# Random Radio **URL:** \ **Category:** General Radio and Digital\ **Created:** [December 28, 2015, 8:01am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/random-radio/263 "2015-12-28T08:01:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 84
**Author:** ![dxnerd](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/dxnerd/32/404112_2.png) [@dxnerd](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/dxnerd)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2018, 8:52pm UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/random-radio/263/1672 "2018-12-17T20:52:22Z")
There’s a bit of Life on the frequency for me (pun absolutely intended). 2SSR seems to be back to normal now also. ---
**Author:** ![Laoma](https://forums.mediaspy.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Laoma](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/Laoma)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2018, 12:31am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/random-radio/263/1673 "2018-12-18T00:31:13Z")
![image](https://mediaspy-org-s3.s3.dualstack.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/original/3X/b/f/bf9b546dd4cd5226724eb3995c9dbccb3664a431.png) ![image](https://mediaspy-org-s3.s3.dualstack.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/original/3X/7/e/7e4e420e8fe0e4da54082e5114333cc5e23a0b31.png) ![image](https://mediaspy-org-s3.s3.dualstack.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/original/3X/e/d/ed4be5bcba0ab2cbad7c4fb32e14dcf108243fe5.png) This is a bit random, I notice that at my current location with a very small aerial the reception for 9C is below 10dB but 9A and 9B are above 10 dB on average… Not sure if it proves anything, this is a random post :). I don’t think I am within range of the repeaters (but in theory 9C should be repeated now all around Sydney). ---
**Author:** ![gordo92](https://forums.mediaspy.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/6bbea6/32.png) [@gordo92](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/gordo92)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2018, 2:21am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/random-radio/263/1674 "2018-12-18T02:21:30Z")
Great to see 2SM has changed it’s audio from Mono to Stereo… Just out of intrest is it Parametric Stereo or Discrete Stereo??? ---
**Author:** ![Laoma](https://forums.mediaspy.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Laoma](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/Laoma)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2018, 2:26am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/random-radio/263/1675 "2018-12-18T02:26:58Z")
Good question. How do you tell? The Audiocodec is AAC-LC. ---
**Author:** ![SydneyCityTV](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/sydneycitytv/32/66248_2.png) [@SydneyCityTV](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/SydneyCityTV)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2018, 2:42am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/random-radio/263/1676 "2018-12-18T02:42:44Z")
Although being in a very good location for signals from Willoughby/Artarmon/Gore Hill probably helps things on my end, personally I find that having the TV antenna plugged into the USB tuner (even with the polarization differences) comes up with the best DAB+ signal results! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Radiohead](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/radiohead/32/21429_2.png) [@Radiohead](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/Radiohead)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2018, 2:52am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/random-radio/263/1677 "2018-12-18T02:52:47Z")
Yes, even up here (105 kms away) with the telescopic antenna on my portable DAB radio at horizontal, I can still get a reasonably reliable DAB signal, though it’s only a bit above the digital cliff. Results are obviously better with the antenna vertical. The higher gain on your outdoor antenna and the better location more than makes up for the polarity issue. ---
**Author:** ![Laoma](https://forums.mediaspy.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Laoma](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/Laoma)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2018, 10:16am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/random-radio/263/1678 "2018-12-18T10:16:27Z")
Well hhh 100.1 still off air. Must be hard being a community stations, funding to fix such problems would be hard to come by. ---
**Author:** ![Moe](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/moe/32/398912_2.png) [@Moe](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/Moe)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2018, 11:17am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/random-radio/263/1679 "2018-12-18T11:17:52Z")
> [@Laoma](#): > > Good question. How do you tell? The Audiocodec is AAC-LC. It’s all in the label - ‘HE-AAC v2’ is defined as AAC-LC with Parametric Stereo and SBR, v1 is just SBR, while the base ‘AAC-LC’ has neither. So my understanding is that if it says Stereo and AAC-LC, then it’s real stereo. ---
**Author:** ![Laoma](https://forums.mediaspy.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Laoma](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/Laoma)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2018, 11:33am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/random-radio/263/1680 "2018-12-18T11:33:52Z")
> [@Laoma](#): > > Well hhh 100.1 still off air. Well drove to Waitara it sounds like it on air. Dont worry I am not an obsessed radio nerd, who sits in his car dxing 😅, the other half works in the area. Haha. Good excuse right? Might be just at low power. The 70s shows rocks at this time. Edit: yes 3km down the road the reception dies. I am within the licensed area and you cant pick it up on my sangean radio. 100.3 is 10 times better. ---
**Author:** ![Karen\_Cee](https://forums.mediaspy.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/848f3c/32.png) [@Karen\_Cee](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/Karen_Cee)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2018, 11:21pm UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/random-radio/263/1681 "2018-12-18T23:21:39Z")
I might buy one like this to bring to work next year.my old one I was using,$5 one from a garage sale ,doesn’t work anymore 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Laoma](https://forums.mediaspy.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Laoma](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/Laoma)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2018, 5:48am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/random-radio/263/1682 "2018-12-19T05:48:30Z")
> [@2CH Sydney](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/2ch-sydney/123/613): > > The one thing I always loved about 2CH is they have such a good sound on AM I recalled 2GN sounded great on AM too. ---
**Author:** ![Brianc68](https://forums.mediaspy.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/58f4c7/32.png) [@Brianc68](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/Brianc68)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2018, 6:37am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/random-radio/263/1683 "2018-12-19T06:37:47Z")
> [@2CH Sydney](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/2ch-sydney/123/613): > > > [@2CH Sydney](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/2ch-sydney/123/613): > > > > The one thing I always loved about 2CH is they have such a good sound on AM > > I recalled 2GN sounded great on AM too. It’s interesting isn’t it how some AM stations just sound or sounded better than others. The ones that stick for me are Radio 10 and 4SS. They just seemed to have a richer sound somehow. I also remember 2CH sounding better than the others in Sydney, particularly 2SM. ---
**Author:** ![Radiohead](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/radiohead/32/21429_2.png) [@Radiohead](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/Radiohead)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2018, 6:44am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/random-radio/263/1684 "2018-12-19T06:44:03Z")
> [@Brianc68](#): > > It’s interesting isn’t it how some AM stations just sound or sounded better than others I imagine, like FM, the sound still requires processing even though the TX output is mono. It’s probably stereo up through the chain until before it exits the transmitter. ---
**Author:** ![mrworldwide](https://forums.mediaspy.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@mrworldwide](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/mrworldwide)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2018, 10:30am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/random-radio/263/1685 "2018-12-19T10:30:22Z")
AM can sound very good with the right audio processing. Just like the Optimod for FM, Orban have a line of AM specific processors that process the signal as stereo. I would assume it’s all stereo up to what goes into the STL. I find it rather amusing that most of the Caralis AM stations have very nice sounding audio. I caught a listen to 2GF last week driving through to Brisbane and thought it sounded better on AM than their FM signal. ---
**Author:** ![crankymedia](https://forums.mediaspy.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/35a633/32.png) [@crankymedia](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/crankymedia)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2018, 2:57pm UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/random-radio/263/1686 "2018-12-19T14:57:09Z")
> [@mrworldwide](#): > > I find it rather amusing that most of the Caralis AM stations have very nice sounding audio. I caught a listen to 2GF last week driving through to Brisbane and thought it sounded better on AM than their FM signal. Correct, FM 103.9 is ‘not quite there’, needs more prominence in the vocal range for the talk content that forms the majority of processing. @Paul_Covo_Covington why is this? ---
**Author:** ![TheChase](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/thechase/32/392970_2.png) [@TheChase](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/TheChase)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2018, 11:39pm UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/random-radio/263/1687 "2018-12-19T23:39:02Z")
So interesting stuff, there’s a song going around on the radio called Travis Scott - Sicko Mode and it has a lyric in it Language warning to uncover lyrics: “Astro, yeah, yeah Tay Keith, fuck these niggas up!! Ayy, ayy” I know we live in an inspired generation! I noticed that, that lyric is not censored on the radio, I heard it so many times and its never censored?? did they forget or don’t realise its in there. I even heard it uncensored on Hot 97 in New York. Link to lyrics: [https://genius.com/Travis-scott-sicko-mode-lyrics](https://genius.com/Travis-scott-sicko-mode-lyrics) Here’s the track censored with that one part uncensored. (If you click on it it goes straight to the part I’m taking about) ---
**Author:** ![JBar](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/jbar/32/151177_2.png) [@JBar](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/JBar)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2018, 11:43pm UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/random-radio/263/1688 "2018-12-19T23:43:05Z")
> [@TheChase](#): > > So interesting stuff, there’s a song going around on the radio called Travis Scott - Sicko Mode and it has a lyric in it Which radio station plays it uncensored? I notice each station has different standards. Nova and 2Day will censor “shit” in a song but KIIS doesn’t. ---
**Author:** ![TheChase](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/thechase/32/392970_2.png) [@TheChase](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/TheChase)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2018, 11:45pm UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/random-radio/263/1689 "2018-12-19T23:45:31Z")
> [@TheChase](#): > > Link to lyrics: [https://genius.com/Travis-scott-sicko-mode-lyrics](https://genius.com/Travis-scott-sicko-mode-lyrics) So its not the whole song uncensored just that one part, but I heard it on 2Day FM and The EDGE during the day (And I say during the day because The EDGE plays fully uncensored songs after 9pm) ---
**Author:** ![JBar](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/jbar/32/151177_2.png) [@JBar](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/JBar)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2018, 11:47pm UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/random-radio/263/1690 "2018-12-19T23:47:47Z")
I wonder if it just slipped past the censors. They wouldn’t think it was less offensive in Australia, would they? ---
**Author:** ![TheChase](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/thechase/32/392970_2.png) [@TheChase](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/TheChase)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2018, 11:50pm UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/random-radio/263/1691 "2018-12-19T23:50:18Z")
Probably did, but the same song I have heard on Hot 97 New York where they censor everything to the max with the same lyric. [Previous page](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/random-radio/263.md?page=83) [Next page](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/random-radio/263.md?page=85)