A bit of a mystery tonight in Michigan. I was tuning around the band and found a stronger than usual signal on 1710. Religious talk and Christian pop music from what I could tell with a decent signal but horrible distorted modulation (at times it sounded better using the FM mode on my Perseus). There have been occasional mentions of Canada between songs. Strangely I've also heard what sounds like current weather conditions read by a female robo voice, similar to the TIS stations that rebroadcast NOAA weather radio, but this doesn't sound like one of the usual TIS stations that now populate 1710 from the East. This is sometimes given between songs for about 30 seconds or so. 0500 UTC now and still going. A bit of Googling returned a hit for CHIM FM out of Timmins, Ontario:
http://www.chimfm.com/ Note the reference to 1710 AM. I have no confirmation or ID yet (that I can understand anyway) but everything seems to point to this station (signal even seems best on the North D-KAZ). Anyone know what's going on here? If it's a Part 15 station then I shouldn't be hearing it from here. Is anyone else hearing this one? How about you Ontario guys? I also found this thread on Radioinsight interesting: https://radioinsight.com/community/topic/chim-fm-possibly-making-an-unlicensed-return-to-terrestrial-airwaves/ 73, Tim Tromp West Michigan _______________________________________________ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com