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Bev. 88.5 pirate; WNSH signal

raccoonradio

raccoonradio

Last night around 2:30 am I noticed a pirate in Beverly/Danvers area at 88.5...instrumental elevator music,
one classical piece. Strong esp. near Cummings Ctr on route 62. Same as before?

Also WNSH came in fairly well on 128 in Peabody and Danvers.Usually even when you cross into Beverly from Danvers on 62, it's faint. Not sure why
 
The 88.5 is sporadic; on last night, on today, but off tonight. WFCR was coming in instead
(classical music) except for one moment at the corner of Federal and Rantoul Streets in Bev.
where someone rebroadcasts Howard (Stern) 100
 
raccoonradio said:
The 88.5 is sporadic; on last night, on today, but off tonight. WFCR was coming in instead (classical music)
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I've noticed another, more distant/weaker pirate on 88.5 when the EZ-listening one (and, yes, I believe that is the one that has been bouncing around between 87.9, 88.5 and 94.9, but mostly on 88.5) isn't on——it sounds French, so it's undoubtedely Haitian.
 
Uncle Kaimbridge said:
it sounds French, so it's undoubtedely Haitian.
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undoubtedly? west africa is another place French is spoken. definitely heard some awesome west african music played by west african expats here in town, but it is a lot more rare..
 
Uncle Kaimbridge said:
I've noticed another, more distant/weaker pirate on 88.5 when the EZ-listening one (and, yes, I believe that is the one that has been bouncing around between 87.9, 88.5 and 94.9, but mostly on 88.5) isn't on——it sounds French, so it's undoubtedely Haitian.
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That's most likely the Haitian 88.5 out of one of the Boston neighborhoods. Strong and loud (overmodulating) in most of Boston, and still heard, but weaker, in the surrounding suburbs.
 
The easy listening one wasn't somebody's Ipod i.e. a car near me re-transmitted. It was coming in very well in diff. parts of town and seems to be on when the operator feels like it. As a matter of fact it's on right now at 3:08 am
Here's what they sound like (15 seconds in stereo then a few more in mono)

http://raccoonradio.freehostia.com/Air/Bev885.mp3

Recorded near Dane St Beach in Beverly
 
Not that strong; besides what I was listening to on the night of the storm, as I tried to find a parking space at 2:30 am (!) was mostly elevator music with maybe one classical piece
thrown in, and I doubt WFCR plays elevator music

Right now it's elevator music again--"If I Fell" and strong enough to make me believe it's a Beverly (or nearby) pirate, not WFCR. Before the pirate appeared I could be on Bridge St in Beverly and
picking up WFCR, so-so signal; then when I go under the railroad bridge on Federal St. I get Howard Stern for a block or so (someone rebroadcasting it from their home!) then WFCR again. But no, this is def. elevator music, a pirate with a signal much stronger than WFCR would be.

Now: "For Your Eyes Only" (elevator music)
WFCR acc to their website has Car Talk...
 
It's definitely not The Wave guy. I work for the online service and I know everything that goes on around there so I know for a fact its not him. Could you possibly record a longer MP3 of the station? Have you heard any ID's?
 
I just thought of this but I wonder if that's the guy who bought some of Jay's old equipment when we moved into a smaller studio. Jay sold a mixing board and a computer to a local. When The Wave was on the air we ran Easy Listening on the weekends so he could have simply kept the music that we had downloaded into the computer and started up another radio station (that's not what we intended the equipment to be used for but now it's out of our hands). Jay didn't sell the transmitter though. He donated it to a technical/broadcasting school. So whoever it is bought a new transmitter.
 
Still off; don't know if we scared them off (fear of being found, shut down?) Who knows, may re-appear. I do know that there have been some fines, equipment forfeitures, arrests etc. in pirate radio the past yr in various places; someone set up stations broadcasting Libertarian politics at 105.1 in Manchester NH and 107.5 in Keene and the Keene station got notices, etc The 99.7 in Mattapan (a bit too close to WGBH All Classical despite the latter's stick being in Andover, eh?) got fined $15k in Oct.

http://diymedia.net/fccwatch/eadtable10.htm

http://www.fcc.gov/eb/Orders/2010/DA-10-1907A1.html

>>the source of the signal on 99.7 MHz to the same
two-story multi-family dwelling...Morris is apparently liable for a forfeiture in the amount of
fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000).

More low power FMs are on the way though not quite sure they'd fit into Boston urban area.
A recent Reuters article pointed out these can be used for things like high school football,
school board meetings, local music, etc.

Guess what: we already have smaller AM stations and college stations that can provide the
same services, legal and at more power. WMWM has done the Salem-Beverly football game,
we have local bands in, we have ethnic programming usually Spanish. Cable TV (which reaches
many but not all people) have local access channels that can do the same thing. Perhaps if
LPFMs can be fit in, legally, that could help but will that end the pirates? Will there be not one
single spot on the dial for those to use legal FM re-transmitters in one's auto for XM/Sirius,
mp3 players, etc.?

NEW LAW COULD FOSTER COMMUNITY RADIO BOOM
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011...Type=RSS&feedName=domesticNews&rpc=22&sp=true

>>Once implemented, the law is expected to result in as many 2,000 new stations, beginning in about 2013.

BUT

>>Wharton predicted most of the new stations will set up in rural or suburban areas but not in major cities where radio dials are already crowded.

Pawlet, Vermont, you're in luck :) (A town of 1,394 on the NY border south of Rutland;
my dad knew a guy, who has since passed away, who ran a boy scout troop and started
a breakfast/lunch/ice cream restaurant, which is also gone; anyway, Pawlet might get a station
under this, but Boston...? :) )
 
raccoonradio said:
Still off; don't know if we scared them off (fear of being found, shut down?) Who knows, may re-appear.
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Have you noted the French station, instead, when they're off?
 
raccoonradio said:
Still off; don't know if we scared them off (fear of being found, shut down?) Who knows, may re-appear. I do know that there have been some fines, equipment forfeitures, arrests etc. in pirate radio the past yr in various places; someone set up stations broadcasting Libertarian politics at 105.1 in Manchester NH and 107.5 in Keene and the Keene station got notices, etc The 99.7 in Mattapan (a bit too close to WGBH All Classical despite the latter's stick being in Andover, eh?) got fined $15k in Oct.

http://diymedia.net/fccwatch/eadtable10.htm

http://www.fcc.gov/eb/Orders/2010/DA-10-1907A1.html

>>the source of the signal on 99.7 MHz to the same
two-story multi-family dwelling...Morris is apparently liable for a forfeiture in the amount of
fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000).

More low power FMs are on the way though not quite sure they'd fit into Boston urban area.
A recent Reuters article pointed out these can be used for things like high school football,
school board meetings, local music, etc.

Guess what: we already have smaller AM stations and college stations that can provide the
same services, legal and at more power. WMWM has done the Salem-Beverly football game,
we have local bands in, we have ethnic programming usually Spanish. Cable TV (which reaches
many but not all people) have local access channels that can do the same thing. Perhaps if
LPFMs can be fit in, legally, that could help but will that end the pirates? Will there be not one
single spot on the dial for those to use legal FM re-transmitters in one's auto for XM/Sirius,
mp3 players, etc.?

NEW LAW COULD FOSTER COMMUNITY RADIO BOOM
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011...Type=RSS&feedName=domesticNews&rpc=22&sp=true

>>Once implemented, the law is expected to result in as many 2,000 new stations, beginning in about 2013.

BUT

>>Wharton predicted most of the new stations will set up in rural or suburban areas but not in major cities where radio dials are already crowded.

Pawlet, Vermont, you're in luck :) (A town of 1,394 on the NY border south of Rutland;
my dad knew a guy, who has since passed away, who ran a boy scout troop and started
a breakfast/lunch/ice cream restaurant, which is also gone; anyway, Pawlet might get a station
under this, but Boston...? :) )
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Is WMWM for sale?
 
raccoonradio said:
The state university wouldn't think of it
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wanna bet?

Deval would sell his own Mother to make himself look good.

If that means telling every University Board Of Trustees to sell licenses to balance the budget, he would do it.
 
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