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Pirate on 99.3

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cspence

Last night from 10:eek:opm on the was a pirate on 99.3 in the Hempstead - Baldwin area. The guy was so heavily accented he was almost impossible to understand. Typical ghetto stuff, horns blowing ,people talking in the background ect. Where's the FCC???
 
Anyone here read the NYC board? Pirate radio is thriving. The FCC isn't going to do a thing, and even if it raids one or two of these pirates a year, so many more are never caught, and the others just reopen from a different location.

I can get 99.3 in Queens, by the way...the signal gets out quite a bit. Further east on LI is another pirate on 100.9 with classic rock, and I've in the past also heard a pirate on 93.1 around Islandia, on top of WPAT from NYC.
 
i know that 89.3 is a popular pirate frequency on LI! go to any LI region, and 89.3 is always used! i hear spanish in western suffolk on the weekends on 89.3 and sometimes rock in central suffolk on 89.3!
 
Sounds like they are called 99.3 the Joynt. For some reason, I thought this pirate was from Newark, NJ.
 
It kind of reminds me of the old days of CB radio when you needed a license. Those who had licenses, identified themselves properly and tried to abide by the rules would end up getting nailed for some minor violation. Meanwhile nothing ever happened to the guy with no license, having about every other word he used contain 4 letters and maybe running upwards of 1000 watts on the CB.
It seems to be the same with broadcast radio now. The licensed stations get cited and fined for some minor violation while the pirates go on and on and on.
 
Cited from CSpence:

"Typical ghetto stuff, horns blowing ,people talking in the background ect."

Isn't that a Caribbean Formatted music?

That's what I was hearing...It also could be a Haitian format music as well.

Either or both have done things like you mentioned above.
 
jonny_deathrow said:
i know that 89.3 is a popular pirate frequency on LI! go to any LI region, and 89.3 is always used! i hear spanish in western suffolk on the weekends on 89.3 and sometimes rock in central suffolk on 89.3!
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Yep, as i write this 89.3 is booming in. My guess is that its coming from the Wyandanch / Wheatly Heights area. It started out as all carribean. My guess is that the spanish programming on the weekends is LMA'd, which is kind of interesting because its a pirate.

Back when this station first showed up over a year ago, I heard them interviewing a local bank representative. There were some very good tips, suggestions, and strategies for people who were in danger of losing their home to forclosure. I thought about it and realized how sad it was that this illegal station was doing a better job at serving its intended audience than many of the legal commercial outlets who bury their public affairs programming in the early dawn hours of Sunday morning. I also have to say, that while its not perfect, the audio is suprisingly good for a pirate on western Suffolk's 89.3 pirate.

Several months ago another pirate appeared on 90.9 which I believe is coming from the same general area as 89.3 is. 90.9 also seems to focus on carribean programming and came about just as 89.3 started carrying the spanish programming on the weekends.

The 89.3 pirate isn't too much of a problem because they aren't interfering with much. The 90.9 pirate is an issue though because when they frequently overmodulate, they interfere with WFUV and WSHU.

Even worse than the pirates though is this fr-gg-n waste of airspace originating from Massapequa Park. There is a translator licensed to 89.5 which has been transmitting unmodulated carrier or "dead air" since before Christmas 2008. Yes, the transmitter is on and there is no audio. And this has been like this since Christmas. If ever there was a facility that deserves to be shut down, this is it! Just drive by the Sunrise Mall, tune to 89.5, and you'll know what I'm talking about.
 
I recall hearing a pirate on 89.3 with a very strong signal and good audio in the Mount Sinai/Centereach area back in 2006...I wonder if this is the same one. Haven't been back to the area in a while.

There was also another pirate that seemed to operate nonstop on 100.9, "MIR" (Middle Island Radio) with rock, and there was always a pirate I'd get for a few fleeting moments in Islandia on 93.1, over WPAT, usually with some sort of talk...possibly rebroadcast from an online station. Could never keep the signal long enough to figure out what that was.
 
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