I've got one of those emergency radios you used to get as a premium for donating to Public TV. You know, its got AM, FM, Some automated NOAA weather stations and some TV audio channels. (No tuning info, just "TV channel 1", etc.) But I got the radio a long time ago, before TV went digital, there is no TV audio on that band any more.

So I was listening on that band tonight, just to see if anyone was using it for anything, or if the FCC had reassigned those freqs to other users.

Sure enough, there are a lot of people broadcasting on that band now, all sorts of radio preachers, some Crayol channels, a few Spanish language stations playing weird-ass Central American Reggaeton, and at least one righteous classic hard rock stoner broadcast. But I haven't heard any call letters or frequency IDs. It appears to be local, probably Miami, from the advertising.

Is this pirate radio, or what? Can anyone help me here? There used to be a lot of unauthorized broadcasting here, mostly Haitian, serving that market but not bothering to get FCC licensing. In some parts of town they completely swamped the legit broadcast signal. If you were driving to work, in some neighborhoods the station you were listening to would just get replaced...

I can see people broadcasting there, but not too many people can have access to these frequencies, most radios don't tune them in. Who's listening. Could this be bleed-over or harmonics from the AM band?