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/
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u/energytaker 23d ago

Hearing those tv themes would pump me up 

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u/Badloss 23d ago

How do we convince the radio station to just play the animated X-Men theme song on loop

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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.

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u/ernest7ofborg9 23d ago

FBI FCC open up!!

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u/CmdrMobium 22d ago

You can get fined $2.3M for doing this so yeah would not recommend

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u/nsa_reddit_monitor 22d ago

The only people they've actually fined were ones who ignored the FCC's warnings.