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Congestion on the FM band around the old VHF 4 ‘space’ as 3 and 5 were used for analogue TV.

High powered ABC regional FM services are co-channelled. Mt Barker high power services are co-channelled with Perth.

As Mediaspy worked out the FM conversion allocations in Tasmania, perhaps we can do similar for SW WA, Geraldton to Albany and the SW ag districts.

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Sheppaton and District Amateur radio Club had last weekend just gone 48 hours broadcasting on the Amateur radio bands using the Antennas of Radio Australia before the Antenna will be dismantled transmitting inside the Radio Australia Building

They even played the Signoff of original Radio Australia broadcast at the end.

It was a great event and enjoy last night being there at the end

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Just a bit of a lighthearted post.

I think we did post something similar a while ago.

Anyway please don’t judge me here :slight_smile:.

You know when you are a radio geek when ;

  1. You own a shower radio and listen to it when having one. Even when going away on holidays that is the first thing you bring along.
  2. You get excited when hear the Thursday Night footy on you shower radio on 549 am rather than 702 AM (as they don’t carry the league). You could always listen to 97.3 FM but you like the challenge :slight_smile: .
  3. Your first and most memorable gift as a child in Kindergarten is an AM transistor radio.
  4. As a kid you made your own radio stations on tape. (Very embarrassing when you hear it back).
  5. As a teenager you plan family holidays around locations which you can pick up the best radio.
  6. You get annoyed when someone wanted to listen to a cassette (or CD/streaming) instead of radio.
  7. You never leave the house without a pocket radio.
  8. You feel wrong listening to radio on your mobile phone, esp when you can pick up the same radio station via traditional means.
  9. You drive to a location, just to see if a FM/DAB radio transmitter is on so you can be the first to post in this forum.
  10. You want to return a new car because the DAB radio does not work well.
  11. You actually notice the poor sound quality of DAB.
  12. You record radio shows.
  13. You downgrade your mobile phone so you can have a headphone jack again, makes its a lot more convenient coupled with your pocket radio.
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I think I successfully destroyed all the evidence of me doing this - but that was me.

Though I didn’t put it back on tape, instead it was me taking music I’d taped on the radio, pointing a microphone I’d got for my PC at the speaker output, playing it back to get it on my PC, and then splicing in my extremely slick station ID in front of the song - and then listening back to my amazing radio station…

One of the things I checked off my todo list a few years back was that I was able to finally listen to a real station that was on the frequency that I decided my made up radio station was on - 90.9FM. Sea FM is even more underwhelming when it’s under the pressure of achieving a childhood goal…

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Mine was somewhere above 108 MHz. My dreams remain crushed to this day

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2804

Lol. Guilty for most of those!

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2805

Seconded. Especially recording myself doing faux radio shows as a kid. Now to do a proper show…

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Yep, guilty myself as well. 1242 5LS was broadcast on cassette tapes in a Geelong bedroom in the mid-late 90s (despite it having what I now know to be a South Australian callsign).

Some of those tapes might still exist somewhere, and I am very scared they might one day see the light of day once again :open_mouth:

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5LS? I would have been expecting it to be 5TO? :grin:

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I believe 3LS would be correct. Next time your folks need their house cleaned down in Cat City, perhaps a forum member could volunteer?

I made a fake radio station broadcasting from Redfern; needless to say it was a little silly as I thought that area was akin to Compton… the tricks the media can play on children.

We actually had a ‘media’ class in primary school in Year 5. One of the assignments was to create your own promotional material for an imaginary radio station. Mine was ‘Pop Topz FM’ and it used 103.5 MHz, which to me seemed a clear frequency in Sydney.

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I remember in Year 7 English class in 1993 we had to do an assignment of which we had to record some sort of content onto a cassette. Naturally, I chose to do a fake radio show. The tape is long gone now as I can’t remember what I called the radio station, but I think I had an unfair advantage over the other students because I had access to a proper radio studio (the Noise FM studio in Richmond) to put it all together. Needless to say, I got near full marks for my effort.

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I use to record songs from the radio and talk between the songs. I used the call sign of 2ue and 2uw. Use to get (force) my brother to join. From about 1983 to 85 I had that craze.

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Yeah that was what I did too. Unfortunately it meant that recordings which would have had what are now very interesting IDs from that era have been taped over by me pretending to be a DJ as a kid

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Another thing from my primary school media class I remember was a discussion about what commercial media people watched and listened to . Most said 2DAY FM for radio, a few said Triple J, but the teacher said that the ABC ran Triple J and so was not commercial media. Most of the class were surprised but guess who wasn’t.

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Licensees affected by COVID-19

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99.1 WSFM Hawkesbury transmitter currently off air.

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Will all regional commercial radio licensees apply for this? I think so, just the beginning of their problems.

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Well, there’s one thing to be said for the relative sanctuary of Digital Radio with its specialist stations after a quick FM bandscan…

90.9 News Radio - discussion about Coronavirus
92.5 ABC Central Coast - another discussion about Coronavirus
92.9 ABC Classic - Coronavirus safety message
94.1 Today’s Country - another Coronavirus safety message

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