UNUSUAL RADIO STATIONS IN AUSTRALIA

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UNUSUAL RADIO STATIONS IN AUSTRALIA

I wonder if there countries other than Australia where there are what
are called here "Narrowcasting Services"

Here in Melbourne there are stations on from 151.45 to 152.35 MHz in
FM mode, but with limited deviation as used by radio amateurs in VHF
and UHF bands. All are in LOTE i.e. languages other than English.
They
are commercial and/or subscription stations.

I searched our Australian Communications and Media Authority website
to find out the details of the licensees, transmitter locations,
powers etc. I find as examples

151.675, Australian Muslim Media Inc from Ferny Creek, east of
Melbourne with 50 watts, mode 16K0F3E
151.800, Macedonian Radio Station in South Morang, north of the city
152.125, Middle East Radio in Reservoir a northern suburb

plus 6 others in Vietnamese, Chinese and Indian languages that are
full quieting to me 18 km east of Melbourne. The ACMA website shows
the 152.125 MHz station licence as having expired but it is still
going strong! I wonder where listeners get radios to receive these
frequencies. My Kenwood TS-2000 amateur transceiver covers the
frequencies of course.

If anyone wants details of any transmission within Australia, a
search
using the frequency using the following URL links to the licence and
from there to all the other information required:-
http://www.acma.gov.au/pls/radcom/assignment_range.range_lookup

This is somewhat off topic in terms of DX Glenn, but might be of some
interest (Morrison Hoyle, Victoria, WORLD OF RADIO 1368, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)

Very interesting. Narrowcastsing here is more apt to be carried out
on
subcarriers of regular FM broadcast transmitters, and now of course,
on HD extra channels. Tangentially, I seem to recall that this
frequency range is also used for studio-transmitter broadcast linx in
some Latin American countries. They also get picked up by satellite
transponders inadvertently and relayed on other frequencies, to some
consternation. They should also be excellent DX targets during
intense
sporadic E openings surpassing the 2m hamband (Glenn Hauser, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)

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> I wonder if there countries other than Australia where there are what
> are called here "Narrowcasting Services"
> Here in Melbourne there are stations on from 151.45 to 152.35 MHz in
> FM mode, but with limited deviation as used by radio amateurs in VHF
> and UHF bands. All are in LOTE i.e. languages other than English.
> They are commercial and/or subscription stations.

In Sydney, the stations I know of are:

Radio Rio - Spanish
Radio Navtarang - Indian
2CR China Radio Network
2AC Australian Chinese Radio Cantonese Channel
2AC Australian Chinese Radio Mandarin Channel
2MM Greek Radio