canberra ra2 1 frequency 1125 khz am canberra australian capital territory repeater s 89.5 mhz fm wagga wagga new south wales ; 99.5 mhz fm junee new south wales first air date 5 october 1992 1992 10 05 1 format radio reading service language s english power 2 000 watts transmitter coordinates 35 12 52 s 149 7 0 e 35.21444 s 149.11667 e 35.21444 ; 149.11667 callsign meaning 1 australian capital territory radio for the print handicapped affiliations radio print handicapped network owner print handicapped radio of act inc. website official website radio 1rph 1125 khz canberra 89.5 fm wagga 99.5 fm junee is a volunteer manned am band radio broadcast station in the australian capital territory serving all of the act and surrounding areas of nsw including queanbeyan yass and michelago with 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 the am band on 1620 khz 5 and so suffered little interference and was heard as far away as the united states . 6 contents 1 equipment 1.1 studios 1.1.1 on air and production 1.1.2 production 1.2 transmitters and antennas 2 effect of ndis 3 see also 4 references 5 external links equipment edit l r transmitter building dual masts car park and carport studio building . studios edit on air and production edit 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 edit digital post production studio voice only studio cd r and tape library recorded music library transmitters and antennas edit 2 000 watt solid state am transmitter with standby two 65 metre antenna masts providing directional coverage emergency power plant effect of ndis edit in february 2016 the station management announced that it had been advised that 38 000 would not be available from the act government s disability act as of july 2016 when these funds would become part of the general national disability insurance scheme ndis funds administered by the commonwealth government . this amount represented roughly a quarter of the station s operating budget . disability minister chris bourke 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 ms lorraine litster ; vice president and people with disabilities act president robert altamore ; and volunteer broadcaster and act legislative assembly member vicki dunne mla . ms litster pointed out that of the 22 billion year scheme only 132 million has been set aside for services including the radio print handicapped network . the national disability insurance authority ndia has said it will be considering the matter . 7 8 see also edit list of australian radio stations radio print handicapped network 1rph canberra historical summary references edit 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 . www.radio1rph.org.au . 1rph . 2008 . archived from the original on 19 july 2008 . retrieved 2008 08 04 . value our voices pdf . cbaa . 2007 . archived from the original pdf on 25 july 2008 . retrieved 2008 08 04 . rogers chris 24 december 1994 . station news australia . international dx digest . national radio club . 62 14 . 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 . disability station radio 1rph left in the lurch amid ndis funding changes james fettes and adrienne francis abc news online 10 february 2016 radio station for print handicapped to lose out under ndis president katie burgess sydney morning herald 10 february 2016 external links edit radio 1rph rph australia network v t e radio stations in canberra am and fm stations with an asterisk are also available on digital in a trial multiplex am stations 666 abc canberra radio national 846 2ky 1008 2ca 1053 1rph 1125 2cc 1206 china radio international 1323 sbs radio 1440 rete italia 1620 & 1629 fm stations raw fm 87.6 87.8 ucfm radio austral 87.8 canberra fm88 88.0 acttab racing radio 88.7 valley fm 89.5 tuggeranong cms radio 91.1 1way fm 91.9 artsound fm 92.7 qbn fm 96.7 queanbeyan kix country 97.5 2xx fm 98.3 yass fm 100.3 yass triple j 101.5 abc classic fm 102.3 abc newsradio 103.9 104.7 sbs radio 105.5 mix 106.3 digital only stations abc abc grandstand abc jazz double j capital radio network my canberra digital sca buddha radio sbs radio sbs chill sbs popasia by call sign 1art 1cbr 1cms 1ea 1rph 1vfm 1way 2abcfm 2ca 2cc 2cn 2ky 2rn 2roc 2sbsfm 2xx australia radio markets adelaide brisbane canberra darwin gold coast hobart melbourne newcastle perth sydney see also list of radio stations in australia retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title 1rph & oldid 739789393 categories radio stations in canberraradio reading services of australiaradio stations established in 1992hidden categories use dmy dates from june 2015use australian english from june 2015all wikipedia articles written in australian english navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 17 september 2016 at 01 04 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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