from RadioAndRecords:http://www.radioandrecords.com/Newsroom/2006_05_01/topstory. asp"...It appears the receivers’ power level for sending the signal may be higher than FCC regulations permit. In some cases, signals are reportedly being sent 50, 100 or even 1,000 feet beyond the originating vehicle. The signals then drown out stations listened to by passing motorists...Anthony Brandon, President/GM of NPR affiliate WYPR/Baltimore, told the Sun he’s sent 60 listener complaint letters to the FCC. "(Picture this: you're on the road trying to listen to NPR or a college station when suddenly it's Howard Stern--someone using a sat-radio equipped with an FM transmitter, or one of thosemini-FM transmitters...)
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Radio & Records: FCC Probes Faulty Satellite Receivers
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Hmm, this explains why my brother in his truck was able to get my sirius a half mile behind me as we were both headed down route 9, but at least I choose an unoccupied frequency, not like the guy this past weekend who was on the berlin turnpike on 88.5 (in this area a fair signal from WFCR Amherst) I thought it weird to hear 50 Cent as I tuned around at a stop light, I left it there to see why NPR would be playing him, and the signal faded as I pulled away from the light, only to return shortly after I stopped at the next one.
It's funnier when Stern interferes with a Christian radio station like what happened in Chicago.racconradio said:
IMHO the FCC should worry more about pirate stations that transmit for miles & miles then a satellite radio transmitting a few hunderd feet. On the other hand, (yea I know this is pushing it, but) perhaps as a courtisy, the owner of the satellite radio or whatever devise that is used to play something in the car, home, etc, etc, should check and see that their not on a frequency that is used in their town by a station if they can.
Personally, I use 99.5 as it's pretty much a dead channel in the central CT area, with the closest station being a 5 watt station in Storrs (many many miles away) and the others being in Boston, NYC and Albany, I advise everyone in this area to do the same, that way no one is getting blocked.
Stern came blasting in at 104.9 while I was parked at the Framingham service area on the Mass. Turnpike yesterday, wiping out WBOQ Beverly. I waited a while to see who'd pull out and, to my surprise, it was a driver four cars down from me! He left in the opposite direction and Stern disappeared from my radio when he was about eight cars away. Not bad coverage at all, especially on a frequency that was occupied at the time!
Within Cook County Illinois, all the non-commercial frequencies between 88.1 & 89.9 are occupied by numerous stations broadcasting on as little as 5 watts to as much as 250 watts, because the FCC allowed that many stations to be on the air in that market. So that part of the band is difficult to find an open frequency. Most of those low power stations are college stations with severely directional patterns to protect co-channel & 1st adjacents. The only open frequencies in the Chicago market that won't get filled anytime soon are 97.5 due to a 97.5 licensed to Rockford (Class B 50kw license) and another 97.5 down in the Champaign/Urbana area (Class B 50kw license), 99.1 due to a 99.1 licensed to Milwaukee (Class B 50kw) and another 99.1 down in the Champaign/Urbana area (Class B 50kw), & 101.5 due to a 101.5 licensed to South Bend Indiana (Class B 50kw license), 101.5 licensed to Madison Wisconsin (Class B 50kw license), and yet another Class B 50kw on 101.5, licensed to the Bloomington/Nornal Illinois area. Those are the only safe frequencies to use the Sirius receivers without interference.
This website has been posted here before, but I thought this would be a good place to remind people of it:www.fmfind.infoWhat's funny is that I always used 105.5 for my FM transmitter for my Sirius. I used this website and that's the frequency it told me to use!
I live in a Suburb in Salt Lake City. I was playing around with an FM Transmitter I got for Christmas when I was up there. I had a hard time finding a good frequency to tune in my transmitter to. There was so much intermod at the lower end of the dial. But then again Salt Lake has more stations per-capta then any other city in the country. Here in Cedar City if I had Sirius Satellite Radio it would be easier then ever to find a frequency here.
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