Well where I live it seems all the frequency's are taken up. I did look at radio-locator but I dint seem to get the best frequency. One frequency it tells me to get had a full licensed station on it. The one I use to use 106.7 has a license station on it now so I need to find a new one.
Thanks 😀
Those open channel web sites are only as accurate as the publishers keep them accurate.
Unless someone lets the site owners know about new stations, they have no way of knowing about them.
I take it, they have a lot of ground to cover and visting the FCC data base is not user friendly, because it covers a lot of ground regarding new CPs, newly full licensed stations and older already licensed stations.
I use the FCC data base, but to some degree, it does not tell me of future non-listed radio stations in advance. That is unless I hang out on a regular basis, at the FCC's DAILY DIGESTS web site, where there might be a mention of a new CP before it gets listed on the page listing all the licensed stations for my state or a specfic channel number I might be researching.
If you would like me to link you to these areas, please let me know and I'll post those links to the FCC web site.
Bruce.
radio-locator.com works pretty good, they seem to autogenerate their maps and such straight from the FCC's CDBS.
Its not perfect though, I'd try all the frequencies it lists as open. Be sure to try at various times of the day as well, FM can skip at times which may cause a normally vacant channel to have a staiton on it.
So I think I found some open frequencies. What I did was use radio-locator to find all clean frequencies in my area. Then I would use the clean frequencies and make it check to see if there was any other station within 100 miles from me on that frequency. 107.3 its showing in the Third Best Clean Channels but there is not licensed stations within 100 miles of me on 107.3 so I think I will be using that 🙂
Do to the CRAZY wether 100.1 in Delta ville had been unusable and here is why: 99.9 had Froggy 99.9 from sulsbury MD blasting in. Normally that Haitian only came in at night butt for 2 days it was blaring in even during the day. 100.3 had big 100 from Washington DC blaring in. This was happening even during the day for quite a while. Actually today was the first day in 3 days that I was actually able to use the frequency. Keep in mind that I always do my checks after 6 o'clock for temperature inversions otherwise known as the ducting effect. 99.9 always came in at night most of the time during the warm months but I've never had it do this except for the last few days. This tells me that a major major storm could be coming this way. Anyways keeping proper radio etiquette when there is a major inversion and distance stations are coming in full quieting and and full stereo of course I don't operate during that time. Many say if it's outside their protected contour it's OK to transmit over it but no it's not. Someone complains and the FCC will come.
"Many say if it's outside their protected contour it's OK to transmit over it but no it's not. Someone complains and the FCC will come."
I disagree.
During full tropo and skip conditions your Part 15 FM would be nearly wiped off the face of the earth and would have a hard time getting out of its own way. Same reason we don't power down the Part 15 AM stations at night. For example, my daytime coverage during clear skies is 6 miles or more, same conditions at night and my signal starts having noticable issues a half mile out, listenability is gone by 1 mile.
That being said, Legacy is on track with making sure to not step on the toes of a full power broadcaster.