Short spaced TV stations...

[Alex KL-1]

Originally Posted by NowhereMan 1966

I know, I live 8 miles north of Wheeling, WV on the Ohio side of the Ohio River and one station that plays a lot of 70's and 80's music, I love the 80's, is on 105.5 Mc, WUKL Bethlehem, WV, but when I drive to work in the Pittsburgh area, I get about 4 or 5 miles into PA and the translator they have on 105.5 Mc in Pittsburgh takes over and it is from 104.3 Mc, a Froggy country music station.

When Mom and I went to California in 1987 and drove from Frisco to LA on I-5 in the San Jouquin Valley, there were many FM stations going back and forth on the capture effect, the FM band was a pain in the butt to listen to.

FM stations have also this issue here I live (Brazilian triple border with Argentina and Paraguay; Foz do Iguaçu). Besides some pirate station playing havoc with my 70's-80's-90's preferred station, some legal stations are crowded one adjacent or almost to each other (bad planning and communications between countries). Well, for poor stations, it's favorite sport is to change frequency from time to time. And, the radio comms cannot use VHF band due to harmonic interference from poor stations; where I work, the private radio comm network needed to be UHF.
Also from TV analogue era, was common to have some TV channels adjacent being used (4-5, 8-9, 12-13 for example). For this, the solution of rotating the antenna applies, due to different country station location.