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FM Radio Stations You Can Pick Up Further a field..
occy
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Noticed your able to pick up LBC 97.3 FM just on the edge of Southampton around the M27.
Is there any radio station far outside your county your able to pick up on FM?
Is there any radio station far outside your county your able to pick up on FM?
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It's quite common to be able to receive bits of London FM reception in the area you have mentioned. Likewise, Wave 105 from your area makes it out really far, I've heard it in Cambridgeshire before.
Heart 100.7 from Bilsdale still gets into Sheffield and beyond until Heart Birmingham finally kills it around the Derbyshire border.
Yeah that station gets into Birmingham as well.
Must be a line of sight thing.
I can get that thing here in Telford, with RDS and clear stereo. Much clearer than Signal 107 situated 5 miles from my house!
In other parts of Dewsbury it is possible to get good reception for Radio Manchester and Radio Lancashire.
I've sat on Reigate Hill before listening to Wave.
In the other direction, Tay FM from Dundee romps in south of Berwick on the A1.
Back in Preston I also used to be able to get Radio Cumbria, Dublin's Lite FM, North Wales' Coast 96.3, RTÉ Radio 1 FM, RTÉ Radio 2 FM, and down at Morrisons you used to be able to get Galaxy 105.8 from East Yorkshire!
106.0 gem
96.7 klfm
102.2 linc fm
97.4 rutland radio
105.4 capital (leicester)
106.6 smooth (east mids)
103.0 heart cambridge
103.3 heart mk
96.6 heart northampton
96.9 heart bedford (viking hull during atmospherics)
94.9 bbc lincolnshire
104.9 bbc leicester
104.4 bbc norfolk
103.6 bbc northampton
without rds (weaker signal)
107.1/9 star cambridge/ely
107.5 tulip radio
104.0 hcr (huntingdon)
96.3 corby radio
Until the switch to BBC Somerset the Mendip 95.5 Radio Bristol signal could be heard from Gloucestershire down to south Devon, albeit compromised at the northern end by BBC WM on 95.6.
Radio Solent's 96.1 can be easily heard on the Wiltshire section of the M4.
An exception is Radio Manchester which does carry well to the west does struggle in the other three directions.
On the eastern side Lincolnshire and Humberside benefit from the flat landscape to carry long distances, especially in the former's case coming from Belmont.
Lincs FM
BBC Suffolk
Town FM
Radio 538
Studio Brussels
Q Music
Sublime FM
BBC Essex
France Bleu
These come in on a portable with whip aerial under relatively normal conditions.
like:
105.7 Antenne Niedersachsen, Steinkimmen
105.5 1Live Teutoburger Wald
101.8 Deutschlandfunk, Aurich
94.8 SWR3, Linz
106.7 1Live, Langenberg
I could also regularly hear France Inter 95.4 and France Musique 89.4 from Brest on scatter using the Triax FM3. I can hear the following on my portables regularly on scatter, especially in the summer, like:
105.2/103.7/98.0/94.7/88.7 France Info/Inter/Culture/Bleu Nord/Musique, Lille, France
102.6/106.0/101.8 RTBF Musiq'3/La Premiere/Vivacite, Tournai, Belgium
102.1/98.6/95.7/90.4/104.1/103.0 VRT Stubru/VRT R2/VRT R1/VRT Klara/Joe FM/Qmusic, Egem, Belgium
100.7/96.8 Qmusic/NPO 3FM, IJsselstein, Netherlands
101.2/102.1/91.1 Sky Radio/538/Slam, Hilversum, Netherlands
100.7/88.9 Radio 100,7/RTL Letzebuerg, Dudelange, Luxembourg