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Author Topic: A legit FM station on 87.7MHz? Really??? Franken FM?  (Read 4225 times)

ThaDood

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A legit FM station on 87.7MHz? Really??? Franken FM?
« on: February 17, 2025, 1825 UTC »
https://radioinsight.com/headlines/292226/core-radio-group-launches-87-7-the-vibe-atlanta/     Interesting, if this FREQ is really true. A nice, clean, FREQ to be on, but just how many FM receivers in the USA can actually receive this? I-duh-know... It caught my attention. Am I missing something? In theory, you should be able to listen to this on an analog, NTSC TV, with mechanical TV channel tuner. Albeit, the audio maybe loud and distorted, with TV audio deviation being +/-25kHz, to FM BC's +/-75kHz. 
UPDATE: This could explain it, a Franken-FM.   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel_6_radio_stations_in_the_United_States

« Last Edit: February 17, 2025, 2018 UTC by ThaDood »
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Re: A legit FM station on 87.7MHz? Really??? Franken FM?
« Reply #1 on: February 19, 2025, 0145 UTC »
That's great. Hopefully there will be more of these around the country.

Back in 2017, I had some DX from WGN on 87.7 from Chicago up here to Minneapolis.
https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,36241.msg135459.html#msg135459

That station today is WRME-LD.
https://metv.fm/about/

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