Car FM Transmitters

[Radio_TVGuy]

@Radiohead

I’m posting this here since i think it’s what I heard today.

At Belmont in Lake Macquarie NSW, my car radio detected a station on 103.4 playing a modern up tempo dance/pop song (don’t know what).

That stayed in range for about 2 km until Belmont North. That faded quickly so I suspected there must have been a car in front or behind me using an in car FM transmitter on that frequency that had just turned off left or right.

A few kms later, it returned again! (near Bennetts Green). This time i heard a few seconds of a few different songs, a bit of Queen, The Veronicas, Don McLean, quite different to what I heard earlier. Then it faded again.

I wonder just how many FM car transmitters in use are on 103.4 FM in the Newcastle area.

[Radiohead]

I doubt there would be many, as that’s the first time I’ve heard one on 103.4. And there are a number of other frequencies down the bottom of the FM band where NBN-3 used to be that could be used too.

[Dani-Chan]

Did hear a Car FM Transmitter on 99.6 between Mittagong and Bowral when driving yesterday playing music. Must be a car trailing me as in front of me was a Woolworths Truck.

[Sonics89]

Could have been the truck driver using a transmitter for the trucks cheap am/fm radio

[Radio_TVGuy]

I wonder if anyone’s heard or recorded any car FM transmitters recently that aired private phone calls. They always never fail to give me a cracker of a laugh.

[mullauna]

And why hasn’t anyone sent them into a radio breakfast program?

[melb_mateyy0]

An old amusing Reddit thread I stumbled across https://www.reddit.com/r/melbourne/comments/4ulvnd/radio_station_1080fm/

[Radio_TVGuy]

You won’t believe what I received whilst trying to listen to 3GL Geelong on FM this afternoon…

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[tvcl]

@Radio_TVGuy

I wonder if anyone’s heard or recorded any car FM transmitters recently that aired private phone calls. They always never fail to give me a cracker of a laugh.

Yeah, on my TVCL2 TEF server, I’ve heard phone calls on 107.5 several times.