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EliteData:
barely receiving in Hampton Bays, NY on an outside dipole.
had to narrow filter to 150khz in in order to receive it slightly better (with obvious distortion).
unable to receive in vehicle as radio doesn't go below 87.9mhz.
I strongly believe this signal is originating from further west in Suffolk county, NY.
modulation is fm standard, not tv modulation, though this is analog tv audio for channel 6, off by 10khz (87.750) there are no analog tv stations in the tri-state area operating on channel 6 that I know of.
playing unidentified music, talking and heard what sounded like church music this morning, 11/1/15.
obviously, the lower their modulation, the better I hear them, which is how I identified church sounding music this morning (was able to listen on NFM @ 32Khz deviation)

William Hassig:
If it's any help there is an analog 6 here in Chicago called METV-FM (owned by the same owners as ME-TV) and they have pop music from 70's & 80's etc. I don't know if they have any Sunday religious programming since I don't listen to them. They are probably offset down too even though I don't think Chicago had historically been an offset city back in the analog days. Now of course with digital there is no offset, all carriers are 310khz above the bottom of the channel, such as 60.310mhz for chan 3 etc.   

EliteData:

--- Quote from: William Hassig on November 29, 2015, 0138 UTC ---If it's any help there is an analog 6 here in Chicago called METV-FM (owned by the same owners as ME-TV) and they have pop music from 70's & 80's etc. I don't know if they have any Sunday religious programming since I don't listen to them. They are probably offset down too even though I don't think Chicago had historically been an offset city back in the analog days. Now of course with digital there is no offset, all carriers are 310khz above the bottom of the channel, such as 60.310mhz for chan 3 etc.   

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yes, thanks.
it appears its a LPFM station that was licensed during the LPFM craze a few years (i think its operating somewhere in Rego Park, NY ago but checking the frequency (87.0-87.9) on FCC shows no results.

ff:
Elite - like you, I reside here in pukey New York State.  When I have occasionally dabbled on the FM band, I ALWAYS stay below 88 MHz.  I do that because the quirky way that the New York Anti-Radio Piracy law is written, the state has no jurisdiction below 88 MHz.  Better to dog the overworked Feds than the NYS Troopers.  I'm guessing that your neighbor is down there for similar reasons...

EliteData:

--- Quote from: ff on January 15, 2016, 2254 UTC ---Elite - like you, I reside here in pukey New York State.  When I have occasionally dabbled on the FM band, I ALWAYS stay below 88 MHz.  I do that because the quirky way that the New York Anti-Radio Piracy law is written, the state has no jurisdiction below 88 MHz.  Better to dog the overworked Feds than the NYS Troopers.  I'm guessing that your neighbor is down there for similar reasons...

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correct.
NYS only has jurisdiction on the fm & am broadcast bands from 88-108 & 530-1700 respectively.
http://www.engineeringradio.us/blog/2011/06/new-york-state-passes-anti-pirate-radio-law-s-5739-a-326/

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