Well, I for one am glad they do. My receiver is none too selective, but very
sensitive, and a really strong signal can play havoc with weak signals. So
many of them boom out megawatts of power, and it would wipe out a lot of
lesser signals if it was in-band. Now we have to figure out just what
defines christian s.


"Jack" wrote in message
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I just was listening to a snip of Chistian Science Radio on WHSB that
signed off at 2000 UTC. Like many Christian stations, it was being
broadcast out of band, this transmission on 14.765 MHz. I checked out
WHSB's schedule on their web page and didn't find this particular freq
listed in their sked. (The sked listed only broadcasts inside normal
SW broadcast band limits).

Usually, I hear them just outside the band, bit 14.775 is a long way
from home!!! Why do so many "Christian" broadcasters treansmit out of
band? Few other than real "pirates" go OOB like that. And th4
pirates take precautions to avoide being located and fined, or worse!

"Jack" wrote in message
...

I just was listening to a snip of Chistian Science Radio on WHSB that
signed off at 2000 UTC. Like many Christian stations, it was being
broadcast out of band, this transmission on 14.765 MHz. I checked out
WHSB's schedule on their web page and didn't find this particular freq
listed in their sked. (The sked listed only broadcasts inside normal
SW broadcast band limits).

Usually, I hear them just outside the band, bit 14.775 is a long way
from home!!! Why do so many "Christian" broadcasters treansmit out of
band? Few other than real "pirates" go OOB like that. And th4
pirates take precautions to avoide being located and fined, or worse!



I think the FCC is allocating them old abandonded utility frequencies which
the ITU already has assigned to the US.

Frank Dresser

On Wed, 08 Oct 2003 23:51:44 GMT, "Frank Dresser"
wrote:

I think the FCC is allocating them old abandonded utility frequencies which
the ITU already has assigned to the US.

Could be, but how did WWCR end up with tropical-band frequencies?

"Jim Shaffer, Jr." wrote in message
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Could be, but how did WWCR end up with tropical-band frequencies?



There are utility transmitters used on these frequencies outside the
tropics. I remember trying to catch some of the Latin American stations
among the racket 20 some years ago. The FCC has a frequency such as 3.210
in a fixed/mobile/radiolocation band:

http://www.ntia.doc.gov/osmhome/allochrt.pdf

So, I suppose the FCC could allow a broadcaster to broadcast on a US utility
frequency as long as it doesn't interfere with another service. But I don't
know for sure. This is a guess I made when stations ended up on all sorts
of oddball frequencies such as 12.172 MHz.

Frank Dresser

All the frequencies used by American broadcasters are approved by the FCC.
The FCC even lists the out-of-band frequencies on their offical list of all
US shortwave broadcasters:

http://www.fcc.gov/ib/sand/neg/hf_web/seasons.html

Bob




"Jack" wrote in message
...

I just was listening to a snip of Chistian Science Radio on WHSB that
signed off at 2000 UTC. Like many Christian stations, it was being
broadcast out of band, this transmission on 14.765 MHz. I checked out
WHSB's schedule on their web page and didn't find this particular freq
listed in their sked. (The sked listed only broadcasts inside normal
SW broadcast band limits).

Usually, I hear them just outside the band, bit 14.775 is a long way
from home!!! Why do so many "Christian" broadcasters treansmit out of
band? Few other than real "pirates" go OOB like that. And th4
pirates take precautions to avoide being located and fined, or worse!