Signal on 103.9- dead air

[max100]

I live in Va Highland area and yesterday while scanning the FM dial to see if a new format was on, lol. I found a pretty strong signal on 103.9 it was just dead air, but was in stereo. I carried it to HWY 316 in Gwinnett. Any thoughts, and can some of you verify? Thanks.

 

[max100]

Typical on here, no response after 68 views???

 

[Avid Listener]

Typical on here, no response after 68 views???

First, when I listen to the radio (which isn't often any more because most of what's on the air in Atlanta is crap), I tune to a station and leave it there until they either play an extremely bad song, or they go into a long commercial set. I cannot imagine anyone using the seek button to find a station, and when it lands on a station with a signal but no content, to continue to listen to the dead air for the amount of time it took to drive from Highland to Gwinnett. The only thing I could possibly comment on is what a glutton for boredom you must be to sit listening to dead air for that long. I not only would not have done it, I could not have done it. I would have changed the radio from dead air to something within 30 seconds.

That's probably not the response you want, but I cannot think of any other response to make.

 

[Unregistered]

It's a new format called Peaceful Drive. It's commercial free for now. They are stunting with nonstop silence for the foreseeable future.

 

[Mike_Rafone]

Back off, Avid. Some people have curiosity, interest, a sense of exploration. Who knows what might have come up next? After all, when foreign broadcast were via shortwave, thalways didn't start right on cue. Give the guy some credit for having the patience to follow it through.

How do you handle multiple part classical music pieces, where there might be a 30 second pause between movements?

What's wrong with this world -- rush, rush, hurry, hurry, re-tune, hit the search button …

 

[max100]

Back off, Avid. Some people have curiosity, interest, a sense of exploration. Who knows what might have come up next? After all, when foreign broadcast were via shortwave, thalways didn't start right on cue. Give the guy some credit for having the patience to follow it through.

How do you handle multiple part classical music pieces, where there might be a 30 second pause between movements?

What's wrong with this world -- rush, rush, hurry, hurry, re-tune, hit the search button …

Thanks Mike.

All I was doing was to see how far from my house it would carry.

 

[Avid Listener]

Back off, Avid. Some people have curiosity, interest, a sense of exploration. Who knows what might have come up next? After all, when foreign broadcast were via shortwave, thalways didn't start right on cue. Give the guy some credit for having the patience to follow it through.

How do you handle multiple part classical music pieces, where there might be a 30 second pause between movements?

What's wrong with this world -- rush, rush, hurry, hurry, re-tune, hit the search button …

I wasn't responding to his initial post, I was responding to his churlish follow-up, "Typical on here, no response after 68 views???" His follow-up post insulted all of us who participate in this forum.

As for classical music, there are no stations in Atlanta that I'm aware of that play really good classical music. I've tried to listen to WABE when I wanted to hear classical, but it was never playing a classical piece I liked. But when I play anything from my own collection of classical music, which is considerable, I know when the breaks are because I am very, very familiar with the works in my collection.

The only reason I change stations is when the station that is on is playing something that annoys me. It's not that I'm in a hurry, but any time spent enduring sonic torture seems longer than it really is. For example, listening to five minutes of rap seems like half an hour.

 

[kf4rca]

Might be a pirate. While high powered equipment is difficult to purchase here without the proper documentation, some of these foreigners can import it from their home country with no difficulty. Not surprising since their status is somewhat above the law anyway.

 

[trusty]

First, when I listen to the radio (which isn't often any more because most of what's on the air in Atlanta is crap)...

...and dead air is a fantastic alternative to crap.

Might be a pirate. While high powered equipment is difficult to purchase here without the proper documentation, some of these foreigners can import it from their home country with no difficulty. Not surprising since their status is somewhat above the law anyway.

Not difficult at all. While most FM transmitters are in the .5 - 7w range, here's a link to a 1kw transmitter on ebay. Just pay the price.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/PCS-1000-WA...US_Ham_Radio_Transmitters&hash=item35b6d68983

 

[max100]

I wasn't responding to his initial post, I was responding to his churlish follow-up, "Typical on here, no response after 68 views???" His follow-up post insulted all of us who participate in this forum.

As for classical music, there are no stations in Atlanta that I'm aware of that play really good classical music. I've tried to listen to WABE when I wanted to hear classical, but it was never playing a classical piece I liked. But when I play anything from my own collection of classical music, which is considerable, I know when the breaks are because I am very, very familiar with the works in my collection.

The only reason I change stations is when the station that is on is playing something that annoys me. It's not that I'm in a hurry, but any time spent enduring sonic torture seems longer than it really is. For example, listening to five minutes of rap seems like half an hour.

Damn, thier is more in life to worry about than a radio board and a response that you did not care for, get over it. So sorry that I insulted you...

 

[acheron1982]

I guess I glutton for boredom then because I would also be taking that dead air station as far as I could. True AM/FM fanatics are an unusual breed and personally, I'm proud of it.

 

[kenglish]

I would not put much faith in the "68 Views" counter....probably a lot less than that.
I've posted things that show literally thousands of views, and there probably are not more than a few dozen people who would even view that forum.
I think the counter is whacked-out, or it's counting random hits from some search-engine.

 

[Avid Listener]

...and dead air is a fantastic alternative to crap.

Well, no music at all is better than bad music. But much better than bad music is good music. Fortunately, there is no shortage of sources of good music to listen to if OTA radio has nothing good on.

 

[kf4rca]

Our litigious government tries to prosecute anybody they can. Selling a high powered transmitter might get you charged with "accessory to commit illegal broadcasting." I don't know how much experience you have with the legal system but often victims find themselves defendants.
Whatever happened to Riddum (Rhythm) 94.5? They were pirates on that frequency playing Jamaican music. How much power were they operating and from where?

 

[Avid Listener]

Our litigious government tries to prosecute anybody they can. Selling a high powered transmitter might get you charged with "accessory to commit illegal broadcasting." I don't know how much experience you have with the legal system but often victims find themselves defendants.
Whatever happened to Riddum (Rhythm) 94.5? They were pirates on that frequency playing Jamaican music. How much power were they operating and from where?

How difficult is fabricating a radio transmitter from parts? A friend of mine from high school used to build guitar amps of his own design from Radio Shack parts. Is cobbling together an FM transmitter some kind of rocket science, or could anyone who went to electronics tech school build one if he had the schematics?

 

[HGR1290]

Riddum was running a few hundred watts, with a high antenna up in the northeast part of the metro. They even ran RDS.

As far as building a transmitter----probably could be built, but why? Pick up a surplus exciter etc on E-Bay. Plug it in and away u go. (Note to pirates, please use a low pass filter....!)

E-Bay would add a level of plausible deniability to the trail....