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2XL was the station to listen to for many workers working during the construction of the Snowy Scheme as my late father. Believe it or not, my father learned English by listening to programs relayed from Sydney.
Though theoretically AM radio can rival FM radio in frequency response, unfortunately most AM receivers have the frequency response no better than a landline telephone. AM stereo is passe. That leaves FM and DAB+.
But the trend of rural AM stations is to convert to FM not DAB and not DRM. FM radios are ubiquitous compared to DAB+ and DRM receivers. Though the quality of FM will never match that of high bit rate DAB+ at least at 70kbs (Sydney's 2CH has the best bit rate at 128kbs), it is still reasonable at 15kHz per channel capturing most of a human's hearing range to about 20kHz.
Thank you,
Anthony of exciting Belfield