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107.6fm

Post by s2000 » Tue Apr 26, 2016 1:01 am

Seems to be a blank carrier on this freq for the last couple of days. Any ideas? The last station I can think that used it was exposed beats (when they first come on last summer).

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Re: 107.6fm

Post by teckniqs » Tue Apr 26, 2016 1:46 am

Maybe they've moved back to it with that African thing on 106 now?

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Re: 107.6fm

Post by Albert H » Tue Apr 26, 2016 12:24 pm

:geek: 107.6MHz is NOT a good frequency - especially towards the West and South of London. Jackie (107.8MHz from Tolworth Tower) are the first to complain to OFCOM when they get a hint of adjacent interference!

There's also the problem of "Time" on 107.5MHz in east London. They're a low-power legal and are also well known for complaints to OFCOM. :roll:

You can expect the 107.6MHz to last a matter of hours if it's the slightest bit audible in Jackie or Time territory. They might get away with it if they moved down 50kHz to 107.55MHz and used a really good limiter / clipper to make sure that they don't over-deviate, but the chances wouldn't be good. :ugeek:
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Re: 107.6fm

Post by chesney79 » Tue Apr 26, 2016 12:52 pm

Just had a listen, wouldn't say Jackie should have a problem as the Power seems alot more on 107.8fm and as for Time they are designated to Romford for them to complain is a bit out of there radius.

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Re: 107.6fm

Post by famefm » Tue Apr 26, 2016 3:40 pm

Where are you hearing this? can't get it on the west side

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Re: 107.6fm

Post by teckniqs » Tue Apr 26, 2016 5:00 pm

It seems to have gone off now.

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Re: 107.6fm

Post by Albert H » Thu Apr 28, 2016 1:00 am

Probably switched off when they realised that it wouldn't last very long at all.
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Re: 107.6fm

Post by famefm » Thu Apr 28, 2016 3:16 pm

It's like anther 97.1 ?

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Re: 107.6fm

Post by Albert H » Thu Apr 28, 2016 3:33 pm

There's something overmodulated in East London today on 97.1Mhz, and a weak effort on 97.5MHz so LBC are sandwiched! LBC are certain to complain to OFCOM and these things will get removed.
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Re: 107.6fm

Post by bristolpirates » Wed Aug 17, 2016 5:56 pm

Noticed this was on passing through London this morning.

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Re: 107.6fm

Post by s2000 » Wed Aug 17, 2016 6:15 pm

It seems to be Exposed Beats, just had a listen to the stream, playing some monotonous techno so hard to match but does appear to be the same.

Quite a lot of noise on this dial freq, lots of hiss on the audio.

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Re: 107.6fm

Post by nrglcb2016 » Wed Aug 17, 2016 9:35 pm

not got anything on 107.6 as its time fms patch. checked the 97 freqs n got nothing either

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Re: 107.6fm

Post by famefm » Wed Aug 17, 2016 9:43 pm

Not 1076 again maybe an even worse frequency than 97.1 and definitely worse than 106 so if it is exposed beats why would they use it again?

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Re: 107.6fm

Post by DJ Mikey » Wed Aug 17, 2016 10:31 pm

chesney79 wrote:Just had a listen, wouldn't say Jackie should have a problem as the Power seems alot more on 107.8fm and as for Time they are designated to Romford for them to complain is a bit out of there radius.
Not just Romford mate, they might meant to be only Romford /Dagenham and surrounding area's but they are crystal in Dartford locking with RDS have done for years here

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Re: 107.6fm

Post by fuze » Wed Aug 17, 2016 11:04 pm

yeah time bang out, my mate listens to time (he a bit older lol)

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Re: 107.6fm

Post by teckniqs » Wed Aug 17, 2016 11:16 pm

Comes from an Office block in the centre of Romford.
I remember when it first launched around 97 or so as Active FM with 100w, it's around 350w now though so it should have a reasonable coverage.

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Re: 107.6fm

Post by Albert H » Thu Aug 18, 2016 12:11 am

The current "Time" rig is a 400Watt job. The antenna has also had some improvements and it now transmits "mixed" polarisation, which seems to give better coverage amongst tall buildings.
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Re: 107.6fm

Post by famefm » Thu Aug 18, 2016 12:40 am

So time is more powerful than the former choice 96.9 and 107.1 which at one time was under 50 watts? I'm suprised time is that powerful I would have thought 400 watts would reach west of London? but I can't get it?

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Re: 107.6fm

Post by famefm » Thu Aug 18, 2016 12:42 am

They are quite close to protect which I could easily here?

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Re: 107.6fm

Post by teckniqs » Thu Aug 18, 2016 6:20 am

From my old memory 96.9 was 35w vertical and 15w horizontal, and 107.1 always 100w vertical.

.....The Greek 103.3 one is 50w though from the 107.1 site.

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