{"id":1800,"date":"2010-05-05T14:31:12","date_gmt":"2010-05-05T04:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/?p=1800"},"modified":"2010-05-05T14:31:12","modified_gmt":"2010-05-05T04:31:12","slug":"digital-radio-trial-for-canberra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/?p=1800","title":{"rendered":"Digital Radio trial for Canberra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it looks like Canberra is going to be the first &#8216;regional centre&#8217; to receive digital radio, after its introduction into State capital cities last year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalradioplus.com.au\/index.cfm?page_id=1013&amp;display_news_id_1104=1047\">This will be a trial, commencing from July this year<\/a>. Apparently the stations that will be available on DAB+ will be:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2CA &#8211; Capital Radio Network<\/li>\n<li>2CC \u2013Capital Radio Network<\/li>\n<li>Capital Radio Network &#8211; 2 additional commercial services to be announced<\/li>\n<li>Mix 106.3 FM &#8211;\u00a0 Canberra FM (Austereo\/ARN)<\/li>\n<li>104.7 fm &#8211; Canberra FM (Austereo\/ARN)<\/li>\n<li>Canberra FM (Austereo\/ARN) &#8211; 2 additional commercial radio services to be announced<\/li>\n<li>SBS Radio 1 \u2013 News &amp; Information Network<\/li>\n<li>SBS Radio 2 &#8211; News &amp; Information Network<\/li>\n<li>SBS Pop Asia<\/li>\n<li>SBS Chill<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That&#8217;s the good news. The bad news for those of us who live in the deep, deep south (aka, Tuggeranong) is:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[DAB+] will transmit from the Broadcast Australia transmission tower on Black Mountain.\u00a0Although the signal will be at relatively low power for the trial, it is still expected to cover a large part of the Canberra area.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Somehow I think those large hills between me and Black Mountain may prevent that.<\/p>\n<p>Then, oddly:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The second phase of the Canberra trial will be a retransmission of the trial signal into Parliament House to allow Federal politicians to experience digital radio first hand.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230; even though Parliament House is in direct line of sight of Black Mountain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it looks like Canberra is going to be the first &#8216;regional centre&#8217; to receive digital radio, after its introduction into State capital cities last year. This will be a trial, commencing from July this year. Apparently the stations that &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/?p=1800\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[49],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1800"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1800"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1805,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1800\/revisions\/1805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}