Very informative explanation from 1WAY there, with a weird mix of font sizes!
I cannot find any crown land around Como.
Jannali Reserve is also known as Burnum Burnum Sanctuary near Tudar Rd.
It looks like crown land and yes there is a mobile tower at the top of the hill. It is shared between Optus, Telstra and Vodafone.
Do many people in Bonnet Bay / Woronora use the Woronora tv translator if it is going to be moved??
Grays point is a notorious bad spot for Tv reception as it is in a gully with hills either side. There is a Telstra site listed in the Royal National Park on ACMA on the Temptation Creek Trail. It is near Kirrawee but obviously no buildings there. Looking forward to finding out more when you have the details.
1 Like
To answer my own question looking at Google street view there are quite a few houses on the eastern side of the Woronora River in Woronora that use the txa Woronora site for tv. Could not see any on the western side of the river but this side has better LOS towards Gore Hill / Artatmon.
2 Likes
Ultra 106.5 and 7RPH in Hobart have come on DAB+ tonight!
5 Likes
I believe the priority should be repeating dab radio in the tunnels than a repeater in the Como area. Given how slow they were to notice the issue at Winmalee, it was only because of this forum and a bit of luck they fixed the issue. Nobody really monitors the repeaters so why spend more money. If they do need tp spend money, at least in tunnels people will notice given a lot of new cars have a dab radio.
4 Likes
The M4 East tunnels in Sydney have DAB repeaters in them
6 Likes
Great did not know that, never drove there yet. I wonder, would the emergency alerts work?
A few things in response to that. Itâs the CRA Joint Venture Company paying for the Como translator.
I guess they will but I donât know, if ABC/SBS are paying anything & will TX there (like back at the start of all the other translators)?
DAB+ repeaters in tunnels would be at the tunnel owners expense, would you be interested in paying higher tolls in the tunnels just to have DAB reception, considering the small amount of people that would listen in/hear them?
Youâve pretty well answered your own question also.
Despite the number of new cars that have DAB+ (over 2.5 million according to the latest CRA figures), a large proportion of those would be used in areas who donât have any access to DAB+ radio, so are pointless counting, & the fact of what happened in Western Sydney with the repeaters, & other than someone from this forum notifying them there was an issue after 2 days, no others noticed or it didnât bother them, as they just switched to AM/FM or something else. From this, itâs plainly obvious that large numbers of people arenât listening to DAB+ in their cars, despite the fact that they can (& CRA would have us believe they do), & as I said at the time, if that issue was with AM or FM, BA & the broadcasters wouldâve been overloaded with reception complaints, & it wouldâve been fixed within an hour of it starting, not 2 days later.
Youâve also just got to look at most of the regional DAB+ maps, thereâs poor or no coverage outside the town centres (as has been mentioned here recently), regionally people who leave the town centre wonât bother changing from DAB in town to FM out of town & back, theyâll just put it on FM & leave it there, for anyone who travels between regional centres DAB+ might as well not even exist.
Just for clarification Iâm not talking Wollongong/Sydney/Central Coast/Newcastle or Melbourne/Geelong or Sunshine Coast/Brisbane/Gold Coast as the regional centres being traveled between.
6 Likes
re tunnel DAB radio and radio in general.
Yeah dont want to pay higher tolls 
. I thought the CRA would pay for the tunnel operators to broadcast radio including dab (plus analog radio), so people in the tunnel would keep listening to radio rather than switch off & listen to an old fashion CD. Was wrong there, 
its the other way round.
Do the tunnel operators pay for Optus / Telstra / Vodafone to keep the mobile coverage going? Or its the telco?
1 Like
Because itâs telco & highly regulated, the telcos install & maintain their own infrastructure in the tunnels, the telcos install their own infrastructure in the Sydney & Melbourne Train tunnels also.
1 Like
DAB+ HOBART ; ensembleId 1380; channel 9A; frequency 202928;
Audio services
program name;country;serviceId;subchannelId;start address;length (CU); bit rate;DAB/DAB+; prot level; code rate; language; program type
7HOFM ; ;1380;1;192;30;40;DAB+;EEP 3-A;1/2;English;Pop Music;
Kix Country ; ;1381;2;228;24;32;DAB+;EEP 3-A;1/2;English;Country Music;
7HO Classic Hits; ;1382;3;252;24;32;DAB+;EEP 3-A;1/2;English;Pop Music;
Triple M HOBART ; ;1390;17;0;36;48;DAB+;EEP 3-A;1/2;English;Other Music;
Hit100.9 ; ;1391;18;36;36;48;DAB+;EEP 3-A;1/2;English;Pop Music;
MMM CLASSIC ROCK; ;1393;20;72;36;48;DAB+;EEP 3-A;1/2;English;Rock Music;
Hit Easy ; ;1397;24;108;36;48;DAB+;EEP 3-A;1/2;English;Easy Listening;
7RPH Print Radio; ;13B0;50;384;48;64;DAB+;EEP 3-A;1/2;unknown language;none;
Ultra 106.5 ; ;13B1;49;336;48;64;DAB+;EEP 3-A;1/2;unknown language;none;
Hobart FM ; ;13B3;51;288;48;64;DAB+;EEP 3-A;1/2;unknown language;none;
New additions: 7RPH Print Radio and Ultra 106.5. Both HE-AAC v1 @ 64kbps
2 Likes
I was down in Canberra today & noticed that My Canberra Digital didnât have any audio whenever Iâve flicked to them. All other Capital DAB+ stations (2CA, 2CC & Snow at least; didnât check on KIX Country & Coles Radio) were there as normal.
Anyone else in Canberra noticed? @littlegezzybear
4 Likes
Yes. I noticed that My Canberra was dead twice in the past couple of weeks while all the other Capital digital stations were ok, though it did eventually reappear. It seems that no one at 2CA-2CC bothers to listen to My Canberra to check it is on-air.
1 Like
Has Triple M always had 2 stations? I have âMMM104.9 TRIPLEMâ and âTriple Mâ. Looks to be the same audio stream.
1 Like
It seems that theyâve been attending the 2SM SODOM (School Of Digital Off-Air Monitoring), which has had a music station (ZOO Digital) that has been stuck in mono for months,
3 Likes
Same thing in Brisbane MMM and Triple M - Macquarie do the same thing with 11164BC and 4BC - same data stream points to two labels.
2 Likes
I read recently (maybe even on here?) that Triple M is launching another new digital station so maybe the extra one is a placeholder for that.
1 Like
There is going to be 4 - 2 from hit and 2 from MMM
2 Likes
Interesting. I kinda like what absolute radio do in the UK. They have their FM station (which is exactly what MMM should be playing IMO), a Classic Rock station, and then 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, 00s stations.
2 Likes