First long distance TV of the season just out of Renmark, weak signal and picture was a mess.
3 Likes
In Two Rocks (60km north of Perth) this afternoon, thanks to its warm weather, Iâve managed to get the regional WA channels from Bunbury on a TV connected to a VHF/UHF aerial pointed towards Carmel/Bickley. Thatâs over 200km away!! 
7 Likes
so has anyone even had anything in terms of long distance TV lately? seems to have been pretty dead so far this season
2 Likes
Itâs very hard where I am with so many signals co-chanelled.
FM has been so much easier to log long distance catches with many more frequencies available and repeaters not needed as much.
1 Like
signals were strong enough for long distance TV this morning in Renmark S.A, couldnât lock on to any signals as it kept jumping between the Adelaide Hills and Mildura transmitters (signal quality: 1, signal strength: 5 [green])
1 Like
There are still a few high gain Band II antennas in Taralga NSW; presumably they were for WIN4. Analogue FM from Knights Hill is quite strong there. Also saw a few high gain UHFers pointing towards Mount Canobolas, from Crookwell.
2 Likes
I was there earlier this year.
Had lunch at a cafe that had Prime7 on.
Unfortunately didnât get to see any locals ads to work out which sub market feeds the local translator⌠Could be any of Wollongong, Orange or Canberra as its somewhat in the middle of all three⌠my guess is the latter as thatâs what Goulburn gets.
1 Like
According to this document, the Crookwell translator feeds its signal of the commercial networks & SBS off Mt Gray in Goulburn, which relays the Canberra services. ABC are fed off satellite.
The Taralga translator feeds its signal off Knights Hill.
4 Likes
Goulburn (Mt. Gray) mostly took Canberra feeds in the analogue era, apart from one channel which was fed from Knights Hill (canât remember which; Iâve posted about it before). But back in the solus days, plenty of folk on the Southern Tablelands would have had antennas for both CTC7 (CTC10) and WIN4.
I remember watching the cricket inside Hungry Jacks Marulan in the late 90s; they were receiving WIN Illawarra, probably directly off Knights Hill (UHF59).
3 Likes
That wouldâve been WIN which took its feed from Knights Hill (Illawarra) instead of Black Mountain (Canberra) that Prime & (Ten) Capital took. I think by the end of the 90s, it wouldâve switched over to the Canberra feed.
I remember a similar story in that same restaurant in that same era, in which I observed them receiving Ten Capital from Wollongong, directly off Knights Hill (UHF 62).
Slightly OT, this was the days when regional commercial TV was still a bit more interesting than it is now. 
3 Likes
Conditions must be too unfavorable for any decent chance of ducting in S.A in terms of receiving long distance TV stations at a viewable quality
TV-Expert, is there a similar spreadsheet available for radio stations? Searched the now useless ACMA site and couldnât find anything.
3 Likes
Hereâs the page to bookmark: https://www.acma.gov.au/list-transmitters-licence-broadcast
And the document youâre after: https://www.acma.gov.au/sites/default/files/2019-12/BroadcastTransmitterExcel.zip
1 Like
Many thanks for those. But was hoping there would be an easy way of looking at things like radiation patterns of FM stations. As there is in the TV planning document you linked to. Ah well.
The road diner in Marulan has always received their Tv reception from Knights Hill. They have a large UHF antenna similar to a 91 element wideband antenna on the roof.
1 Like
loungeroom TV was coming up with ânew channels found, please rescan your TVâ a couple days ago in the morning. Rescanned it but nothing new had come up so it mustâve locked onto a signal at some stage during the night. Got my hopes up lol thinking WIN had finally brought out stations that we donât get here in the Riverland S.A
4 Likes
I noticed yours is a Panasonic from the screenshots youâve posted before.
My DVR Panasonic gives me that message afl the time, I think because I get a couple of different versions of the same channel and I havenât scanned them all in eg. NBN can be received on both UHF 28 and 36, but I only have 36 scanned in.
1 Like
I remember in the late 1990s or early 2000s, the TVs at Westfield Sydney were tuned to WIN Illawarra with the cricket on.
5 Likes
Same here. During the Sydney Olympics, they were tuned to Prime Wollongong.
6 Likes