That dude a mile up the road from me, whom goes balls-out for X-mas yard lights, still has his Part #15 X-mas tunage station on-air at 101.3FM, even well after X-mas. This week though, station still on-air, but all dead-air. Huh... And, try this... Drive around with your car stereo on 87.9FM, and you may hear several stations come-in with various formats. That will happen if you are bored at a supermarket parking lot. Folks will be driving around, RX'ing XM / Sirius satellite radio, and dumping audio to a mini FM Part #15 TX. You may hear 3, or more, stations coming in and out just parked and listening to a normally empty 87.9FM FREQ. http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?14,8696,8696#msg-8696 Mon, 12 Oct 2026 15:08:32 -0400 Phorum 5.2.19 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?14,8696,8703#msg-8703 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?14,8696,8703#msg-8703 -------------------------------------------------------
> Weird! All this time and I never noticed there was
> an FM section to the FRN, shows I haven't been
> looking since its return a few years ago.

I added the FM Logs section on January 21, 2021.]]> cosmikdebris FM Logs Tue, 26 Jan 2021 16:13:51 -0500 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?14,8696,8702#msg-8702 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?14,8696,8702#msg-8702 WYPF, a class B1 FM, on 88.1 in Frederick, Maryland. There's also an annoying FrankenFM on 87.75 in DC that is probably operating at higher power than it's allowed, and it always QRMs 87.9 here.

I find Part 15 transmitters here all over the lower FM band, most usually in the range 88.7 to 91.7. The ones I've heard are almost always someone's personal jukebox or a relay of a Sirius XM channel in a car. There is also some crappy hands-free cell fone gear that transmits one side of a cell phone conversation on FM via a Part 15 transmitter. I doubt that the people who buy these things know that their conversations are transmitted in the clear to DXers and people who scan the bands regularly while they're driving.

Back when Howard Stern first started on the satellite, it was common to drive down I-270 during the morning rush hour and pick up Stern's show on several different frequencies in the lower FM band. I recall that there was a particular satellite-to-FM set that was later found to be operating at power levels exceeding Part 15 limits, and because of that, the manufacturer got spanked by the FCC. Around that time there were also a number of FCC complaints from soccer moms who were not pleased when they encountered Stern's uncensored content on their car radios.]]> cosmikdebris FM Logs Tue, 26 Jan 2021 11:41:18 -0500 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?14,8696,8699#msg-8699 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?14,8696,8699#msg-8699
Yes, 87.9, I do the same, even at home I can get stations on that frequency by just keeping a sensitive radio tuned there. I can tell when a car is just passing through, or is stopped at a light for a while because the signal will hold.

Several years back I'd always get a station in the parking lot behind my local Dollar General on 87.9, usually playing some easy music, and sometimes a talk show with a real 'sharp' host, sounded P. o.'d all the time. I thought it was a pirate maybe relaying radio and TV audio, and it was always there, every time, for 2 years, then suddenly it was gone and never heard again.

In the mean time I'd found out that the audio was from Sirius, hearing one of their IDs, and I'd guess it was a home radio, since it was always on. The range was about a quarter mile radius, and it was gone pretty fast, with a few blips outside of that range.]]> Radio Animal FM Logs Sun, 24 Jan 2021 03:06:34 -0500 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?14,8696,8696#msg-8696 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?14,8696,8696#msg-8696 ThaDood FM Logs Sat, 23 Jan 2021 15:27:52 -0500