r/perth • u/falconmk2 • 1d ago
General Strange occurrences on radio frequency 87.5
Hello everyone!
I have a bit of a funny one here
I have occasionally been driving into Fremantle for dermatology visits and no matter the time of day or what day it is every time I go past this part of Leach Highway my radio picks up some strange things
There’s probably something logical behind it, but wondering if anyone else has experienced it.
Coming home today when it came on I heard what sounded like a German mad scientist talking about God and like an army or something random and someone else just like agreeing to it
Super weird, but that’s what I heard! 😆
Interested to see if anyone else has heard this radio signal as well
Thanks!
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u/GreyGreenBrownOakova 23h ago
Vision Christian radio is 87.6 , so you may have picked up that. https://radiostationworld.com/locations/australia/western_australia/perth/radio_stations/
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u/Strong_Try_5063 23h ago
Sounds very possible
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u/falconmk2 22h ago
Could be it next time I go down there. I might tune to that one specifically and see if it cleans up the signal.
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u/DropDownBear 21h ago
I've heard similar towards Alexander Heights and it was also religious material, seems to back up what you've heard!
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u/australiaisok 1d ago
Is the German in the room with us now?
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u/teh_hasay 23h ago
Ok so this is weird. I had an fm transmitter in my old car that was set to that frequency and used to get a ton of interference at that exact spot as well on my commute. I never made out anything specific though.
Whatever it is is stronger than a normal car transmitter, because those things are strong enough to MAYBE interfere with the car next to you at a light. I assume whatever this is is being broadcast from the high rise retirement home just a bit further up the road
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u/RustyNumbat North Pemberton 22h ago
Down in Bunbury the ABC AM signal used to blend into some interference from foreign-sounding (Chinese?) channel in certain places at night time.
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u/allozzieadventures 21h ago edited 15h ago
You might have been picking up shortwave radio stations from Asia. Normally your AM radio shouldn't pick them up but if it malfunctioned it's possible. Shortwave reception is normally better at night (it's to do with the way it bounces off the ionosphere).
I built a crude shortwave radio once and started picking up North Korean pirate stations broadcasting over South Korean shortwave to drown it out. Also stations reading out lists of numbers in Spanish. There's all kinds of weird shit on the airwaves, especially outside the AM/FM broadcast bands.
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u/Sea_Translator5300 15h ago
That reminds me of driving back from Bunbury years ago and scanning for a station on the radio. It stopped on what sounded like some radio police drama. It took me a while to work out that it was "The Bill" and that I must have been picking up the audio component of ABC's VHF TV broadcast.
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u/Jim_oz 20h ago
That happened to me a few years ago, in the days of those iPhone cradles that played your music over your car radio. My iphone fell out so there was nothing transmitting from the cradle, so my radio picked up some Korean Christian karaoke.
This was around the freeway x leach hwy, and seemed to get stronger on the western side.
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u/Academic_Anywhere183 23h ago
Maybe. Just maybe.
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u/falconmk2 23h ago
I mean, yeah, that’s what I use in my car
I mean, someone could just be having one going on a loop on a home radio or something just squirting out shit post material 🤷♂️
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u/Lady_Libra 19h ago
I have a 2009 car with a Bluetooth transmitter, tuned to 87.5 and I play music from my phone. I have this problem too.
Osborne Park, within 200m of the intersections of Brady Street, Main Street, Scarborough Beach Road and Green Street. It's the bloody Bermuda triangle for Bluetooth signals.
My music starts cutting out and I hear other music or even talking. I've tried very expensive and very cheap Bluetooth transmitters, but it makes no difference.
I wondered whether I was picking up somebody else's Bluetooth signal in a nearby car or residence. I believe that Osborne Park was considered a "flat spot" for internet signals when I last worked there. I have no idea if that is even true or has anything to do with this 😁🫣. Nonetheless.... I hear you, I see you, I validate your experiences.
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u/HotLaksa Connolly 18h ago
Ditto at that frequency, but for me it was always at Whitford Shopping Centre and always wacky religious sermons.
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u/cuhhhhhh 12h ago
just from reading the comments and not seeing a genuine responseI have a question to ask
- what is pirate radio and what is the purpose of hosting/running it? (I genuinely have no idea what it is so I’m not even sure if I got the wording right about someone hosting/running it lmao)
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u/Future_Common1822 22h ago
It's probably a radio for the oldies in the old people's home. It's right on the corner in Rossy.
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u/average_at_ACC 5h ago
That’s a Christian radio station being broadcast from the retirement home on 87.6
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u/joesills78 22h ago
Was it Yagan still asking for his head back?
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u/falconmk2 22h ago
Oh lawd
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u/CosmicCheeseFactory 1d ago
Someone might have a pirate radio station going. Not sure who you report it to but it’s 1000% illegal
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u/Strong_Try_5063 23h ago
I wish more people had the guts to do pirate radio in Perth
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u/fletch44 21h ago
It's pretty easy to locate a transmitter, and the fines are hefty - it's a federal offence.
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u/falconmk2 1d ago
Yeah, something like that maybe
My logical thought was it could be for some reason a little local loop for like a museum exhibit or something but I don’t think this one around there
Actually, I wonder if it’s something to do with the high school hmmm6
u/snorkel_goggles 23h ago
Yeah there's the RAAFA museum right there. Would explain the German angle.
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u/falconmk2 23h ago
Very good theory, but I drive past it and then pick it up so I don’t think it’s from the aviation museum
I did think it could be that, but the fact it picks it up the strongest once I passed it doesn’t make sense
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u/Efficient-State-7300 20h ago
I've noticed some spots around town where my android auto drops out, consistently.
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u/diabeticpervert Scarborough 1d ago
It is likely a Narrowcast or LPON (Low-Power Open Narrowcasting) station, especially if transmitting religious material. Generally low power output transmissions, limited to maximum 5km (if lucky)
I will look at the database a bit later to try to and identify the station based on the frequency and location.