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.
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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.
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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.
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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 
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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
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)
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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.
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)
I wonder if it just slipped past the censors. They wouldn’t think it was less offensive in Australia, would they?
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.
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.
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I remember it was censored. Maybe it depended on the radio station back then too.
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TIL why that line was censored. How ridiculous
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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
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Speaking of 2GF, the lawn needs mowing down at Swan Creek again 
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Funny.
More funny was the saplings growing on the earth mat at Maryborough’s AM 1161 site at Dundathu. I can’t remember if it was in the time of 4MB or post sale to 4TAB.
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