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Pirate radio station on 101.5 in Mesquite, TX

DJboutit3 said:
Could be a Ipod transmitter with a long wire hooked up if the signal is getting 1/2 to 2 mile range
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This guy is a radio genius and doesn't even realize it !! During WW1 the Germans used Ultra Low Frequencies to transmit right under our noses. They used train tracks to create antennas several miles long that would broadcast all across Europe. The Allies never thought to listen down that low.

Apparently DJboutit3 has figured out how to do the same thing with his iPod... Pure Genius...
 
Ms Avenger, I *DID* get 101.5 in stereo a couple of hours ago. I was traveling WB on Oates between LBJ and Gus Thomasson. After Gus Thomasson, it was duking it out with KNUE (I believe it's also 101.5, out of Tyler?) Yesterday, it was getting overtaken by the Spanish rimshot at 101.7.

Ya know, why don't all of us R-I folks all try the iPod trick, all at different frequencies, in various parts of town, and jam up the entire FM dial? Maybe we could all rebroadcast the same program (some web station, for example) and create our own little "Kick-FM"-style repeater/simulcast---remember when you had to tune to 99.1, then 107.9, then 101.7, then somewhere else just to hear Kick-FM, depending on what part of town you were in?

To volunteer, list your general area of town and preferred frequency, below:

;D
 
I thought those Ipod transmitters were regulated. The strongest iPod transmitter on the market is 300 milWatts. Which can only transmit as far as ten feet away. If all Ipod transmitters went 1/2 miles to 2 miles everyone would try to be running thier own station and Radio would be in a huge crisis right now. So with that said whoever thought an iPod transmitter was transmitting this station is the biggest winner in my book.
 
There's a little Ccrane fm transmitter that allegedly does very well with a slight twist of a plastic adjustment tool. ;D
 
"sorry to hijack but man, if you guys/gals don't mind music, I need to consider getting a new 100watt amp and get Cain FM up and running!!! I was so scared to fire up here in Dallas because I did not want to risk it. We were off and on down in Austin from 2006 to January of this year but after 8 years, our amp finally threw in the towel. I've always been up and running at 1 watt tho..."


http://www.fm-transmitter.com/

These things are top quality, reasonably priced and built like a tank. The 50watter should do it for you! YMMV ;)
 
Rock-Dude said:
I thought those Ipod transmitters were regulated. The strongest iPod transmitter on the market is 300 milWatts. Which can only transmit as far as ten feet away. If all Ipod transmitters went 1/2 miles to 2 miles everyone would try to be running thier own station and Radio would be in a huge crisis right now. So with that said whoever thought an iPod transmitter was transmitting this station is the biggest winner in my book.
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No legal iPod transmitter will get anywhere close to 300 milliwatts -- and 300 watts into a remotely decent antenna would go a lot further than ten feet. Probably, that would be enough power to go a thousand feet or maybe a bit more depending on noise levels and location/quality of the antenna.

FCC rules limit unlicensed FM transmitters to a field strength of 250 uV/m at 3 meters from the transmitting antenna. That's a power level that can be achieved with a transmitter power output on the order of 1 milliwatt into a not very efficient antenna, and you are correct in noting the limited range that such a transmitter can have. It may do better than ten feet in the absence of interference, but probably not more than a hundred feet under the best conditions.
 
Man I'm surprised no one has been commenting on the music this station has been playing! It's genius! Has anyone been listening to it too??
 
317C50KW:
http://www.fm-transmitter.com/

These things are top quality, reasonably priced and built like a tank. The 50watter should do it for you! YMMV ;)


We use(d) a NRGKits 1 watt stereo (yes a stereo pirate since we are all about the music) xmitter that fed into a Transmitters-R-Us 100w amp. Ariel is a Ramsey FMA200 5/8 Wave. Cabling is Davis RF Bury-Flex. We had an Alesis Nanocompressor in the chain at the very beginning to keep the audio levels kosher but use (and love) Burnill's MBL4\Sonos DSP. Everything is still in use to this day minus the 100 watt amp. It literary blew up in December 2009 down in Austin. I've been thinking about getting Aareff gear since we do not have a budget but I feel setting up in Dallas would be a waste of time knowing it would be short lived. My pirate sounds clean... I'll put money down it's the cleanest most have ever heard. Heck, we sound better than K240DS! Even the internet stream sounds nice. Why do I do it? I love music. We started after LPFM came around, which in my opinion is a complete scam. We filed for a license in Arkansas but were denied, hence we went on illegally. Best 2.5 years of my life and there is no way I can put into words what it felt like to influence so many folks in the small town with two college campuses. Good times. Too bad radio for the most part has become cookie-cutter, with a few exceptions. Thank God for KXT and KHYI. I'll step off my soap box now.

During our hay-days in the middle of nowhere Arkansas from 2002-2004, we covered a good 5-8 mile radius. From mile marker 55 to 85 on IH-30, would have included our fringe coverage.

I still have not heard the 101.5 pirate. I can't get them in 75006. Yesterday I was at 75 and Coit and all I heard was KNUE. How do they sound?
 
julesism said"

"We use(d) a NRGKits 1 watt stereo (yes a stereo pirate since we are all about the music) xmitter that fed into a Transmitters-R-Us 100w amp. Ariel is a Ramsey FMA200 5/8 Wave."

+1 on that Ramsey antenna, and it's Comet cousin. I have the Comet in my attic and works well. Due to deed restrictions in my neighborhood that's the only place I can put it though! And yes, confession, I very occasionally will fire up my unit in my neighborhood, it's tough to find a decent spot on the dial though. I need to put more effort into a format and getting an old computer for program automation.
 
Zara Radio is a pretty good little program for free & it doesn't use much pc resources. I use it sometimes with the SSTRAN AM transmitter to broadcast OTR shows to my antique radios.
 
AM1000 said:
They/he/she does sound pretty good. Seems stronger in Garland. Maybe part of the KKVI "cluster"??
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Why on earth would you say that?? The programming is nothing alike, and unlike the Garland folks, this guy is apparently just playing music, not trying to run a scam and make money off poor unsuspecting folks. He's not hurting anyone and I can almost guarantee you he has NOTHING to do with them.
 
Anjok0105 said:
They sound pretty good in north Mesquite and Garland. They also broadcast in stereo when music is playing it sounds like any other station but, you can just tell it's a pirate because every time a song is over there is a brief 1 second silence interluding to the next song...
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Hope someone turns them on to Zara Radio. There need be no pauses. It's really easy to have darn-near perfect segues every time.

Wish someone would do a pirate FM here in Chicago, except the FCC field office is so close, it would be over before it really got going.
 
Okay, I don't know if this pirate is still on or not. I was shopping at the Walmart off I 30 and Broadway/Beltline and heard a simulcast of " 94.7 The End, Alaska's New Rock". I have been keeping tabs on this mystery station. It seem also that the sound quality is damn near perfect as if it was a regular licensed Dallas station. I'm really curious on who's bright idea was this.
 
The folks on 99.9 on most Friday nights at midnight sound really decent, too. There's one in Plano AND North Dallas, just south of the High Five. Both stations seem to be simulcast and LIVE. The give the time and weather....and play music no one's ever heard of. But, it's cool because they really seem to be into it! Really...the audio sounds pro.
 
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