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[mightynine]

I'm driving home tonight, and instead of immediately hitting the CDs, I decide to scan the radio dial and hit the beginning of The Postal Service's "Such Great Heights". At first I thought I'd landed on the local college station, but then I notice that it's on 88.1 FM. I know there's no radio station there, but it was coming through pretty much clear as a bell.

Whole song plays, starts to go to the next song on the album when it abruptly stops and the signal disappears, followed by static.

My best guess, unless it was a massive pirate or low-power FM testing, is that I happened to be right next to someone using a wireless FM transmitter to beam stuff from their iPod or CD player to their own car stereo, and I happened to be in the right place at the right time. I've used one those transmitters once, but I didn't think they had that much range.

So, this ever happen to you? And do those FM transmitters have that much signal?

 

[Error Macro]

Not that I know of. I mean, that hasn't happened to me before.


But I hate it when I'm using those handheld family radio units, and someone else in the area is on the same channel. For some reason, they are usually foreign (unless I am picking up some other country's shit based on atmospheric anomalies) and there's all this static and gibberish I can't understand that's breaking in on my channel. Heh, I guess that's what happens when you use public airwaves.

 

[AntoneM]

it's never happened to me but I have thought about a device that allows people to do that, like if you see someone rocking out in their car, you can turn on this device and tune into what their rocking out to. Personly the world would be a better place if everyone would just listen to what I listen to.