1RPH
Appearance
Broadcast area | Canberra RA2 ([1]) |
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Frequency | 1125 kHz AM Canberra, Australian Capital Territory |
Programming | |
Language(s) | English |
Format | Radio reading service |
Affiliations | Radio Print Handicapped Network |
Ownership | |
Owner | Print Handicapped Radio of ACT, Inc. |
History | |
First air date | October 5, 1992[1] |
Call sign meaning | 1 = Australian Capital Territory Radio for the Handicapped |
Technical information | |
Power | 2,000 watts |
Transmitter coordinates | 35°12′52″S 149°7′0″E / 35.21444°S 149.11667°E |
Repeater(s) | 99.5 MHz FM Junee, New South Wales |
Links | |
Website | Official website |
Radio 1RPH 1125 kHz Canberra (89.5FM Wagga, 99.5FM Junee) is a volunteer manned AM band radio broadcast station in the Australian Capital Territory, with an FM repeaters at Wagga and Junee[2], and a streaming media on its web site. [3]
Radio 1RPH is a member of the Radio Print Handicapped Network. Its catch-phrases are, Your information station and Turning print into sound, and it is intended to serve all those who are, for any reason, handicapped from reading printed material. [4]
Newspapers, magazines, books, and other printed material are read to air. 1RPH used to have a frequency just outside of the AM band on 1620kHz[5], and so suffered little interference, and was heard as far away as the United States.[6]
Equipment
Studios
On-air and production
- Two studios, each with 16 channel mixers:
- Audio channel sources:
- computer
- CD players
- satellite channels
- Tape-recorders
- turntables
- outside broadcast line
- telephone-radio interface
- Audio channel sources:
Production
- digital post-production studio
- voice-only studio
- CD-R and tape library
- recorded music library
Transmitters and antennas
- 2,000 watt solid-state AM transmitter with standby
- two 65 metre antenna masts providing directional coverage
- emergency power-plant
References
- ^ http://www.acma.gov.au/webwr/_assets/main/lib100052/lic031_community_radio_broadcasting_licences.pdf
- ^ VHF FM RADIO Callsign order, ACMA, July 2012, accessed 8 August 2012
- ^ "1RPH History". 1RPH. 2008. Archived from the original on 19 July 2008. Retrieved 2008-08-04.
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suggested) (help) - ^ "Value our Voices" (PDF). CBAA. 2007. Retrieved 2008-08-04.
- ^ Rogers, Chris (24 December 1994). "Station News Australia". International DX Digest. 62 (14). National Radio Club. Retrieved 7 December 2011.
scheduled to move on October 17
- ^ Burnell, Jean (6 Aug 1997). "MW DXpedition in Grayland WA". St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada: Hardcore. Retrieved 7 December 2011.