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Ever DXed a pirate station?

Tom Wells said:
I dxed my own station in 1991. When I was a SW pirate that year, I listened twice in Nashville while a friend went over to my apartment in Chicago and fired up the 1930's homebrew monster. One time on a super-cheapie pocket analog SW with just the whip antenna, another time at a friend's house on his Collins R390A. That was 100w at 500 miles. I was very pleased with the signal, as Nashville was off the dead end of the antenna.
'Course 500 miles isn't really dx on 40 meters, but it was sure fun hearing my pea-shooter AM sounding "big" if not powerful.

I also remember hearing other 7415 AMs back then, but don't remember any well except KXKVI , which was stunning in signal strength,
production, and polish. It was like a live-remote big band broadcast, very well done.
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Interesting, I remember the 7415 khz days very well and was an active pirate DXer back then. There's probably a good chance I logged your station, and if so, probably still have a recording of the catch. BTW, I'm listening to the pirate "Red Mercury Lab" as I type this on 6925 khz upper-sideband airing a tribute to Johnny Cash.
 
I have.. I DX'ed two Coldwater pirates in the early 2000's. One of them, on 91.5, aired left-wing 'gubmint' talk relayed from Genesis Broadcasting Network. I zeroed it into a small one-story house near Coldwater Lake, making them a good 7 miles south of the city.

Another one came on the air from the same area in 2003. This one, at 87.9, aired uncensored rap music. On a more open frequency, this one carried well north of town, but I never heard it beyond 12 miles.

I'm pretty sure I got the Miami 91.7 pirate via Es a few years ago, but I couldn't positively ID anything.
 
I heard a few 40 meter SW pirates back in the 1990s and got QSLs from a few.

In 2006 there was a local pirate "Fresh 90.7" that operated 24/7 for months with uncensored gangsta rap - even running commercials for concerts. It wasn't the FCC that caught them but a local TV news report after viewers complained about the foul language they were hearing on their radios. I've got the news report busting the pirate on VHS, which I'd love to find a way to upload to YouTube someday.
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There's also another pirate that I've heard on-and-off with uncensored Howard Stern audio. Signal's too strong to be an MP3-to-FM transmitter.
 
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