I was at the Hit 101.3 Gosford transmitter site this morning, doing an inspection on the Coast FM transmitter rack, & noted that the modulation meter on the front of Todays Country 94.1 transmitter was maxing out & barely dropping in level.
Unlike the Nautel & some other transmitters, the RVR transmitter meter isn’t marked as to the level, except at the 100% modulation/75KHz deviation point, so at a guess they’d be modulating at 145-160% possibly more on the transmitter, & I’d say any less than that on air, the channel filter on the combiner is stopping it from going too far into the adjacent channels, top & bottom.
Unfortunately this is pretty normal for them & has been like or at similar levels to this going back (5 plus?) years, & they don’t seem to care about it, but they’re wasting a lot of power that’s ether blocked & converted to heat in the combiner, or just can’t be used by a radio receiver.
Just on a related topic matter, but for another station; 94.5 FBi. I’ve noted past couple of
days that during high modulation loud levels that FBi’s bandwidth is extending out to 470kHz, speech is fine re BW generally though.
I’m not sure if this is coincided with their loss of RDS. @RFBurns Have you or anyone heard any gossip as to what is going on with their loss of RDS over at the Gore Hill BAI site?
‘The Sounds of Macarthur’ formerly known as 2MCR are looking for new premises.
Cabra-Vale Diggers, the owners of the Campbelltown RSL Club have had plans in the works since well before the last time I visited the club to attend a conference back in 2017 but I do see that they’ve only started making movements with the plans in the last 6 months.
Surely with that sort of uncertainty hanging over you for a number of years, the station would have already started investigating options before now.
I’m back all, and if your all wondering what and why I had the issues I did, I had a great conversation with Matt on Conversations that matter on SWR 99.9 this week just gone. It’s available on podcast
