Fond memories - IIRC started as a PA system across Surfers Paradise beach; it never had very good modulation though, always sounded a bit tinny.
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City Of Melbourne LPON now online on 99.7.
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Is there any plans in place to use 1476 or another frequency at the Ludenham site (old 2kA Cool Country)? The tower is still standing but nothing is broadcast from there now.
The 1476 service was supposed to move to 1386, as the operators of 1476 complained about night skip interference from 4ZR Roma.
To then suffer adjacent channel interference from 1395 Lithgow and Adelaide, 1377 Melbourne.
Ah well, AM 1368 will be clear in a year or two.
From the Digital Radio thread:
Not sure if it has been posted here, but I understand that SCA have given up most of their LPON and HPON licenses, which were carrying programming from The Range (or, in a few locations, Kids FM). The stream for the latter, which was active as of 2017, no longer appears on the Kids FM website.
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“Given up” their OPN licenses?
What, are they selling them, or just switching them off completely and “hogging” them so nothing appears on them?
From what I heard, with the exception of 91.5 Toowoomba, the licences weren’t renewed.
(Edit: both the 91.5 and 99.1 [Kids FM] Toowoomba HPONs are set to expire in May 2018, so it’s anyone’s guess as to whether The Range/Triple M Country will remain on air past that date)
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Interesting.
I was checking the ex ‘The Range’ FM licences in Victoria (4 from memory) & I see all 4 licences due to expire
on Jun 30, 2018 so be interesting to see what happens after that time.
I see that 57 licences on 61.2, 62 and 62.7 Mhz have been issued for the Commonwealth Games. They must be for sports ears??? The licences have been issued by ACMA to ACMA, which seems odd.
https://web.acma.gov.au/rrl/licence_search.licence_lookup?pLICENCE_NO=10396269/1
Radio Scanners would be the only device to pick them up. Unless they are selling another device.
Or analog TV…
Lol!
I can “picture”’ it now.
“Watch the Commonwealth Games now in not so crystal clear worse than SD Channel 2 on ANY TV set”.
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Would have to be a promo device as a normal run of the mill scanner would not pick it up due to it been FM Stereo aka WFM according to the emissions designator (200KF8EHF)
Better than this sardine stacked rubbish of digital. Mercifully less ad inventory too. DTV very poorly implemented in Aus, a great repeat of the aggregation bend over to suit the likes of Kerry Packer.
Whilst it’s sad to lose the localism of regional TV, aggregation kind of had to happen in this day and age with streaming and internet.
Regional viewers wouldn’t be waiting around these days for their station to show programs that metro stations had shown months ago.
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Mystery Arabic broadcaster on 107.9MHz FM now.
For several months there’s been an un-modulated carrier on 107.9MHz Sydney wide.
Today I note Arabic language programming on this frequency.
Looking at ACMA records for 107.9MHz I find no licence records for this freq in Sydney for
next couple of weeks. That said there are scheduled short term licences on this frequency for:
Voice of Islam: May 15 - 29, 2018
Albayon: From May 30th
So far I haven’t been able to parallel it to any other known Arabic language broadcasters.
But haven’t yet gone through the VHF 151MHz licences.
Absence of ACMA records ‘may’ make it a pirate transmission?
Thoughts?
This may well be a pirate station, but there has been some sort of Christian broadcast on 90.5 in stereo in the Lake Macquarie area for the past couple of weeks now.
There hasn’t been any sort of station ID or even music, just all gospel talk.
I hear mostly the open carrier (txing from 43 Bridge Street Hurstville) with a hint of Arabic talk underneath. I hope the Arabic tx isn’t from Hurstville as well! A gross piece of mismanagement by all involved.
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That open carrier is still transmitting? You’d think ACMA would’ve looked into that by now, after it stuffed up a good part of this year’s AFTRS/Show Radio transmission.
I would guess that the mystery Arabic broadcaster is Voice of Islam.
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No it’s not them. That was the first broadcaster I tried to parallel with (and I have excluded the MW X-banders).
Some of these ethnic broadcasters have audio feeds with significant delays between their different outlets which doesn’t make the task easy. Still working through the VHF NAS stations, for a possible ID. No luck yet.
I hear mostly the open carrier (txing from 43 Bridge Street Hurstville) with a hint of Arabic talk underneath. I hope the Arabic tx isn’t from Hurstville as well! A gross piece of mismanagement by all involved.
Thanks for the heads-up on this. Yes what a mess!
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