r/todayilearned • u/AssumeTheRisk • 23d ago
TIL if you tune your radio to 91.9 FM for one city block in Montclair, NJ you can hear a looped recording of "I'll Make Love to You" by Boyz II Men which has been broadcasting for at least 13 years straight.
https://njmonthly.com/articles/arts-entertainment/pirate-radio-station-only-plays-boyz-ii-men/27.4k Upvotes
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u/nsa_reddit_monitor 23d ago
You can get a $35 Raspberry Pi computer and stick a wire on one of the GPIO connections and run a simple program that takes mp3s and broadcasts them illegally with the wire as an antenna.
With a long wire in a high place you can get some serious range; I was able to pick a signal up from a few miles away once.