Friday I was waiting to meet someone at Bristol Plaza in Bristol and I was doing a band scan and picked up someone's Sirius repeater on 107.3 - it was playing Dance Music. It played some long drawn out dance beat. Then there was several seconds of silence (no announcer or station ID) and then "Right Round" by Flo Rida played. Just as "Right Round" was ending the person I was waiting for showed up. I turned off my radio and we went and had lunch. By time we came out of the restaurant some 45 minutes later there was no longer any signal on 107.3 FM.
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Sirius Repeater on 107.3
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Must have been one of those older FM modulator units in another car in that parking lot. Those things could put out a signal for 100 yards or more. (And mine still does!) They were eventually ruled to be illegal by the FCC (apparently, Sirius and XM had submitted lower-powered units for testing for type acceptance and gotten away with it until a group of noncommercial broadcasters complained to the FCC). Most of these older units only work on 88.1-89.9 and 106.9-107.9 mhz. I use 107.3 myself, switching to 88.3 when I'm within range of WAAF.
those older FM Modulators are as strong as an announcer at a large stadium football field. 107.3 is a good open frequency in the hartford area. I used to listen to AAF back in the early 00's going from VT to New haven you would get it for 150 miles but those receivers would always knock it out before AAF moved to the other transmitter where AAF used to come in a lot stronger in CT back in 2003-2005 era as a guess.
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I had an antique Sportscaster that literally would send a signal around 1/2 mile on an average day.
When I had it sitting at home and hooked to the base antenna, I drove around the area and could pick it up sporadically up to 3/4 of a mile away depending on the line of sight. That thing had a pretty powerful transmitter in it!
When I had it sitting at home and hooked to the base antenna, I drove around the area and could pick it up sporadically up to 3/4 of a mile away depending on the line of sight. That thing had a pretty powerful transmitter in it!
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