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FM Pirate in Bath

J

JakeLongwell

While visiting the Bath area yet again this past weekend, I came across what appears to be a new FM pirate. It's at 89.9, and the programming appears to be an uninterrupted retransmission of an internet station called Rock Hard Radio with continuous heavy metal music. One interesting thing I heard was an ad for an auto body shop in South Hornell. This was the only "local" content I heard, though.

The signal seemed strongest around Robie Street (where I was staying), but I could hear the thing up until just past the Steuben County jail.

Has anyone else heard this? Any ideas as to who or what is behind it?

In the unlikely event that whoever is behind this station is reading this post, I wish you would find an alternative frequency for your "station". You are interfering with my reception of Geneva on 89.7.
 
JakeLongwell said:
In the unlikely event that whoever is behind this station is reading this post, I wish you would find an alternative frequency for your "station". You are interfering with my reception of Geneva on 89.7.
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Oh yeah, I'm sure they are gonna listen to you, especially if these guys are here, and listen to your demand and I'm sure they are gonna care if you enjoy 89.7andis unable to hear it. Seriously, if you want to take this further, contact the station (89.7) and let them know about the pirate, FCC complaints by the listeners will be ignored by the FCC.
 
sorry for talking jersey here, but what I mean was listener complaints to the FCC will be ignored. If the listener wants to complain, they gonna have to complain to the station about it and the station has to make the report to the FCC. Dont know if same rules apply here, but obvoiusly in jersey, the FCC aint doing nothing shutting pirates down even though NYC commercial stations are complaining.
 
Bath is pretty far outside of WEOS's protected contour...I don't think the FCC would consider us to have standing in this issue. No moreso than Joe Sixpack living in Bath, anyways.
 
Not sure where you were on Robie Street, but it's only a mile or two to the jail from one end of it. At that distance, it could be that you were picking up a perfectly legal Part 15 station (so long as that station doesn't interfere with WEOS' protected coverage area. That shouldn't be a problem in Bath.)
 
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