Loggings of unusual transmissions in the FM broadcast band, 88.7 to 107.9 MHz. http://www.frn.net/vines/list.php?14 Sat, 05 Sep 2026 19:54:10 -0400 Phorum 5.2.19 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?14,11462,11462#msg-11462 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?14,11462,11462#msg-11462 radio-locator.com] yield nothing plausible. So, maybe a very recent format change? Strange, but Eastern USA Tropo, due to the heatwave, was certainly going on.]]> ThaDood FM Logs Wed, 01 Jul 2026 12:18:15 -0400 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?14,11213,11213#msg-11213 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?14,11213,11213#msg-11213 radio-locator.com] And, this was on that little Yorek YK-901 DSP portable, connected to a VHF High Band Delta Loop. Sure enough, CB was nuts and 6M FM 52.525MHz Simplex was full of CQ-CQ's. So, quite a "E" opening indeed, and totally over took that WVTS translator for minutes at a time. NICE!!!! BTW, the Delta Loop is the VHF version of this, [archive.org] Being, the VHF High Version, centered for 200MHz, no real gain for the FM BC Band, but it still is very bi-directional, and is in a North / South facing on the wall.]]> ThaDood FM Logs Fri, 04 Jul 2025 12:03:25 -0400 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?14,10945,10945#msg-10945 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?14,10945,10945#msg-10945 radio-locator.com] Yeah, less than 1kW, at 15 miles from the TX site. Around 10AM EST, (14:00UTC, I believe.), that station was getting trounced by several stations just popping in and out quickly. No DX ID's, but I heard Arkansas mentioned on one station. By 10:40AM, it was just back to hearing only WCST again. Well, always neat to hear FM DX at work. BTW, those Disc-like, King TV antennas, that newer campers seem to come with? Those totally are 100% garbage!]]> ThaDood FM Logs Sat, 22 Jun 2024 19:45:30 -0400 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?14,9790,9805#msg-9805 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?14,9790,9805#msg-9805 ThaDood FM Logs Thu, 17 Feb 2022 14:57:42 -0500 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?14,9790,9790#msg-9790 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?14,9790,9790#msg-9790 ThaDood FM Logs Fri, 11 Feb 2022 02:42:04 -0500 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?14,9654,9656#msg-9656 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?14,9654,9656#msg-9656 I have 2 semi-regulars in my area.

Report this to the Free Radio Weekly.]]> BramStoker FM Logs Fri, 17 Dec 2021 17:37:56 -0500 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?14,9654,9654#msg-9654 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?14,9654,9654#msg-9654 ThaDood FM Logs Fri, 17 Dec 2021 02:56:41 -0500 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?14,9612,9612#msg-9612 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?14,9612,9612#msg-9612 cosmikdebris FM Logs Fri, 26 Nov 2021 18:09:31 -0500 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?14,9419,9419#msg-9419 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?14,9419,9419#msg-9419
LPTV Engineering STA Application for WMTO-LD]]> cosmikdebris FM Logs Fri, 24 Sep 2021 09:50:51 -0400 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?14,9092,9092#msg-9092 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?14,9092,9092#msg-9092 cosmikdebris FM Logs Thu, 17 Jun 2021 19:44:55 -0400 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?14,9024,9024#msg-9024 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?14,9024,9024#msg-9024 cosmikdebris FM Logs Thu, 20 May 2021 10:57:18 -0400 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 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?14,8694,8694#msg-8694 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?14,8694,8694#msg-8694 cosmikdebris FM Logs Fri, 22 Jan 2021 20:38:42 -0500