@theduytv How can I find out more about Xone?
Curious to know where/when it is on air these days (if at all) and if the Australian/Malaysian connections still exist?
I’d love to be involved in it in some way as it seems like that format/style is sorely needed in Vietnam.
I enjoyed the brief bit I heard of it back in 2019 whilst in Vietnam but the Xone app I downloaded at the time no longer seems to work.
xone.fm or zingmp3 app, don’t know if the latter can use outside of vietnam. the own xonefm app is discontinued.
Ok let us pause for a minute to remember this day in radio history as the day the bullant lost his mind…
And let everyone know what he thinks about community radio in the Hawkesbury
12pm 22nd of October 2022
Are we sure someone hasnt hijacked the transmitter? or is it actually a legit broadcast. Judging by the youtube clip that is not easy listening either.
Who’s to say 
, I say it’s very unlikely… it had the hall marks and temperament of someone well known to the very many TCBL groups…
On Saturday evening I used the SDR’s FM Co-channel Canceller on the above signal. The result indicated no other station underneath.
Amazing, thank you @TelevisionAU.
Fascinated of the intention of 3CV’s ‘FM by design’ claim. What did they mean?
I believe it was a reference to the format/playlist which was like what most metro commercial FMs were doing at the time. IIRC most regional AMs were fairly MOR or hits and memories formats but 3CV in the 1980s and early 90s was more focussed on top 40/AC/rock.
Thanks @TelevisionAU, had a feeling it was the format. Also wondered was it technical, AM stereo or something.
I was curious too to see the 3GG/3TR joint ad. Ads like that for sales purposes is not all that unusual, but curious about the coverage of the two stations. 3GG used to get well into Melbourne so I’m guessing it was more focussed towards East Gippsland while 3TR was towards the West with perhaps a bit of overlap in the middle? Or did both stations cover the whole Gippsland-Latrobe Valley region in competition?
The promotion of AM stereo had died out before the early 90s.
3CV may well have been AM stereo, as I think both 3BA and 3BO as their nearest competitors were AM stereo. I know 3BA was, I recall seeing them listed as ‘3BAM Stereo’ in an ad for Take 40 (in I think) the Countdown magazine .
3BO was in AM stereo at the time. From memory 3BO had a slightly older music format to 3CV.
In the pre-FM days Echuca was spoilt for choice with radio: you had 2QN Deniliquin, 3SR Shepparton, 3BO and 3CV Bendigo, and 3SH Swan Hill, as well as the lower-down-the-dial Melbourne stations (3AR (RN), 3LO (ABC Melbourne), 3UZ, 3DB and 3KZ) were receivable both day and night. ABC radio was covered by 2CO Corowa and 3WV Horsham with its high-power transmitter.
Interesting. Do you think AM was just better those days? I tend to think so.
In pre-FM days I think a few regional areas were luckier than most when it came to picking up neighbouring stations. Growing up in Maryborough (Qld) I could easily receive 4GY Gympie (day and night unless it was stormy) and also 4BU Bundaberg during the day. Both AM signals (558 & 1332) don’t get anywhere near Maryborough these days.
I had a friend who lived out near Chinchilla on the Darling Downs who could easily get 4AK and 4GR from Toowoomba and also 4SB Kingaroy, all sounding pretty “local strength”. Not 4WK though.
Further north there were the 2-station markets of Townsville (4AY/4TO) and Rockhampton/Gladstone (4RO/4CC) that I always envied. Not many regional towns in Australia were officially 2-station markets. In Toowoomba’s case it was 3 (4GR/4AK/4WK - although I always found 4WK a bit dodgy in Toowoomba itself).
Were there any official 2-station regional markets in other states in the 70s and 80s? I think Launcestion (7LA/7EX) is the only other one I can think of? I guess Newcastle although that’s not really “regional”.
I remember visiting Childers as a kid and people were listening to 4KQ (when it was at St Helena). Being in low built up farming area helped. You could also pick up 4QR quite well while 4IP was also present.
In terms of reception?
Yes definitely was back then, there was a lot less electrical noise back then, and I think AM transmitters have deteriorated with age and haven’t been maintained as well nowadays with less money in AM radio.
Bathurst is a good example, in which along with local 2BS, one could get 2GZ from Orange & 2LT from Lithgow, especially when the latter moved from 1395 to 900 back in the mid-1980s. This continued after their s39 FM stations came on-air.
Coffs Harbour was another one, even though 2CS didn’t come on-air until 1985. Prior to that, 2MC was the local station, and after 2CS came on-air, there was a bit of competition there between the two, which continued after their s39’s came on. Nowadays, both pairs of Hit & MMM are the same outside of their local shifts.
Yep 4IP/Radio 10 was pretty good, and I remember 4KQ coming in pretty strongly in Hervey Bay in particular.
Sunshine Coast had it pretty good as most of the coast could receive both 4GY and 4SS as local stations, along with Radio 10 and 4KQ very well.
