Kakadumh

6DL = 531 kHz, 10kW
6WA = 558 kHz, 50kW
6WF = 720 kHz, 50kW

6WF used to broadcast daily on shortwave, in the 19m band, and I had no trouble picking them up here.

It appears that ABC have good form when it comes to stealing FM radio channels.

When 3CCC (Harcourt VIC) first started transmitting in the early 80's their broadcasts could be received across the bay on the other side of Melbourne.
Not bad for a community radio shack operating on a shoe string budget supported by volunteers. An old mate of mine was a DJ who played old time trad-jazz. He had friends across the bay who loved his show and he made a simple yagi for them (3 element). They received his show in stereo, not bad considering the distance.

ABC decided they "needed" that frequency so 3CCC were kicked off their channel onto a lesser propagating frequency, that was the end of 3CCC's phenomenal range.

2DAY promotions from the 1980s.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbbCThFnzh8&t=0s

2MMM TV promotion from the 1980s.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVRncW-FC3k

Both should be familar to Sydneysiders.

I didn't listen to 2DAY all that often, but I remember (I recorded the radio onto cassettes in those days) the "Highway 104" jingle, together with a short (few seconds) "In Tune with 2DAAAAY..." between songs.

MMM is another matter, all their jingles of those days are quite familiar.

The early jingle ends with "your ears have brains" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nk_u7IcqJ3A

then they changed to your link - "Triple triple triple your music"

And that tune wasn't even original, it was adapted from a few minutes of Mike Batt's Tarot Suite album.

Robert,

Thanks for the correction on the frequencies of 6WA and 6DL..I can always find them down the bottom of the camper radio dial but the dratted display is pathetic to actually read. Going to give that radio the boot and try one of those new Pioneer radios mentioned in another post.

The Shortwave stations that 720 used to be heard on were VLX and VLW based at where the 6WF transmitter complex is at Westminster /Balcatta north of Perth.

I think they were shutdown in the 1980's or even maybe earlier. The antenna arrays are still standing though.

Regarding Australian AM frequencies, they are always divisible by 9. A property of numbers divisible by 9 is that the individual digits add up to 9, or a multiple of 9.
eg 702: 7+0+2=9
558: 5+5+8=18, 1+8=9
999: 9+9+9=27, 2+7=9

A means of quick check on a valid frequency instead of dividing by 9

In theory, 4KQ should have died today. I have no way of knowing, as their website is down, and they are not audible here on AM. If I tune to 693 all I get is 3AW interference-free.

So, another one bites the dust.

Now I'm streaming 5AU from Adelaide, South Australia. They're in a time zone that is a half hour off the usual time zone times. Classic rock, with Aussie rock hits. Some of which never got played in the USA.

A great video from America on a still operational AM Stereo transmission site

https://youtu.be/IDYEUqC9YO0