N.A.L. Boston Pirate on 99.7

[Deleted User]

http://www.fcc.gov/eb/FieldNotices/2003/DOC-296420A1.html

WCRB's new owners must not be taking any prisoners.

"The Boston Office received information that an unlicensed broadcast radio
station on 99.7 MHz was allegedly operating in Mattapan, MA. On February
11, 2010, agents from this office confirmed by direction finding
techniques that radio signals on frequency 99.7 MHz were emanating the
multiple dwelling unit that you own and in which you reside at 61 Ormond
St., Mattapan MA. The Commission's records show that no license was issued
for operation of a broadcast station on 99.7 MHz at this location in
Mattapan, MA.
"

 

[raccoonradio]

People in Boston have trouble enough picking up WCRB....

A google search shows it's off Blue Hill Ave and is nr a church (several actually) though it seems to be a wide variety of R&B, dancehall, soca, calypso, reggae, etc. Now all they need is a license!

A yahoo search led me to a couple sites listing pirates and one of them shows that 99.7 is "Datz Hits"

http://datzhitsradio.com/

They accept advertising and have a contact number. Now, are they paying taxes to the I.R.S. from
their ad income?....

 

[raccoonradio]

http://community.livejournal.com/b0st0n/6793174.html

>> Its safe to assume the FCC field office in Quincy knows all this. They just dont (sic) have any enforcement capability to actually shut pirates down...........which is good! I just spun a dj set for a pirate in canada. I enjoy pirates which is why i posted this - to create awareness but without harm to the broadcasters themselves. Hot 87.7 is the (poop) and the only radio station i'll turn on period.

 

[4CX1000A]

This is not an NAL; it's just a notice. Still, it's better than nothing.

I've been told there's a new pirate on the air in the Duxbury area at 91.7.

 

[carmen]

datz hitz is generally better than big city at dancehall/soca . and no Rodigan chatting away for hours on end about the latest gully/gaza saga w/ that gossip girl that always calls in

g-d forbid someone in mattapan is a classical fan, and doesnt have a radio that can reject much weaker stations a whole 1/5th of a megahertz away. we must pay people to protect their interests

 

[carmen]

i dont know why they bother tho - these two bajan station have we cover

 

[jlehmann]

This is not an NAL; it's just a notice. Still, it's better than nothing.

I've been told there's a new pirate on the air in the Duxbury area at 91.7.

Probably the one in Brockton, as they seem to be stronger lately.

 

[rapking]

PIRATE STATIONS ROCKS !!!!!!!!! Boston needs More Pirate radio stations !!! I LOVE PIRATE RADIO ! PIRATE RADIO RULES !!!!!!

 

[MR. JAROME_CALVIN]

This is why Boston Radio Management (Example) (Greater Media 92.9 , Entercom 93.7 , CBS Radio 104.1) needs to get an Urban AC or (AC Station=But focus on NEW Urban AC music and back in the day Urban AC)

As I said before, 92.9, and 104.1 both have EXCELENT signals in Boston, and outside Boston. You can not get 93.7 in town on a walkman, ANY walkman, both new and old walkmans, so Entercom needs to get a stronger signal for inner Boston (Downtown, Comm AVE, Southend, Dorchester, Roxbury, Cambridge=EVERYWHERE!!!) in Boston.


Radio Management needs to do somenthing


Too many stations play Rock and Roll



Radio Management NEEDS to do something

 

[Deleted User]

I stand corrected, it is not a N.A.L., but a N.O.U.O., not to be confused with a citation, or N.O.V.

If you don't want to read through the FCC Daily Digest to find them, they are listed here...
http://www.fcc.gov/eb/FieldNotices/

this list doesn't include the stuff issued out of Washington, just the field offices

 

[aaronread]

You can not get 93.7 in town on a walkman, ANY walkman, both new and old walkmans.

I don't think that's true. The new Insignia HD Radio walkmans are pretty sensitive, both for HD signals and just regular analog listening. I'll bet you could get 93.7 in a lot of downtown Boston on one. Maybe not right next to the Pru (blanketing is blanketing) but most of the rest of the area.

One really nice thing about HD Radio is that it's doing wonders to improve the overall sensitivity of radios in general. Most HD receivers are markedly better at pulling in weak signals and rejecting adjacent-channel interference. My wife was thrilled when I put an HD receiver in her car because now she can listen to her favorite jazz station (which is analog-only) almost all the way between home and work...even though home is just outside the 40dBu contour, and there's major signals on both second adjacents.

 

[Eli Polonsky]

The problem with most Walkman-type radios is not a lack of raw sensitivity, but horrible selectivity and horrendous inability to reject intermodulation caused by nearby strong signals, etc.. If the Pru suddenly disappeared, you'd be surprised. You'd have Walkman's getting NH and RI FM's in Boston!

The Insignia HD Walkman-type portable is an improvement over most any other Walkman I've heard for analog reception, as well as its ability to get HD. Mine does get 93.7 all over the metro area. It may not lock it into HD everywhere, but it does in most places, and it has the ability to discern 93.7 from surrounding Pru intermod in most places.

Still, I've never heard an FM Walkman that got as good reception as the very first Sony FM Walkman that came out around 1980, with the manual local/DX switch, the only one that had separate volume controls for each stereo channel! That one seemed to almost equal the most esoteric home and car FM stereo tuners for sensitivity, selectivity, and intermodulation rejection at the time, and Walkman's all went steadily downhill from there... but, the Insignia HD is a distinct step up from the drek that has been passing as personal portable stereos for the past couple of decades.

You can not get 93.7 in town on a walkman, ANY walkman, both new and old walkmans.

I don't think that's true. The new Insignia HD Radio walkmans are pretty sensitive, both for HD signals and just regular analog listening. I'll bet you could get 93.7 in a lot of downtown Boston on one. Maybe not right next to the Pru (blanketing is blanketing) but most of the rest of the area.

One really nice thing about HD Radio is that it's doing wonders to improve the overall sensitivity of radios in general. Most HD receivers are markedly better at pulling in weak signals and rejecting adjacent-channel interference. My wife was thrilled when I put an HD receiver in her car because now she can listen to her favorite jazz station (which is analog-only) almost all the way between home and work...even though home is just outside the 40dBu contour, and there's major signals on both second adjacents.

 

[WLYNWAZNgm]

Moe and Larry have spoken. We should be hearing from
Shemp any time now... : : :

 

[MR. JAROME_CALVIN]

You can not get 93.7 in town on a walkman, ANY walkman, both new and old walkmans.

I don't think that's true. The new Insignia HD Radio walkmans are pretty sensitive, both for HD signals and just regular analog listening. I'll bet you could get 93.7 in a lot of downtown Boston on one. Maybe not right next to the Pru (blanketing is blanketing) but most of the rest of the area.

One really nice thing about HD Radio is that it's doing wonders to improve the overall sensitivity of radios in general. Most HD receivers are markedly better at pulling in weak signals and rejecting adjacent-channel interference. My wife was thrilled when I put an HD receiver in her car because now she can listen to her favorite jazz station (which is analog-only) almost all the way between home and work...even though home is just outside the 40dBu contour, and there's major signals on both second adjacents.

that's good to know this for future reference

 

[MickeyD]

http://www.fcc.gov/eb/FieldNotices/2003/DOC-296420A1.html

WCRB's new owners must not be taking any prisoners.

"The Boston Office received information that an unlicensed broadcast radio
station on 99.7 MHz was allegedly operating in Mattapan, MA. On February
11, 2010, agents from this office confirmed by direction finding
techniques that radio signals on frequency 99.7 MHz were emanating the
multiple dwelling unit that you own and in which you reside at 61 Ormond
St., Mattapan MA. The Commission's records show that no license was issued
for operation of a broadcast station on 99.7 MHz at this location in
Mattapan, MA.
"

The Family Guy and the Freakin FCC.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NDPT0Ph5rA

 

[MR. JAROME_CALVIN]

You can not get 93.7 in town on a walkman, ANY walkman, both new and old walkmans.

I don't think that's true. The new Insignia HD Radio walkmans are pretty sensitive, both for HD signals and just regular analog listening. I'll bet you could get 93.7 in a lot of downtown Boston on one. Maybe not right next to the Pru (blanketing is blanketing) but most of the rest of the area.

One really nice thing about HD Radio is that it's doing wonders to improve the overall sensitivity of radios in general. Most HD receivers are markedly better at pulling in weak signals and rejecting adjacent-channel interference. My wife was thrilled when I put an HD receiver in her car because now she can listen to her favorite jazz station (which is analog-only) almost all the way between home and work...even though home is just outside the 40dBu contour, and there's major signals on both second adjacents.

that's good for me to know, but what about people who live in those areas?

I know, in my house, I live in Revere area. Two radios in my house I can not get Oldies 103.3, 97.7, 98.5 comes in ok as well as 93.7 it comes in ok. I'd much rather listen to Oldies 103.3 instead of 105.7. But I can not get 103.3 that good on those readios.
And one radio I can get those stations just fine



But the average person who lives in those areas of Boston, can not get 93.7. (I'm talking on a walkman)


I was just comeing into work, listenning to my MPIO MP3 Player. In JFK area through Ashmont Dorchester, I can not get 93.7, 97.7, 99.5 101.7, 102.5, and 103.3 All does not come in around those areas using ANY walkman. Around Fields Corner 93.7 fades in and out as well as 97.7, and 103.3 as well as the others, all fades in and out around Ashmont areas


That's why I'm saying, Radio Management has to step up and go out to these areas, see what I am talking about and do something about the signal in Boston.

When you look on 93.7 website, you see the pisture of the State House, and the Boston Common, yet you can not get that station in those areas. I was coming home from work Sunday morning, Mass General Hospital area, I can not get none of those stations I just mentioned here. This is listenning on a walkman, I assume it's the same when you live there using a colock radio or a table top radio


Radio Management has to do something

 

[DavidZ]

Radio Management has to do something

Why? Radio station owners and management can do anything they think will make them profitable and/or a ratings leader. If you don't like something you can turn the dial or buy your own station.

 

[raccoonradio]

(Format-wise, etc.): We have free enterprise in this country and it can't please everyone. That's the commercial in commercial radio. Companies pay big money to get stations and they want a format that will give them profit. This means an Entercom will put a jockless station like WMKK on, settle on a "variety hits" format, and get half decent ratings
and ad money. Yes, it stinks that they aren't hiring jocks and you might not like the music. They like the money.

And non-commercial radio (and other sources) are around if you want a format that isn't being offered. Exactly, if you don't like it, change the station or buy one.

Strange you can't get stations like 103.3 in your house in Revere area. Most car radios can do well with reception and listening while commuting is important (though some AM stations fade after dark in some areas,
and when you have early sunsets....)

I haven't really been in Boston enough, with a Walkman, to judge exactly how 93.7 gets in. Wouldn't know. Same as for recep with the FM radio on an mp3 player.

I work in a postal facility north of Boston and recep, FM-wise, on Walkmen and mp3 players with FM radios is pretty good. Now maybe buildings are the problem in Boston proper...

Of course I'm in an area on the North Shore not far from 93.7's stick which is why I was hoping the Sox
and/or WEEI would land there. You know, the big tower easily seen from 128, I-95 (north of the split),
Rt 1, etc. It might be about 15 mi from Boston, maybe even less. If your Walkman is cheap maybe I could
see it not being receivable in Boston...

Coverage map for WMKK. It can't be picked up in Boston??

http://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/pat?call=WMKK&service=FM&status=C&hours=U

Did a google map search and looked up directions from WMKK stick to Boylston St in Boston. 18.8
miles. A 34,000 watt signal has trouble being picked up in Boston? Yeah, maybe it's all the tall buildings but who knows.

Let's just allow more pirate stations on the dial. That'll REALLY help recep of the legal ones

 

[MR. JAROME_CALVIN]

thank you at the last two post, it's just my ideas, I'm not ment to harm no one, just ideas

 

[Uncle Kaimbridge]

Strange you can't get stations like 103.3 in your house in Revere area. Most car radios can do well with reception and listening while commuting is important (though some AM stations fade after dark in some areas, and when you have early sunsets....)

I haven't really been in Boston enough, with a Walkman, to judge exactly how 93.7 gets in. Wouldn't know. Same as for recep with the FM radio on an mp3 player.

I work in a postal facility north of Boston and recep, FM-wise, on Walkmen and mp3 players with FM radios is pretty good. Now maybe buildings are the problem in Boston proper...
If your Walkman is cheap maybe I could see it not being receivable in Boston...

Coverage map for WMKK. It can't be picked up in Boston??

http://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/pat?call=WMKK&service=FM&status=C&hours=U

Did a google map search and looked up directions from WMKK stick to Boylston St in Boston. 18.8
miles. A 34,000 watt signal has trouble being picked up in Boston? Yeah, maybe it's all the tall buildings but who knows.

No, its the stations on the Pru causing "blanketing interference"——an "image wasteland": Imagine having four different radios with four different stations, all fed into one (set of) speaker(s)! That's how it sounds downtown with a WalkMan type radio! :-\
Yeah, when the Pru antenna is off, Lawrence-Haverhill, Worcestor, New Bedford-Providence come in at least half decent in the downtown, as well as even some Cape Cod and SE'rn NH (though, as you start moving through Brookline and into Newton, then the Rt.128-Newton/Needham antennae become an issue!).
And, yes, if you are in the thick buildings downtown, that will absorb weak signals...but they will likely be plastered over by the aforementioned blanketing, anyways! :-\