{"id":5325,"date":"2012-07-14T09:33:30","date_gmt":"2012-07-14T13:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/?p=5325"},"modified":"2023-04-29T08:30:51","modified_gmt":"2023-04-29T12:30:51","slug":"fm-fool-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/2012\/07\/fm-fool-website\/","title":{"rendered":"FM Fool website"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Just for geeks, the FM Fool website<\/a> is.\u00a0 Nonetheless, it is a cool site to look at and can be used as a tool to find out what stations are available in any certain area.\u00a0 Using the FCC database and terrain profile, it will print out a radar plot of all signals for any address in the US:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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FM Fool Radar plot<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This plot is for my house based on a 30-foot outdoor antenna and includes all FM stations that are even marginally receivable.\u00a0 We kind of live off to the side of nowhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The transmitter database was last updated on July 5, 2012.  Longer bars represent stronger signals.  Details about each transmitter are provided in the table to the right of the plot.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

This is a companion site for the TV Fool<\/a> website.\u00a0 If you want to see what off-air TV signals are available at any given location, this is the way to do it.\u00a0 A few years ago, I was thinking of getting rid of the Cable TV in favor of off-air reception.\u00a0 Unfortunately, there are only a few off-air TV channels available at my house.\u00a0 Therefore,\u00a0 I threw out the TV.\u00a0 Problem solved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just for geeks, the FM Fool website is.\u00a0 Nonetheless, it is a cool site to look at and can be used as a tool to find out what stations are available in any certain area.\u00a0 Using the FCC database and terrain profile, it will print out a radar plot of all signals for any address … Continue reading FM Fool website<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[82],"class_list":["post-5325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-fm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5325"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11578,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5325\/revisions\/11578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}