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General Category => Huh? => Topic started by: ThaDood on February 17, 2025, 1825 UTC

Title: A legit FM station on 87.7MHz? Really??? Franken FM?
Post by: ThaDood 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

Title: Re: A legit FM station on 87.7MHz? Really??? Franken FM?
Post by: skeezix 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/