In Melbourne, Australian Open Radio will replace RSN Carnival 2’s regular programming during the tennis grand slam from Monday. Coverage of each day’s events commence at 10:45am. More information at the RSN website.
Australian Open Radio also operates on 99.7FM from Melbourne Park, with a special events license.
Have to agree with that, it’s my “go to” music station in the car. I was discussing with my better half the lack of commercials, are they not permitted to advetise or just not seen as a demand for them?
I’m pretty sure there’s no law that prevents Digital Radio stations from broadcasting ads. From memory, I’ve heard ads air on NTS and the SRN/BOG digital offerings for Sydney in the past.
Pure Gold 80s used to air the same ad every 30 mins or thereabouts, but don’t air any at all now.
Smooth FM in Brisbane runs commercials.
I can’t believe that 2SM Digital is STILL having the right audio channel issue (where it’s louder than the left). This has been going on for MONTHS!!!
Obviously 2SM just doesn’t care what it sounds like.
2SM sounds very badly digitally compressed even on AM radio, so I think balanced stereo channels on DAB+ would be a bit much to ask for 
I would suggest the majority of digital radio listeners would be on mono receivers anyway. So the subset of digital radio listeners who listen to 2SM and can actually hear the stereo have probably all posted in this thread…
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In Melbourne, Australian Open Radio will replace RSN Carnival 2’s regular programming during the tennis open from Monday. Coverage of each day’s events commence at 10:45am. More information at the RSN website.[/quote]
So it sort of replaces ABC Radio’s live description of the Australian Open after the broadcaster pulled out due to increasing radio rights cost. I wonder if the organisers prefer to have its own coverage (instead of ABC’s coverage) broadcast to a wide audience
Been listening to a bit of the tennis on AO radio and it’s not as good as the ABC coverage of previous years at least on 774. Last night Craig Willis (only ever heard him as an emcee or doing voice overs) was bumbling his way through the Hewitt match. Sounded dreadful. I did hear Steve Pearce calling a match earlier in the week and also doing updates for Grandstand during the cricket.
Interesting observation or quirk on my newish sony pocket digital radio.
https://www.sony.ee/support/en/product/XDR-P1DBP
When earphones plug in I am not sure if my earphones is that effective aerial it breaks up at my location. In other locations it did not work at all. It “should not” break up at my location at all (or very rare). I unscrew the aerial out of the device. Now much better reception. 
The manual does say when you plug in the ear phones it uses the ear phone cable. I suspect it does but the other aerial is still “active” if that makes sense causing your ear phones to be less effective esp when your radio is in a pocket.
Did not test it at a “weaker area” (with the aerial unscrewed out).
My best dxing device is for digital is the Sangean but the Sony has the advantage of at low volumes there is no “computer noise” or “circuit noise” with the ear phones/plugs in. This is the sangean (http://www.sangean.com.au/product/digital-radios/pocket-radios/dpr-34-dabfm-rds-personalpocket-radio). And I always thought the Sangean was just a LOT better at picking up the dab reception than the Sony. Now it might be similar. The Sony one has the disadvantage of having dig into the menus to find the signal meter and it only stays active for around 30 secs or so.
I don’t think I would bother claiming warranty I bet it is working as design, any DAB or radio manufacturer can send me radio I can test :).
That’s very unusual re the Sony XDR-P1DB… I’ve never heard of a radio with a telescopic antenna using the earphone cable for the aerial before.
What’s the sound quality like? Does it have RDS on FM? Could be a good purchase as JB have it on special at the moment for $97.30 (but you probably didn’t want to hear that).
Good sound quality even at low volumes. It does have RDS! The sound of the internal speaker is good for it size.
If I had to pick between the Sony and Sangean, I would like to road test it more the Sony before the Sangean with reception issues sort of solved now its 50/50. Still might lean to the Sangean as the Sony has an annoying aerial issue :). I did decide to email Sony but not sure if they have a fix. I think it is a be design issue. You can see the screw removed in the picture below.
Thanks for the reply!
I currently have this model Sangean
I have been very happy with it, good sound, good reception, no issues with it really.
I am keen to try something smaller and a bit more portable though…
I am tempted by the Sony you have, sounds like it would a good buy at $97.30 whilst it’s on special at JB.
The Sangean DRP-34 looks tempting too.
http://www.sangean.com.au/product/digital-radios/pocket-radios/dpr-34-dabfm-rds-personalpocket-radio
Just realised JB have this on special too… at $118. $50 off!!!
That might be an even better bet (given my positive Sangean experience so far)… it’s smaller again and has an extendable antenna (though doesn’t look to be rotatable).
I doubt my local JB would stock either up here (Newcastle), they only have a few DAB+ radios, certainly not as many what I have seen in the Sydney stores, so I reckon they’d have to order them in…
I think I’ll go down later today and ask… (the Charlestown store is only a 5 min walk away 
).
I’ve got the DPR-65. Quite a good radio, the DAB+ is great and the FM tuner is quite decent too. Of course you can get RDS from FM stations with it, but don’t most if not all DAB+/FM radios have that feature these days?
Although if you were to get one, I’d probably get rechargeable batteries for it (thankfully, you can charge batteries. My one came with an AC lead however the newer versions seem to come with USB charging facilities) because it isn’t the greatest pocket radio in the world for battery life.
Incidentally, the DPR-65 is currently on special at JB for $90.30. If only it was that price when I brought mine, but I’m digressing here…
I have a Sangean DRP-34 and find it excellent. If you fully extend the telescopic antenna it can be angled and rotated, though it is quite delicate. I have found that it works quite well without the antenna. You don’t need it at all when using the earphones or if it is connected to an amp via a 3.5mm cable. Even it you want to listen to the inbuit speaker, the antenna doesn’t need to be extended very far, though distance from transmitter would affect that - but it does seem to be very sensitive. Comes with rechargable battery.
It was my lucky day… my local JB had ONE DRP-34 and in black… my preferred colour choice too (over red or white).
It’s currently charging - needs a 4 hour charge, so won’t know until tonight as to how it goes.
I have now had a play with my DRP-34, and it works pretty well (for what it is) where I am, which is 105 kms from the Tx.
TV Cynic is right, extending the antenna doesn’t make a great deal of difference to reception, even where I am.
On DAB+, best reception I get anywhere inside my place today is 4 bars, obviously near the (south facing) window!
Typical reading in most rooms of my place is 1-2 bars, but there are quite a few dead spots where there is no reception at all, this is usually further away from the window… there is no reception at all in the bathroom or laundry, which do not have a south facing window. But then I expected that.
Outside is a better story, there are no dead spots, reception is stable when moving about, but still varies from 1-4 bars.
FM is kind of similar … Good reception of Sydney FM outdoors and inside near the window, not so good away from the window, and not as good as my Teccy or my DRP-67… but then I expected that too.
The only thing that perplexes me is the jog wheel… 2 or 3 buttons to replicate these functions would have worked better for me I think. And the flap for the charger looks VERY frail, and it wouldn’t take much for it to be broken off.
The rechargable battery is built in, and thus is non replacable, another bit of a drawback
who owns kinderling? i ask because i heard an advert for kinderling last night on MMM classic rock
It’s owned by SCA.
