did WBCN increase their signal strength lately?, what's a good FM freq for pirate radio? Options

[FrankD]

So Jan 4th I go to a funeral. Blasting tunage on the way there (as my friend would have liked) on my HD on FM freq 103.9

I come out of the funeral 2 hours later and turn my radio on and it's all static....like a line's been cut....

I figure out that it's ststic bleed over from WBCN......

I tried another Freq 88.3 but that has occasional problems too....

So what's the deal? for a small FM trancieving device like HD, or Satelite or iPod - what's the BEST FM freq range to use? Is higher on the Freq scale better sounding?

MEANWHILE (in home question) - on a digital amplifier....should volume bet set to 0.0 (so that each component can control it's own volume?)

[1960s_DJ]

I don't understand exactly what you're trying to do. Are you trying to find a frequency to set a car FM transponder to for sending an audio device onto your car stereo on FM?

You can't use a frequency that's first-adjacent to a local station in your area. 103.9 won't work in the Boston area because it's first-adjacent to WBCN. 88.3 won't work because it's first-adjacent to WMBR.

I set my car transponder to 88.5. 89.3 may also work. Those are both second-adjacent to local stations, not first-adjacent.

101.3, 102.1, 102.9, 105.3 and 106.1 could work, though they all have pirate stations broadcasting from the urban Boston neighborhoods on them. Some of them are pretty strong.

The sound quality is no different from the lower to the upper end of the FM dial.

So Jan 4th I go to a funeral. Blasting tunage on the way there (as my friend would have liked) on my HD on FM freq 103.9

I come out of the funeral 2 hours later and turn my radio on and it's all static....like a line's been cut....

I figure out that it's ststic bleed over from WBCN......

I tried another Freq 88.3 but that has occasional problems too....

So what's the deal? for a small FM trancieving device like HD, or Satelite or iPod - what's the BEST FM freq range to use? Is higher on the Freq scale better sounding?

MEANWHILE (in home question) - on a digital amplifier....should volume bet set to 0.0 (so that each component can control it's own volume?)

[drumdad]

I usually use 88.3 or 88.5, but a lot of times at night 88.5 has someone broadcasting a pirate signal out of Somerville/Medford.

It's really good, though. The other night he was playing the entire LP (on 180g vinyl no less) of The Sex Pistols Live at Burton-on-Trent.

At one point he says "Forget digital - throw away your gaypods, and go analog, faggots"

[Danny Vermin]

It's really good, though. The other night he was playing the entire LP (on 180g vinyl no less) of The Sex Pistols Live at Burton-on-Trent.

How exactly would you be able to tell that it was vinyl, and the weight of the album by listening through a shitty pirate radio connection?

[Colt45]

it's a good story don't ruin it

[FrankD]

I don't understand exactly what you're trying to do. Are you trying to find a frequency to set a car FM transponder to for sending an audio device onto your car stereo on FM?

You can't use a frequency that's first-adjacent to a local station in your area. 103.9 won't work in the Boston area because it's first-adjacent to WBCN. 88.3 won't work because it's first-adjacent to WMBR.

I set my car transponder to 88.5. 89.3 may also work. Those are both second-adjacent to local stations, not first-adjacent.

101.3, 102.1, 102.9, 105.3 and 106.1 could work, though they all have pirate stations broadcasting from the urban Boston neighborhoods on them. Some of them are pretty strong.

The sound quality is no different from the lower to the upper end of the FM dial.

Yes,

thank you!

I'll double check 89.3 might have been what i tried....

[1960s_DJ]

I usually use 88.3 or 88.5, but a lot of times at night 88.5 has someone broadcasting a pirate signal out of Somerville/Medford.

That's the equipment from the pirate station that was "Radio Free Cambridge" that used to broadcast from the Zeitgeist Gallery in Inman Square. When they got busted and shut out of there, one of them took the equipment home with him to the Winter Hill area in Somerville, and he comes on sporadically as "Off-Coast Radio".

There's also another pirate on 88.5 from around the Dedham area playing Middle Eastern music with a pretty strong signal. Covers most of Boston.