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96.7 Pirate in Framingham
- Thread starter ssetta
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With the near flood of FM translators coming on.....it's getting hard to tell who's wearing the "white hats"...!!
I'm assuming this "pirate" has run no "legal ID"....and perhaps keeps talk to a minimum or totally absent....
The influx of Chinese "transmitters" has made it easy to bootleg....and potentially wreak havoc in certain geographic areas....
I'm assuming this "pirate" has run no "legal ID"....and perhaps keeps talk to a minimum or totally absent....
The influx of Chinese "transmitters" has made it easy to bootleg....and potentially wreak havoc in certain geographic areas....
http://www.angelfire.com/nj2/piratejim/lpfm3.html
A list of on air or planned LPFMs but not translators. Framingham has a CP expiring in Feb for an educational station at 96.5
A list of on air or planned LPFMs but not translators. Framingham has a CP expiring in Feb for an educational station at 96.5
How much does it cost to run one of these pirate stations? Do they just loop a few hours of songs?
I guess these days the pirates are all gunning for Top Ten markets.
Boston, New York, Houston.
Have not heard one on the air in Pittsburgh in over a decade.
Boston, New York, Houston.
Have not heard one on the air in Pittsburgh in over a decade.
Several of them in the Hartford area, all doing Spanish-language preaching or tropical music. None of them as professional-sounding as the notorious Boston urban music FMs, but they're easily heard on FM and the AM expanded band..
I know of two in Hartford that play Reggae and other music from the Islands down there - 101.7 and 103.3 - 103.3 is super powerful.
Seize their equipment
Thinking the two stations Marc mentioned are law priority and generating few if any complaints. There are no adjacent-channel signals in the market, and the second adjacents for 101.7 aren't in market (WKCI 101.3 Hamden (New Haven) and WAQY 102.1 Springfield). 103.3 has WDRC-FM 102.9 second channel down, so maybe that will be the one eventually taken down.
That is the bleeping problem, the FCC doesn't care until something goes wrong or a licensee complains.
ALL pirates need to be treated equally, swiftly shut down, equipment forfeited, and people jailed.
They are low priority until their crap equipment starts taking public safety radios off the air, or screwing with the ground radios at one of airports close by.... and both those instances have happened.
That and the fact that it takes away from legal broadcasters who went through the actual trouble to get licensed.
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