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98.3 What is this?

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cheapman

I've been listening to 98.3 for over two hours. Nothing but music. No jocks. No promos. NO LEGAL ID! Mostly 70's and 80's hits with an odd mix of current country. Hall and Oates, Eagles, Bryan Adams and then Toby Keith. Is this the Sweetwater station? What's up with not running a legal ID?
 
What is your location? If your in Knoxville I doubt that it's the Sweetwater FM because their using the AM tower for the FM antenna and they rarely get this far.
 
I'm actually in east Knox county. This morning I had it on in the car. By the time I drove about a mile toward Knoxville it was breaking up and by three miles it was gone altogether, so that confirms it wasn't coming from the west. Perhaps someone in tri-cities knows. This morning they played Billy Joel followed by Sammy Kershaw followed by John Lennon. Still no voicers. Morning show apparently not live. 98.3
 
When you say no voicers.. no dj's between songs or absolutely no station promos? Did they do a legal id??
 
Nothing at all. Just music. It even crossed my mind that this might be some sort of pirate station, but the songs are all established hits and I can't see a pirate doing anything without making a point. The music mix is a cross between a Jack/Earl format and a contemporary country. I plan on listening to it again after I get off work tonight.
 
I wonder if this could be someone's juiced up Part 15 FM running off a computer at their house...
 
I would guess your pirate is located in Blaine (near the WIMZ tower as a matter of fact). It's a former radio guy who is now employed outside the industry. He has a small transmitter that he has put on the air periodically over the past few years. He's a little bit rock and roll and his wife is a little bit country. Sort of Donny and Marie without the incest.

The Sweetwater station is all over the road but usually no country. They play sweepers left over from their oldies days with no announcers, no news, not even weather. But you wouldn't hear them in East Knoxville without an antenna on a weather balloon.
 
Yeah that sounds about right. I can see the WIMZ tower from my back yard. It's certainly an interesting mix of music. Tonight they played Chely Wright followed by Skynyrd and then the Carpenters! Still no legal ID but they are also running spoof commercials for imaginary products made by a company called "Wham-co."
 
Has anybody ever listened to the pirate station on 90.7 FM around the Papermill/Lonas Road area? Anybody know who's doing it and where?
 
Several years ago the FCC caught up with a guy named Drexie Kaos that was running a station on 88.3 and calling it Community Radio. he was passing out business cards at the used CD stores in Knoxville and I think thats how he got reported. He would even give a phone number that he would answer personally at his house. My guess is he had a FM bay in a tall tree somewhere around his house. Well, his station didn't last long before the Feds caught up with him. Dunno what happened to him after that. His station was somewhere around West Knoxville.
 
Has anybody ever listened to the pirate station on 90.7 FM around the Papermill/Lonas Road area? Anybody know who's doing it and where?
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Oh yeah! We know very well who he is! That's the guy up on the ridge between Middlebrook and the Interstate. Running web stream stations over broadcast airwaves. Violating several laws! Well, he's lost interest since receiving a letter from the FCC.

He got interested in radio while hanging around the fringes of the trailer station some years ago. Then he purchased equipment from eBay and was running into a verticle antenna above his house. He just happened to be living on a very high spot and could get a pretty good signal out from there.

I'm thinking the FCC letter made him realize a fine could get expensive. Maybe expensive enough that he'd have to sell some of his rental housing to pay for it. Likely his wife told him he'd better shut it down and just turn the stereo up louder!!
 
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