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Pirate on 95.7 in West York area?

M

Magnum

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While I've been in the York area over the past few weekends, I've been able to pick up a low power and low volume simulcast of the XM satellite radio service's "Sunny" channel on 95.7. It seems to be strongest in the West York/Spring Grove area. Does anyone have any information on this?
 
> While I've been in the York area over the past few weekends,
> I've been able to pick up a low power and low volume
> simulcast of the XM satellite radio service's "Sunny"
> channel on 95.7. It seems to be strongest in the West
> York/Spring Grove area. Does anyone have any information on
> this?

Not about 95.7, but I was picking up XM's easy listening (soft instrumentals) channel, alternated with XM's soft rock channel, periodically on 96.5 in the York area a couple of months ago. It came and went with no pattern. It was only audible within a short radius and I assumed that one of my neighbors was using one of those digital FM transmitters from C. Crane Company to broadcast XM to other areas of their home, or that a nearby retirement community was doing the same thing, and that with my makeshift outdoor FM antenna I was somehow able to pick it up. I tried to track it down in my car but never could find it.

If I were operating a pirate FM, Mantovani would be the last thing I'd play.
 
Talk like a pirate day.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH ME MATIES.

Or...

Yes, your honor. I fully apologize to the community, to the FCC and to XM Satellite Radio.<P ID="signature">______________
</P>
 
> Talk like a pirate day.
>
> AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH ME MATIES.
>
> Or...
>
> Yes, your honor. I fully apologize to the community, to the
> FCC and to XM Satellite Radio.

A friend of mine was picking up a Sirius satellite channel in the northern Berks County area down in the 89 Mhz area a few months ago. It was obviously someone using a TX to broadcast it through their house, but it must be better than your standard C Crane antenna. Those things don't go far, but they are nice little units.
 
Talk like a Pirate Day

Wednesday is "Talk Like an Egyptian Day." Or was it "Walk Like..." Never mind.<P ID="signature">______________
Apathy is bliss.</P>
 
> Talk like a pirate day.
>
> AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH ME MATIES.
>
> Or...
>
> Yes, your honor. I fully apologize to the community, to the
> FCC and to XM Satellite Radio.
>
Many years ago, when I was a "Dairy Farmer" when I would milk a certain cow who had extremely oddly shaped horns, I would sometimes pick up strange frequencies thru my braces. If I remember correctly, if I sat just right, I swear I could hear, "Sinatra is in" ????

Have a nice day.
 
C Crane trannies

> Wednesday is "Talk Like an Egyptian Day." Or was it "Walk
> Like..." Never mind.
>

The first gen xmtr (analog tuning) had excellent range...ona good day, they can cover an entire city block.<P ID="signature">______________
I've done it all...HOO HOO...tell 'em, Fred!
FOX News Alert: YOU SUCK!!! Ya like apples?</P>
 
OK, this might be the Jefferson pirate that used to be called the Valley on 96.5 now on a new freq? Last I heard them on 96.5, Sunny from XM was what they were carrying. She must have a few watts, I can hear it at my house in Leader's Heights and on 83 down by Glen Rock when it's on. I'll check 95.7 tonight, but if you went looking, I bet you'd find it in Jefferson.

> > While I've been in the York area over the past few
> weekends,
> > I've been able to pick up a low power and low volume
> > simulcast of the XM satellite radio service's "Sunny"
> > channel on 95.7. It seems to be strongest in the West
> > York/Spring Grove area. Does anyone have any information
> on
> > this?
>
> Not about 95.7, but I was picking up XM's easy listening
> (soft instrumentals) channel, alternated with XM's soft rock
> channel, periodically on 96.5 in the York area a couple of
> months ago. It came and went with no pattern. It was only
> audible within a short radius and I assumed that one of my
> neighbors was using one of those digital FM transmitters
> from C. Crane Company to broadcast XM to other areas of
> their home, or that a nearby retirement community was doing
> the same thing, and that with my makeshift outdoor FM
> antenna I was somehow able to pick it up. I tried to track
> it down in my car but never could find it.
>
> If I were operating a pirate FM, Mantovani would be the last
> thing I'd play.
>
 
I was in DC on business Friday and came home the back way through Westminster and made a point to go through Jefferson---this 95.7 is the same pirate that I was hearing on 96.5 a year ago, had been running a CD changer, now running XM's "Sunny" format. Thought I had it tracked to a house w/several ham radio antennas south of Jefferson, but not 100% sure. Started picking it up in Manchester, MD, and still audible at my house in Leaders Heights. They've got to be running 10 or 15 watts, I'd think---certainly not a legal part 15 100 milliwatt job.

While I've been in the York area over the past few weekends,
> I've been able to pick up a low power and low volume
> simulcast of the XM satellite radio service's "Sunny"
> channel on 95.7. It seems to be strongest in the West
> York/Spring Grove area. Does anyone have any information on
> this?
>
 
> I was in DC on business Friday and came home the back way
> through Westminster and made a point to go through
> Jefferson---this 95.7 is the same pirate that I was hearing
> on 96.5 a year ago, had been running a CD changer, now
> running XM's "Sunny" format. Thought I had it tracked to a
> house w/several ham radio antennas south of Jefferson, but
> not 100% sure. Started picking it up in Manchester, MD, and
> still audible at my house in Leaders Heights. They've got
> to be running 10 or 15 watts, I'd think---certainly not a
> legal part 15 100 milliwatt job.

They're only running 10 or 15 watts if the antenna is about 50-75 feet above ground. No way 10 or 15 watts from a normal-sized antenna gets all the way down to Manchester, Md., from Jefferson.
 
It's not as far as you think---likely only about 6-7 miles as the crow flies, plus parts of Jefferson sit up pretty high. Down in Lineboro, which sits below Manchester in elevation, it was shaky or gone.
Years ago, my buddy and I had the old tube-type exciter from WGCB-FM retuned to 96.5 into a simple dipole at 30 ft, and from Leaders Heights it covered out to Pleasureville with about 15 watts out. BTW, few things suck more than being 15-20 minutes from home, hearing your transmitter go down, and wondering if you'll beat the fire company to your house!! ;^0

> > I was in DC on business Friday and came home the back way
> > through Westminster and made a point to go through
> > Jefferson---this 95.7 is the same pirate that I was
> hearing
> > on 96.5 a year ago, had been running a CD changer, now
> > running XM's "Sunny" format. Thought I had it tracked to a
>
> > house w/several ham radio antennas south of Jefferson, but
>
> > not 100% sure. Started picking it up in Manchester, MD,
> and
> > still audible at my house in Leaders Heights. They've got
>
> > to be running 10 or 15 watts, I'd think---certainly not a
> > legal part 15 100 milliwatt job.
>
> They're only running 10 or 15 watts if the antenna is about
> 50-75 feet above ground. No way 10 or 15 watts from a
> normal-sized antenna gets all the way down to Manchester,
> Md., from Jefferson.
>
 
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