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From: KB2VXA@WT3V.#CNJ.NJ.USA.NOAM
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Hi Melvyn and SWLs,
Don't bother giving Andy a second thought, your first was enough. He was
simply ill informed and is now getting an education.
My comment is simply this, if "advertizing and promoting" were considered
as simply discussing something we would be walking around gagged. There
would be no bulls to INTRUD which are anything from pirates on our bands
to clandestine stations, to simply any unidentified signals we hear now
and then.
Now that Andy knows (everyone else too) we may as well get on with it.
I mentioned before that Lazer FM was being relayed from the Internet by a
licensed station, but noticing the times you heard it I may have been in
error. SW broadcasters choose time and band to take advantage of
propagation (naturally) with the exception of regional broadcasters on
the 6Mc "tropical band" and those have been almost entirely phased out
worldwide in favor of local FM. In Canada and Africa they're eliminating
MW stations in favor of FM too.
That leaves the 49M band a nighttime only band, with the possible
exception of a pirate who wishes to limit his coverage area. Seems to me
you have found one. Keep listening for more details, this one sounds
interesting. If you have the capability, tape the broadcast and run the
IDs through digital processing to clean them up. This can be done on your
computer with a good studio editor like CoolEdit 2000 by Syntillium
Software.
Pirates are an interesting and CHALLENGING part of SWLing because of the
low power and erratic scheduling. If you catch one with a good signal,
they make good listening too, not having the constraints of government
the programming is pretty wild, better than anything else you'll hear on
the radio.
Pirate stations have been one of my SWLing interests since my first SW
receiver, an old multiband living room radio with those funny looking
glass things glowing inside. Sooooo, keep listening and let us know about
any rare ones, pirates included.
BTW, too bad 49M goes out around that time and it's never good to Europe
with the QRM, so it's not likely I'll ever hear Lazer FM, but I'll check
it out on the Internet. I have turned up MANY pirate radio stations' web
sites, JRRI (Jury Rigged Radio International) has a good one with lots of
pictures and general information. All they say about where they're
located is various places around Belfast. YUP! Many of them use portable
gear and/or multiple transmitters.
I remember a time when some lads set up a disposable tape deck and
transmitter near the BBC Lancaster site and cut in on the FM
studio-transmitter link. The Beeb was a pirate station for several hours
until the engineer could get to the site and switch off. Once I got the
bright idea of breaking into the transmitter site of one of the 50KW NY
AM stations and patch a tape deck into the studio feed and disconnecting
the STL so the transmitter control was lost. Staring through the window
at the patch bay, I noticed some motion sensors recently installed. DARN!
That notion of hijacking the flag of the RKO General Network went up in
smoke. Just as well, can't run a Ham station in prison...
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Packet is like a hardware store, full of nuts and dolts.
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73 de Warren, KB2VXA
p-mail: kb2vxa@wt3v.#cnj.nj.usa.noam
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Message timed: 18:50 GMT on 16 Jan 03
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