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FlyOnWall said:
Well...since you brought it up...if one possessed a receiver capable of tuning 608 to 614 Mhz. you might just FIND the aliens. Ever wonder why there is no TV-37 ANYWHERE? 608 - 614 Mhz. is where TV-37 would otherwise be...if one were to exist. "Officially" that spectrum is set aside by FCC rules, allocated to the "Radio Astronomy" service. But years ago when SETI was a government project, that's supposedly where the "Contact" was first made. To this day, 608 - 614 Mhz. is strictly off limits to TV, wireless microphones, or any other transmitting RF device. Other than listening to the heavens at a few facilities (like the VLA in Arizona as seen in the movie "Contact" and few others), the ONLY exception to the no-use rule? Internally implanted "medical devices", completely contained inside the human body.

Remember all the stories of alien abductions...and the reports of being "probed?" Just sayin.... :)

With that being said wouldn't it make a nice laugh if someone played the song from Mars Attacks on one of those frequencies. :D
 
All this talk of aliens reminds me of the greatest radio/alien film, The Arrival, where Charlie Sheen goes south of the border because of suspicious activity he hears on the radio.

Greatest quote in a movie ever: "100,000 watts oughta get there attention."

Hells yeah!!
 
I have a Sony shower radio that I picked up in the early 2000's. Gets AM/FM/TV. Of course now with analog TV gone all that can be picked up there is the station running audio on CH 6. However, for some reason I cannot figure out I can also pick up a rather weak/ static filled signal of KDMX on CH 5.

At first thought it might be just a fault with the radio, but is there a rational explination for this?
 
Scotpfv said:
I have a Sony shower radio that I picked up in the early 2000's. Gets AM/FM/TV. Of course now with analog TV gone all that can be picked up there is the station running audio on CH 6. However, for some reason I cannot figure out I can also pick up a rather weak/ static filled signal of KDMX on CH 5.

At first thought it might be just a fault with the radio, but is there a rational explination for this?

Yep. Same thing as the answer for the original poster: it's an image. 102.9-21.4=81.5, which is close enough to the audio frequency for analog TV channel 5.
 
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