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You typically won't find adjacent stations, like 91.3 and 91.5, in the same area and when it happens (perhaps you're on the edge between the two broadcast areas

You typically won't find adjacent stations, like 91.3 and 91.5, in the same area and when it happens (perhaps you're on the edge between the two broadcast areas) you'll hear one station bleeding into the other. Back when I used to listen to terrestrial radio, I noticed that "bleeding" was much more common with "Christian" radio stations. I could be trying to listen to NPR broadcast from 30 miles away, and it would be totally drowned out by a Christian station an entire channel away (e.g. 92.3 - 91.3) broadcast from a different state.

p_l 6y ago
A lot of religious radio types tend to play fast and loose with transmit regulations, or even quality of hw to prevent randomly sprouting harmonics few channels away (a certain somewhat "loud" case in Poland was illegal rebroadcast that managed to spill over to airport frequency...)
- anthk 6y ago
  In Spain there was the infamous case of "Radio Maria" (no explanation needed, UltraCatholic band) on being tunable everywhere even if you were in the remotest farm ever with no traces of civilization 100 kms around that point. They look that the had illegal repeaters/relays.
  - p_l 6y ago
    hahahahaha... To explain, that's essentially the same name as the one ultra-religious radio in Poland, that was also known for abusing RDS system to force-switch everyone's car radios to their channel :)
    - layoutIfNeeded 6y ago
      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Maria https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Maria It’s not a coincidence.
      - ShroudedNight 6y ago
        It would seem there is some suggestion of independence between the Polish station and those linked: > Not to be confused with Italy-based international Catholic radio broadcasting service Radio Maria. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Maryja https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Maryja
anthk 6y ago
In Spain it happened with a local radio station with 91.3-91.5 and 94.5-94.7

p_l 6y ago

A lot of religious radio types tend to play fast and loose with transmit regulations, or even quality of hw to prevent randomly sprouting harmonics few channels away (a certain somewhat "loud" case in Poland was illegal rebroadcast that managed to spill over to airport frequency...)

anthk 6y ago
In Spain there was the infamous case of "Radio Maria" (no explanation needed, UltraCatholic band) on being tunable everywhere even if you were in the remotest farm ever with no traces of civilization 100 kms around that point. They look that the had illegal repeaters/relays.
- p_l 6y ago
  hahahahaha... To explain, that's essentially the same name as the one ultra-religious radio in Poland, that was also known for abusing RDS system to force-switch everyone's car radios to their channel :)
  - layoutIfNeeded 6y ago
    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Maria https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Maria It’s not a coincidence.
    - ShroudedNight 6y ago
      It would seem there is some suggestion of independence between the Polish station and those linked: > Not to be confused with Italy-based international Catholic radio broadcasting service Radio Maria. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Maryja https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Maryja

anthk 6y ago

In Spain it happened with a local radio station with 91.3-91.5 and 94.5-94.7