Cadet 2LT Private RallyPoint Member 5434236 <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>My platoon is going on a month-long FTX. (no civilian electronics are authorized) We are on M1A2s and for morale purposes, I was wondering if there was a frequency/setting that we can change in order for us to listen to music and or news/weather reports? Is there a frequency/setting that we can change to in order to listen to music and or news/weather reports during an FTX? 2020-01-11T10:21:42-05:00 Cadet 2LT Private RallyPoint Member 5434236 <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>My platoon is going on a month-long FTX. (no civilian electronics are authorized) We are on M1A2s and for morale purposes, I was wondering if there was a frequency/setting that we can change in order for us to listen to music and or news/weather reports? Is there a frequency/setting that we can change to in order to listen to music and or news/weather reports during an FTX? 2020-01-11T10:21:42-05:00 2020-01-11T10:21:42-05:00 LTC Jason Mackay 5434437 <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Short answer no. The FCC allocates bandwidth so functions do not interfere with each other. So the government gets a block, commercial use gets a block etc. there might be a situation where the frequencies bleed over sometimes. <a target="_blank" href="https://www.fcc.gov/engineering-technology/policy-and-rules-division/radio-spectrum-allocation/general/table-frequency">https://www.fcc.gov/engineering-technology/policy-and-rules-division/radio-spectrum-allocation/general/table-frequency</a> <div class="pta-link-card answers-template-image type-default"> <div class="pta-link-card-picture"> <img src="https://d26horl2n8pviu.cloudfront.net/link_data_pictures/images/000/472/742/qrc/social-media-sharing-fcc-logo.jpg?1578760328"> </div> <div class="pta-link-card-content"> <p class="pta-link-card-title"> <a target="blank" href="https://www.fcc.gov/engineering-technology/policy-and-rules-division/radio-spectrum-allocation/general/table-frequency">Table of Frequency Allocations Chart</a> </p> <p class="pta-link-card-description">The FCC&#39;s Table of Frequency Allocations consists of the International Table of Frequency Allocations (&quot;International Table&quot;) and the United States Table of Frequency Allocations (&quot;United States Table&quot;). The FCC&#39;s Table of Frequency Allocations is codified at Section 2.106 of the Commission&#39;s Rules. For the allocation of frequencies the ITU has divided the world into three Regions. Click here to view a PDF map of the three Regions. The...</p> </div> <div class="clearfix"></div> </div> Response by LTC Jason Mackay made Jan 11 at 2020 11:32 AM 2020-01-11T11:32:13-05:00 2020-01-11T11:32:13-05:00 LTC Private RallyPoint Member 5434448 <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Sounds like you could use a crank phonograph. Response by LTC Private RallyPoint Member made Jan 11 at 2020 11:37 AM 2020-01-11T11:37:50-05:00 2020-01-11T11:37:50-05:00 MAJ Javier Rivera 5434482 <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>You mean tampering with US Government communications equipment and somehow breach the frequency spectrum controlled/managed by the FCC? Let me know how it goes! Response by MAJ Javier Rivera made Jan 11 at 2020 11:50 AM 2020-01-11T11:50:44-05:00 2020-01-11T11:50:44-05:00 SFC Private RallyPoint Member 5434557 <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Try an emergency hand crank radio. I don&#39;t think it would count as electronics. Response by SFC Private RallyPoint Member made Jan 11 at 2020 12:22 PM 2020-01-11T12:22:32-05:00 2020-01-11T12:22:32-05:00 MAJ Ken Landgren 5435017 <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Where is the FTX? Response by MAJ Ken Landgren made Jan 11 at 2020 4:02 PM 2020-01-11T16:02:16-05:00 2020-01-11T16:02:16-05:00 1SG Private RallyPoint Member 5435251 <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>MBITRs can be programmed to pick up AM and FM crews. Check your owners manuals on how to set it up. Response by 1SG Private RallyPoint Member made Jan 11 at 2020 5:57 PM 2020-01-11T17:57:53-05:00 2020-01-11T17:57:53-05:00 Maj John Bell 5435890 <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Tell me this is a joke. Response by Maj John Bell made Jan 11 at 2020 11:31 PM 2020-01-11T23:31:36-05:00 2020-01-11T23:31:36-05:00 SSgt Jimmy Jackson 5438301 <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div><a class="dark-link bold-link" role="profile-hover" data-qtip-container="body" data-id="1424172" data-source-page-controller="question_response_contents" href="/profiles/1424172-pre-commission">Cadet 2LT Private RallyPoint Member</a> , no sir Response by SSgt Jimmy Jackson made Jan 12 at 2020 8:47 PM 2020-01-12T20:47:35-05:00 2020-01-12T20:47:35-05:00 LCpl Donald Weston 5511300 <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>At the FM and AM frequencies the FCC intended for tactical use across all branches of the Armed Forces, that’d be a hard no. My unit never used our radios to pick up music stations to listen to during my time in service. Response by LCpl Donald Weston made Feb 2 at 2020 2:19 PM 2020-02-02T14:19:25-05:00 2020-02-02T14:19:25-05:00 Sgt Private RallyPoint Member 5801718 <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Actually you can. All the radio is doing is picking up a signal. Make a channel with no crypto or hop set, put in the local channel with the right AM or FM setting, and make sure the squelch setting it off. The squelch setting is the main thing you have to disable to hear the broadcast. Response by Sgt Private RallyPoint Member made Apr 21 at 2020 6:20 PM 2020-04-21T18:20:14-04:00 2020-04-21T18:20:14-04:00 Cpl Joseph Williams 5876766 <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Not that I know of. I got out in 1987, EW is total different now.Backin the old days we used walkmans, lol Response by Cpl Joseph Williams made May 11 at 2020 4:56 PM 2020-05-11T16:56:49-04:00 2020-05-11T16:56:49-04:00 SGT Erin Mcadams 6233609 <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>BBC, you will have to scan for it on HF Response by SGT Erin Mcadams made Aug 22 at 2020 1:18 PM 2020-08-22T13:18:32-04:00 2020-08-22T13:18:32-04:00 SGT Erin Mcadams 6890949 <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>As a Com Chief, I did find BBC and a Russian station on HF only, sorry it&#39;s been a while &amp; dont remember the freq&#39;s. Scan your HF radio, BBC is a good one to listen to. Response by SGT Erin Mcadams made Apr 10 at 2021 4:14 AM 2021-04-10T04:14:18-04:00 2021-04-10T04:14:18-04:00 Lt Col Jim Coe 6891504 <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>The HF radios in the C130 would pick up some radio stations. So would the ADF. All of these are probably gone now in favor of SATCOM and GPS. The FM radios the Services once had could be dialed to the same frequency as civilian FM broadcast stations. Comms may be so tight now because of security that none of this would work any more. Response by Lt Col Jim Coe made Apr 10 at 2021 10:51 AM 2021-04-10T10:51:11-04:00 2021-04-10T10:51:11-04:00 MAJ Matthew Arnold 6892307 <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>You can if your radio can get the right frequency. While flying we would occasionally tune one of the radios to a local station and listen to the music. But then helicopters have lots of radios: UHF, VHF, FM, and sometimes HF. I forgot on which one the local radio was received. Response by MAJ Matthew Arnold made Apr 10 at 2021 6:10 PM 2021-04-10T18:10:20-04:00 2021-04-10T18:10:20-04:00 SFC Randy Hellenbrand 6892360 <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>There are some. When we went on FTXs at Fort McCoy Wisconsin, we were able to pick up a station or two. This was back in the late 80s and early 90&#39; however. Most of the time we called McCoy the radio dead zone. Response by SFC Randy Hellenbrand made Apr 10 at 2021 6:32 PM 2021-04-10T18:32:30-04:00 2021-04-10T18:32:30-04:00 2020-01-11T10:21:42-05:00