That station needs YANKED for coming in on the Aircraft band. And they COMPLAIN about Hobby Broadcasters. yikes!
Correct me if I am wrong, but I think 110MHz is the beginning of the actual protected air-craft band.
I am NOT saying you can broadcast between 108.0MHz and 110MHz but I believe 110MHz is the beginning of the band they operate on. The band between 108.0MHz and 110MHz is the guard band.
Bruce.
Maybe I'm Wrong but if my memory serves me correct I believe that 109 megahertz is the beginning of the aircraft band. I had a real tone analog radio and this radio in the early days around the early 1970s receive the weather that was broadcast on the aircraft band right at the very end of the deal. And if my memory serves me correct I believe on my scanner around 109 megahertz I used to receive the weather beacons with Ilan in Morse code. I do remember them moving the I do remember them moving the ALS Runway frequency down the band a bit later on. I also remember some of the other aircraft frequencies were moved. I actually knew a airplane pilot that told me that some of the frequencies were moved. So my question is was aircraft originally at 109 megahertz and was it changed?
My point still is that there are some folks that do complain about Hobby broadcasting but at the same time these commercial stations are knowingly over driving and causing interference and yet nothing is done. I woke up this morning remembering the days I lived in Lansing Michigan. We had a problem in Holt Michigan with what you described Mr Bruce of FM stations bleeding the entire dial. You could hear so much crosstalk in Holt that if you live there you actually could not listen to the FM radio. This happened even on a digital car radio. I was one of the folks that called the FCC to complain about this chaos that was going on because I had friends that actually could not listen to FM radio that lived in Holt Michigan. In my opinion there should be a limit on the amount of power that these stations should transmit if their towers are in the city. Maybe the maximum should be 500 watts and no more. maybe it's time the commercial stations have to use multiple transmitters to get their signal to a large audience when they are transmitting right in the city. If we can do it and we showed it can be done so can they.
108.000-112.000 MHz Aviation Terminal VOR and ILS Navigation (80 Channels)
Thanks for that link John and correcting me.
Hey I can remember back in the day (1970's--1980's) certain stereo systems were able to pick up occasional air to ground air craft communications on 107.3MHz. The station WAAF although in Worcester Massachusettes, was a super powerful album rock station, that covered a great foot print of New England. They have since, changed their antenna location and went with a directional beam to better serve the Boston MA. market area and their signal here in south-eastern CT droped in signal strength down to next to nothing, so I am not sure about the air craft signals are still effecting that channel at this point, because no one listens any more due to such a weak signal they have here now.
The only other strong signal up there is 107.7MHz which wipes out 107.5 and 107.9.
Bruce.
our station branding / ID's has been updated to reflect the frequency change. just waiting on my program providers to do new promos for their shows to reflect the new branding, all website, facebook info, etc has been updated, need to redo my station cards.
Wouldn't an FM reciever have a hard time demodulating the aircraft band's AM signals?
Also, to answer the question on FM overcrowding... FM Translators are not going to be a problem in rural areas. FM congestion is a problem for the larger markets. Speaking of reciever overload in congested markets, oddly I've never had a crosstalk or bleeding problem in DFW even near Cedar Hill. Only the cheapest of radios had issues.
The Aircraft's AM modulation was not hard to receive on these older analog FM Stereo's where as their receiver covered frequencies below and above the FM Band. Just tune slightly off frequency just to the lower side or the upper side of the carrier. You'll hear the audio get louder. In fact some of the older AM/FM/Air/PSB1/PSB2 Radio's like the Realistic patrolman 4 would receive aircraft just like that. There was a Mountgumery Wards Airliner Radio that had AM/MB/Air/PSB1 that too received Aircraft just like that.
Many times in the 1970s-1983 when analog FM Radio's were used I heard aircraft bleeding to FM frequencies from 104 Mhz-107 Mhz. It happened a lot. Some of them went all the way to something like 110-115 Mhz and you'd hear the air band on them (or should I say the very beginning of it).
Most Radio's now stop right at 108 Mhz unless it has the air band on it.
Its just something I brought up because of all these so called complaints that Hobby Radio broadcasters were interfering with the air band. You may also want to watch an interesting video on Youtube called Pirate Radio USA. It talks about this so called claim about a Mexican DJ that was taken down for supposedly interfering with the aircraft band. Funny thing was there was NOTHING in the FCC database about it. Interesting too was the fact that other cases of so called interference was debunked. There was talk about 4 Watt FM hobby stations where the signal was very clean and when the NAB and other folks complained about the station the community actually supported them and protests were made.
I've been gathering a lot of evidence where there was something more sinister involved as to why Hobby Broadcasting is all but almost non existent in America. Watch the video it will educate you all. Remember Pirate Radio USA on Youtube.