It’s pretty good. it would be good if the forever classic mob had one channel could cover multiple decades playing rarer tracks their main channels don’t play. This is where I think the 2sm dab space could have more freedom as I think the music stations probably prefer you to listen to main station.
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Yes I would prefer a station covering the 60s-early 90s. Vintage FM is probably the closest to this, covering the 50s to the 80s with plenty of rare tracks such as Traffic- Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush.
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I’m waiting for a Forever Classic 80s, they had some crackers on the old TGIF 80s Friday nights show.
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MY 88 fm is a good listen for aussie 80’s.It was all aussie last weekend.Its run by the the people who also run Vintage FM.Its available to listen on iheart.
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Can anyone recommend a good rock station (classic or otherwise 60’s to 10’s would br perfect) with NO ads. There’s far too many ‘poppy’ stations for my liking. An oldie, but I still love my rock. 
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Is this a commercial or community radio station?
Anyway retuned to the Mandurah DAB+ and unlike the Perth DAB+ with blanket 32kbps commercial stations with a few hitting as ‘high’ as 48kbps on the Mandurah DAB+ we have:
SEN Peel on 32kbps (OK as it is talk/sport)
Youth Radio on 64kbps
The Wave (still) on 96kbps
Coast Radio also on 96kbps
Listening on my Panasonic hifi the Mandurah music stations just sound so punchy (bass) and crisp (highs) compared to rumble and warble of the 32kbps Perth DAB stations. Too bad there are only a few sweet spots where I can pick Mandurah DAB in the house. I really need to move further south 
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Annoyingly they are at their limit in terms of the legislation that never considered these solo markets. That multiplex will remain over half empty forever.
Do you notice Coast FM being easier to lock on to?
Not recently, but when I was listening more often and during borderline ‘No Signal’ times (given I am on the fringe) the Coast FM would be the last to disappear and the first to come back. But that is about as good as it gets even with the better error protection. Finding the one spot where consistently Coast FM comes through but The Wave does not I am not sure is not even possible (would be an interesting experiment with the right gear).
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As far as I can tell, it’s a station being run by commercial radio as a service to the community. It’s seemingly both commercial and community - Schrödinger’s radio station, perhaps? Although, I haven’t heard any commercials apart from promos calling to get involved. I assume that it might be a similar situation to when Triple M lent its support to Patterson Lakes Primary School:
(Red House, don’t forget your bins!)
Kix FM Wellington is like Rebel FM without the ads.
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Rebel FM wins hands down for me. There are ads though, but not an overwhelming amount.
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The youth station on the Mandurah multiplex probably replaces the Kix Country station that is now iHeart Country and irrelevant now to WCR as the Kix format was a legacy pre Grants acquisition and the Cameron’s have a shareholding in WCR.