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In the Hartford area I'm hearing a Sp language pirate on 1620. Does anyone know if this is the station that used to be on 1640 which has been gone from that freq. for a while.

I'm also hearing Sp. on 1700 and 1710. Who else is hearing those signals?
 
Are they really strong, as in packing lots of watts or are they spotty? I wonder if they're running carrier current gear into an antenna or what since most pirates prefer FM.
 
Bill DeFelice said:
Are they really strong, as in packing lots of watts or are they spotty? I wonder if they're running carrier current gear into an antenna or what since most pirates prefer FM.
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Never understood Pirate AM. So much work for so little. I had one in Boston when I was a kid in the 60's. A friend that retired from Gates built me a 5 watt transmitter.

Wouldn't touch one now unless it was maybe a 1 KW AM on 75 meter AM.

Mike
 
It probably to hard to pick them out of the hash from the iboc hash generators and the power line interference at my location.why bother with the effort to set one up on the am band.
 
They MIGHT be a legitimate "Part 15" station, also. A friend of mine has set up a number of them, professionally. What the owners do with and to them after he leaves, is out of his hands. I know of several in the New Haven and Bridgeport areas that he was involved with.
 
I go to NB often enough, and have noticed a few changes. These stations all seem to be run by the same guy. What he was doing with FM seems to be history (I guess getting a few NAL's from the FCC might have prompted this), and now he's doing the same thing on AM, bouncing around from channel to channel. The orignial location for the stations was on the roof of the restoration church on North Street, although I think the location might have changed as I heard mention of Sexton Street in one of the church's promos. I do still see the sign for the church back at the original location, so I guess I will have to check out Sexton Street next time I'm out there. He/they seem to run on 2 channels each time, as I've heard both 1700 & 1640 at the same time usually with sanish religion on one and spanish music on the other. If the station(s)/church have moved to Sexton Street, they are in a much higher location and litterally have clear line of sight to most of central CT (Clark Street is the next block over and a little lower, but from one backyard I did some work at, you could see dowtown Hartford and beyond)

FM history: 90.9, 92.9, 105.3, and maybe 107.5 (though this one seemed to be distant from downtown)
AM (I don't have 1710 in the car) 1700, 1640, 1620 and maybe 1690/1680
 
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