Church Frequencies

sensormatic

fm_radio wrote: »

It's amazing how you heard exactly the same as what I posted on another forum....complete with mistakes! :rolleyes:


how interesting that your posting what i am hearing.
god does work in many ways my son, now bless you:D

Antenna

A couple from the Cork area, all narrowband FM

MHz
27.665 - Glounthaune Parish Church radio (used to be 27.675 but moved down 10kHz for some reason?)

27.981 Mayfield Church Cork city

brownmini

fm_radio wrote: »

27.065 MHz (FM)..........2 on this frequency
27.161 MHz (FM)..........??
27.205 MHz (FM)..........??
27.285 MHz (FM)..........??
27.315 MHz (FM).........Blarney, Cork? or near it?
27.335 MHz (FM).........? (Week day 9:30am mass)
27.355 MHz (FM)..........??
27.365 MHz (FM)..........??
27.395 MHz (FM)..........??
27.505 MHz (FM)..........2 on this frequency
27.605 MHz (FM)..........??
27.615 MHz (FM)..........??
27.618 MHz (FM)..........??
27.681 MHz (FM)..........??
27.731 MHz (FM)..........??
27.735 MHz (FM)..........??
27.775 MHz (FM)..........??
27.791 MHz (FM)..........? (Sat 10am, 6:30pm mass)
27.815 MHz (FM)..........2 on this frequency. Carrigtwohill near Cork City & ??

Is it just me or does anyone else notice a gap 50kHz either side of 27.555 MHz ?

What are the odds of that happening ?
(the gap that is...not me noticing it )

Snowbat

brownmini wrote: »

Is it just me or does anyone else notice a gap 50kHz either side of 27.555 MHz ?

What are the odds of that happening ?
(the gap that is...not me noticing it )

I'd guess most of the transmissions are from UK-spec CB radios as they're inexpensive and quite easy to source. Legal CB radio bands in the UK are 26.965-27.405 MHz and 27.60125-27.99125 MHz, both FM only.

mordka

brownmini wrote: »

Is it just me or does anyone else notice a gap 50kHz either side of 27.555 MHz ?

What are the odds of that happening ?
(the gap that is...not me noticing it )

When good propagation will come on 27.555 and around they will get good QRM during the mass (for listeners) and vice versa for DXers.

brownmini

mordka wrote: »

When good propagation will come on 27.555 and around they will get good QRM during the mass (for listeners) and vice versa for DXers.

It turns out that according to the document at
http://www.comreg.ie/_fileupload/pub...omReg0626a.pdf (page 6)
The WPAS system only starts at 27.605 MHz - didn't know that.

The official CB channels stop at 27.410 MHz.
REF: http://www.erodocdb.dk/Docs/doc98/Of...f/Dec9811e.pdf

Which then changed to 26.965 to 27.405 MHz
REF: http://www.etsi.org/deliver/etsi_i_e...33e01p_a1o.pdf


And according to the presentation document at
http://www.comreg.ie/_fileupload/publications/CP42.pdf
the gap between 27.405 and 27.605 is supposed to be a guard band.

I think that unless the QRM is coming from inside EI and close-by,
WPAS won't suffer given that FM is used.

Felim_Doyle

Antenna wrote: »

It could be from Northern Ireland - there too there have been many Catholic churches using radio equipment to broadcast mass to listeners at home who cannot attend etc.

Did they recognise particular accents or places mentioned?

Indeed, did they listen long enough to determine if it was a Catholic mass and not some other similar sounding Christian service?

Are Catholic churches the only ones who use WPAS or are other religious services transmitted this way?

Does the Imam broadcast the call to prayer on a dedicated UHF system or are Mosques also making use of WPAS?

Tim Bucknall

re: Mosques In England.
both, 454mhz and both uk cb bands.

i never realised what a mishmash of channel spacings those church broadcasts use, would push up the price of a receiver for the old folks
27.161 for instance!

watty

Anyone can get 1 channel Community Broadcast 27MHz annual licence here.

Felim_Doyle

Are specific channels / frequencies allocated to each licensee or is it a free-for-all within the WPAS band?

Felim_Doyle

brownmini wrote: »

It turns out that according to the document at
http://www.comreg.ie/_fileupload/pub...omReg0626a.pdf (page 6)
The WPAS system only starts at 27.605 MHz - didn't know that.

The official CB channels stop at 27.410 MHz.
REF: http://www.erodocdb.dk/Docs/doc98/Of...f/Dec9811e.pdf

Which then changed to 26.965 to 27.405 MHz
REF: http://www.etsi.org/deliver/etsi_i_e...33e01p_a1o.pdf


And according to the presentation document at
http://www.comreg.ie/_fileupload/publications/CP42.pdf
the gap between 27.405 and 27.605 is supposed to be a guard band.

I think that unless the QRM is coming from inside EI and close-by,
WPAS won't suffer given that FM is used.

It appears that the URLs for the external links that you have supplied are incomplete. Any chance you could post them again without the '...' abbreviations? Ta!

brownmini

Felim_Doyle wrote: »

It appears that the URLs for the external links
that you have supplied are incomplete. Any chance you could post them
again without the '...' abbreviations? Ta!

Whoops! and Roger!

WPAS INFO is at
http://www.comreg.ie/_fileupload/publications/ComReg0626a.pdf

Middle two are documents about the official CB band and the standards of
CB equipment.

As luck would have it the document "Dec9811e.pdf " has gone from being
downloadable to 'file not found' since my original posting or the place where
I thought I had accessed it.

The other document is located at
http://www.etsi.org/deliver/etsi_i_ets/300400_300499/300433/01_60/ets_300433e01p.pdf
Page 9 of the document gives the band 26.960 to 27.410 and states on
page 12 of the document, channel 40 to be 27.405.


And according to the presentation document at
http://www.comreg.ie/_fileupload/publications/CP42.pdf
The gap between 27.41(correction of 5khz by me) and 26.6 is a guard band.


And for info, the exemption info on CB in Ireland is given at
http://www.comreg.ie/_fileupload/publications/SI436of1998.pdf