Post by Clipper on Apr 7, 2015 13:54:23 GMT -5
Can the ham bands bleed over onto normal FM radio? There is one stretch of a street here in Bristol that I drive when going into downtown Bristol. I normally have my truck radio tuned to a local FM station that carries popular talk radio shows all day. There is a stretch about one block long where there is some sort of serious interference that sounds like someone bleeding over on a transmitter of some sort. It is too garbled to actually pick out conversation, but very strong and causes a lot of static also. I have looked all along the street and the only thing I can see is a wire antenna stretched across one person's back yard with insulators on both ends and a wire from the house to that wire. Is that a ham antenna? The signal is quite strong. It obliterates the regular FM signal but only for about 1 block and then it is gone. I certainly would not want to live close to whatever it is that interferes. I would imagine that it would interfere with other devices just like the CB radios did when they linears attached to them.