Tuesday, 2 December 2025

Radio stations in Long Lama, Sarawak


Long Lama is a rural town in Marudi District, Miri Division, Sarawak. It is 140km away from Miri town. On 30th November 2025, I had radio DXing activities in Long Lama, I went there due to curiousty about the radio stations coverage there.

 

In Long Lama, I managed to tune 17 radio stations, including 5 Brunei radio stations from Andulau.

 

1. RTM Radio Klasik FM 91.9MHz Bukit Lambir (64km)

 

2. RTM Nasional FM 92.7MHz Bukit Lambir (64km) and 95.5MHz Long Lama

FM 98.1MHz has audio distortion.


3. RTM Sarawak FM 98.1MHz Long Lama & 88.1MHz Bukit Lambir (64km) 

 

4. RTM Traxx FM 88.9MHz Bukit Lambir (64km)

 

5. RTM Ai FM 89.9MHz Bukit Lambir (64km)

 

6. RTM Red FM 90.7MHz Bukit Lambir (64km)

 

7. RTM Miri FM 95.7MHz Bukit Lambir (64km)

Cannot be tuned at all in Long Lama town due to strong adjacent channel interference from RTM Nasional FM 95.5MHz Long Lama transmitter. No alternative frequency is available for Miri FM in Long Lama. Miri FM listeners need to tune via RTM Klik online in Long Lama. Radio Kayan/Talidio Kenyah can be tuned alternatively via Astro CH871, MYTV CH710 or SW 11665kHz in Long Lama. In my opinion, RTM Nasional FM should change its Long Lama frequency to avoid interference against Miri FM 95.7MHz. In Long Lama, Miri FM has no local transmitter like Nasional FM and Sarawak FM. Both radio stations Nasional FM and Sarawak FM in Long Lama tower are linked from satellite feed, meanwhile Miri FM has no C band satellite feed to link studio feed to the remote transmitter site.

 

8. Cats FM 93.3MHz Bukit Lambir (64km)

 

9. Hitz FM 105.8MHz Bukit Lambir (64km)

 

10. Era FM Sarawak 101.3MHz Bukit Lambir (64km)

 

11. MY FM 103.2MHz Bukit Lambir (64km)

 

12. Melody FM 102.4MHz Bukit Lambir (64km)

 

13. Sinar FM 96.6MHz Bukit Lambir (64km)

 

14. RTB Nasional FM 93.8MHz Andulau Brunei (96km)

 

15. RTB Harmoni FM 97.7MHz Andulau Brunei (96km)


16. RTB Pilihan FM 96.9MHz Andulau Brunei (96km)

 

17. RTB Nur Islam FM 94.9MHz Andulau Brunei (96km) 

 

18. RTB Pelangi FM 91.0MHz Andulau Brunei (96km)

 

RTM radio stations from Bukit Lambir are moderately weak in Long Lama, except Miri FM 95.7MHz, but commercial radio stations such as Hitz 105.8, Era Sarawak 101.3, MY FM 103.2, Cats FM 93.3, Sinar FM 96.6, and Melody FM 102.4 are extremely weak there.

 

Brunei radio stations from Andulau have very mild signal in Long Lama, Sarawak, but only for Radio Televisyen Brunei RTB radio channels. I need to find a correct position to capture those signals.

 

Kristal FM 98.7MHz and Al-Quran Radio FM 99.7MHz have no signal in Long Lama, Sarawak. 


Limbang FM 104.9MHz (Bukit Mas), Bintulu FM 97.5MHz (Bukit Setiam), Miri FM 95.1MHz (Bukit TT844 Suai) and Sabah VFM 102.9MHz (Bukit Tampalagus) signals are completely zero in Long Lama, Sarawak.

        






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