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Sirius '60s channel on 100.7 FM

J

johnbasalla

I was in a restaurant in the Galleria a few weeks ago. I had my little Radio Shack radio with me. I turned it on and when I dialed up 100.7 FM I didn't hear WMMS' Active Rock, I heard pop from the 1960s. I soon noticed that I was hearing, on my radio, the music being piped into the restaurant. One of the servers came to my table, looked surprised and said "you're hearing that on that radio?" The answer was yes. When I dialed around, all other stations came in normally. At first I thought maybe this was stunting for a format change at WMMS since word was out that corporate was deemphasizing the buzzard logo anyway. I thought, maybe they got permission to run the Sirius programming until the real format change occurred. Well, the second I left the premises, the sound switched from the Sirius Satellite Radio 1960s channel to WMMS. Segued from hearing Stevie Wonder to Breaking Benjamin. The funny part was before I left, I told a couple of waitresses that "I think they've killed "The Buzzard". I went back into the restaurant to tell them I made a mistake.

I'd like a technical explanation hear engineers on what occurred? I thank you in advance.
 
Simple

FM transmitter set to 100.7. You can buy 'em anywhere (intended for satellite radios, mp3 players, etc.), to play thru the car stereo.
 
Strange, though, to set the little FM transmitter right on top of a local station! Usually, people find a dead frequency. Also, setting it on top of a local station usually results in a noisy signal because--even though the little transmitter might override the local station--the local station is usually creating noise underneath.

Probably the owners of this place, like many people, don't know these things and just put it on whatever the radio was already tuned to.

By the way, a friend of mine who works in car audio installation says that the number one "fix" that he has to make is people who tune their XM or Sirius car receiver/transmitters right on top of a local station and then wonder why the signal is noisy and has interference. Duh!
 
Ha, I had those situations before. Listening to WONE, some people actually had their transmitters set on 97.5. Defenetly an iPod since the audio quality was very bad and the music went from Pappa Roach, to Soulja Boy, to Young Joc, to Gunz N Roses..
 
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