On Sat, 20 Aug 2005 09:51:07 +0100, Andrew Oakley
wrote:

On Fri, 19 Aug 2005 09:26:04 -0400, "Michael Lawson"
wrote:
What about FM?? Is it strictly local, or do some BBC stations
occupy the same part of the dial all over the place??

I forgot to ask - What's with 75-87.5MHz being able to hear TV audio
in the US?

When I visited New York on honeymoon last month, I bought myself a
Sony ICF-35 as a second SW radio. It covered FM down to 75MHz which
was completely new to me. Also I discovered that I could hear TV
stations on this lower band!

Do some TV stations specifically rebroadcast their audio for radio
listeners in this frequency, or is this just a happy side-effect of
still using the VHF band for TV? (All UK terrestrial TV is UHF
nowadays IIRC).

It's a rather lovely feature and a shame we don't do it in the UK.

There are a number of radios that have been built that support FM from
76-108 Mhz, so they will work anywyhere in the world. You have one.

In some parts of the world (like Japan), the FM band is roughly
76-90Mhz. In most of the world, the space between 75 and 88 Mhz is
assigned to VHF television.

VHF channel 5 is 76-82Mhz, and VHF channel 6 is 82-88 Mhz.