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Pirate in downtown Lawrence area on 98.3

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haverhill01835

Caught them the other day when I was trying to listen to 98.5 while driving through the city. The splash was bad...really bad. So, sitting at a traffic light just off the Common, one tick down the dial and poof - there was the pirate on 98.3. Can't be much of a stick - heard them for about a mile around the Common and gone.

Marc Lemay
 
Right next to Sports Hub yikes; it wasn't someone using a mini FM trans I guess. Unless it was a car that seemed to be following you around :) But if you say the splash was bad yeah, maybe a pirate more than someone with the mini FM xmtr.

Haven't heard it lately but in Beverly around the intersection of Rantoul and Federal Streets esp. at night I would hear someone's home mini transmitter broadcasting Howard 100 or whatever that XM channel is, baba booey.
 
Nope - not a mini transmitter. The station was pumping out something about Lawrence in Spanish (which admittedly, I'm a bit rusty with the language...) Couldn't quite make it out.
 
Oh OK!
The pirate I had mentioned yrs ago in Haverhill was downtown, then down toward Bldg 19 etc.
A couple of my uncles, now gone, used to live in Haverhill and were firemen...but this pirate
was much more recent than THOSE days!
 
What a horrible frequency for a pirate radio station in Boston, i mean its nothing new because their has always been alot of bad FM frequency choices for pirate radio stations in Boston and other cities. Has anyone sent a complaint to the FCC yet?
 
I'm pretty sure the signal is so weak, not many people will notice, esp. in downtown Lawrence. I just happen to be skipping from one location to another for my day job and heard it.

Besides - does reporting it really do anything? I'm pretty sure there's about 1 1/2 FCC folks hunting down these reports these days. Even if they catch the culprit - what happens? They snag the gear, issue a fine and within a few weeks, they're back up and running. (Notice I said issue a fine and not enforce/mandate payment of said fine...) To me - pointless in reporting unless they are really stomping on a signal.

Marc Lemay

John MacCormack said:
What a horrible frequency for a pirate radio station in Boston, i mean its nothing new because their has always been alot of bad FM frequency choices for pirate radio stations in Boston and other cities. Has anyone sent a complaint to the FCC yet?
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