It seems to be broadcasting in mono only, the audio is very low and crackly.
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Thatās interesting. Thereās a stereo pilot carrier there, but not the stereo sidebands or very little of them looking at the MPX spectrum with the SDR. What a mess!
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Before the New Board and the installation of the Current Music Format the old 2YOU was fully volentry based with each presenter doing what they pleased so Traditional Community Radio. It was on itās last legs and George Frame a bloke with extensive pro media experience came in and took over. He put in a format & has since built it up to be a semi professional outfit paying both sales & a selected core of pro air staff
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Was wondering why I couldnāt hear them from down here in Bungendore, given that I was getting stations like Koori Radio and 2RRR. I only had 2XL Jindabyne on 107.3.
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2SERās FM 107.3 audio seems to be back to normal now.
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I was just 'bout to report that, you bet me to it - lol.
MPX Spectrum looks back to normal to.
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Same here, stereo sound, and RDS decoding.
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88.9 Tamworth
What would be the number of overlapping sponsors with 88.9 and 2TM or 92.9?
Zero; there is no 89.9 FM Tamworth.
(Oh yes, I answered Socrates!)
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You know what Cranky meant!
88.9 of courseā¦
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Jamie Dunn is finishing up on breakfast at 98.9FM Brisbane and moving to weekends.
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I was talking to the contract tech for 2SER, & he said the TX took quite a hit, & heās still waiting on parts to repair, (itās an Elenos TX).
He also said the antenna has been damaged. He says itās hanging in there, but wonāt last running at full power, & with heavy rain itās likely water will get in & itās game over. Heās recommended a new antenna, not to repair it.
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It would be great to get 2SER with a new antenna to Artarmon too!
Any chance of that happening?
Now that 2OOO has moved, 2SER is now easily the weakest of the metro wide Sydney stations here.
2SER have to protect 2WKT on 107.1, so less chance of that happening I feel. Plus it would decouple the station from UTS in a sense!
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Wonāt happen 2SER to Artarmon, wouldāve liked it to, but they get free rent at UTS, so theyāre not going to pay rent for the TX site, when they get it for free now.
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Iāve moved this here as itās not really related to DX, itāll be everywhere.
Iāve spoken to the 2OOO tech & he said he has a problem with the STL & setup to the new TX at Artarmon, so heās currently running with only L+R audio (in other words Mono) with 19kHz pilot at only 4% instead of 9-10%.
Thatās why youāre only hearing mono audio & some places/radios arenāt picking up or showing the stereo pilot.
He hopes to have it fixed by early next week.
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Interesting. I really must be more attentive to details in the MPX spectrum.
Iāve looked at the 19kHz stereo pilot carrier levels of many Sydney broadcasters.
Typically the pilot carriers are set around -23dB +/- 1dB,
as measured with SDR#. (SDR-Console MPX dB figures differ to those of SDR#).
Iām guessing these level figures are relative to the unmodulated carrier of 0dB??
Some of the low powered community stations vary a little more re pilot carrier levels.
2BACR has a really high pilot carrier level @ -14dB
I should add for those interested in RDS; 2BACR has switched their RDS back on sometime this week (maybe today?)
Radio 2OOOās pilot carrier is measured at -30dB (SDR# MPX)
Iām still learning 
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Yes you must!!! 
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I noticed this morning that 2MBS is now taking news from the CRN. I thought I was getting TEM FM but not to be. Previously 2MBS ran a bulletin from the BBC at 0800.
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