2006-10-01 15:23:32 · 8 answers · asked by wantsum_candi 1 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music
FM radio stations all transmit in a band between 88 megahertz (millions of cycles per second) and 108 megahertz. Inside that band, each station occupies a 200-kilohertz slice, and all of the slices start on odd number boundaries. So there can be a station at 88.1 megahertz, 88.3 megahertz, 88.5 megahertz, and so on.
The 200-kilohertz spacing, and the fact that they all end on odd boundaries, is completely arbitrary and was decided by the FCC. In Europe, the FM stations are spaced 100 kilohertz apart instead of 200 kilohertz apart, and they can end on even or odd numbers.
2006-10-01 15:32:44 · answer #1 · answered by Steven Jay 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
FM does, AM doesn't. The FM channels start at 88.1 megacycles and every the channels are .2 megacycles wide, so the next available channel is 88.3, then 88.5, etc all the way to 107.9.
A station on 107.9 mc for example might call itself "108" just for simplicity sake, but its still transmitting at 107.9.
2006-10-01 15:27:48 · answer #2 · answered by jxt299 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is a federal law regulating the broadcast frequencies.
2006-10-01 15:30:47 · answer #3 · answered by metatron 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd say they don't. My favorite station is Kiss108 in Boston.
2006-10-01 15:26:58 · answer #4 · answered by Linda S 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
the Christian channels are flooding the airwaves. They have taken all the even ones.
2006-10-01 15:25:46 · answer #5 · answered by NonePlusTwo 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
HEY!! That's weird... I just noticed that!!!
2006-10-01 15:25:25 · answer #6 · answered by Purrfectly Normal 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Geez, I never even noticed that.
2006-10-01 15:25:06 · answer #7 · answered by OnThe36th 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
why i couldnt tell ya.
2006-10-01 15:25:54 · answer #8 · answered by Now and Again 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋