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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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)
On this topic of censoring, I notice even Australian radio censors the following lines in Wheatus’ “Teenage Dirtbag”:
“Her boyfriend’s a d*ck,
He brings a [censored] gun to school…”
The gun line wasn’t censored back in 2000 when the song was in the charts, even though the Columbine shootings happened just prior.
The most puzzling instance of censorship is in “Senses Working Overtime” by XTC. The line “…and buses might skid on black ice…” is almost always omitted. It might be an obtuse drug reference but not worthy of censorship imo.
Not really when you get someone in the network who cares about the on-air sound, just a matter of said person getting time to go around the network and make it sound the best it can