There has been proportionate comment here about the cut price FM mono translators for WA/Red FM that remain mono after the SCA acquisition.
The DX’ers and travellers contributing here have noticed commercial, community and national FM stations in mono.
For years, ABC Gold & Sunshine Coasts was the only local radio station of theirs on stereo on FM due to the music based Coast FM programming it began with.
That is correct…
Path 1 is Microwave G.703 using the wayside channels on NEC microwave
Path 2 is Livewire over DVN2
They use still use G.703 over microwave links because older and even some new microwave systems cant deal with Livewire/Wheatnet very well
87.8 in Richmond has changed format/station again, its back to Noise FM and now playing rock music.
So its been in the past few months:
Maybe they pride themselves on “Never the same 2 formats in a month” 
Interesting approach to narrowcasting - appealing to no one because the format keeps changing?
Now in mono here on the GC! and from speaking with aperson involved with ABC transmitter control we put it back in stereo and it was definately being fed by a stereo link… but it ended up back in mono again
Yes, was in stereo when I was up there last May and heard stereo music during the evening program.
Thanks, I don’t listen much now as no music is likely to be programmed locally in what are talk based shifts.
Keen to hear digital radio on air in earnest.
so, like WPIX-FM was in the 1970s?
I’ve heard a WPIX-FM aircheck on YT and liked the ‘freeform’ format, but then again I’m Billy Bob and my shows don’t follow the rules. FM radio in the US back then was a lot looser in format.
Oh good lord.
Mmm…yes. Well it has been said in the past by someone that LPON’s in some cases are a play toy licence. Nathan has a lot of LPONs licences on 87.6/87.8MHz
Looking at the Noise FM facebook site, no recent posts either. 
For what it’s worth River FM is still on 87.6MHz from wherever out west.
WPIX-FM was famous in the seventies (at least in US radio circles) for “format of the week” – it never could stay on one for long enough to “get anywhere”.
Happy 3GL Launch Day everybody!
I’m listening to it online via http://sdr-amradioantennas.com:8075/ (posted originally by @mullauna) and scanned to 1341 MW.
Anyone in Victoria with an AM Radio picking it up via 1341 AM? Are they coming through much stronger now than previous months (during the tests)?
So far, I’ve heard an ad break, two station IDs (newly recorded, not a classic), Johnny Cash’s A Boy Named Sue, The Supreme’s Where Did Our Love Go, The Coasters’ Yakkaty Yak and The Easybeats’ Wedding Ring.
still is coming soon though
I thought Grant/Geelong Broadcasters would have the site up and running on Launch Day with Internet Streaming
And here’s a RDS capture taken yesterday of RIVER FM 87.6 still showing an AF of 87.8MHz. 
The PI code has been changed at some point in time.
tips hat my pleasure, good Sir/Ms./Mx.
Anyone else seeing ads for a new Central Coast internet dance station called Doosh FM?
Got to love the FB comment below.
The problem with dance is that, like Country, it is a hard sell to agencies.
Typical buyer response is “who wants to hear that at 7 AM in the morning?”
