2MWM Manly South (Balgowlah Heights/Tania Park) has been mono for as long as I can remember. I used to get it well enough from Oatley on the Yagi. 88.7 was tough due to Razorback.
Going further back, I could only ever manage a weak signal of 92.1 2MWM on my boombox. Nothing from 93.7.
I caught Bungendore servo playing Smooth 95.3 yesterday! Almost certainly from the stream
Some good questions there @tvcl I canât answer all, but PowerFM 94.1 changed a few years back when they pulled down the old WIN Analogue TV tower at Knights Hill that the Wave & Power antennaâs were on, they both moved to the WIN DYV tower and the new antennaâs were designed to more closely match the radiation pattern for both stations, with 1 serving most signal to the South & the other North.
No plans to alleviate the co-channeling between Illawarra & Central Coast.
2RPH isnât really a SFN between Newcastle & Kings Cross, theoretically those signals shouldnât meet, but they do, they are too far apart to easily make an analogue FM SFN & have the mush zone stay stable in the same place maybe if they put Wollongong on the same frequency itâd just make things so much harder & worse, as Kings Cross & Wollongong would likely meet & also interfere with Newcastle during troop which would probably screw up reception in all 3 locations?
Entries missing from the ACMA database, I was told years back is deliberate because that database while online & publicly accessible, itâs copyright, so if it turns up anywhere else with the same things missing, they know itâs been directly copied, & they change the missing entries every now & again. I donât know if thatâs true or not, just what I was told, sounds logical though?
Is an interesting case as it seems the town has a self help yet not an abc service. Operated by the council.
Yes, for both Triple J and Classic FMâŚ
Who is even going to try and replicate all of that info, or where else can they get info except from the station itself? Anyone could delete or add their own data or reformat it anyway. Seems like an odd excuse.
I think Melways (Melbourne street directory) does the same. They throw in some random fake streets so if they see someone (e.g. another publisher) replicating that âerrorâ they know itâs copied.
I am 99.75% sure that commercial radio in Australia no longer has time limits on how much advertising can go to air each hour.
I think the regulations has become irrelevant as the increase in the number of stations since the 80s had meant that greater competition meant that few station played anywhere near the maximum minutes of ads.
I know that in the 1980s the maximum allowed was 18 minutes an hour.
ACMA still limit that amount of ads on community radio.
Another oddity I did note about the ABC are the duplicate AM/FM services on the Mid North Coast with ABC Local being available on both AM (756) and FM (95.5) for the Taree area being one example.
There is a movie loosely about âpaper townsâ that are to help protect copyright.
Muswellbrook is similar, with Local Radio on both 1044 AM and 105.7 FM.
Cairns, Mackay and Wide Bay also notable double ups.
Yeah, itâs not like ACMA is selling the Radio & TV list & need to protect their content for commercial reasons. That said the internet is full of sites that donât provide credit for the original source of content re their replication there of.
Thanks for the detailed reply, RFBurns :).
With the open data initiatives in the public sector, the ACMA data is now licensed as Creative Commons Attribution - so it shouldnât be an issue anymore: https://www.acma.gov.au/copyright-notice
4QA 756 Mackay wasnât on air when I passed through last week, I didnât think it had been on air for years anyway?
As tvcl said itâs probably not a problem now, but I think it goes back to the days when all that ACMA license/ownership information was printed in a book that you had to purchase, there was also a period where it was printed & online & then the period before CCA.
I have previously seen all that info copied onto another web site, including all the mistakes & missing details with the site owner claiming it as their own.
As in the past & even now, unless you know where to look for it on the ACMA website itâs extremely hard to find, so having it on another website easily found could be beneficial, & if they run ads on that website they are financially benefiting from information/documentation that essentially you & me are paying to be created & kept up to date using our tax money.
which is what Iâm more than happy to see my taxpaying dollars spent on⌠and Iâd be happy to see ACMA resourced better to speed up licensing requests/changes and crack down on pirates etc.
Yet the FM alternative for ABC Townsville was turned off when the Brandon MF tower replacement project was complete.
Itâs interesting as 630 AM was a bit scratchy in my southside CBD hotel room when I was there last week, as the Brandon site is a fair way south of Townsville.
Does newsradio from Sydney fight it a bit? Definitely in extremities of Sydney Townsville does fight news radio.
Didnât hear anything underneath 4QN.