Happened upon it today while driving through Tremont, was coming in really strong. They were playing Spanish Christmas music. Latino pirate station??
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Anyone Know What's On 87.9
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Could have been the audio from WXOX-LP on channel 6.
87.9 was the home of a pirate Latino station soon after all of the other pirates were appropriatly knocked off the air by the FCC in the mid 1990s. I used to check there every once in a while, but stopped years ago. I'll have to check again. If it is another illegal, I'll bet they'll be smarter then last time, and want to stay under the radar instead of inviting the Plain Dealer in to do what turned out to be a front page story. Silly P.D., they didn't do their homework and in a kind of retraction, had to mention in a short follow-up article that the station was illegal. I remember when they re-contacted one of the people at the station, he/she told the P.D. that they were in the process of getting a license...(we have a call in to the FCC right now- as I recall the article stating). This time the P.D. wasn't fooled and found out that none of this was true. Soon after the article a whole bunch of pirates popped up on the near west side, two on the commercial part of the band. One was from a church (wonder what God thought about spreading his word illegally!). It took many months, but finally the FCC did their job and laid the smackdown. All of the transmitters, from what I recall, were 25 watt items bought from a firm in Canada.
SonoSational18 said:
There's no evidence that WXOX-LP has built out the analog 6 CP it was granted in October (and that'd be 87.75 FM, anyway).
In fact, looking through the FCC files, it has been asking for an STA to light up analog 65 just long enough to beat the silent deadline. It told the FCC it would operate the STA only when Verizon Wireless had its 770 MHz operations down for maintenance!
I wonder if there is any connection to the legitimate latino station that was/is on 88.3fm out east...their signal used to boom into downtown, now you get mostly WBWC when in downtown. Interesting though that whatever is on 87.9 would be so strong in both Tremont and Cleve Hts/Shaker Hts
SixOnTheFloor said:
I'm guessing that the Painesville station (WHWN?) might have modified their signal to not interfere with WBWC in some fringe areas. But as John B. would point out, WBWC really has no protection into downtown Cleveland proper... it's a Berea station that has benefited from minimal same-channel interference for nearly 50 years beforehand.
I would suggest that at 4,000 watts WBWC is primarily a western Cuyahoga and Lorain County station in relation to where the signal is strongest.
WBWC doesn't make it that far east of I-77, and that's been the case even before WHWN went on.
WHWN disappears roughly as far south as 271 and Chagrin. At least the last time I drove the signal...
WHWN disappears roughly as far south as 271 and Chagrin. At least the last time I drove the signal...
John B could answer this, but I believe that WBWC is directional, with a null toward Painesville, which they had to protect when they raised power to 4,000 watts and moved the transmitter to the top of the tall apartment building across from Great Northern in North Olmsted. If the Painesville station did not exist, and WBWC were allowed 4,000 watts NON DIRECTIONAL, they would probably boom into downtown Cleveland, since you see the top of that apartment building from the innerbelt.
HHH said:
I believe they are basically directional to the west and north. I think they also have to protect WZIP to the south at 88.1. While WBWC has never boomed anywhere close to downtown, I used to be able to get them periodically on the car radio until the Latino station signed on in Painesville. It was all Latino in 88.3fm. Lately though WBWC has come back downtown and the Latino station was nowhere to be found, always seemed strange to me that a pea-shooter station in Painesville was booming into downtown like they were.
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Speaking of all the spanish pirates back in the 90's does anyone remember the pirate on 91.9 around 1994 or 1996, was on the west side cleveland/lakewood???
AZOOTEN said:
yep there were 4 spanish pirates actually. 88.1, 90.7,91.9 and 93.7. all got raided at the same time. There was also grid radio 96.9, an underground dance music station originating from a gay club downtown.
I was picking up a Lorain county Spanish pirate on 87.9 in the mid-late 2000's too. Sundays only if I remember correctly
AZOOTEN said:
Don't remember that west side 91.9, but I remember hearing a metal-formatted low power station at 91.9 in Berea called "the Machine" on my car radio around 2004. I posted about it on the Ohio Radio Message Forum because I wasn't sure what it was, and the operator of the station posted a reply, advising that it wasn't a pirate but a legally operating LPFM. Was surprised I hadn't heard of the station before then, especially since my musical tastes skewed in that direction back then and I would have thought Scene Magazine or someone would have mentioned it more prominently. Really interesting station. Not too many metal-formatted LPFMs with live DJs that I've ever heard of...
IIRC, A) there has never been a legally licensed LPFM on 91.9 in NE Ohio and B) it'd be a different class on the non-comm bands, anyway.
Of course, since then, WKJA/Brunswick has popped up as a full-power station, rendering 91.9 a useless freqeuncy for pirates or whoever in much of the area.
91.9 used to be used near Akron for the "WCUE Pirate"...I've actually heard that one.
Of course, since then, WKJA/Brunswick has popped up as a full-power station, rendering 91.9 a useless freqeuncy for pirates or whoever in much of the area.
91.9 used to be used near Akron for the "WCUE Pirate"...I've actually heard that one.
I've heard in the last several years a station id'ing itself as "Radio Free Canton" on 90.7 FM especially around the Fishers Foods Cherry Avenue NE store where I work..Very much a freeform station, with progressive/liberal talk shows and off the wall music. I've been told this might be a Pirate but it's been on a long time without being caught. And I never hear any call letters..
Link:
http://radiofreecanton.net/
For being a Pirate, they certainly are letting themselves be known..
Link:
http://radiofreecanton.net/
For being a Pirate, they certainly are letting themselves be known..
HHH said:
They call them "translators", not LPFMs. Air 1 was not originating programming on 91.9, unlike the station described upthread.
Ahh yes....90.7 and 96.9 I know too well 
I'm surprise no LPFM's are operating or have applied to do so that I am aware of.
I remember that back in the 90's the guy who ran 96.9 applied for a LPFM but was denied on the basis that he was wasn't eligible due to his running of 96.9 unlicensed.
The owner of 91.9 also fought and had same outcome.He seems content in running the old Irish hall that became a Latin club back in the 90's where the signal came from.
I'm surprise no LPFM's are operating or have applied to do so that I am aware of.
I remember that back in the 90's the guy who ran 96.9 applied for a LPFM but was denied on the basis that he was wasn't eligible due to his running of 96.9 unlicensed.
The owner of 91.9 also fought and had same outcome.He seems content in running the old Irish hall that became a Latin club back in the 90's where the signal came from.
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