SCA have recently increased the number of radio stations carried on VAST in WA. There’s now:
- MMM Busselton
- MMM Collie/Bridgetown
- MMM Carnarvon
- MMM WA (formerly Red FM)
- HIT Sth WA
- HIT Carnarvon
- HIT Nth WA (formerly Spirit)
If you email SCA with your smartcard number they’ll activate MMM WA and HIT Nth WA on your VAST set-top box.
Are they managing their own CA do to that, rather than the Aurora Digital CA? I didn’t think that was possible.
They won’t be running their own CA - it’s likely that they’ll have an interface to add cards to access the SCA services
Took them a week or so to activate them as they had to contact Optus to do it.
That explains it.
What box are the recordings coming from?
In victoria there is a transmitter that has imparja terrestrial signal, i guess the terrestrial signal is “fed” from vast am i correct ? Same with other transmitters with imparja in victoria
The only IMP/QQQ transmitter in VIC i could find listed is in The Grampians (Halls Gap). Would have to be fed by satellite.
Vast south should be split into 2 sections, one with imparja using 9 melbourne feed, and 7 and 10 all from victoria and the second imparja nsw feed and 7 and 10 all fed by nsw. Instead of mixing them together
Any update on what channel 4 looks like now Prime and GWN news branding has been dropped?
No change as yet, still Prime7 on channel 4 and the channels themselves are all still labelled as ‘PRIME’.
I mean, would you really expect them to change the name of “Prime” given some of the other logos/names on there…
To a certain extent yes, only because they updated it at the time of the WIN/SCA affiliation swap last year… wishful thinking 
Jokes aside, many of the logos are out of date, but the brands still exist. Prime obviously no longer exists though
I seen that they were on the transponder but didn’t know how to receive them
I wonder if they would activate them for me here in QLD?
Could you just tell them your number without saying you’re in QLD?
I suspect the feeds are all mono sound too? I imagine all the Hit and MMM WA mining town relays are fed by VAST as they are apparently all in mono.
Well the free to air SCA Hit Emerald on D3 is mono AAC
Well that could work 
What email address did you use to request the radio channels as I would like to add them myself?
I used a general enquiries form on the SCA website. Should still be there somewhere. I asked to get permission first then after they got back to me I supplied the smart card number.
There are some new narrowcast channels on Aurora Digital as of this morning. They are channels that have come from Optus D2. Can be found in the 600 (narrowcast) range from 610 onwards and in the 100 range.