Few of them are political. Most are motivated by factors like "I want to play a better mix of (insert genre of music here)" to "Our music is not on any radio station" to "I want to make some money but don't want to buy a real station".
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BBJ: Feds seize equipment from pirates Big City and B87.7
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Few of them are political. Most are motivated by factors like "I want to play a better mix of (insert genre of music here)" to "Our music is not on any radio station" to "I want to make some money but don't want to buy a real station".
It happens on the pirate stations when they have locally produced live programs as well as prerecorded or outsourced, and on most of the stations that overmodulate, they are doing it constantly all the time, not just during certain programs.
On legal WNTN, the modulation cranks louder and distortion begins the moment it switches from its full 6700 watt day power to its three watt night power, during the same program in progress, and it continues until the moment the power is raised again at sunrise.
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Of course, AM overmodulation is different. It causes carrier suppression, which is the epitome of distortion... all audio with no carrier. Nothing worse short of a composite clipper turned all the way up on an FM.
Does anyone think they are actually runny the3 (READ: THREE!) watts that they are supposed to be running?
I hear them on RT 93 near assembly square after dark...on a noisy frequency.
I know they are cranked modulation...but 3 watts shouldn't get that far, should it?
So would tuning an adjacent receiver to 1550 (WNTN's frequency) plus the IF offset make the audio intelligible, the way it does with single sideband signals on shortwave, by acting as a BFO?
I was again picking up something on 540 just now (by day) and yes Eli it was WLIE.I heard someone say the calls.
Those flea power signals travel farther on AM than FM for the wattage. 740 AM WJIB is only five watts at night from the same tower, but it reaches Assembly Square and a few miles beyond, though it's sometimes buried by the 50kW skywave from Toronto.
Another pirate--FCC has warned an unauthorized signal at 99.7 in Brockton to shut down according to Tom Taylor newsletter.
Going through the Brockton area recently I heard many pirates, maybe more than in Boston.
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