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(89.5FM Wagga, 99.5FM

Junee Junee () is a medium-sized town in the Riverina region of New South Wales, Australia. The town's prosperity and mixed services economy is based on a combination of agriculture, rail transport, light industry and government services, and in par ...

) is a

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-staffed AM band

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station in the

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serving all of the ACT and surrounding areas of NSW including Queanbeyan, Yass and Michelago, with FM repeaters at Wagga and Junee, and a

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on its web site. Radio 1RPH is a member of the

Radio Print Handicapped Network RPH Australia is the national peak representative organisation for a unique Australian network of radio reading services designed to meet the daily information needs of people who, for any reason, are unable to access printed material. It is es ...

. 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. Newspapers, magazines, books, and other printed material are read to air. 1RPH used to have a frequency just outside the AM band on 1620 kHz, and so suffered little interference, and was heard as far away as the United States.

Equipment

Studios

On-air and production

*Two studios, each with 16 channel Ogenic broadcast mixers: **Audio channel sources: ***computer ***CD players ***satellite channels ***Tape-recorders ***turntables ***outside broadcast line ***telephone-radio interface

Production

*digital post-production studio *voice-only studio *CD-R and tape library *recorded music library

Transmitters and antennae

*2,000

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solid-state AM transmitter with standby *two antenna masts providing directional coverage *emergency power-plant

Effect of NDIS

In February 2016, the station management announced that it had been advised that $38,000 would not be available from the

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as of July 2016, when these funds would become part of the general

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(NDIS) funds administered by the

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. This amount represented roughly a quarter of the station's operating budget. Disability Minister

Chris Bourke Christopher John Bourke is an Australian politician, a Labor member of the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly representing the electorate of Ginninderra from 2011 to 2016. He was the first Indigenous Australian elected to the AC ...

declined to promise funding from ACT resources, but said he would make enquiries of the Federal Minister for Disability. Leading the effort to publicise this funding shortfall were: President, Lorraine Litster; Vice President, and People With Disabilities ACT president, Robert Altamore; and volunteer broadcaster and

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member,

Vicki Dunne Vicki Ann Dunne (born 25 December 1956) is an Australian politician who was a member of the unicameral Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly, from 2001 to 2020, representing the electoral district of Ginninderra for the Liberal Party ...

MLA. Litster pointed out that, of the $22 billion/year scheme, only $132 million has been set aside for services including the

. The National Disability Insurance Authority (NDIA) has said it will be considering the matter.

References

External links

Radio 1RPHRPH Australia Network
{{Canberra AM Radio stations in Canberra Radio reading services of Australia Radio stations established in 1992