I am very excited about the potential of Starter fm getting a TCBL in the Hawkesbury. Sydney has been lacking a dedicated dance music station since Wild / Dex were unsuccessful in getting their Sydney wide licences. I look forward to being able to listen.
Re positioners, you are going to use the beat of Richmond, Windsor, you could also chuck some randoms in there as well such as-
The Beat of Vineyard
The Beat of Pitt Town
The Beat of Rouse Hill
The Beat of Bilpin
Is it possible to get on the same tower as Hawkesbury radio, or on any of the other towers along Burralow Rd to get maximum coverage to the west?
The Hawesbury Radio tower gives me the best reception at my location in Stanhope Gardens.
I wonder what this will mean for Penrith Valley Bangaz. I notice he is still on air every so often.
For sure we look to having all sorts of areas in there!
Will will see firstly if we can work with one of the current aspirants to use some of their transmission power in a bartor for tech services we can provide, for example we provide the stream hosting for WHCR FM along with logos and imaging.
Hawkesbury Gold broadcasts from
Grass Ski Centre Bells Line of Road Kurrajong Heights at 568m.
I get similar signal strength at Stanhope Gardens from this site as I do from the Hawkesbury Radio site along Burralow ridge
The problem with this site is coverage to the west is not so good. The Grass Ski site is tucked under the eastern side of the escarpment and has poor LOS to the west. In comparison the Hawkesbury Radio site sits right on top of the Burralow ridge and has excellent LOS to the east and the west. Car coverage from this site is almost to Clarence.
Always believed that was the backbone to community radio, exactly that, bartoring, as it’s a community of people bringing together what they have to compliment each others skills and contributions. The station I was in for most of the 90s, the manager was just interested in turning the station into a profit / paramid scheme and it turned a lot of members off, let’s say there was a exodus around late 1997. Maybe after this I prematurely judged community radio and have been reluctant to do anything in such a manner again. The guy who owned the transmitter equipment made all the programmers bid for their air-time slots, some slots were going for around $180 an hour. If it’s people coming together to bartor services then I think that’s great if the communication lines are always open, and noone feels that they are being shafted.
That’s station manager Gordon Waters, who I met up with over the weekend. He did mention that he would be providing evidence to the Senate Inquiry this week. Well done.
Exactly the conclusion that Gordon and I came to a few days ago. Braidwood is in an awkward geographical spot as far as ABC coverage goes, not quite in the Canberra region but not really part of the South Coast either.
Whats happening with Koori Radio’s FM frequency, its audio and signal is so bad, even with great reception the audio sounds like two station broadcasting over each other, defiantly the worst sounding community station in Metro Sydney.
I was thinking the same thing recently.
I get multipath from the station, which doesn’t help, but something else appears to have happened recently to make the reception/audio worse.
They still have their standby TX registered at Redfern (but is it still there?) registered with 2kW only.
Both sites are lacking in terms of clear radiation space due to other taller nearby buildings.
Looking at the SDR MPX spectrum of 93.7, when there’s plenty of audio it looks like it’s a weak signal. As audio drops looks like a stronger signal. The spectrum of the signal looks the same. On audio; there is some static there.
@TheChase Yeah I wonder if Koori Radio does have two txers on air or if something is interfering with it? Puzzle…
Hyperthetically speaking if Koori consistantly puts out bad TX signals or pour programming material, I wonder if the HPON could be taken back and up for re-evaluation? Be interesting as it’s demographic covers only 1.28% of Sydney’s population, where I know they are much larger demographic groups in Sydney.
More likely than not, the 93.7 frequency would be re-advertised as a community licence (especially taking into account the spare AM HPON allocation in the Sydney licence area plan that is currently unused)