I just use an old telstra T- Hub tablet connected to the Iinternet. You can get them off eBay for a couple of dollars the audio output connects into the AM modulator and I can listen to anything I want. You do need a good data allowance though.

Actually, the ABC has two radio stations dedicated to broadcasting Question Time, 2PB in Sydney and 3PB in Melbourne. Those two I know about from the time broadcasting of Question Time began. Other cities may now also have these stations.

What frequency is 2PB on?

648kHz I think. It's ident is ABC NewsRadio I think.

ABC Newsradio is 630kHz in Sydney. 10kW out of Liverpool. Shares this frequency with another ABC transmitter in Victoria.

"Without bias or agenda"!! I still can't believe they actually claim this in one of their ident spots.

Oh, so you meant News Radio. I was thinking a new station had snuck in under my guard.

Yes, it started life as live question time, but then evolved into News Radio. Previous to that, question time was on 2BL.

I've heard the station on FM as well, for the Illawarra region I think.

ABC North Queensland (local radio) also transmits on 630 and interferes with Sydney News Radio at night, as it fades in and out.
So the appearance on FM of News Radio on 90.9 means it is listenable at night now in the Illawarra.
630 is also Radio National in Queenstown Tasmania, but couldn't find it anywhere in Victoria.

OK my mistake.

Heard RN on 630 very strongly a couple of years back while driving north from Warnabool at night. Sounded local.
Queenstown, eh? Good propagation!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABC_NewsRadio#Frequencies

According to ACMA List 630kHz, 2PB 10K, 6AL 5K, 7RN 400w, 3RN not far from me 10K is 756kHz. There are five or six MW AM transmitters at around 100 KM radius from me.

Indeed it is on 630kHz. I knew it was somewhere between 2RN and 2BL. I watch Questions on Youtube these days so the radio broadcast is a distant memory. I can't say I ever liked it much because of the commentary, which disrupts the flow of the programme's content.

That transmitter located at Prestons, near Liverpool, had been previously used for the original 2JJ 1540 (later 1539 before mutating into 2JJJ 105.7FM in 1979 or so).

I suppose that after the transfer to FM, they didn't know what to do with this standby transmitter, so someone came up with the brilliant idea of using it as the basis for yet another ABC network. So 2PB was born.

Yep, at first they used standby transmitters ...

QUOTE: In 1994, on the heels of its baptism by fire during the first Gulf War three years earlier, as-it-happens broadcasting was finding its feet. It was the year the OJ Simpson case proved televising tabloid tragedy around the clock worked just as well as showing bombs over Baghdad, and the 24-hour news cycle was off and running. In the US, they had CNN. In Australia, the ABC gave us something called PNN - the experiment we now know as ABC News Radio.

ABC executive Ian Wolfe had the brainwave of moving parliamentary broadcasts off the main network - where they forced regular programming off the air - and sending them out via the ABC’s standby transmitters.

“The second part of the pitch was, ‘Parliament only sits for about 100 days a year, so when Parliament’s not sitting why don’t we have this new concept called Parliamentary News Network?’,” says Chase.

The ABC’s then managing director David Hill loved the idea. The politicians, fearing they were being shunted to a sideshow, were cautious. “There was initial resistance from the politicians, but then they came around. As long as they were heard, that was the thing that they were concerned about,” says Chase.

It started small, and came cheap. The original annual budget was $700,000 and there were only eight staff. The new network was not intended to be a home of original programming - rather, when it wasn’t broadcasting parliament, it would dig through the entire national library of ABC content, from rural affairs to sport, repackage the best of it and re-broadcast it as a non-stop news service.

Have you ever known a bureaucrat to pass up the opportunity to build an empire - at our expense?

For what it's worth, mention of the Preston's transmitting tower brings back good memories for me. My grandparents had a farm on Kurrajong Rd Prestons, I would have been very young but I remember going past with my parents and thinking what the hell was this huge thing with a red light on top. Mum explained that it sent music out to radios in peoples houses. I remember looking at the tiny building at the base of the tower and thinking how do they fit all those records in there. Then there was Inghams poultry and piggery further down the road, we all held our breath when we drove past there cause it stank!

Cheers
Pat