[TheList] Odd radio frequency incident in Dunedin

Thu Apr 21 14:21:35 AEST 2022

What was the receiver? if it was a scanner, it's more likely that the front end was overloaded.. I used to get that when I lived in Hamilton driving through the CBD. A uniden 72XLT overloaded by one of the paging frequencies... the ICOM IC-R5 wasn't as affected...

They're also not wrong if you're using a signal booster... you're increasing weak signals sure, you're also increasing strong ones.

Unlikely to be atmospheric, it would have to be an incredibly strong signal for overloading to occur in the first place, let alone overloading an FM broadcast station. 
Richard W
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On 21 April 2022 3:12:49 pm NZST, Dan News <dan at dannews.co.nz> wrote:
>Hi there,
>
>I was contacted by someone who had video recordings showing Dunedin police
>dispatch being broadcast over the top of the local Flava radio station.
>
>Looking into it as much as possible, I can't seem to find any explanation.
>
>Police say it may have been atmospheric conditions, but that seems odd
>given they were both Dunedin based, and very different frequencies.
>
>Police said it could have been due to the man having a band extender.
>
>I was wondering if anyone else had heard of something similar ever
>happening?
>
>Flava is on 106ish FM in Dunedin.
>
>
>Dan
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