Riverside area KISS FM picked up on 166.250?

[Arakis]

I was scanning the pre-set Police/Fire range on my PRO-97, and when it stopped on 166.25000 I heard rap music...later learned the station was KISS FM, which according to their website is 102.7

How is this possible...and uh, whats happening? Can anyone else in riverside pick it up?

 

[brandon]

It's the IFB audio to KIIS FM. Also try 450.950 for traffic reports (daytime only).
Here are a couple other stations you can probably hear.
KNX 1070 on 450.700
KFI 640 on 450.725
A full list of stations can be found at this website: http://www.n6lhv.net/valleyscan.html

 

[Arakis]

I do infact receive KNX! interesting, could be useful if I....if I lost my.....iffff......well, its not really useful at all XD

Not to waste your time or anything, but could you please explain what the "IFB audio" is? I did a quick search but didn't quite understand...

 

[Mick]

Good catch! It used to be only KXTA 1150 AM radio's IFB.

KLOS 95.5 FM is often on 450.05 in the afternoon.

450.4375 94.8 is KFWB 980 AM.

450.7500R often has KABC-AM 790.

IFB = In Field Broadcast. I think it is so news reporters and others can hear what their station is broadcasting live.

I was scanning the pre-set Police/Fire range on my PRO-97, and when it stopped on 166.25000 I heard rap music...later learned the station was KISS FM, which according to their website is 102.7

How is this possible...and uh, whats happening? Can anyone else in riverside pick it up?

 

[Station51]

Remote freqs

That freq as well as others have been use by radio station for years. Good catch indeed, but nothing there new. I can remember listening to them there in the 80's! You can hear it all through LA and Orange County as well.

The 450 freq are for remote news broadcast (from the scene reports), an at times there is a 3 to 5 second delay between them.

Happy Holidays!

 

[KMA367]

In most parts of the country, 166.25 is an RP "Broadcast Auxiliary Remote Pickup" frequency, but in parts of the northeast (e.g. PA, NJ, NY, CT, MA) it's been used for decades as a PW "Public Safety Conventional" freq, usually by fire departments.

I believe it's actually a federal frequency, and some licenses such as Bayonne NJ's, above, include the condition that "harmful interference will not be caused to Federal government stations."

EDIT: 166.25 and 170.15 (still used by KFI?) are covered in the NTIA Office of Spectrum Management Red Book, section 4.1.3, "US11 - On the condition that harmful interference is not caused to present or future Federal stations in the band 162-174 MHz, the frequencies 166.25 MHz and 170.15 MHz may be authorized to non-Federal stations, as follows:

(1) eligibles in the Public Safety Radio Pool may be authorized to operate in the fixed and land mobile services for locations within 150 miles (241.4 kilometers) of New York City; and

(2) remote pickup broadcast stations may be authorized to operate in the land mobile service for locations within the continental United States, excluding

· Alaska​

· locations within 150 miles of New York City, and​

· the Tennessee Valley Authority Area (TVA Area)."​

 

[brandon]

170.150 C67.0 I hear Mike Nolan with KFI in the sky so it appears to be used still.

 

[cousinkix1953]

Try 26.190 FM. I heard KABC several years ago way up in Nor Cal during the skip...

 

[key2_altfire]

I love listening to the IFBs, but unfortunately they don't seem to broadcast all the time. AFAIK most IFBs are the pre-delay, meaning you get the program like 11 seconds earlier than what goes over the air (so they have to to "bleep" words when the rules call for it). I've also heard talk between the air traffic newscasters and the news desk... chatting about nothing basically. Pretty interesting view "inside" the newscaster's mind hahaha...