75W vs now 50W to the 90-180 degree arc azimuth which is basically all of the Sydney area & the vast majority of populated target area of Windsor/Richmond/Kurrajong area.
I canât say Iâve noted any difference to signal levels past months.
Licence changes from June 7, 2023.
The website of Pulse FM looks a little broken with several image files not displaying.
Same here, I just checked and 89.9 is virtually non existent here, as it was with the current broadcaster/Grass Karts site.
Itâs much worse than 2VTR Hawkesbury Radio was at Burralow Road.
I wouldnât be surprised that they havenât as yet made the move to the new site.
Thatâs for sure!
Looking at the new sites it is about 50m higher than Grass Karts, closer to 600m ASL.
Being located on the ridge line and having no obstructions to the west will improve the signal west towards Lithgow.
I think these new specs were similar to Hawkesbury Radios, former specs when they had a licence, and broadcast from their former Burralow Rd site.
Basically the higher the site the greater restriction ACMA imposes towards Sydney. Grass Karts was a lower site with a low antenna height so that is why they allowed Pulse to have 75W towards Sydney.
Looking at the new site it is approximately 590m ASL with an antenna height of 30m.
This will give Pulse a 40m height advantage over the former Hawkesbury Radio site. The new Pulse signal should be far superior when they eventually move sites. Pity there is no public access to the new site for us to check out.
Also I wonder what the go is with Grass Karts??? River and Faith fm have both moved from there to the Archibald Hotel, and now Pulse is moving too??
Notice the audio for inphase on SWR on FM 99.9 fm thought the radio had issues (very flat audio) but other stations had no issues. Got it on iheart radio now. Just curious anyone else noticed?
It sounds fine to me on Community Radio Plus app.
Yeah online was fine. I donât have access to an fm radio at the moment. I think they were doing some maintenance.
Yes noticing it too, very flat and tinny sounding at the moment, volume levels probably about 40-50 % lower then normal.
Paging @matt86
I am currently at Putty Beach on the central coast can get SWR its tinny something is definitely wrong. Good line of sight south here. This is just a basic sangean.
Its back last night. I now follow SWR in facebook 
. Thanks @matt86 if it was yourself who fixed it.
Thatâd be laughable if it werenât as serious as it is.
Simply unacceptable and as @anon71206228 rightly replied, take it to ACMA and keep on them until resolved in your favour.
@Spi fantastic effort here worth giving credit to.
Excellent depth in your wider post there, well worth a read even these weeks on.
All about the money @Tejas57 , absolutely!
Seems this 2HWK mob on 89.9FM in the Hawkesbury still havenât learnt to acknowledge their station sponsors⌠itâs been how long now since ACMA granted the full time licence, anyone else noticed this?
Thankyou all for reporting. Yes @Alex_Agaciak and I knew but were committed elsewhere, so it didnât get attended to until the next day. Very bad timing unfortunately.
Problem was related to RDS encoder so that has been taken off-air for the time being. Went and had a listen through the log, it was intermittent across Saturday and Sunday morning.
SWR is currently running from a temporary studio/tx chain and will move into new studios in October. RDS will now probably stay off until then. We are using an old school Optimod 2200 in the temp set up and the RDS encoder needs to be configured in Pass Through mode to work with it. Donât trust it in the TX chain now as weâve had a few problems with it this year.