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87.9 FM Cleveland pirate mystery
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I just checked and YES, this pirate is on today.
Now you didn't hear this from me...
There was a group of local broadcast engineers who occasionally, say over a holiday, would put on an FM low power station from rotating locations and play cool music they liked and sometimes even did DJ shows, but usually not, to remain anonymous. This could be a continuation of that club as some of the original members would be retired by now. It was all done for fun and never more than a few days so as to not draw any ire. Beats me if any of that group would be involved in this one.
There was a group of local broadcast engineers who occasionally, say over a holiday, would put on an FM low power station from rotating locations and play cool music they liked and sometimes even did DJ shows, but usually not, to remain anonymous. This could be a continuation of that club as some of the original members would be retired by now. It was all done for fun and never more than a few days so as to not draw any ire. Beats me if any of that group would be involved in this one.
If any of them still hold their 1st phone license from the FCC, I doubt very much they'd be involved. They may be retired but doesn't mean they can't go back and pick up some extra gigs for extra money. If they get caught, say goodbye to that license.
Oh, come on. If you are way down on 87.9, you are not interfering with anyone. And if some folks want to have a little fun, why not?
Not in the United States.
Yes, it is, or rather was.. under certain special rules.. there was an 87.9 translator in the Reno, NV area and somewhere in the greater san francisco area there was a high school station on 87.9
According to Radio-Locator, the San Francisco station appears to be gone, but the Reno station is evidently still on. Got to be some kind of special dispensation, or someone pulled a political string. It is a religious station. I do know of a couple of folks who tried to get 87.9 for their college, but the FCC said that no stations are to be assigned that frequency. I would really like to know how the Reno station got the frequency.
That was KSFH, which moved from 88.1 to 87.9 MHz in 1999, and went dark in 2021:
KSFH - Wikipedia
Tell that to the people near that illegal transmitter who want to listen to a licensed station on 88.1 -- and to the people at 88.1 dealing with those listeners' complaints.
I have some radios that go down to 87.9 and others that don't. Anybody know when the cutoff was that they dropped 87.9 off radios? Or is it something just arbitrary that some makers include it and others don't?
The OEM radio in my '13 Chevy goes down to 87.7.
Ooooops. That's what I meant. 87.7, not 87.9. Too much holiday eggnog clogging my brain pores.
That is not a problem in metro Cleveland where this pirate operates from. If for some reason, you want to pull in 88.1 from Akron, you already have a problem with WBWC 88.3.
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