[TheList] Odd radio frequency incident in Dunedin

Thu Apr 21 14:38:48 AEST 2022

This was on their regular car stereo.

On Thu, Apr 21, 2022 at 4:37 PM DogSecurity - Richard <
richard at dogsecurity.co.nz> wrote:

> 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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> spelling.
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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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