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90.9 Top 40 Hitclock. I tuned in every Wednesday night inside Leisure World in Seal Beach, CA

Signal Geek said:
90.9 is right next to super-powered 90.7 (110kw) KPFK. I'm surprised this pirate, or whatever the 90.9 signal is, picked that frequency.
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Indeed. From a Seal Beach perspective 91.9 and 104.7 would have less nearby interference with no single channel adjacent station, and the closest stations on those precise frequencies do not reach Seal Beach with any significant strength.
 
dturner1163 said:
I work in Leisure World every Wednesday night and am tuned in to the station 90.9 Top 40 Hitclock. There is no DJ or commercials. It is all music with an AI voice telling you the year the song about to be played is from. No mention of song titles.
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This is a real mystery. There’s a station broadcasting out of LW, where no apparatus is allowed on the roof. So where is the antenna? And how do they get away without doing station I.D. ? I guess if it is a pirate station, then they do not have any call letters assigned to them? They just call it “Hitclock”? There must be some group, some club, maybe a radio or shortwave club inside LW that knows what is going on. 🤔
 
Bongwater said:
Yes. In spite of FCC crackdowns on pirates, they're getting really sophisticated these days with the newer pirate transmitters. So something here is off.
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Not a huge amount the FCC can do other than go after the transmissions - these FM transmitters are sold from China very cheaply. A very quick search of AliExpress shows a 15 watt FM transmitter with RDS support for under $150. There's even a demonstration video on how to use a PC with the transmitter to send RDS data. Gone are the days of pirates putting transmitters together with a box of bits and a soldering iron - now all you need to do to be a pirate is buy a box from China and plug in power and an antenna.
 
Miss Tuned said:
Not a huge amount the FCC can do other than go after the transmissions - these FM transmitters are sold from China very cheaply. A very quick search of AliExpress shows a 15 watt FM transmitter with RDS support for under $150. There's even a demonstration video on how to use a PC with the transmitter to send RDS data. Gone are the days of pirates putting transmitters together with a box of bits and a soldering iron - now all you need to do to be a pirate is buy a box from China and plug in power and an antenna.
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Now there's something I can support excessive tariffs on.
 
I also live in Seal Beach and love this station which plays 1955-1985 with those old Drake liners and Johnny Mann jingles. I wonder where their antenna is. The signal is great along Main St. as well as on the beach. Today they are deviating from the Hitclock format playing nonstop Christmas music.
 


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