I believe the TX was at St Marys (in the Dunheaved industrial estate next to the Golf Course) when Radio 2 first started.
They had a sales office in Blacktown, but the studio was in Crows Nest - it was often a joke amongst announcers that they couldn’t pick up the station at the studio.
With the site at Badgery’s Creek - I believe Cool Country Radio on 1476 used that site at the cnr Elizabeth Dr and Luddenham Rd until they disappeared 10 years agoi.
Quite possible, though I thought the old 2KA 1476 translator & subsequent following Cool Country Radio site was somewhere near Castlereagh/Landilo?
The old 2KA translator was at Emu Plains. More specifically, it was at the women’s prison farm.
107.9 has been open carrier for the past two weeks now. Seems like this isn’t the first time they’ve just left their TX on for an extended period of time after their licence expired.
Here’s the technical details of that service:
https://web.acma.gov.au/rrl/assignment_search.lookup?pEFL_ID=644294
It transmits out of the same transmitter as Eagle/GN at Mt Gray with an ERP of 1 watt.
1 watt can go a long way from a high site. Vision Mt Cootha gets out like the happy clappers, pun intended.
You can go check if you want, but last I heard from a non Vision tech who had visited the site was that Vision wasn’t running at 1 watt from Mt Coot-tha, it was running at well above that, can’t remember the exact power he told me as it was over 6 months ago now, but was either 100W or 1kW, & that they were using something like a 2.5kW TX? Whatever it was, was a ridiculous power for both the transmission & actual transmitter. Maybe it was they were using a 1kW TX running at 100W? This tech like most of us, doesn’t like the happy clappers & the way they get away with things other broadcasters simply wouldn’t, & suffice to say he was quite pissed off at this.
Vision would claim that they are indeed running 1 watt, but the Almighty has miraculously boosted their power to 100 watts. They’ll simply claim it’s an Act Of God.
I agree with the larfers on FC 70s, too. There’s no way it’s 1 watt, probably at least 10 watts.
haha the lord has blessed us with 1KW on a 1 Watt Licence… its a miracle
Wonder what site they come off? I know in my travels up there I haven’t seen their transmitter.
I must say I wasn’t looking for it though. I will say though my TEF gets quite swamped by their signal up there. Which I thought was a little weird. Be interesting to check it if I can get access.
Very interesting.
No evidence that its running more than 1 watt. 1 watt will get out well from the right site and given that the tx site is around 300m above sea level, it would do well.
Some of the claims/comments on this forum would be liable / defamatory for sure.
Clearly you have no connection to this station, I assume?
Posted in The Radio Green Room on Facebook that these licences were up for sale.
Owned by the guy who owns 2ME.
I wonder what such a narrowcast licence would be worth?
Looking forward to 1629 SEN Track Falls Creek
I think the evidence is that many of us who work on the ground at the TX sites have seen far to many times LPON & HPONS particularly ones of the Religious variety running excess power then what they are allowed, hence why when we note one of them getting out further then what we assume to be acceptable coverage give their site and allowed output power we put 2 and 2 together
Does anyone know what the station is that’s broadcasting narrow bandwidth FM around 153.97 Mhz? Heard in Brisbane, and seems to be Vietnamese. I came across it a while ago on RTL-SDR, and someone else came across it yesterday and mentioned it in another forum. I thought you guys would know. 
I had it as VKG861
Not sure if still current
There’s a new station on 87.6 which I can pick up from my home in Cheltenham Melbourne. There only used to be Kiss FM on this frequency and I can still hear it faintly underneath this new station. It’s playing very old music (1930s?) and isn’t doing any ids. Does anyone know what it could be (it’s not 3GL)?
Edit: the transmission just stopped at 10:38pm
It’s back on again tonight, I wonder if it’s on a schedule?
That format sounds like Beautiful Music, the kind of music that 3AK, 2CH, 5AA and others played in the 70’s to mid 80’s.
Forever Classic 60’s has a new website.
@Radiohead is it possible to check 97.5 in the Canberra / Queanbeyan region to determine if Capital Radio have implemented RDS for this outlet?
