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Pirate on 87.9 (sorry if already covered)

Oh--when I mentioned this on boston-radio-interest Mike Fitzpatrick brought up a great point: they ARE
on the second adjacent of a legal station, Boxford's WBMT, and also on the first adjacent to WMBR though who knows, he may be a bit far away to cause a problem. These stations would have a right to complain.

We have WMWM at 91.7 and suppose someone sets up a pirate in Peabody or Beverly at 91.3, for example. They could be gone after.
 
FCC enforcement action table...97.5 listed, also one at 100.3 that was a complaint by the FAA
due to spurious signals.

http://diymedia.net/fccwatch/eadtable09.htm

http://www.fcc.gov/eb/FieldNotices/2003/DOC-291114A1.html

>> On May 19, 2009,
agents from the FCC's Boston Office confirmed by direction finding
techniques that radio signals on the FAA frequency of 111.3 MHz were
emanating from the Greater Anointing Harvest Church in Boston, MA. The
111.3 MHz signal was a spurious signal from a broadcast station operating
on 100.3 MHZ at the church.
 
robotique said:
isn't The Wave calling the cops for someone cutting his coax like a drug dealer calling the the cops because another dealer stole his cocaine? I suppose its basic vandalism to personal property and he could just say its for a ham rig...but man its kind of amusing and interesting...if true. Maybe your neighbors are trying to listen to 88.1?
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The cops don't care what it is. Vandalism is vandalism. WMBR is protected to around Saugus according to the FCC website.
 
raccoonradio said:
I know, you are providing a service. Maybe the time is now to push the FCC to allow more LPFMs...

Well, I'm off to see my doctor. He never went to medical school and never got a license to practice medicine,
but he charges cheap prices...I'm sure I'm in good hands
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Comparing an MD to a pirate radio station? The real problem is Plug & Play FM radio stations.
 
jlehmann said:
It seems strange that this would happen with this station. If anything, I would've expected something like this with one of the Dorchester/Mattapan stations.
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I wouldn't. I think their security is top notch!
 
raccoonradio said:
Oh--when I mentioned this on boston-radio-interest Mike Fitzpatrick brought up a great point: they ARE
on the second adjacent of a legal station, Boxford's WBMT, and also on the first adjacent to WMBR though who knows, he may be a bit far away to cause a problem. These stations would have a right to complain.

We have WMWM at 91.7 and suppose someone sets up a pirate in Peabody or Beverly at 91.3, for example. They could be gone after.
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Oh don't go there. If you asked a listener to listen to the 89.7 station and WBMT and asked them which was the pirate WBMT would be number one with a bullet. WBMT hasn't had a license for almost three years because the are awaiting an obscenity charges hearing with the FCC. They have been operating on and STA all of this time. Speaking of unlawful one of the fine lawmakers from the area tried to sweep it under the rug and got their license renewed. Didn't take much to get it revoked until the hearing.

Thank you very much
 
raccoonradio said:
I assume you mean the 87.9 station (the 89.7 station has some pretty expensive studios :) )

but...hmm!
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Speaking of WBMT I had been hearing about Salem State trying to get it.
 
WGBH is pirating the slots 455 khz above and below it on most of my radios
cuz of being close to the blue hill, and their ridiculous power

kind of hard to tune WZBC. but if you hit the high side and use a yagi i can usually null out the GBH nonsense

also on 88.5 i get a strange mix of WBUR and WGBH, and its not distorted in any way
 
Not sure if the FCC would issue a complaint or do a raid (have to get complaint first); if 87.9 is considered far enough away from WMBR, probably no concern to them though as has been said they are 2 notches away from WBMT (and yes, we did read of the controversy with them)

Radical thought: should WBMT be okey dokey with feds, etc, do an arrangement where the Wave airs legally on 88.3 at times when there's no DJ? Of course WBMT may have their own comp. setup for those situations or may not want that type of music
 
raccoonradio said:
Not sure if the FCC would issue a complaint or do a raid (have to get complaint first); if 87.9 is considered far enough away from WMBR, probably no concern to them though as has been said they are 2 notches away from WBMT (and yes, we did read of the controversy with them)

Radical thought: should WBMT be okey dokey with feds, etc, do an arrangement where the Wave airs legally on 88.3 at times when there's no DJ? Of course WBMT may have their own comp. setup for those situations or may not want that type of music
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I would think that there are more than a half dozen stations in Boston that would have to be shut down too or the Radio Goldfield case could be brought up in court.

You mean a time share? From what I know about the station and it's management no one except students can use the station and they are not interested in a time share. The way I see time shares is, a station is really pretty much useless if they give away half of it. The signal already sucks with Nashua covering Boxford. NHPR has a 5KW station AND a translator in Nashua.

If there were a frequency swap with WMWM to 88.3 would probably do much better in Salem and WMWM's frequency would probably do well in Boxford. Even though WMWM's power is less than WBMT's the coverage would probably be better simply because Nashua's signal wouldn't be interfering.

Don't think that will happen you tell the FCC it is okay to swear on the radio they don't like that.
 
MickeyD said:
raccoonradio said:
Not sure if the FCC would issue a complaint or do a raid (have to get complaint first); if 87.9 is considered far enough away from WMBR, probably no concern to them though as has been said they are 2 notches away from WBMT (and yes, we did read of the controversy with them)

Radical thought: should WBMT be okey dokey with feds, etc, do an arrangement where the Wave airs legally on 88.3 at times when there's no DJ? Of course WBMT may have their own comp. setup for those situations or may not want that type of music
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I would think that there are more than a half dozen stations in Boston that would have to be shut down too or the Radio Goldfield case could be brought up in court.

You mean a time share? From what I know about the station and it's management no one except students can use the station and they are not interested in a time share. The way I see time shares is, a station is really pretty much useless if they give away half of it. The signal already sucks with Nashua covering Boxford. NHPR has a 5KW station AND a translator in Nashua.

If there were a frequency swap with WMWM to 88.3 would probably do much better in Salem and WMWM's frequency would probably do well in Boxford. Even though WMWM's power is less than WBMT's the coverage would probably be better simply because Nashua's signal wouldn't be interfering.

Don't think that will happen you tell the FCC it is okay to swear on the radio they don't like that.
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More on time shares. Since WBMT is hardly ever on, it would be more beneficial to just build a second facility. You come to an agreement on what hours each station will be on the air and when one goes off, the other powers up their transmitter. Two completely distinct signals, call letters, and radio stations.

WBMT has no format and they don't care what goes out over their air. It is strictly an after school program that no one in the school monitors after 3PM. High school kids unattended you can just imagine the trouble they can get into. They are supposed to be on the air 2-9P M-F but it is usually when someone shows up to turn it on and turn it off when they feel like it. It is incredible what goes on there.
 
Noticed Wave 87.9 and WBMT 88.3 both coming in fairly well in N. Reading yesterday about 5 pm

I didn't necessarily mean having 2 stations, and one would power up when the other powers down; I would mean
if, say, the guy behind the Wave would program his music onto a WBMT computer complete with legal IDs, PSAs
and such, and when WBMT goes off, Wave programming would go on. Just an automated jukebox really but w/
legal IDs and such. I haven't heard much of WBMT but I think once or twice I heard them rattle off a bunch of
"contributors" at sign-on and sign-off, and perhaps these contributors would enjoy the music that would be featured
by the Wave. (I'd think the contributors include a few local businesses and many moms and dads of the Masco
students...? Masco alumni...?) But as you say nobody would be interested in this (bringing non-students in, even
if it's a matter of programming music on a computer).

If this is WBMT's site, it hasn't been updated since 2004.

http://www.masconomet.org/wbmt/
 
raccoonradio said:
Noticed Wave 87.9 and WBMT 88.3 both coming in fairly well in N. Reading yesterday about 5 pm

I didn't necessarily mean having 2 stations, and one would power up when the other powers down; I would mean
if, say, the guy behind the Wave would program his music onto a WBMT computer complete with legal IDs, PSAs
and such, and when WBMT goes off, Wave programming would go on. Just an automated jukebox really but w/
legal IDs and such. I haven't heard much of WBMT but I think once or twice I heard them rattle off a bunch of
"contributors" at sign-on and sign-off, and perhaps these contributors would enjoy the music that would be featured
by the Wave. (I'd think the contributors include a few local businesses and many moms and dads of the Masco
students...? Masco alumni...?) But as you say nobody would be interested in this (bringing non-students in, even
if it's a matter of programming music on a computer).

If this is WBMT's site, it hasn't been updated since 2004.

http://www.masconomet.org/wbmt/
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What computer? From what I have heard from some of the Alumni of that school that were in volved they are usiing very old equipment and don't even have a computer. If no one is there to run it, it stays off the air it is a 100% manual operation.

If there were two separate stations no one would have to access the high school during the summer.

With what they did I see the FCC pulling the license anyway. Too bad when they do that because it will be gone forever. If they don't every radio station will be able to do what they want and not loose their license.
 
OK; thought maybe someone donated one or something.. etc.

Driving through area today; 87.9 was on ("Don't Go Breaking My Heart"), also 87.7 was coming in strong from
Boston. 88.1 was coming in but some other station on same freq trying to cut in (Boxford, Ipswich, Hamilton area)

88.3...was off.
 
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