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Pirate Station on AM - why?

I'm surprised they attempt to use the WCCC call letters! It comes from one of those "churches" on South Street, between South Main Street and Veteran's Drive. It was the Adkins office supply place at one time.
 
They'll probably get less pushback from doing it on AM, i.e. other stations are less likely to complain to the FCC. I'd also speculate that the operators came into equipment able to transmit on AM. Interesting find though.
 
KML-224 said:
I'm surprised they attempt to use the WCCC call letters! It comes from one of those "churches" on South Street, between South Main Street and Veteran's Drive. It was the Adkins office supply place at one time.
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Well, that explains why they were blasting in at Schaller Honda since they are right there on Veterans Drive across South Main Street from New Britain Stadium.
 
umfan said:
They'll probably get less pushback from doing it on AM, i.e. other stations are less likely to complain to the FCC. I'd also speculate that the operators came into equipment able to transmit on AM. Interesting find though.
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Interestingly enough Radio Restauracion 96.9 WPRF-LP in New Britain got their start as an unlicensed Spanish Religious station on 1620-AM and broadcast from Osgood Avenue in the other end of the city near EC Goodwin Tech, DiLoretto School, and the CREC School. I don't know if they still transmit on 1620-AM as well, but their website is still http://www.restauracion1620.com/index.html
 
MarcB said:
Interestingly enough Radio Restauracion 96.9 WPRF-LP in New Britain got their start as an unlicensed Spanish Religious station on 1620-AM
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I thought applicants with a pirate radio past were automatically ineligible for a license. Does the FCC bend the rules for low power licenses, or licenses to religious groups?
 
MarcB said:
Interestingly enough Radio Restauracion 96.9 WPRF-LP in New Britain got their start as an unlicensed Spanish Religious station on 1620-AM and broadcast from Osgood Avenue in the other end of the city near EC Goodwin Tech, DiLoretto School, and the CREC School. I don't know if they still transmit on 1620-AM as well, but their website is still http://www.restauracion1620.com/index.html
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As did Radio Avivamiento 100.1/89.7/89.3 Tolland/Hartford/Norfolk/Meriden... they were a pirate in the 1600khz area too.
 
SomeRadioGuy said:
As did Radio Avivamiento 100.1/89.7/89.3 Tolland/Hartford/Norfolk/Meriden... they were a pirate in the 1600khz area too.
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They were originally a pirate on 97.1 before that frequency was used for John Fuller's Bomba translator in Bolton. I think someone complained to the FCC that when that pirate on 97.1 signed on they could no longer pick up WQHT from NYC in Connecticut. They moved to 16-something AM after that. I think they were 1620 too.
 
KML-224 said:
I'm surprised they attempt to use the WCCC call letters! It comes from one of those "churches" on South Street, between South Main Street and Veteran's Drive. It was the Adkins office supply place at one time.
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I wish K-Love was forced to change the call letters when they destroyed the station.
 
CTListener said:
I thought applicants with a pirate radio past were automatically ineligible for a license. Does the FCC bend the rules for low power licenses, or licenses to religious groups?
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Politicians pressure them in various ways if the stations are popular with ethnic groups
that make up key segments of their voting constituency. An AM pirate that is popular
with Portuguese or Puerto Ricans in Connecticut who are sizeable constituencies for some
Congressman is going to be protected in ways that I playing my 80's music would not be.
 
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