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Spanish Pirates Broadcasting On FM-87.7 MHz

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BobMSmith1959

This past Sunday morning I was scaning around on the lower end of the FM Dial,
I happen to stumbled onto 87.7 MHz with my Grundig 350 World Band radio, and heard a Spanish radio
station playing Mexican music. I said to myself this is very that a rado station is broadcasting on
87.7 MHz I was wondering if this was a pirate radio station? I check out www.radio-locator.com and I came
up with nothing. in fact. 87.7MHz does not exsit on it's website.

Did anyone else here this unusual Spanish radio station???...
 
BobMSmith1959 said:
This past Sunday morning I was scaning around on the lower end of the FM Dial,
I happen to stumbled onto 87.7 MHz with my Grundig 350 World Band radio, and heard a Spanish radio
station
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A "Spanish radio station" would be in Spain. I presume you mean a "Spanish language radio station."

playing Mexican music.
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There must be 20 or 30 kinds of Mexican music, from mariachi to norteña to rock and AC and pop. What you said is like saying "American music" or "European music."

How far from your home can you get it? Take your portable somewhere with you and see if it covers more area; otherwise, it might be some neigbor broadcasting their iPod to a sound system.
 
87.75 MHz is the sound carrier frequency for TV Channel 6. Maybe there was some E-skip going on, and a Mexican TV station was coming in.
 
DavidEduardo said:
BobMSmith1959 said:
This past Sunday morning I was scaning around on the lower end of the FM Dial,
I happen to stumbled onto 87.7 MHz with my Grundig 350 World Band radio, and heard a Spanish radio
station
Click to expand...

A "Spanish radio station" would be in Spain. I presume you mean a "Spanish language radio station."

playing Mexican music.
Click to expand...

There must be 20 or 30 kinds of Mexican music, from mariachi to norteña to rock and AC and pop. What you said is like saying "American music" or "European music."

How far from your home can you get it? Take your portable somewhere with you and see if it covers more area; otherwise, it might be some neigbor broadcasting their iPod to a sound system.
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(1) Oops! Sorry for my mistakes, thank you or correcting me Ed, yes I've meant a Spanish language radio station,
but however, I realize that there are over 30 kinds of spanish style of music, but I am NOT an expert on Hispanic music.

(2)An ipod transmitter? Yes of course! Why didn't I thought of it before? In fact, I have some neighbors who are Hispanic
on my block, and they live just a few houses from me. If I hear it again, I will take my portable and go down about
2 or 3 blocks away from house and try to see where it covers???
 
The audio from Channel 6 which broadcasts the spanish language version of MTV.

I live in DG town and recieve it loud and clear.
 
Yes, that's a legal station, low-power, Channel 6, WLFM-LP Rochelle, Illinois, transmitting from John Hancock Center in Chicago.

I don't listen or watch to the station much, but what I have heard, MTV-Tres is English-language programming targeting a Hispanic audience.

The station moved from Channel 55 to Channel 6 during the winter, but for some reason the FCC's website still indicates they are on 55.

I noticed that the station's signal does not reach the city of license, which is about 75 miles west of Chicago. Not sure how the FCC would allow that:

http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/FMTV-service-area?x=TX1109810.html

The same owners of WLFM-LP also own low-power Channel 61, WCHU-LP Rochelle, Illinois. Does anyone know what programming is airing on 61?

Why can't one of the low powers air MTV2? (which used to air a few years ago, overnights on Channel 28, WOCH-LP).
 
avtosalon said:
I don't listen or watch to the station much, but what I have heard, MTV-Tres is English-language programming targeting a Hispanic audience.
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Depending on the time, the music is mostly pop and reggaetón in Spanish, with Spanglish announcing and cute little bilingual humor things like "Music my Guey" for a viewer mix show.
 
The station can be heard, faintly, in LaPorte, IN(50 miles +/- east of Chi).
 
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