at 169 Hay Street, Perth. From 1980 until 1983 the station was based in Terrace Road, East Perth moving to 111 Wellington Street, Perth until 1988. Originally when the station first went to air in 1980 the transmitter facilities were shared with the STW9 tower. However the advent of mobile phone networks, problems associated with site crowding plus the impending launch of 6PM and 6KY onto FM led to the establishment of the Perth FM radio group site. The program is fed over a microwave link from East Perth to Bickley. Each of the FM stations on the site has an STL collection dish. The feed is picked up, decoded, and then fed into an exciter. At this point the 19 kHz sub audio pilot tone is injected. This enables FM receivers to show the 'FM Stereo' light as 'on'. Then after leaving the rack in the hut, the signal is fed into a combiner. In this way the transmission facilities are shared at the tower and the antenna array. As a standby measure the stations can feed programs over a 128k/bit ISDN link using a broadcast codec. However data charges on ISDN make this uneconomic to do full-time. 96FM is also available on DAB+ Digital Radio in Perth. References External links Official site Active rock radio stations in Australia Australian Radio Network Hay Street, Perth Radio stations established in 1980 Radio stations in Perth, Western Australia 1980 establishments in Australia