Updated the car radio DAB presets to the new IDs - seems inconsistent to have lower case for hit105 and a capital for the other hit brands.
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Is your car a Holden?
The style/font looks similar to other recent Holdens I’ve seen,
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Yes - Calais.
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Nice. Salt FM is a pretty strong signal into Brisbane isn’t it from the SC. Similarly Bridge 99.7 is strong into the Gold Coast in places.
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It’s been there for a couple of days now. At a guess, maybe testing for Ultra106five?
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Oh cool, I hadn’t noticed.
Possibly for Ultra, but not from Ultra. The encoder hasn’t been installed yet, only the link to the mountain.
The Sony XDR-P1DBP digital radio meets the needs of co-channeled digital services:
It’s a fantastic, handheld radio with an excellent speaker for loud voice listening (most digital radios have speakers only useful for music and sound muffled and quiet for voice).
Reception is the best I’ve had in a decade of digital radio being on air. Receives down to a signal threshold lower than others. Excellent for fringe conditions.
For this reason, I was able to do the following here:
Having done my share of driving prior to this stretch, from the rear passenger seat, I was able to flick between signal strengths of the Canberra and Sydney multiplexes. Nulled each out to check, so I could only receive one to know, then checked on stretches when both were available.
Great fun to pass the time (night, driven the road in daytime before, picturesque country, worth the drive) and a helpful feature for when future sites are operational.
It would seem so. Handled CBR and SYD on the same block, so should do.
Yet to discover the limit of multiplexes stored either. Sangean and Bush models are notorious for having a limit of not much more than 6 blocks, certainly unable to load all Bris, Syd & Melb markets on some of them. Disgraceful.
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So, in the future it could handle different local ABC on 9C in Sydney, Wollongong, Central Coast, Newcastle and Canberra if you had them all tuned in?
I doubt 9C would be used in such close proximity, unless it was a direct SFN of the Sydney 9C mux (in which case the regional ABCs would have to be simulcast in Sydney and visa-versa…
Not sure if I am misunderstanding your post, but my Sangean DPR-67 will keep already scanned in stations when you are doing a scan in a another city.
For example, when I go to Melbourne, both Gold and WS will appear in my station lists and if I try to access WS, it will just say “Service not available”.
If I don’t want to keep the Sydney stations in my list, I have to do a “Factory reset” first,
Yes Salt FM is strong in Brisbane - Sunshine on 104.9 less so and affected by co-channel Warwick ABCRR.
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Totally possible.
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Ah ok, cool!
With the improved coverage, what for 2CA? Will it enjoy a KQ like resurgence as people discover music older than the FM commercials on digital and buy more radios?
4WK’s FM conversion of their Toowoomba translator helped immensely for them and that’s mostly talk with little or no external marketing and not exactly the most popular format either. 2CA on digital should be a greater leap in time.
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There is a bit of Canberra tropo coming into my part of Sydney tonight. Today I put back up the dab+ folded vertical dipole, and fastened it to the mast under the 10 element band 3 VHF antenna for dab+ dexing. If there is really strong Canberra tropo I will switch the cables between antennas and see if 8d Canberra will scan in.
Can I combine the dab+ antenna and band 3 vhf antenna so they both can connect to the vhf port of my masthead amp? and if so what would I need to do this?
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That theoretically may not work well because of the potential for the signals to be out of phase - so at some frequencies the signals coming in would attenuate leading to poorer reception than just one antenna.
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Thank you I will just get up on the roof and switch the cables between antennas.
I notice today is the 10th birthday of Digital Radio DAB+ & 10 years on it’s still only broadcast into the Capital Cities so the Question has to be asked is Digital Radio ever going to be rolled out Nationwide or is it already old hat with the explosion of Streaming Audio ???
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It’s about to expand into Mandurah, the first non-capital city market to get DAB+. Even the Digital Radio Plus website said that it’s coming soon.
Plus, consultation papers for DAB+ in Bathurst, Cooma, Goulburn & Warragul is set to be released within the next couple of months according to ACMA’s draft FYSO 2019-23.
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