Looking for a frequency

[Unknown]

Hello necks. I haven't put anything on in many years and thinking about returning to the dial. What frequency would be good for Kent, essex and London ?

[reverend]

The dial is pretty full these days what with the Community stations taking up frequencies and "Kent, Essex and London" is a wide area.

The best thing to do is to put up an antenna fairly high in the area you want to TX to and scan the dial to see what's free. Ideally you want to be at least 600 kHz away from any other station, especially local ones, but when the dial's congested that's sometimes not possible.

I did a similar thing in the Surrey/Hampshire borders and both 96.8 and 106.5 were looking feasible. We settled on 106.5 as 96.8 was near to the local station on 96.4 and was more likely to get complaints. Oddly, the new Community station in Farnborough was later assigned 106.5 so clearly we did our homework well.

A similar scan in deepest darkest Kent was far more difficult due to the number of French stations that could be heard. Of course it was unlikely that any interference would be caused *to* them but they put in a strong enough signal into Kent to cause interference *from* them. We ended up on 94.9 and oddly... the new Community station in Dover was assigned the same frequency.

It pays to do your homework.

[Wk-end]

106.5 would not be a good choice.