London FM Pirates Scan

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Re: London FM Pirates Scan

Post by DXLondon » Wed Jul 02, 2025 11:09 pm

teckniqs wrote: Wed Jul 02, 2025 2:07 pm
DXLondon wrote: Wed Jul 02, 2025 2:40 am It is receiving most of the London Stations that is the main objective
I hope you can resolve it and achive the main objective. The west London one is also like it by the way (not quite as bad though)
As I said you need to turn off each piece of equipment (at the main plug socket) one by one in every room until the 20dB signal level of noise on a clear frequency goes down to around 0-5dB or so which is normal and will pull in MANY more stations (and maybe even be good for DX!) :tup
My West London server has not been online yet. the other one in NW London belongs to STEF Codes.

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Re: London FM Pirates Scan

Post by teckniqs » Wed Jul 02, 2025 11:30 pm

DXLondon wrote: Wed Jul 02, 2025 11:09 pm My West London server has not been online yet. the other one in NW London belongs to STEF Codes.
Ahh ok fair enough then and I'm sure you can understand my confusion, so excuse me for the mix up. :tup
....His node/server/tuner used to be called that before but used to come and go a lot and always mess up whilst trying to tune up a couple of steps (0.3MHz) and page would need refreshing every time. This was before it vanished and came back with it's different name.

https://sdr.stefcodes.co.uk/ [was the previous URL for it]

Any joy eliminating that nasty intferference across the FM band? ....It's so bad it actually puts me off using it.

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Re: London FM Pirates Scan

Post by mpx » Thu Jul 03, 2025 4:26 pm

LED lightbulbs, that's another one. Power supplies for the wifi router, and anything with a motor connected to the mains. Run your SDR through a laptop on battery and see if that makes a difference

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Re: London FM Pirates Scan

Post by teckniqs » Thu Jul 03, 2025 10:01 pm

mpx wrote: Thu Jul 03, 2025 4:26 pm LED lightbulbs, that's another one. Power supplies for the wifi router, and anything with a motor connected to the mains. Run your SDR through a laptop on battery and see if that makes a difference
I made sure I mentioned LED lights and power supplies straight away in my earlier post. I highly doubt it's being caused by a motor unless it's constantly spinning 24 hours 7 days a week nonstop.
....Hopefully they'll get to the bottom of what's causing it. If it's from a neighbour's house might be a little bit harder to get it sorted. :smoke

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Re: London FM Pirates Scan

Post by DeepCoder » Sun Jul 06, 2025 4:06 pm

Hey I used to own the https://sdr.stefcodes.co.uk/ but bought https://fmdx.uk to use, i tried everything to remove interference but nothing works. atleast it works.

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Re: London FM Pirates Scan

Post by teckniqs » Mon Jul 07, 2025 3:06 am

Probably being caused by it's own power supply (for headless TEF) or maybe by the computer running it then.
....Anyway good effort though was worth a try. :tup

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Re: London FM Pirates Scan

Post by DXLondon » Thu Jul 10, 2025 12:04 am

I think I have Sorted it, from the spectrum graph.

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Re: London FM Pirates Scan

Post by teckniqs » Thu Jul 10, 2025 5:33 am

DXLondon wrote: Thu Jul 10, 2025 12:04 am I think I have Sorted it, from the spectrum graph.
Yes the high noise levels have indeed gone but unfortunately the reception is way worse now with many stations far too weak or not even there.

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Re: London FM Pirates Scan

Post by Mongo82 » Sat Jul 12, 2025 4:46 pm

Cannot hear Kurizma know more? Busted ot just dx not picking them up?

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Re: London FM Pirates Scan

Post by DeepCoder » Mon Jul 14, 2025 5:35 pm

Did a bandscan, station with no rds in north but with rds in south called "SWITCH" on 102

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Re: London FM Pirates Scan

Post by FM listener » Tue Jul 15, 2025 2:36 pm

I thought it was 100.4 crap frequency dial thought there was Regge on 102

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Re: London FM Pirates Scan

Post by Versatile » Tue Jul 15, 2025 8:16 pm

Switch seems to be off now

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Re: London FM Pirates Scan

Post by zoostorm » Sat Aug 02, 2025 10:45 pm

Versatile wrote: Tue Jul 15, 2025 8:16 pm Switch seems to be off now
They're going legal.

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Re: London FM Pirates Scan

Post by famefm » Thu Aug 07, 2025 2:07 pm

I have not heard digital soul for a long time now on 99.2 and I am not sure if they are still on fm to add to station 98.8 and vision leaving also?

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Re: London FM Pirates Scan

Post by famefm » Thu Aug 07, 2025 2:08 pm

I have not heard digital soul for a long time now on 99.2 and I am not sure if they are still on fm to add to station 98.8 and vision leaving also?

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Re: London FM Pirates Scan

Post by mpx » Fri Aug 08, 2025 12:46 pm

They're gone

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Re: London FM Pirates Scan

Post by mixfm » Tue Aug 12, 2025 3:41 pm

i see a few stations off to day.. has offcock been around;

875. live uk off
1056. playback off
106.5 week-end off :oops:

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Re: London FM Pirates Scan

Post by Versatile » Fri Aug 15, 2025 11:36 pm

Playback are back on, also vision are back on 88.4 :tup

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Re: London FM Pirates Scan

Post by mixfm » Sat Aug 16, 2025 8:20 am

got playback vision & wk-end on now on dx london

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Re: London FM Pirates Scan

Post by teckniqs » Sat Aug 16, 2025 8:27 am

mixfm wrote: Sat Aug 16, 2025 8:20 am got playback vision & wk-end on now on dx london
106.5 signal is doing the same as your avatar, check out the dB level meter :whistle

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