Fair enough mate, appreciate all the work you’ve done thus far. Good luck in your future direction 
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Yes I noticed 2NCR are now called River. Do you know if this happened before or after River 94.9 Ipswich, because again they’ve got a station just up the road called the same thing! What’s wrong with Lismore, all out of ideas? 
And you can definitely get River 94.9 in parts of the Lismore licence area.
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Ah man, those of us in SEQ will be sorry to see you go. You brought great joy to a few radio nerds when you reintroduced AM stereo to these parts via 4WK, among many other things.
Can you answer a quick question for me? Is the RDS on 95.5 Toowoomba down? I can’t seem to receive it anymore. I used to be able to pick it up in parts of Brisbane but now I can’t even on the Warrego Hwy.
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The AM Stereo was not just my doing but also the manager as well as Andrew Chapman
But yeah I always tried to do the best I could with the passion and drive I had during my time with the network.
Yeah the original RDS was fed over the MPX link but since has been changed to a Digital link just before I went to NZ, so the internally generated RDS on the FM TX was used, but a few months ago it seems to have lost its shit and stopped working… Been I am not actually employed by SRN anymore and only simply helping where I can, I have not had time nor access to the site to work out what was wrong
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RDS picking up in our area here in SEQ and NNSW, I still find it interesting that all stations on the Coast have RDS except 94.1 and 89.3 and the ABC’s. I do realise the audience of said stations would not understand what was happening if they saw it, but it would be good for them as in my car, stations with RDS are at the top of the station list but the others are buried at the bottom, and being that you pick up Brisbane and Northern NSW on the coast, and also being now ZZZ Lismore has RDS, it just pushes them further down that list in most cars.
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I can confirm 89.5 JJJ Dulong Lookout for the southern/central Sunshine Coast does not have RDS operating.
Left a radio running whilst at lunch last week in a high signal area. No RDS.
No RDS via car radio either.
Sunshine have updated from all upper case to Sunshine.
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Just noticed tonight that COW-FM Casino has turned on RDS - COW-FM as the PS but no RT. That’s now COW-FM, Paradise and 2ZZZ with RDS in the Northern Rivers! Great to see.
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That’s good news! Hopefully River FM and 88.9 Coraki won’t be too far off… Something tells me BAY FM and 2NIM FM will be the last…
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Though I’m sure a few of their presenters would see RDS- among other hallucinations- dancing across their radios.
Good effort from COW FM, surprising as they don’t even stream.
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Yes, they’ll probably think RDS is a new drug they should be having…
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The stoners on 2NIM do know their music though…I’ll give them that. It’s always an interesting eclectic (and entertaining) listen.
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Interesting, does the regular News Radio on 88.5 run RDS?
Captains Flat 88.5 only ran NewsRadio for a while, then relayed 666 AM. It then switched to a DAB relay (with ‘DB6400’ RDS) before the last round of storms knocked it off air. It returned just over a week ago with the current relay of ABC Classic.
It’s likely that storms will cause issues again later in the week. Captains Flat is a real storm magnet, so this service has been off as often as it’s been on. A nightmare for the people responsible for it. Given it’s in such a storm prone location, you’d almost have to have a volunteer tech in the town to maintain the service.
The issues may just simply be a loss of power to the site, with nobody to reboot the tx.
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Kiis 97.3 Brisbane Still hasnt changed their RDS. Still Says 97.3FM. This rebrand has to be the slowest in History!
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So they’re using the KIIS name on air?
Yes. has been for about a week
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Some RDS changes noted to TCBL Hawk FM 89.9 since last inspection.
RT now displays just the one message: The Hawkesbury’s Best Radio Station
PTY changed to Varied.
Also their AF (oddly) changed from 87.6 to 107.8
An AF shouldn’t exist in their RDS feed in first place, the change might be due to equipment change or software reset. (?)
Their RDS sub-carrier is now stronger than it was earlier in the year.
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I noticed that too earlier today, & I think it’s stuck on the same song title - artist, it was the same as you have shown, at around 9:30am this morning, unless they’re playing the same song over & over.
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