List of Australian AM radio stations

This is an incomplete list of AM broadcast (medium wave) radio transmitter stations in Australia, past and present.

Astor Mickey, 1946 1960s AM car radio with NSW dialplate 2WG founded in Wagga Wagga 1932

## History

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See also main article History of broadcasting in Australia

### The amateur years

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In the 1920s transmission on the medium wave band was dominated by amateurs who after qualifying by means of an examination and displaying proficiency in Morse code communication (though the band was restricted to telephony), were issued with a call sign consisting of a number denoting for which State the licence was issued (2=New South Wales, 3=Victoria; 4=Queensland; 5=South Australia and Northern Territory; 6=Western Australia; 7=Tasmania) and a two-letter suffix of their own choosing. A licence fee was paid to the Postmaster-General's Department, renewable every five years. Amateurs generally designed and built their own equipment.

One such amateur was Tom Elliot, who in 1921 established station 4CM for its owner Dr McDowall. This would be part of the impetus behind the Government of Queensland establishing 4QG, Australia's first Government-owned station.[1]

Another noted pioneer was Charles Maclurcan, whose station 2CM made many distance records on long and short wave, but apparently never experimented with medium wave, the subject of this article.

Radio receivers were also the province of enthusiasts, who were required to own a listener's licence. Much interest revolved around reception of distant signals ("DX" in the amateurs' terminology) and much valuable experience in the vagaries of radio propagation was gained by the listeners, many of whom collected "QSL" cards — acknowledgement of a confirmed reception by the transmitting station.

Program material was supplied by the amateur, and included talks, recitations, readings from books and newspapers, and live or recorded music (in those days no copyright fees were payable). Broadcast times may have been for only a few hours a day and a few days a week.

### Commercialization

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In August 1923 laws were passed after an American model, as recommended by Ernest Fisk,[2] by which "Sealed Set" receivers were built to receive a single frequency, that of the issuing company, whose income depended on sale or rental of these receivers, a situation analogous to Pay-TV services today. In the early days of the tuned radio-frequency receiver the simplicity of a "sealed set" would have been seen as a great convenience. Amateur constructors were however able to build tuneable (or "open") receivers and thereby gain a wider range of entertainment without fee.[3]

This situation could not endure, and in mid-1924 "open" sets became legal, but subject to an annual "broadcast listener's licence", the fees of which would be apportioned to "A-class" broadcasters.[4]

Among the six licences granted under the "sealed set" regime[5] were several (5MA in Adelaide and 3FC in Melbourne) which were unable to adapt to the changes and failed commercially. Perhaps significantly, the transmitters of both stations mentioned were on long wavelengths (850 m. and 1720 m. respectively) unable to be picked up by ordinary medium-wave receivers. The others were granted "A-class" licences. 2FC was also on a long wavelength (1100 m) but converted to 442 metres.

As originally legislated, "A-class" broadcasters' licences were issued to broadcasters who undertook to:[6]

* Install a transmitter of 5 kW power rating to a standard approved by, and on a frequency allocated by, the Postmaster General (PMG).
* Make a deposit of £1,000 with the PMG and organise a surety of a further £1,000 from an approved stakeholder
* Run regular programmes of general interest to the satisfaction of the PMG.
* The "A-class" broadcaster was permitted to run advertisements of no longer than five minutes duration and no more than 60 minutes in any 12-hour period.

The number of "A-class" stations in New South Wales and Victoria was limited to two each, and one to each of the other states. "B-class" stations were not encumbered by the same regulations. They received no part of the listeners' licences, but were permitted to fund their operations through advertising.

In 1925 a domestic broadcast listener's licence cost £1/15/-, of which the broadcasting station received £1/10/-. It did not entitle the holder to disseminate information or programmes (that required permission from the broadcaster), nor to amplify the audio for the benefit of customers, as in a barber shop or hotel. That required payment of a further £10/- fee. Radio dealers were prohibited from installing loudspeakers outside the shop's radio department.[7]
Collections for the year 1924/25 amounted to around £114,000 which was apportioned:

2FC: £35,000 | 2BL: £12,000
3LO: £14,000 | 3AR: £4,000
6WF: £4,000; the balance being retained by the government.[8]
By 1932 the fee had been reduced to £1/4/-.[9]
The broadcast listener's licence in 1962 cost £2/15/- per annum, per household, and the Television Licence was £5 (£1/5/- for pensioners and blind people).[10] It was a bothersome licence to renew, requiring a trip to a post office; difficult to enforce, as evasions could only be detected while a set was in use, and expensive to prosecute. In 1974 these licences were abolished by the reformist Whitlam government.

In the late 1920s amateurs were slowly displaced by professional organizations holding "A-class" or "B-class"[11] licences, many of which were a continuation or development of an amateur operation. Amateurs were then obliged to pursue their hobby on higher frequency "amateur" bands.[12]

### National Broadcasting Service

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The takeover by the Commonwealth Government of "A Class" broadcasters began in 1928 when the Australian Broadcasting Company (founded 1926 with a capital of £100,000) won a government contract to provide programming nationwide for the "A-class" stations in each State: 2FC Sydney[13] and 3AR Melbourne[14] in 1929, 4QG in Brisbane in 1930, 5CL in Adelaide 1929, and 6WF in Perth. The Postmaster-General's Department took over responsibility for provision, maintenance and operation of technical facilities of their studios and transmitters, giving the Government an ultimate veto over ABC broadcasts, a situation which would endure until the 1980s. Most of the commercial and ABC broadcast transmitters were manufactured and installed by either AWA or Standard Telephones and Cables with one or two by Scott and Co of Sydney.

The Australian Broadcasting Company became the Australian Broadcasting Commission in July 1932, with stations 2FC, 2BL, 2NC, 2CO, 3LO, 3AR, 4QG, 4RK, 5CL, 5CK, 6WP and 7ZL forming a national system with six capital city stations and four regional stations forming one network, and 2BL and 3LO the foundation of what would become a second network.[9]

In October 1937 the roles of the two arms of the NBS were reversed in Sydney and Melbourne: 2BL took over the No 1 National programme from 2FC; 3AR from 3LO, and the newly commissioned 5AN from 5CL.[15]

### AM stereo

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Realistic TM-152 AM stereo tuner; sold for $150 in 1988

In the late 1950s, before stereophonic record players became commonplace, and long before FM-stereo broadcasting, some stations (notably 3XY and 3UZ, but also 2CN and 2CY)[16] partnered to present stereophonic programmes, one station to each channel, so the listener could set up a pair of radios and experience the stereo effect. The experiment ceased after a few months. In the mid-1980s some operators, including capital-city ABC stations, elected to have stereo modulation (to the Motorola C-QUAM standard) implemented on their transmitters.[17] The system made no noticeable difference on standard radios, but was very effective on a compatible AM stereo receiver. Few of these (rather expensive)[18] receivers were sold, and the networks abandoned the experiment without fanfare. As of March 2025, the only AM station still broadcasting in AM stereo is 4WK (963 kHz).

## Frequency assignment

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By convention, a broadcaster's "spot on the dial" was originally defined in terms of wavelength (in metres), then from around 1940 increasingly by frequency, which was more precise, as all stations were by then crystal controlled to an accurate multiple of 5 kHz (or kilocycles per second in the terminology of the time).

> A sufficiently accurate formula for converting wavelength to frequency is: f (in kHz) = 300,000 / λ (in metres)

In the early days the band was shared between "Class B" operators who operated on a defined wavelength and schedule, and licensed amateurs, who broadcast sporadically, and tried to transmit at a wavelength where risk of interference was minimized. In those days superheterodyne receivers were prohibitively expensive for most listeners; more common were crystal sets, regenerative or tuned radio frequency receivers, which had poor adjacent-channel rejection. Around 1930 a number of stations changed their operating frequencies, apparently independently and no doubt for good, though not published, reasons. A major program of frequency changes, imposed on broadcasters by the Post Master General, came into operation on 1 September 1935[19] following the licensing of another seven "B class" stations.[20] Some were to standardize all frequencies to a multiple of 10 kcs/sec (10 kHz); some to resolve technical problems such as interference from nearby transmitters (in some cases from New Zealand), and a few in an effort to aggregate "A class" stations to the low-frequency (long wavelength) end of the dial, though there remained many exceptions to this policy.

Another reshuffle occurred in June 1948, when 24 stations were subjected to a changed frequency allocation. The reason given was increased power output of various New Zealand transmitters.[21]

As a result of the Geneva Frequency Plan of 1975, on 23 November 1978 all broadcast stations moved to new frequencies on the basis of a 9 kHz "raster", thereby freeing up the crowded AM band by some ten percent. In the following decades many broadcasters moved to the FM band, trading long distance reception for less expensive transmission equipment and clearer sound. Most ABC AM stations continued to operate in the face of a burgeoning variety of competing media (FM, DAB+, podcasts ...) in the interests of universal coverage, but a great many commercial stations closed or turned to FM, and some transmitters were turned over to niche broadcasters (Radio for the Print Handicapped, ethnic radio, University radio, racing, News Radio). A later development was the provision of small AM repeater stations, both National and commercial, at a different frequency but bearing the same call sign as the primary transmitter.

This list does not include the many Australian Community radio Broadcasters except as they relate to National or Commercial broadcasters, and with a few exceptions ignores studios, programme material, personalities, networks, branding, slogans, and target audience.

Call sign  | Location  | Type
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kHz  | post-
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1RPH | Canberra | B | ? |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 1125 | Commenced ca 1995
1SBS | Canberra | B | 2006 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 1440 | Commenced ca March 2006 using former 2CN/2PB transmitter, initially with DRM30 trials
2AD | Armidale | B | 1936 |  |  | 278 | 1080 | 1130 | 1130 | 1134 | 1134 |
2AN | Armidale | A |  |  |  |  |  |  | 0720 | 720 |  | freq. change 760 to 720 kHz in 1976
Became 2RN Armidale
2AY | Albury | B | 1930 | 203 | 1480 | 203 | 1480 | 1490 |  | 1494 | 1494 | 227 metres in 1930[25]
2BA | Bega | A | 1956 |  |  |  |  |  | 810[26] | 0810 | 0810 | 810 sits in both 10kHz & 9kHz rasters, therefore no change for GE75
2BE | Sydney | B | 1924[27] |  |  | 204 |  |  |  |  | C 1928 | 326 m. in 1926[28] 442 m. 1926–1929;[29]
Australia's first commercial station.[30]
2BE | Bega | B | 1937 |  |  | 207 | 1450 | 1480 | 1480  | 0765 | B | Callsign change to 2EC Bega
2BE | Moruya | B | 1980s |  |  |  |  |  |  | 0765 | F | Callsign change to 2EC
2BE | Narooma | B | 1980s |  |  |  |  |  |  | 01584 | B | Repeater for mush zone between synch Bega & Moruya. Callsign change to 2EC
2BH | Broken Hill | B | 1934 | 221 | 1360 | 226 | 1330 | 0660 |  | 0567 | 0567 | In 1948 moved to 650 kHz.[31] Numerous frequency changes, perhaps the most of any Australian station.
2BL | Sydney | B | 1925[32] | 353 |  |  |  |  |  |  | B | Originally 2SB
Became National station with 2FC in 1932.[33]
2BL | Sydney | A | 1932[33] | 351 | 0855 | 405 | 0740 | 0740 | 740[26] | 0702 | 0702 | Wavelength 353 m. 1925[34]–1931.
2BS | Bathurst | B | 1937 |  |  | 200 | 1500 | 1500 | 1500 | 1503 | F 2018 | Converted to FM Dec 2018
2BY | Byrock | A | 1970s[35][36] |  |  |  |  |  | 660[36] | 657[37] | 0657 |
2CA | Canberra | B | 1931[38] | 286 | 1050 | 286 | 1050 | 1050 | 1050 | 1053 | 1053 | Branding changed to 2JAB for one day on 28 Sept. 2021.[39]
2CC | Canberra | B | 1975[40] |  |  |  |  |  | 1210 | 1206 | 1206 |
2CH | Sydney | B | 1932[41] | 248 | 1210 | 252 | 1190 | 1170 | 1170 | 1170 | D (22 Oct. 2020)

C (10 June 2022)

| 1170 sits in both 10 kHz & 9 kHz rasters, therefore no change for GE75. 1170 kHz reallocated to 1170 SEN on 22 October 2020.[42] DAB station closed on 10 June 2022.[43]
2CK | Cessnock | B | 1938 |  |  | 205.5 | 1460 |  |  |  | C 1952 | studio destroyed by fire in 1952, and not replaced; transmitter equipment at Neath unaffected but closed[44] Became 2NM.
2CN | Canberra | A | 1953 |  |  |  |  | 1540 | 1540[26] | 1440 | 0666 | 1440 sits in both 10 kHz & 9 kHz rasters, therefore no change for GE75. Moved to 666 in 1983; 1440 tx eventually used by 2PB.
2CO | Corowa | A | 1931 | 536 | 0560 | 448 | 0670 | 0670 | 670[26] | 0675 | 0675 | ABC Regional
2CP | Monaro

(Cooma)

| A | 1966[45] |  |  |  |  |  | 1570[46] | 1602 | 1602 | Originally a relay of 2CY.[45]
2CR | Cumnock | A | 1935 | 545 | 0550 | 545 | 0550 | 0550 | 0550 | 0549 | 0549 |
2CS | Coffs Harbour | B | 1980s |  |  |  | 0 | 0 |  | 639 | F |
2CY | Canberra | A | 1938 |  |  | 353 | 0850 | 0850 | 850[26] | 846 |  | Changed callsign to 2RN Oct 1990
2DU | Dubbo (Eulomogo | B | 1936 |  |  | 283 | 1060 | 1250 | 1250 | 1251 | 1251 | [47]
2DU | Cobar | B | 1984 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 0972 | Repeater of 2DU Dubbo
2EA | Sydney | A |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 1386 | 1107 | Allocated former 2UW frequency after 2UW converted to FM in early 1990s. SBS Radio
2EA | Wollongong | A |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 1035 | SBS Radio
2EA | Wollongong | A |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 1485 | SBS Radio
2EA | Newcastle | A |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 1413 | SBS Radio
2EC | Bega | B |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 0765 | Changed callsign from 2BE 1980s
2EC | Moruya | B |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 0765 | Changed callsign from 2BE 1980s, converted to FM 1990s
2EC | Narooma | B |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 1584 | 1584 | Changed callsign from 2BE 1980s, originally repeater to cover Bega / Moruya synch mush zone
2EL | Orange | B | after 1996 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 1089 | was 2GZ
2EU | Sydney | B | 1925 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | Callsign originally allocated but changed to 2UE prior to commencement
2FC | Sydney | B | 1923 | 451 | 0665 |  |  |  |  |  |  | was 1100 metres then 442 m. 1926[48]–1929.[29] Became ABC station 1932
2FC | Sydney | A | 1932[33] | 451 | 0665 | 492 | 0610 | 0610 | 610[26] | 0576 | 0576 | Renamed 2RN Sydney in October 1990
2GB | Sydney | B | 1926 | 316 | 0950 | 345 | 0870 | 870 | 870 | 0873 | 0873 |
2GF | Grafton | B | 1933 | 246 | 1220 | 248 | 1210 | 1210 | 1210 | 1206 | F 2022 | Now operates on FM 89.5 MHz. It ceased broadcasting on 1206 kHz AM, on 23 Dec 2022, but still uses the call sign 2GF.
2GL | Glen Innes | A | c. 1954[49] |  |  |  |  |  | 820[26] | 0819 | 0819 |
2GN | Goulburn | B | 1931[40] | 216 | 1390 | 216 | 1390 | 1380 | 1380 | 1368 | F 2022 | 201.3 m. in 1930
1370 kHz after 1976?; changed callsign to 2GBN 7 Mar 2022. Closed May 2022, became GNFM on 107.7 MHz from 12 May 2022.[50]
2GO | Gosford | B | 1971 |  |  |  |  |  | 1310 | 1323 | F 1991 | 801 kHz from 1986 to 1991.[51]
2GZ | Orange | B | 1935 |  |  | 303 | 0990 |  | 990[52] | 1089 | B 1996 | became 2EL after 1996
2HC | Coffs Harbour | B | 1985 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 0639 |
2HD | Newcastle | B | 1925 | 270 | 1110 | 263 | 1140 |  |  |  | C 1941 | initially 333 metres then 288 m. 1925–1931
closed 1941 with 4AT, 5KA, 5AU during World War II following allegations of fifth column activities.[53]
2HD | Newcastle | B | 1945 |  |  |  |  | 1140 | 1140 | 1143 | 1143 | reopened as ALP station[54]
2HR | Singleton | B | 1937 |  |  | 441 | 0680 |  |  |  |  | became 2NX, Newcastle c. 1955
2JJ | Sydney | A | 1975 |  |  |  |  |  | 1540 | 1539 | F 1980 | Originally an experimental ABC station which later obtained permanent status. Became 2JJJ (Later TripleJ) on 105.7 MHz in 1980.
2KA | Katoomba | B | 1935[55] |  |  | 259[56] | 1160 | 0780 | 780  | 0783 | C 1992 | moved to 780 kHz in 1937. Wavelength was allocated 1935 for competitor 2KB[57] but never implemented.
2KM | Kempsey | A | 1937 | 306 | 0980 | 306 | 0980 | 0980 | 530[52] | 531[37] | B  | Studios moved to Port Macquarie where it became 2MC in 1980.[58][59] (Confusingly, the 2KM callsign was reused for a N.S.W. Labor Council owned (narrowcast?) station in Sydney on 1620 kHz,[40][60] now 2MORO.)
2KO | Newcastle | B | 1931[61] | 212[62] | 1415 | 213 | 1410 |  | 1410 | 1413 | F 1990s | Converted to FM in 1990s and changed callsign to 2KKO
2KP | Kempsey | A | 1954 |  |  |  |  | 0680 | 0680[26] | 0684 | 0684 |
2KY | Sydney | B | 1925[63] | 280 | 1070 | 294 | 1020 | 1020 | 1020 | 1017 | 1017 | 280 metres from 1925
2LF | Young | B | 1938 |  |  | 224 | 1340 |  | 1340[64] | 1350 | 1350 | linked with 2WG
2LG | Lithgow | A | 1949[65] |  |  |  |  | 1370 | 1570[66] | 1485[37] | 1395 | Using 1570 kHz in 1960.[66]
2LM | Lismore | B | 1936 |  |  | 333 | 0900 | 0900 | 900[64] | 900[37] | 0900 | replaced 2XN
2LT | Lithgow | B | 1939 |  |  | 278 | 1080 | 1390 | 1370[64] | 1395 | 0900 | freq. 1370 kHz in 1976
900 kHz from 1984
2LV | Inverell | B | 1936 |  |  | 366[67] | 0820 |  |  |  | B | linked with 2AD. Became 2NZ in 1937.[68]
2MC | Port Macquarie (Kempsey) | B | 1980 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | B  | Former 2KM renamed 2MC when studios moved from Kempsey to Port Macquarie in 1980. 2MC converted to FM in 2000[58][59] but the 531 kHz AM frequency was taken over by 2PM[69][40]
2MG | Mudgee | B | 1938[40] |  |  |  |  | 1450 | 1450 | 1449 | 1449 |
2MK | Bathurst | B | 1925 | 260 | 1155 |  |  |  |  |  | C 1931.[70] | 275 metres in 1925.
MK = Mockler's Store
2ML | Murwillumbah
Terranora | A | 1954 |  |  |  |  |  |  | 0720 | 0720 | 720 sits in both 10 kHz & 9 kHz rasters, therefore no change for GE75
2MO | Gunnedah | B | 1931[40] | 227 | 1320 | 221 | 1360 | 1080 |  | 1080 | 1080 | 1080 sits in both 10 kHz & 9 kHz rasters, therefore no change for GE75
2MV | Moss Vale | B | 1930 | 246 | 1220 | 208 | 1440 | 1440 |  |  | C | 205.4 m. in 1930, 241.8 in 1931.
Closed c. 1931
2MW | Murwillumbah | B | 1937 |  |  | 204 | 1470 |  | 1440[64] | 0972[37] | 0972 |
2NA | Newcastle | A | 1943 |  |  |  |  | 0820 | 1510[66] | 1512[37] | 1233 | First ABC regional station.
2NB | Broken Hill | A | 1948 |  |  |  |  | 0760 |  | 0999 | 0999 |
2NC | Newcastle | A | 1930 | 241 | 1245 | 244 | 1230 | 1230 |  | 1233 | 1233 |
2NI | Norfolk Island | A | 1952 |  |  |  |  | 0 | 1570 | 0 1566 | 01566 |
2NM | Muswellbrook | B | c. 1955 |  |  | 205.5 | 1460 | 1460 |  | 1458 | 0981 | replaced 2CK, moved to 981 in 1980
2NR | Grafton (Lawrence) | A | 1936 |  |  | 429 | 0700 | 0700 |  | 0738 | 0738 |
2NU | Tamworth (Manilla) | A | 1948 |  |  | 455 | 0660[71] | 0650 | 0650 | 0648 | 0648 |
2NX | Newcastle | B | c. 1955 |  |  | 221 | 1360 | 1360 |  | 1341 | B | previously 2HR Singleton.

Now on FM as hit106.9

2NZ | Inverell | B | 1936[40] |  |  | 256 | 1170 | 1190 | 1190 | 1188 | 1188 | previously 2LV;[68] took over 2NZ licence issued for Narrabri in 1935 but not implemented.
Linked with 2GZ
2OO | Wollongong | B | 1979 |  |  |  |  |  |  | 1575 | F 1992 | Became i98FM[72]
2PB | Canberra | A |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 1440 | F 2006 | ABC News Radio, converted to FM early 2006
2PB | Newcastle | A |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 1458 | News Radio
2PB | Sydney | A |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 0630 | News Radio
2PK | Parkes | B | 1937[40] |  |  |  |  | 1400 | 1400 | 1400 | 1404 | [73]
2PM | Port Macquarie

(Kempsey)[74]

| B | 2000  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 0531 | New 2PM took over frequency from former 2MC, when 2MC converted to FM.[74]

Now 'Radio 531'.[75]

2PNN | Wollongong | A |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 1431 | Radio National
2QN | Deniliquin | B | 1935 |  |  | 208 | 1440 | 1520 | 1520 | 1521 | 1521 |
2RE | Taree | B | 1953 |  |  | 192 | 1560 | 1560 | 1560 | 1557 | 1557 | 2RE Taree ceased AM transmission on the 19th of July, 2022, and transitioned to 88.9FM [76]
2RG | Griffith | B | 1936[77] |  |  | 204 | 1470 | 1070 |  |  | 0963 |
2RN | Armidale | A |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 0720 | Radio National (was 2AN)
2RN | Canberra | A |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 0846 | Previous callsign 2CY, carries Radio National programmes
2RN | Goulburn | A |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 1098 | F 2022 | Radio National, now on 97.90 MHz. FM.
2RN | Newcastle | A |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 1512 | Radio National
2RN | Nowra | A |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 0603 | Radio National
2RN | Sydney | A |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 0576 | Radio National (was 2FC)
2RN | Wilcannia | A |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 1485 | Radio National
2SB | Sydney | B | 1923 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | C 1924 | allocated 450 m. in late 1923; became 2BL in 1924[33] It is likely this broadcaster never went to air.
2SM | Sydney | B | 1931 | 236 | 1270 | 236 | 1270 | 1270 | 1270 | 1269 | 1269 |
2ST | Nowra | B | 1972[40] |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 0999 |
2TM | Tamworth | B | 1935[78] | 201 | 1490 | 231 | 1300 | 1300 | 1300 | 1287 | 1287 | 204.5 m. in 1935
2TR | Taree | A |  |  |  |  |  | 0720 | 0760 | 0756 | 0756 | freq. change 720 to 760 in 1976
2UE | Sydney | B | 1925 | 293 | 1025 | 316 | 0950 | 0950 | 0950 | 0954 | 0954 | Originally 2EU, it was Australia's first commercial radio station,[79] and broadcast on 293 metres from at least 1926.
2UH | Muswellbrook | A | 1964[80] |  |  |  |  |  | 1040[26] | 1044[37] | 1044 |
2UW | Sydney | B | 1925 | 267 | 1125 | 270 | 1110 | 1110 | 1110 | 1107 | F 1994 | 263 metres in 1926.[28]
Frequency given to SBS Radio (2EA Sydney).

Now on FM as KIIS1065

2VM | Moree | B | 1957[81] |  |  |  |  |  | 1530 | 1530 | 1530 | 1530 sits in both 10 kHz & 9 kHz rasters, therefore no change for GE75.
2WA | Wilcannia | A |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 1584 |
2WG | Wagga Wagga | B | 1932 | 260[82] | 1150 | 261 | 1150 | 1150 | 1150 | 1152 | 1152 | 303 metres in 1932? – Now part of the Triple M network
2WL | Wollongong | B | pre-1931 | 209 | 1435 | 210 | 1430 | 1430 | 1430[64] | 1314 | F | Became WaveFM
2WN | Wollongong | A | 1959[83] |  |  |  |  |  | 1580[66] | 1431[84] | F 1991[83] | Became 97.3 ABC Illawarra
2WO | Tamworth | B | 1934 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | A 2WO Tamworth was announced in 1934 but never eventuated.[85]
2WS | Sydney (Western Suburbs) | B | 1978 |  |  |  |  |  |  | 1224 | F 1993 | Now on FM 101.7 as WSFM[86]
2XL | Broken Hill | B | 1931 | 220 | 1365 |  |  |  |  |  | C 1932[87] |
2XL | Cooma | B | 1937[88] |  |  | 341 | 0880 | 0920 | 0920 | 0918 | F 2019 | Now XLFM.
2XN | Lismore | B | 1930 | 224 | 1340 | 224 | 1340 |  |  |  | C 1936 | replaced by 2LM
2XT | Mobile station | B | 1925 | ?? |  |  |  |  |  |  | C 1927 | operated from a New South Wales Government Railways train. XT = Experimental train
3AK | Melbourne (night service) | B | 1931 | 200 | 1500 | 200 | 1500 | 1500 |  | 1503 | 1116 | branded as "SEN 1116"[40] Moved to 1116 in 2003

1503 was transferred to community station 3KND

3AR | Melbourne | B | 1924 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 3AR moved to 480 metres then 484[34] 1925–1931 then 492.
Became ABC station 1932
3AR | Melbourne | A | c. 1928 | 492 | 0610 | 476 | 0630 | 0620 | 0620 | 0621 | C | new (1935) wavelength 476 m.; moved to 517 a few months later[89]
By 1937 it had reverted to 484; unchanged 1949.[90]
Renamed 3RN Melbourne in October 1990
3AW | Melbourne | B | 1932[40] | 210 | 1425 | 234 | 1280 | 1280 | 1280 | 1278 | 0693 | relay to 3CV 1955
3BA | Ballarat | B | 1930[40] | 231 | 1300 | 227 | 1320 | 1320 | 1320 | 1314 | F 1998 | call sign "Radiosport 927"[40]
3BO | Bendigo | B | 1931 | 309 | 0970 | 309 | 0970 | 0960 |  | 945 | F | Now on FM 93.5 as Triple M
3BT | Ballarat | B |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 1314 | 1314 | repeater of 3UZ
3CR | Melbourne | B | 1976 |  |  |  |  |  | 840 | 837 | 855 | Commenced as limited commercial, then public, now community
3CS | Colac | B | 1939 |  |  | 265 | 1130 | 1130 | 1130 | 1134 | 1134 |
3CV | Charlton
Central Vic. | B | 1938 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | B | was 3MB
1470 kHz (204 m.) by 1949[91]
3CV | Maryborough
Central Vic. | B | 1944 |  |  |  |  | 1440 |  |  | F | was 3MB
1470 kHz (204 m.) by 1949
1440 kHz (208 m.) by 1953[91]
3DB | Melbourne | B | 1927 | 254 | 1180 | 291 | 1030 | 1030 | 1030 | 1026 | F 1990 | became 3TT in 1988

Now on FM as KIIS1011

3EA | Melbourne | A |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 1224 | SBS Radio; opened 9 June 1975
3EE | Melbourne | B | 1992 |  |  |  |  |  |  | 693 | 1278 | was 3XY

Swapped frequency with 3AW in 2006 – Changed to "Magic 1278"

3EL | Maryborough | B | 1935 |  |  |  |  |  |  | 1071 | 1071 |
3GG | Warragul | B | 1989 |  |  |  |  |  |  | 0531 | 0531 | was 3UL
3GI | Longford | A | 1935 |  |  | 361 | 0830 | 0830 | 0830 | 0828 | 0828 |
3GL | Geelong | B | 1930 | 214 | 1400 | 222 | 1350 | 1350 | 1350 | 1341 | F 1990 | Now on FM 95.5 as K-ROCK

1341 AM frequency no longer in English

3GV | Sale | B | 2002 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 1242 | was 3TR
3HA | Hamilton | B | 1931 | 297 | 1010 | 297 | 1010 | 1000 |  | 0981 | 0981 |
3HS | Horsham | B | 1933 |  |  | 219 | 1370 |  |  |  | C 1936 | taken over by 3DB and closed 1936 in favor of 3LK[92]
3KZ | Melbourne | B | 1930 | 222 | 1350 | 254 | 1180 | 1180 | 1180 | 1179 | F 1990 | 231 m. in 1930?[93] Now on FM as Gold 104.3
3LK | Lubeck[94] | B | 1933?[40] 1936?[95] |  |  |  |  | 1090 | 1090 | 1089 | B 1977 | became 3WM in 1977
3LO | Melbourne | B | 1924 | 375 | 0800 |  |  |  |  |  | B | 371 m. 1926[28]–1929[29]
3LO | Melbourne | A | 1928 | 375 | 0800 | 390 | 0770 | 0770 | 0770 | 0774 | 0774 | 371 m. 1926[28]–1932[29] Relay to 2CO, 3GI, 3WL, 3WV in 1955
3MA | Mildura | B | 1933[96] |  |  | 333 | 0900 | 1470 | 1470 | 1467 | B | 1360 kHz (221 m.) by 1949[90]
1470 kHz (204 m.) by 1953[91] later became 3ML.
3MB | Birchip | B | 1936[95] |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | C 1938 | became 3CV[97]
3ML | Mildura | B |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 1467 | was 3MA
3MP | Rowville | B | 1976 |  |  |  |  |  | 1380 | 1377 | 1377 |
3MT | Omeo | A |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 0720 |
3NE | Wangaratta | B | 1954 |  |  |  |  | 1600 | 1600 | 1566 | 1566 |
3PB | Melbourne | B |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | Opened in September 1925, and closed in January 1926, after only four months on air.
3PB | Melbourne | A |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 1026 | News Radio
3RN | Albury-Wodonga | A |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 0990 | Radio National
3RN | Melbourne | A |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 0621 | Radio National
3RN | Wangaratta | A |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 0756 | Radio National
3SH | Swan Hill | B | 1931 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 1332 |
3SR | Shepparton | B | 1937 |  |  | 238 | 1260 | 1260 | 1260 | 1260 | Original station, F 1988. | previous call sign 3WR.[98] 1260 sits in both 10 kHz & 9 kHz rasters, therefore no change for GE75

Original station now on FM 95.3 as Triple M

3TR | Gippsland
Sale
Trafalgar
Traralgon | B | 1930 | 234 | 1280 | 242 | 1240 | 1240 | 1240 | 1242 | F 2002 | became 3GV –
3UL | Warragul | B | 1937 |  |  | 300[99] | 1000 | 0880 |  | 0531 | B | became 3GG in 1989
3UZ | Melbourne | B | 1925 | 322.5 | 0930 | 322.5[99] | 0930 | 0930 | 0930 | 0927 | 0927 | 319 m. in 1926[28]
Now branded "Radio Sport National"
3WL | Warrnambool | A | 1954[49] |  |  | 191 | 1570 | 1570 |  | 1602 | 1602 |
3WM | Horsham | B | 1977 |  |  |  |  |  |  | 1089 | 1089 | was 3LK
3WR | Wangaratta | B | 1925[100] |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | C 1926? | 303 m. in 1926[28]
3WR | Wangaratta | B | 1930[101] | 238 | 1260 |  |  |  |  |  |  | reopened on 238 m.
Moved to Shepparton 1935.[98]
3WR | Shepparton | B | 1935 |  |  | 238 | 1260 |  |  |  |  | became 3SR in 1937[98]
3WV | Horsham | B | c. 1936 | 322.5 | 0930 |  |  |  |  |  | B | became A Class station 1937
3WV | Longford near Horsham | A | 1937 |  |  | 517 | 0580 |  |  | 0594 | 0594 |
3XY | Melbourne | B | 1935 |  |  | 211 | 1420 | 1420 | 1420 | 1422 | B 1992 | became Magic 1278

1422 no longer in English

3YB | Mobile | B | 1931 | 262 | 1145 | 248 | 1210 |  |  |  |  | Broadcast for 4 hours per night for a three-week period from various Victorian towns which didn't radio permanent stations.
3YB | Warrnambool | B | 1937 |  |  | 248 | 1210 | 1210 |  | 0882 | 0F 2018 | Now on FM 94.5

882 now a relay of 3RPH 1179

3ZZ | Melbourne | A | 1975 |  |  |  |  |  | 1160 |  | C 1977 | An experimental ABC station, broadcasting for only 2 years. Was Australia's first ethnic and community radio station.[102]
4AA | Mackay | B |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 1026 | Previous callsign 4MK
4AK | Oakey | B | 1935[56] |  |  | 246 | 1220 | 1220 |  | 1242 | 1242 | studio in Toowoomba
4AM | Mareeba | B | 1967[40] |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 0558 |
4AM | Port Douglas | B |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 1422 | Repeater of 4AM Atherton Mareeba
4AT | Atherton | B | 1939 | 306 | 0980 | 441 | 0680 |  |  |  | B 1941 | closed by Federal government following allegations of fifth column activity.[53]
Became ABC a month later.[103]
4AT | Atherton | A | 1941[103] |  |  | 441 | 0680 | 0600 |  | 0720 | 0720 | 720 sits in both 10 kHz & 9 kHz rasters, therefore no change for GE75
4AY | Ayr | B | 1934 | 306 | 0980 | 306 | 0980 | 0960 |  |  | C c. 1970 | Changed callsign to 4RR Jan 1987
HPON | Ayr | B | c. 1990 |  |  |  |  |  |  | 0873 | 0873 | Uses On-air Identifier of 4AY
4BC | Brisbane | B | 1930 | 262 | 1145 | 268 | 1120 | 1120 | 1120 | 1116 | 882 | 223[104] in 1930; 235 m. in 1930?[93] 252 in 1933!

Moved to 882 in 2021

4BH | Brisbane | B | 1931 | 217 | 1380 | 217 | 1380 | 1390 | 0880 | 0882 | 1116 | freq. moved 1390 to 880 in 1976

Moved to 1116 in 2021

4BK | Brisbane | B | 1930 | 233 | 1290 | 233 | 1300 | 1300 | 1300 | 1296 | F 1990 | Now on FM 105.3 as B105
4BU | Bundaberg | B | 1935 |  |  | 203 | 1480 | 1330 | 1330 | 1332 | 1332 |
4CA | Cairns | B | 1936 |  |  | 216[105] | 1390 | 1010 |  | 0846 | 0846 | Complaints of interference from 4MB[106] (both went from 1000 kHz to 1010 kHz) in 1948.[107]
4CC | Biloela | B | 1985 |  |  |  |  |  | 930 | 927 | 0666 | Repeater of 4CC Gladstone, initially synch with 4CD Gladstone, shifted to 666 with power increase
4CC | Gladstone | B | 1985 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 0927 | was 4CD Gladstone
4CC | Rockhampton | B | 1985 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 1584 | was 4CD Rockhampton
4CD | Gladstone | B | 1970[40] |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | B | became 4CC Gladstone 1985
4CD | Rockhampton | B | 1972 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | B | became 4CC Rockhampton 1985
4CH | Charleville | A | pre-1931 | 255 | 1175 |  |  |  |  | 0603 | 0603 |
4FC | Maryborough / Hervey Bay | B | 1992 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 1161 | TAB Radio
4GC | Charters Towers | B | 1976[40] |  |  |  |  |  |  | 0828 | 0828 |
4GC | Hughenden | B |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 0765 | repeater of 4GC Charters Towers
4GM | Gympie | A | 1953 |  |  |  |  | 1570 | 1570 | 1566 | 1566 |
4GR | Toowoomba | B | 1925 | 300 | 1000 | 300 | 1000 | 0860 | 0860 | 0864 | 0864 | 294 metres in 1925, 1926[28]
4GY | Gympie | B | 1941 |  |  | 222 | 1350 | 1350 |  | 0558 | 0558 |
4HI | Dysart | B |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 0945 |
4HI | Emerald | B | 1981[40] |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 1143 |
4HI | Moranbah / Nebo | B |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 1215 |
4HU | Hughenden | A |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 1485 |
4IP | Ipswich | B | 1935[56] |  |  | 208 | 1440 | 1010 | 1010 | 1008 | B 1992 | became 4IO c. 1985, 4TAB in 1992
4JK | Julia Creek | A |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 0567 |
4KQ | Brisbane | B | 1947 |  |  | 461.5 | 0650 | 0690 | 0690 | 0693 | 0693 |
4KZ | Ingham | B |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 1620 |
4KZ | Innisfail | B | 1967[40] |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 0531 |
4KZ | Karumba | B |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 1611 |
4KZ | Tully | B |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 0693 |
4LG | Longreach | B | 1936 |  |  |  |  | 1100 | 1100 | 1098 | 1098 |
4LM | Mount Isa | B | 1961[40] |  |  |  |  |  |  | 0666 | 0666 |
4LM | Cloncurry | B |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 0693 | translator station
4MB | Maryborough | B | 1932 | 283 | 1060 | 283 | 1060 | 1010 | 1160 | 1161 | F | 1160 kHz from 1953[108] Both 4CA and 4MB went from 1000 to 1010 in 1948.[107] 1160 kHz in 1964
Became RadioTAB
4MI | Mount Isa | A | 1986 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 1080 |
4MK | Mackay | B | 1931 | 252 | 1190 | 259 | 1160 | 1380 |  | 1026 | 1026 | 525 m. in 1930?[93] 1390 in 1948[107]
4MS | Mossman | A |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 0639 | 0639 |
4NA | Nambour | B |  |  |  |  |  | 0830 | 0828 | 0828 | 0 | freq move 940 to 830 kHz in 1976. Became 4SS
4PB | Brisbane | A |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 0936 | News Radio
4PM | Port Moresby | A |  |  |  | 221 | 1360 |  |  |  |  | repeater for, then replaced by, 9PA[109]
4QA | Mackay | A | 1951 |  |  |  |  | 0720 |  | 0756 | 0FM 1990s | Converted to FM 1990s
4QB | Pialba –
Dundowran
(Wide Bay) | A | 1948 |  |  | 536 | 0560[107] | 0910 |  | 0855 | 0855 | Synchronised with 4QO Eidsvold for both original 910 kHz operation and post 1978 current operation
4QD | Emerald | A |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 1548 |
4QG | Brisbane | A | 1925 | 395 | 0760 | 375 | 0800 | 0790 |  |  | C | 385 m. 1926[28]–1929[29]
Founded by (Labor) Queensland Government, became ABC station 1932. Renamed 4RN Brisbane in October 1990
4QL | Longreach | A | 1947 |  |  | 435 | 0690 | 0540 | 0540 | 0540 | 0540 | 540 sits in both 10 kHz & 9 kHz rasters, therefore no change for GE75
4QN | Townsville (Clevedon) | A | 1936 |  |  | 500 | 0600 | 0630 | 0630 | 0630 | 0630 | 630 sits in both 10 kHz & 9 kHz rasters, therefore no change for GE75
4QO | Eidsvold | A | 1965 |  |  |  |  |  |  | 0855 | 0855 | Synchronised with 4QB Pialba for both original 910 kHz operation and post 1978 current operation
4QR | Brisbane | A | 1938 |  |  | 319 | 0940[107] | 0590 |  | 0612 | 0612 |
4QS | Darling Downs
Dalby
Toowoomba | A |  |  |  |  |  | 0750 | 0750 | 0747 | 0747 |
4QW | Roma / St George | A |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 0711 |
4QY | Cairns | A | 1950 |  |  |  |  | 0940 |  | 0801 | 0801 |
4RK | Rockhampton | A | 1930[93] | 330 | 0910 | 330 | 0910 | 0840 | 0840 | 0837 | 0837 |
4RN | Brisbane | A |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 0792 | Radio National
4RN | Rockhampton | B | 1926 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | B Class licence issued to Qld Gov, intended to be a repeater of 4QG but never implemented
4RO | Rockhampton | B | 1932 | 225 | 1340 | 226 | 1330 | 1000 |  | 0990 | 0990 | 990 sits in both 10 kHz & 9 kHz rasters, therefore no change for GE75
4RR | Townsville | B | 1987 |  |  |  |  |  |  | 0 | 0FM 1990s | Previous callsign 4AY
4SB | Kingaroy | B | 1938 |  |  |  |  | 1060 |  | 1071 | 1071 | call sign 1071AM[40]
4SO | Southport | A | 1952 |  |  |  |  | 1590 | 1590 | 1593 | F 1989 |
4SS | Nambour | B |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 0828 | F 1990s | Previous callsign was 4NA
4TAB | Brisbane | B | 1992 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 1008 | was 4IP then 4IO c. 1985
4TI | Thursday Island
(Torres Strait) | A |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 1062 | 1062 |
4TO | Townsville | B | 1931 | 256 | 1170 | 256 | 1170 | 0780 | 0780 | 0774 | F 2005 | Now on FM 102.3 as Triple M
4TOO | Townsville | B | 2005 | 256 | 1170 | 256 | 1170 | 0780 | 0780 | 0774 | C 2015 | Former tech facilities of 4TO AM licensed as retransmission, following 4TO FM conversion ca 2005
4VL | Charleville | B | 1936 |  |  |  |  | 0920 | 0920 | 0918 | 0918 |
4VL | Cunnamulla | B |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 1584 |
4WK | Toowoomba | B |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 1359 | repeater of 4WK Warwick
4WK | Warwick | B | 1935 | 333 | 0900 | 333[110] | 0900 | 0880 |  | 0963 | 0963 | 204.5 m. in 1935
4WP | Weipa | A |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 1044 | 1044 |
4ZR | Roma / St George | B | 1937 |  |  |  |  | 1480 | 1480 | 1476 | 1476 | Has relays in St. George on 105.3 FM and Mitchel on 104.5 FM
5AA | Adelaide | B | 1976 |  |  |  |  | 1390 | 1390 | 1386 | 1395 |
5AB | Adelaide | B | 1924 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | C 1924 | 340 m (880 kHz); poss. became 5CL[111]
5AD | Adelaide | B | 1930 | 229 | 1310 | 229 | 1310 | 1310 |  | 1323 | F 1990 | Now on FM as Mix 102.3
5AL | Alice Springs | A | 1948 |  |  | 196 | 1530 |  |  |  | B | became 8AL
5AN | Adelaide | A | 1937 |  |  | 337 | 0890 | 0890 | 0890 | 0891 | 0891 |
5AU | Port Augusta | B | 1938 |  |  | 214 | 1400 |  |  |  |  | closed with parent station 5KA 1941 after allegations of fifth column activity
5AU | Port Augusta | B | 1943[112] |  |  | 214 | 1400 |  |  | 1044 | 1242 | 1450 kHz in 1976
5CC | Port Lincoln | B | 1985[40] |  |  |  |  |  |  | 0765 | 0765 |
5CK | Crystal Brook | A | 1932 | 472 | 0635 | 469 | 0640 | 0640 | 0640 | 0639 | 0639 |
5CL | Adelaide | B | 1924 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | B | poss. succeeded 5AB.
420 metres[113] or 375 metres then 395 m. from 1925[34] Became ABC station 1932.
5CL | Adelaide | A |  | 411 | 0730 | 411 | 0730 | 0730 | 0730 | 0729 | B | became 5RN Adelaide in October 1990
5CS | Port Pirie | B |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 1044 | 1044 | associated with 5AA
5DN | Adelaide | B | 1925 | 313 | 0960 | 313 | 0960 |  |  | 0972 | 1323 | 313 m. in 1926[28]
972 became 5PB News Radio
5DR | Darwin | A | 1947 |  |  |  |  | 1500 |  |  | B | Changed callsign to 8DR in 1960
5KA | Adelaide | B | 1927 | 250 | 1200 | 250 | 1200 |  |  |  | C 1941 | closed 1941 with its repeater 5AU after allegations of fifth column activity
5KA | Adelaide | B | 1943[112] |  |  |  |  | 1200 | 1200 | 1197 | F 1990 | Now on FM 104.7 as Triple M
5LC | Leigh Creek | A | 1971[114] |  |  |  |  |  |  | 1602 | 1602 |
5LN | Port Lincoln | A | 1950[114] |  |  |  |  | 1530 |  | 1485 | 1485 |
5MG | Mount Gambier | A | 1955 |  |  |  |  |  |  | 1161? | 1476 |
5MU | Murray Bridge | B | 1934 |  |  | 207 | 1450 | 1460 |  | 1125 | 1125 |
5MV | Berri | A | 1957 |  |  |  |  | 1590 | 1590 | 1593 | 1062 | moved to 1305 in 1988; 1062 in 1996.
5PA | Penola | A | 1956 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | moved to Naracoorte c. 1970
5PA | Naracoorte | A | c. 1970 |  |  |  |  |  |  | 1161 | 1161 |
5PB | Adelaide | A |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 0972 | News Radio. Was 5DN
5PI | Crystal Brook | B |  | 288 | 1040 | 288 | 1040 | 1040 | 1040 | 1044 |  | became 5CS in 1987.[114]
5RM | Renmark | B | 1935 | 319 | 0940 | 353 | 0850 | 0800 | 0800 | 0801 | 0801 |
5RN | Adelaide | A |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 0729 | Radio National. Was 5CL
5RN | Riverland (Berri)[114] | A |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 1305 | Radio National
5SE | Mount Gambier | B | 1937 |  |  | 224 | 1340 | 1370 |  | 0963 | 0963 | Now known as Triple M Limestone Coast
5SY | Streaky Bay | A | 1977[114] |  |  |  |  |  |  | 0693 | 0693 |
5UV | Adelaide | C | 1970s[114] |  |  |  |  |  | 530 | 0531 | 0F 1990s | Initially licensed under WT Act, then Public, then Community, converted to FM 1990s
5WM | Woomera | A | 1953 |  |  |  |  | 1580 | 1580 | 1584 | 1584 |
6ABCRN | Christmas Island | A |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 1422 | Radio National
6AL | Albany | A | 1956 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 0630 |
6AM | Northam | B | 1934 | 275 | 1090 | 306 | 0980 | 0980 |  | 0864 | 0864 |
6BAY | Geraldton | B |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 1512 |
6BAY | Morawa | B |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 1512 | repeater of 6BAY Geraldton
6BE | Broome | A | 1990 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 0675 |
6BR | Bridgetown | A |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 1044 |
6BS | Bunbury (Busselton) | A |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 0684 |
6BY | Bunbury | B | 1933 | 306 | 0980 | 259 | 1160 |  |  |  | C 1935 | Call sign revived as 6BY Bridgetown
6BY | Bridgetown | B | 1953 |  |  |  |  |  | 0900 | 0900 | 900 | 900 sits in both 10 kHz & 9 kHz rasters, therefore no change for GE75.
6CA | Carnarvon | A |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 0846 |
6CI | Collie | B | 1947 |  |  |  |  | 1340 |  | 1134 | B | became 6TZ Collie
6DB | Derby | A |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 0873 |
6DL | Dalwallinu | A |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 0531 |
6ED | Esperance | A |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 0837 |
6EL | Bunbury | B | 2000 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 0621 |
6EL | Margaret River | B | 2000 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 01494 | repeater of 6EL Bunbury
6FMS | Exmouth | B |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 0747 |
6GE | Geraldton | B |  |  |  |  |  | 1010 | 1010 | 1008 | F 1991 |
6GF | Kalgoorlie | A | 1935 |  |  | 417 | 0720 | 0720 | 0720 |  | 0648 |
6GL | Perth | B | 1988 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | C 1991 | 1088 kHz; merged with 6IX
6GN | Geraldton | A |  |  |  |  |  | 0830 | 0830 | 0828 | 0828 |
6IX | Perth | B | 1933 | 204 | 1470 | 242 | 1240 | 1240 | 1080 | 1080 | 1080 | 1130 in 1943[115] 1080 sits in both 10 kHz & 9 kHz rasters, therefore no change for GE75.
6KA | Karratha | B | 1978 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 1260 |
6KG | Kalgoorlie | B | 1931 | 246 | 1220 | 248 | 1210 | 1210 |  |  | 0981 | 246 m. in 1933
6KP | Karratha | A |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 0702 |
6KW | Kununurra | A |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 0819 |
6KY | Perth | B | 1941 |  |  | 210 | 1430 | 1320 | 1206 |  | F 1991 | 1430 kHz in 1941; 1320 in 1943[115] Now on FM as Mix 94.5
6LN | Carnarvon | B | 1983 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 0666 |
6MD | Merredin | B | 1941 |  |  |  |  | 1100 | 1100 | 1098 | 1098 |
6MJ | Manjimup | A |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 0738 |
6ML | Perth | B | 1930[116] | 297[117] | 1010 | 265 | 1130 |  |  |  | C 1943 | Commenced 31 Mar 1930 on 1010 kHz; 29 Jul 1931 changed to 1135 kHz (frequency selected by listeners from two choices offered by PMGD); 1 Sep 1935 changed to 1130 kHz; Closed 1943 ostensibly due to WW2 staff losses; 6IX subsequently allocated former 6ML frequency 1130 kHz
6MM | Mandurah | B | 1988[40] |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 1116 |
6MN | Newman | A |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 0567 |
6NA | Narrogin | B | 1951 |  |  |  |  | 0920 | 0920 | 0918 | 0918 |
6NM | Northam | A | c. 1954[49] |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 1215 |
6NW | Port Hedland | B | 1977 |  |  |  |  |  |  | 1026 | 1026 |
6PB | Bunbury (Busselton) | A |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 1152 | News Radio.
6PB | Perth | A |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 0585 | News Radio
6PH | Port Hedland | A |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 0603 |
6PM | Perth | B | 1937 |  |  |  |  | 1130 | 1000 | 0990 | F 1990 | [118] 1320 to 1240 kHz in 1943[115] 990 sits in both 10 kHz & 9 kHz rasters, therefore no change for GE75.

Now on FM 92.9 as Triple M

6PN | Pannawonica | A |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 0567 |
6PR | Perth | B | 1931 | 341 | 0880 | 341 | 0880 | 0880 | 0880 | 0882 | 0882 |
6PU | Paraburdoo | A |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 0567 |
6RN | Busselton | A |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 1296 | Radio National
6RN | Dalwallinu | A |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 0612 | Radio National
6RN | Perth | A |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 0810 | Radio National
6RN | Wagin | A |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 1296 | Radio National
6SAT | Paraburdoo | B |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 0765 |
6SAT | Tom Price | B |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 0765 |
6SE | Esperance | B | 1982? 2000? |  |  |  |  |  |  | 0747 | 0747 |
6TP | Tom Price | A |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 0567 |
6TZ | Bunbury | B | 1939 |  |  |  |  | 0960 | 0960 | 0963 | 0963 |
6TZ | Busselton | B | 1995 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 0756 |
6TZ | Collie | B |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 1134 | was 6CI Collie
6VA | Albany | B | 1956 |  |  |  |  |  | 780 | 783 | 0783 |
6WA | Wagin (Minding) | A | 1936 |  |  |  |  | 0560 | 0560 | 0558 | 0558 |
6WB | Katanning | B | 1936 |  |  |  |  | 1070 | 1070 | 1071 | 1071 |
6WF | Perth (Wanneroo) | B | 1924 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | B | 1250 m. (240 kHz) in 1926[28]
Became ABC station 1932
6WF | Perth (Wanneroo) | A | 1929 | 435 | 0690 | 435 | 0690 | 0690 | 0690 | 0720 | 0720 | moved to 690 kHz in 1929 with change of ownership.[119] 720 sits in both 10 kHz & 9 kHz rasters, therefore no change for GE75.
6WH | Wyndham | A |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 1017 |
6WN | Perth | A |  |  |  |  |  |  | 0810 |  |  | Became 6RN Perth in October 1990
6XM | Exmouth | A |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 1188 |
7AD | Devonport | B | 1932 |  |  |  |  | 0900 | 0900 | 0900 | F 2019 | Took over 7UV in 1940; 900 sits in both 10 kHz & 9 kHz rasters, therefore no change for GE75. converted to FM Mar 2019
7BU | Burnie | B | 1935 | 221 | 1360 | 216 | 1390 | 0560 | 0560 | 0558 | 0F 2019 | Converted to FM Mar 2019
7DY | Derby | B | 1938[120] |  |  |  |  | 1450 |  |  | B 1954 | became 7SD, Scottsdale[49]
7EX | Launceston | B | 1938[121] |  |  | 300 | 1000 | 1000 | 1010 | 1008 | F 2008 | Converted to FM 2008 and changed callsign to 7EXX

Now on FM 90.1 and 101.1 as Chilli FM

HPON | Launceston | H | 2009? |  |  |  |  |  |  | 1008 | 1008 | TAB HPON, licence awarded after 7EX AM-FM conversion, uses old 7EX tech facilities
7FG | Fingal | A |  |  |  |  |  |  | 1160 | 1161 | 1161 | opened after 1976
7HO | Hobart | B | 1930 | 337 | 0890 | 366 | 0820 | 0860 | 0860 | 0864 | F 1990 | 349 metres in 1937. Became 7RPH

Now on FM 101.7

7HT | Hobart | B | 1936 |  |  | 278 | 1080 | 1080 | 1080 | 1080 | F 1998 | 1080 sits in both 10 kHz & 9 kHz rasters, therefore no change for GE75
7LA | Launceston | B | 1930 | 273 | 1100 | 273 | 1100 | 1100 | 1098 | 1098 | F 1998 | started as amateur station 7BN[122]
became TAB station

Now on 89.3 & 100.3

7NT | Kelso near Launceston | A | 1935[123] | 400 | 0750 | 400 | 0750 | 0710 | 0710 | 0711 | F 2006 | assertion 7NT founded 1928[122] could not be verified
7PB | Hobart | A |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 0747 | News Radio
7QN | Queenstown | A | 1954[49] |  |  | 556 | 0540 | 0540 |  | 0630 | F 1991 | 630 sits in both 10 kHz & 9 kHz rasters, therefore no change for GE75
7QT | Queenstown | B |  |  |  |  |  | 0720 |  | 0837 |  | became 7XS in 1998
7RN | Hobart | B | 1991 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | was 7ZL
7RPH | Hobart | B | 1990 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 0864 | was 7HO
7SD | Scottsdale | B | 1954 |  |  |  |  | 1450 |  | 0540[40] | 0540 | transferred from 7DY, Derby,[49] 540 sits in both 10 kHz & 9 kHz rasters, therefore no change for GE75
7SH | St Helens | A |  |  |  |  |  |  | 1570 | 1584 | 1584 | opened after 1976
7UV | Ulverstone | B | 1932[124] | 205.5 | 1460 | 205.5 | 1460 |  |  |  | B | became 7AD Devonport in 1940
7XS | Queenstown | B | 1937 |  |  |  |  |  |  | 0837 | 0837 | took over 7QT in 1998
7ZL | Hobart | B | 1926 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | B 1927 | 417 metres in 1926[28]
7ZL | Hobart | A | 1932[122] | 517 | 0580 | 508 | 0590 | 0600 |  |  | C 1991 | 461 m. in 1937 http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/25400495 became 7RN Hobart in October 1990
7ZR | Hobart | A | 1938 |  |  |  |  | 0940 |  |  | 936 |
8AL | Alice Springs | A | 1960 |  |  |  |  | 1530 | 1380 | 0783 | 0783 | began as 5AL on 1530 kHz; moved to 1380 kHz in 1976
8DR | Darwin | A | 1960 |  |  |  |  |  |  | 0657 | F 1989 | previously 5DR on 1500 kHz
8DN | Darwin | B |  |  |  |  |  | 1240 | 1240 | 1242 | C 1992 |
8GO | Nhulunbuy | A |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 0990 |
8HA | Alice Springs | B | 1971 |  |  |  |  |  |  | 0900 | 0900 |
8JB | Jabiru | A |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 0747 | 0747 |
8KN | Katherine | A |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 0639 | F 1991 |
8RN | Darwin | A |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 0657 |
8RN | Katherine | A |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 0639 | 0639 |
8RN | Tennant Creek | A |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 0684 | 0684 |
8TC | Tennant Creek | A |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 0684 | F 1991 |
9PA | Port Moresby | A | 1946 |  |  |  |  | 1250 |  |  |  | Founded by Australian and United Staties Armies 1944. Replaced 4PM[109] For other wartime call signs see below.

Legend
Type A = Government funded (including SBS radio). B = self funded (now called "commercial" but historic term retained here)
Fate Frequency if currently active, otherwise B = Broadcasts still occurring from same location and frequency but call sign changed; C = Licence cancelled or lapsed (may be followed by date); F = Moved to FM band (may be followed by date); D = Continues to broadcast using DAB+ only (may be followed by a date).

## Overseas broadcasters during World War II

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A large number of AM radio stations were established by Australian and US forces in bases to the north of Australia in the years 1943–1946, of which around 20 were operated by the Australian Army Amenities Service. This is an incomplete list of those overseas broadcasters whose callsign commenced with "9". 9AT in Kure, Japan operated during the post-war occupation period.[125][126]

Call sign | Base | Country | Frequency
kHz[127] | Opened | Closed | Notes

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9A? | Weston | Borneo |  | 1945 |  | east of Labuan Island on Brunei Bay
9AA | Port Moresby | Papua New Guinea |  |  |  | This call sign used briefly, then reverted to 9PA
9AB | Lae[128] | Papua New Guinea | 1070/1340 | !945 |  |
9AC | Torokina[129] | Papua New Guinea | 1280 | 1945 | 1946 |
9AD | Aitape | Papua New Guinea | 1140/1180 | 1945 |  |
9AD | Morotai | Dutch East Indies (Indonesia) | 1180/1440 |  |  |
9AE | Jacquinot | Papua New Guinea | 1370/1425 |  |  |
9AE | Rabaul | Papua New Guinea | 1310/1370/1375/1425 | 1945 |  |
9AF | Tarakan | Borneo |  | 1945 |  |
9AF | Labuan | Borneo | 960/1340 | 1945 |  |
9AG | Balikpapan | Borneo | 960/1240/1340/1360 |  |  |
9AJ | Bosley Field[130] | Solomon Islands | 960 |  |  |
9AJ | Wewak | Papua New Guinea | 960/980/1030 | 1945 |  |
9AL | Rabaul | Papua New Guinea |  | 1945 |  |
9AL | Fauro Island | Solomon Islands | 1030 | 1945 |  |
9AO | Rabaul | Papua New Guinea | 980 |  |  |
9AO | Jesselton | Sabah | 980 | 1946 | 1946 | now Kota Kinabalu
9AP | Labuan | Borneo |  |  |  |
9AT | Kure | Japan | 1470 | 1946 |  | joint broadcast with US Army station WLKS
9PA | Port Moresby[131] | Papua New Guinea | 1250 | 1944 | 1946 | for a time 9AA

## See also

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* History of broadcasting in Australia
* List of radio stations in Australia
* Timeline of Australian radio

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## External links

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* Radio Heritage: AM Radio NT
* Radio Heritage: AM/FM AM & FM Radio Australian Territories
* Radio and television broadcasting stations Internet edition JANUARY 2020 – ACMA
* Wikibook – History of wireless telegraphy and broadcasting in Australia/Topical/Publications/Australian Radio History/NSW AM Stations