I always like to see what radio stations do for their socials on NYE.
Back in the day, 2DayFM would be completely active in this area. Since losing K&J, their NYE socials have completely stopped.
It looks like KIIS1065 are at least active.
And IMO that should have nothing to do with holding the Sydney NYE broadcasting rights.
It’s the biggest night of the year - so surely each metro station could post something relevant to their city.
I’ve been scanning the FM dial tonight, and only the community stations seem to be making any effort to be live and local. Sadly.
Based on their social media, it looks like 2SM and the network are doing “party music” for the evening with Dave Sutherland.
Good choice.
I noticed this on 4GY 107.1 - It could have been a good listen except that the audio has been only the left channel for the last few days 
At Campbelltown today, 88.3 is off air. 99.1 is still going.
Vision Australia 88.7 on reduced power and Fresh 101.5 off completely. SCA and ABC services appear to be on full power but are falling off-air for up to 90 seconds at a time.
Is it back on ? I can’t tell as I am too far away
. Its seemed like the Campbelltown repeaters were fine yesterday. Although I can’t really tell. The car radio had no dab dropouts my pocket radio was fine but didn’t have it on all the time. Just 88.3 fm was the issue.
Winmalee & Mt Badgally (Campbelltown) DAB, yes I went to site & fixed it about 4pm on Christmas day.
It just so happens I spoke to ARN tech today actually & I mentioned 88.3 had been off for a few weeks, they’re not really concerned for all of the 1 or 2 listeners of it.
I don’t know the full story but a few weeks maybe months back, the site ownership changed hands & the new owner wants more site rental money, so I believe ARN are negotiating, but there’s an option they may move sites, along with the TXA DTV, so I’m not sure if ARN will agree to the increased costs or not, the tech thinks the new site owner may have done something to the ARN TX, cut the power maybe, so that’s why it’s off.
Nothing will happen with restoration there until the negotiations are sorted out or ARN decide to stay or move sites or just give it up altogether?
Could if they (ws 88.3) move to Mt Badgally? Not sure how well that will cover the area.
The main reason 88.3 would’ve been on Mount Razorback would have been for those in the Wollondilly (Picton et al, down to Bargo) that are shaded by same - the Wollondilly council area is more or less part of 2WS’ 'Western Suburbs Sydney" licence area and they’re entitled to it, just as the whole Hawkesbury would be and therefore served by 99.1.
Not sure 88.3 would get the same benefit if on Badgally, and it’s not like Campbelltown itself needs a repeater for FM (unlike digital radio where it might); 101.7 is fine here.
The changes to regional radio also mean they could in theory almost push people on that side to 2ST Highlands as an alternative, but any issues with signal aside, it’s not quite the same if someone were used to listening to the full breakfast on WS rather than just JAM Nation at night (which 2ST dump as late as 9pm).
Yeah good points @Spi . i wonder are there any other sites around Picton as a viable alternative then. Razorback seems to be the prime location for those southern areas. I will be honest c91.3 isn’t much better than Sydney fm in northern parts of the shire, Sydney fm was better in my view.
Can’t give away too many details as it’s all still planning, & up in the air about many things, but the TXA DTV site & WSFM Razorback would move to the Transgrid site, along the same ridge.
The current DTV site has some input issues due to a very large signal reflection off something between Artarmon & the Razorback site, it’s hoped moving the site further along the ridge to the West would fix this, as it’s only evident from Artarmon, if the DTV services are at Gore Hill the reflected input signal doesn’t appear & because of the C91.3 antenna up the tower, we can’t get any more diversity spacing on the input antennas to alleviate the issue.
If the DTV site was to move TXA would offer WSFM to move into the same shelter, there’s also a slim but possible chance that the Mt Badgally DAB site would move to Razorback, if it helped with greater coverage & there were no major losses.
Moving DTV to Mt Badgally would fix some coverage issues around the greater Campbelltown area, but then most people would have to move their antennas to point a different direction.
Interesting!
I’m guessing the Transgrid site is within a few hundred metres and would make very little difference to coverage or have very little impact on reception assuming the same HAAT with the antenna can be maintained.
Is there much difference altitude, and tower height between the current and the proposed Transgrid Tower?
[quote=“RFBurns, post:5698, topic:263”]
Moving DTV to Mt Badgally would fix some coverage issues around the greater Campbelltown area, but then most people would have to move their antennas to point a different direction.
[/quote
Yes it would fix reception issues around the suburbs around Eagle Vale, but probably would stuff up the off air input signal for the Vault Hill Picton site.
not as far as I know, Transgrid site is slightly higher up the hill, & the tower is slightly higher too, but in the grand scheme of things not much or negligible affect.
Input to Picton site could be fed a different way, currently it’s not fed off the Razorback UHF antenna array the local viewers use anyway, the Razorback DTV site isn’t licenced to send any signal (or minimal) South, all it’s power out heads North. There’s a small UHF Yagi antenna lower down the tower pointed to the Picton site, that Yagi gets a sniff of signal off the Razorback combiner & sends it South for Picton but no, or very few viewers would be able to receive anything off it South of Razorback.
I wonder if the AM radio tuners in the RAM 1500 or Chevrolet Silverado support 9khz spacing or do they only work with 10kHz spacing. If they only work with 10kHz spacing, stations should advertise their frequency with both 9kHz and 10kHz spacing (e.g. 3AW 693 & 690, Magic 1278 & 1280, SEN 1116 & 1120)
how many radios are we talking about here? And would a radio with 10 kHz spacing even pick up stations not on 10 kHz frequencies?
There usually wouldn’t be a problem for AM radio and there is a setting to adjust from 10 to 9 kHz spacing.
One other problem is FM where a US radio will usually only tune to odd frequencies which isn’t an issue in most areas. But not good for a couple of places like Gold Coast (Mt Tamborine) and Plenty Valley
It would but the radio would sound 'off station".
The Tyrepower store in Morningside still has their radio on 4BH ,not surprisingly because the managers/owners are in the right age group to like them,.