Underground claims radio provides link for community.....
LEE COUNTY, FL - For Al Knighten and Ron Jenkins, their walk into the Fort Myers Police Department has been a three year wait. The two radio disc jockeys once considered themselves the local robin hood's of radio.
They illegally broadcasted to a 3 mile span of the Dunbar Community. They knew they were breaking the law, but say they did it for the greater good.
And content was key in a struggling community.
"Community announcements." Knighten said. "Information, educating them on voting, politics, the crime taking place."
On Wednesday, they got the last of their equipment back from police: an FM transmitter.
"Lets see' we're on err 92 FM tonight, and it feels like a nice clean little band so far. No one else is using it. The price is right."
Mark Hunter - Pump Up The Volume.
"Lets see' we're on err 92 FM tonight, and it feels like a nice clean little band so far. No one else is using it. The price is right."
Mark Hunter - Pump Up The Volume.
Award given out to a man for reporting Pirate Radio stations in Sydenham Hill Estate London. All I can say is he has seriously little to be at and needs to get a real life. Read all about this upstanding citizen (crank) on the link....
"Lets see' we're on err 92 FM tonight, and it feels like a nice clean little band so far. No one else is using it. The price is right."
Mark Hunter - Pump Up The Volume.
Pirate Radio Station Transmits Old-Time Mystery Shows for Insomniacs Story from DNAinfo Chicago, and do you know what? It's really what it's all about, doing your own thing on the radio, entertaining a few people, and harming absolutely no on. Radio is a beautiful thing, it has brought magic to countless millions of people, and here is a guy bringing something to the airwaves that you would hear no where else. It's simply a great use of the medium, respect.
"Lets see' we're on err 92 FM tonight, and it feels like a nice clean little band so far. No one else is using it. The price is right."
Mark Hunter - Pump Up The Volume.
Radio Free Amerika, created by B. Robert Bell is a post-apocalyptic story about the USA being defeated by foreign powers and how the people come together to fight to get the country back. The resistance is coordinated through a pirate radio station called Radio Free Amerika that sends out encoded messages to the resistance by way of beats and scratches in hip hop music.
"Lets see' we're on err 92 FM tonight, and it feels like a nice clean little band so far. No one else is using it. The price is right."
Mark Hunter - Pump Up The Volume.
Government papers released under the 30 year rule in Ireland show that they were concerned with the proliferation of Pirate Radio Stations, here in Ireland at the time. They of course rolled out the everlasting Government Anti-Pirate spin of emergency services being affected by the transmissions. The actual fact is that far more interference was caused by Licensed broadcasters from the UK, France, Spain and even Germany to Ireland than was ever caused by Irish pirates seems to have escaped their comment.
The phone-in competition referred to in the piece, was a competition run by the Daddy of the Super Pirates, Radio Nova. They were giving away £5,000 (Punts Irish pounds) nearly €15,000 in today's money. All you had to do was listen in and be the 50th caller when they played the three songs in the exact order. I can't remember all three songs but two of them were Joe Jackson - You can't get what you want, and Laidback - Sunshine Reggae. When the songs were played the phone service collapsed for several hours as hundreds of thousands of people tried to get through.
The collapse of the phone service was down to two things. One was after all, the huge numbers of people trying to get through to Radio Nova. The second was the crap state of the grossly over funded but badly invested in service provided by the Post and Telegraphs Dept (P&T) of the Irish Government. In Ireland at that time you had to book a phone installation and wait up to a year to get your phone fitted. The line quality was rubbish a lot of the time, and the cost was astronomical. Don't even mention long distance calls. The lines were ancient. The whole service was abysmal. So it was a melt down just waiting to happen. As an aside the P&T was the department charged with investigation and enforcement against the Pirates.
"Lets see' we're on err 92 FM tonight, and it feels like a nice clean little band so far. No one else is using it. The price is right."
Mark Hunter - Pump Up The Volume.
More from the Irish Government's files released under the 30 year rule. Including a part of RTE's (The national Broadcaster) jamming of the pirate stations especially Sunshine Radio. This jamming was causing interference to emergency services.
"Lets see' we're on err 92 FM tonight, and it feels like a nice clean little band so far. No one else is using it. The price is right."
Mark Hunter - Pump Up The Volume.
Marlow FM a low power Community station in Buckinghamshire, the south of England in the UK, has had £8000 of transmitter equipment stolen. Thieves it seems crowbarred a door open and removed the equipment. Nothing to do with Pirate radio there I hear you say, ahh but Marlow FM believe that the theft must have been carried out by a Pirate Station that has lost their equipment to Ofcom the British equivalent of the FCC (same Nazis different names). Volunteers are apparently working with the local cops and Ofcom to make a list of pirates that may have been involved.These were the type of people that took down names for the teacher in school when he left the class. I don't have the transmitter, but I would hate to be left off the list. So just to muddy the waters Radio Freedom 107.7FM did not take the transmitter or did we ;-) lol.
This of course is without any evidence or logic. If there is interference on your communications hey blame the pirates. Drug use going up in an area, it must be the music the pirates are playing. Ratings suffering on your pasteurized bland boring Karaoke singers station, blame the pirates not the soulless shite you are playing. Someone steals your equipment blame the pirates.
Well I could be very wrong but I can't see any pirate being behind this theft for a very good reason. It's one thing getting caught broadcasting as a pirate and all that entails in the UK, large fines, possible jail, banned from working on a licenced station etc. But it's a whole different level being caught with a stolen transmitter from a licensed station. Now you can add burglary, theft, handling stolen goods etc to your charge sheet. You are going to doing time for that for sure.
Now it has been known, for one pirate station to steal the transmitter from another pirate in London for instance. Station A goes up onto a tower block roof, and they find a transmitter of station B. Station A's people cut the cables, and make off with the transmitter. Station B assumes that Ofcom have raided their transmitter site, and they close everything down. A day or two later they check the site only to find that it does not look like the work of Ofccom. Station A then adjusts the transmitter to their frequency and broadcast with it. This happens but not with the transmitter from a legal station.
Of course in some cases I'm sure Ofcom steal Pirate transmitters to frame another station and watch the fall out between the two. Have a read anyway and you be the judge.
P.S if you did steal it, and get it over the water to Ireland I will make you an offer LOL. Only kidding.....
P.P.S note to anyone thinking of stealing a transmitter from a rival pirate. It has been known for a person caught trying to steal a transmitter from another pirate to have been held by their legs upside down over the side of tower block twenty floors up, with the threat of being dropped on their head next time they thought of committing such a crime. Far easier to build or buy a transmitter me thinks.
P.P.P.S I am not condoning in anyway the theft of equipment from any licensed station. No really...
"Lets see' we're on err 92 FM tonight, and it feels like a nice clean little band so far. No one else is using it. The price is right."
Mark Hunter - Pump Up The Volume.
To Greece now, and as the country's economic woes continue several licensed Radio stations have gone bankrupt, Pirates have of course stepped in to take their place on the dial. If you are Greek and are reading keep up the good work guys take your airways back.
"Lets see' we're on err 92 FM tonight, and it feels like a nice clean little band so far. No one else is using it. The price is right."
Mark Hunter - Pump Up The Volume.
FCC Steps Down Anti-Pirate Enforcement.... By John Anderson - DIYMedia.net
Just updated the Enforcement Action Database and the signs are pretty clear: unlicensed broadcasting has slipped down the priority-list for FCC field agents. Actions against AM/FM and shortwave pirate stations last year were at their lowest level since 2005, the last time fewer than 200 were logged.
"Lets see' we're on err 92 FM tonight, and it feels like a nice clean little band so far. No one else is using it. The price is right."
Mark Hunter - Pump Up The Volume.
"Lets see' we're on err 92 FM tonight, and it feels like a nice clean little band so far. No one else is using it. The price is right."
Mark Hunter - Pump Up The Volume.
Amateur radio based group rescues released broadcast frequency....
When the 'Deutsche Welle' decided to close down one of their 500 KW shortwave broadcast transmitters near Munich at the end of 2012, a group containing some German radio amateurs applied for, and were allocated the then available shortwave frequency of 6070 KHz in 2013.
They now have a licence to broadcast 10KWs on 6070 KHz 24/7. Nothing to do with Pirate Radio so far I hear you say, but the interesting thing is that for just €15.00 Euros (about $17.00 US, $21.00 CD) per hour they will relay your radio program/show. Now I know you can reach the world on the internet, but that's not as interesting as reaching out to vast areas on shortwave. Maybe get together with a couple of friends and get a couple of hours on shortwave.
In their shop they also advertise "Transmitter and amplifier for medium wave, shortwave and FM on request! Transmitters and amplifiers for AM, FM and SW upon request!" shop@channel292.de
Read more on the links. The first one is the article and the second is the station link.
"Lets see' we're on err 92 FM tonight, and it feels like a nice clean little band so far. No one else is using it. The price is right."
Mark Hunter - Pump Up The Volume.
Director John Moore has bought the film rights to the book Beautiful Noise by Helen Seymour. Seymour's novel tells the tale of three people thrown together by an accident, who go on to start a Pirate radio station in 1980's Ireland. John Moore himself was a presenter on the pirate Sunshine 101 in Dublin back in the 80's.
"Lets see' we're on err 92 FM tonight, and it feels like a nice clean little band so far. No one else is using it. The price is right."
Mark Hunter - Pump Up The Volume.
Article from Radio Survivor about his visit to the San Francisco Art Institute, where he discovered that the Institute has a radio station 'Tower Radio' which is now online, but was formerly a full blown FM Pirate. They originally had a 40 watt transmitter made by Stephen Dunifer from Free Berkeley Radio and broadcast on 102.5FM. Radio Tower started out as an Art Project called “We Want the Airwaves,” which “examined the history of artists working with sound and also how radio has been used as a form of social change.” Their range was just 2 miles, which seems very poor for 40 watts. Read more on the link... www.radiosurvivor.com/2015/02/25/trip-tower-san-francisco-art-institutes-college-radio-station/
"Lets see' we're on err 92 FM tonight, and it feels like a nice clean little band so far. No one else is using it. The price is right."
Mark Hunter - Pump Up The Volume.
Report from Radio INK Magazine on the address by FCC Commissioner and former acting FCC Chairwoman Mignon Clyburn at Hispanic Radio Conference.
Quote "Pirate radio is still a major issue, and Clyburn noted that the commission is still very active in that sphere, despite fewer actions taken against pirate stations in recent years. She said, "Some of the challenges include security for our men and women out in the field. The challenge is manpower and security [for our teams]. It's like Whack-a-Mole. When we shut them down, they pop up again. We need to figure out what makes them popular and profitable and to fulfill those needs in different ways."
"Lets see' we're on err 92 FM tonight, and it feels like a nice clean little band so far. No one else is using it. The price is right."
Mark Hunter - Pump Up The Volume.