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Pirate Station Shut Down by Police

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This might be of interest, not just your average Pirate station.

Pirate Station Shut Down by Police
Miami - Jul 1, 2005 - North Miami Beach police detectives arrested an operator of an illegal pirate radio station in Miami-Dade County, FL, on June 23, seizing and impounding the station's equipment. The illegal station transmitted on 91.7MHz, causing interference to WMKL. According to the police report, the pirate station operated a KA-1000 FM transmitter feeding a high-gain, four-bay FM antenna attached to a tower on top of a two-story commercial office building. The pirate station operated unattended using Windows Media Player running on a PC with a DSL connection.

After receiving many complaints from listeners, WMKL station staff located the pirate radio station using a pocket radio and contacted the North Miami Beach Police Department. A complaint was filed with the FCC.
 
***Can you post the original link from the site this story originated?


> This might be of interest, not just your average Pirate
> station.
>
> Pirate Station Shut Down by Police
> Miami - Jul 1, 2005 - North Miami Beach police detectives
> arrested an operator of an illegal pirate radio station in
> Miami-Dade County, FL, on June 23, seizing and impounding
> the station's equipment. The illegal station transmitted on
> 91.7MHz, causing interference to WMKL. According to the
> police report, the pirate station operated a KA-1000 FM
> transmitter feeding a high-gain, four-bay FM antenna
> attached to a tower on top of a two-story commercial office
> building. The pirate station operated unattended using
> Windows Media Player running on a PC with a DSL connection.
>
> After receiving many complaints from listeners, WMKL station
> staff located the pirate radio station using a pocket radio
> and contacted the North Miami Beach Police Department. A
> complaint was filed with the FCC.
>
 
That pirate was on the same frequency as WMKL, What happened was that WMKL extented there coverage and the pirates were broadcasting on that same frequency with an ERP of 4KW.

if you are going to pirate atleast stay way from licensed frequencies.

So for being RETARDS they ot arrested.




> This might be of interest, not just your average Pirate
> station.
>
> Pirate Station Shut Down by Police
> Miami - Jul 1, 2005 - North Miami Beach police detectives
> arrested an operator of an illegal pirate radio station in
> Miami-Dade County, FL, on June 23, seizing and impounding
> the station's equipment. The illegal station transmitted on
> 91.7MHz, causing interference to WMKL. According to the
> police report, the pirate station operated a KA-1000 FM
> transmitter feeding a high-gain, four-bay FM antenna
> attached to a tower on top of a two-story commercial office
> building. The pirate station operated unattended using
> Windows Media Player running on a PC with a DSL connection.
>
> After receiving many complaints from listeners, WMKL station
> staff located the pirate radio station using a pocket radio
> and contacted the North Miami Beach Police Department. A
> complaint was filed with the FCC.
>
 
Ohhh Man Does this mean I have to make another trip down to florida and Find a new building to install another transmitter and Computer?
Im surprised they didnt find the one in the elevator room of the Broward County courthouse connected to the Mics in the courtrooms.How do you think they leak info to the reporters. ( ohhh that one is Carrier current no antenna on the roof)
LOL Just kidding.
 
> That pirate was on the same frequency as WMKL, What happened
> was that WMKL extented there coverage and the pirates were
> broadcasting on that same frequency with an ERP of 4KW.
>
> if you are going to pirate atleast stay way from licensed
> frequencies.
>
> So for being RETARDS they ot arrested.
>
>
>
>
> > This might be of interest, not just your average Pirate
> > station.
> >
> > Pirate Station Shut Down by Police
> > Miami - Jul 1, 2005 - North Miami Beach police detectives
> > arrested an operator of an illegal pirate radio station in
>
> > Miami-Dade County, FL, on June 23, seizing and impounding
> > the station's equipment. The illegal station transmitted
> on
> > 91.7MHz, causing interference to WMKL. According to the
> > police report, the pirate station operated a KA-1000 FM
> > transmitter feeding a high-gain, four-bay FM antenna
> > attached to a tower on top of a two-story commercial
> office
> > building. The pirate station operated unattended using
> > Windows Media Player running on a PC with a DSL
> connection.
> >
> > After receiving many complaints from listeners, WMKL
> station
> > staff located the pirate radio station using a pocket
> radio
> > and contacted the North Miami Beach Police Department. A
> > complaint was filed with the FCC.
> >some folks are just damn stupid, comon, and 4 kw, please retard is a light term,
>
 
Here is where I first read the story
http://beradio.com/currents/radio_currents_062705/index.html#pirate

A quick Google search found the above link as well as a couple of others,
there are a couple of references to WMKL in both.

http://home.earthlink.net/~tocobagadx/flortis.html
http://www.w4uvh.net/dxldtd3d.html

Seems like WMKL - "The Call" has quite the reputation for going after unlicensed stations, even Part 15 ststions!

Here is the article from the second link...

** U S A. FAU STATION HEARD OUTSIDE FCC LIMIT
By Jennifer Peltz Sun-Sentinel, April 5, 2003

BOCA RATON -- Florida Atlantic University's student radio station can
be heard around the world online. But it can't be heard on a car
radio on campus, at least for the moment.

The station -- WOWL, FM 91.7 -- turned off its transmitter last
month, after Federal Communications Commission representatives said
the broadcast was drifting off FAU's Boca Raton campus, according to
music director Nick Jennings.

WOWL operates under federal rules that allow low-power FM
broadcasting without a license. Its signal is supposed to be heard
only within about 200 feet of its transmitter on the campus library.
A Miami Christian music station licensed to use the same frequency,
"The Call" (WMKL, FM 91.7), complained to the FCC in January about
interference from FAU, said The Call's general manager, Rob Robbins.
He said his station had received a complaint from a Broward County
listener.

FCC officials wouldn't talk about WOWL. But Jennings said station
officials hadn't known it could be heard off campus. FAU installed
devices several years ago to dampen WOWL's signal, Jennings said.
Still, "it's hard to control a radio frequency," he said. "[So] we
said, `Why don't we shut the transmitter off until we get this
figured out?'"

WOWL might try installing new equipment to rein in its signal or
moving its antenna lower, Jennings said.

For now, its 13-hour broadcast day -- which includes sports talk,
funk, a cultural diversity forum, local bands, German hip-hop and an
hour of selections from "the worst record collection ever" -- can be
heard at wowl.fau.edu and through speakers in campus breezeways.
The station started in 1993 on an AM frequency. It's financed by
about $80,000 a year in student fees, Jennings said.

Meanwhile, The Call is still on the lookout for unlicensed
broadcasters, Robbins said. The station recently won a three-year
fight with a Hollywood man who transmitted an Israeli radio show on
The Call's frequency. Last month, a federal judge ordered Shlomo
Malka to pay $35,000 in fines and stop broadcasting, according to FCC
and court documents.
http://www.tcpalm.com/tcp/palm_beach_news/article/0,1651,TCP_1020_1867095,00.html
 
WMKL 91.7FM does not go after part15 stations, plus anyway part15 is legal.

understand that WMKL was being under attack here by pirates running their TXs at 4 to 5kW here on their frequency for months.








> Here is where I first read the story
http://> beradio.com/currents/radio_currents_062705/index.html#pirate
>
>
> A quick Google search found the above link as well as a
> couple of others,
> there are a couple of references to WMKL in both.
>
> http://home.earthlink.net/~tocobagadx/flortis.html
> http://www.w4uvh.net/dxldtd3d.html
>
> Seems like WMKL - "The Call" has quite the reputation for
> going after unlicensed stations, even Part 15 ststions!
>
> Here is the article from the second link...
>
> ** U S A. FAU STATION HEARD OUTSIDE FCC LIMIT
> By Jennifer Peltz Sun-Sentinel, April 5, 2003
>
> BOCA RATON -- Florida Atlantic University's student radio
> station can
> be heard around the world online. But it can't be heard on a
> car
> radio on campus, at least for the moment.
>
> The station -- WOWL, FM 91.7 -- turned off its transmitter
> last
> month, after Federal Communications Commission
> representatives said
> the broadcast was drifting off FAU's Boca Raton campus,
> according to
> music director Nick Jennings.
>
> WOWL operates under federal rules that allow low-power FM
> broadcasting without a license. Its signal is supposed to be
> heard
> only within about 200 feet of its transmitter on the campus
> library.
> A Miami Christian music station licensed to use the same
> frequency,
> "The Call" (WMKL, FM 91.7), complained to the FCC in January
> about
> interference from FAU, said The Call's general manager, Rob
> Robbins.
> He said his station had received a complaint from a Broward
> County
> listener.
>
> FCC officials wouldn't talk about WOWL. But Jennings said
> station
> officials hadn't known it could be heard off campus. FAU
> installed
> devices several years ago to dampen WOWL's signal, Jennings
> said.
> Still, "it's hard to control a radio frequency," he said.
> "[So] we
> said, `Why don't we shut the transmitter off until we get
> this
> figured out?'"
>
> WOWL might try installing new equipment to rein in its
> signal or
> moving its antenna lower, Jennings said.
>
> For now, its 13-hour broadcast day -- which includes sports
> talk,
> funk, a cultural diversity forum, local bands, German
> hip-hop and an
> hour of selections from "the worst record collection ever"
> -- can be
> heard at wowl.fau.edu and through speakers in campus
> breezeways.
> The station started in 1993 on an AM frequency. It's
> financed by
> about $80,000 a year in student fees, Jennings said.
>
> Meanwhile, The Call is still on the lookout for unlicensed
> broadcasters, Robbins said. The station recently won a
> three-year
> fight with a Hollywood man who transmitted an Israeli radio
> show on
> The Call's frequency. Last month, a federal judge ordered
> Shlomo
> Malka to pay $35,000 in fines and stop broadcasting,
> according to FCC
> and court documents.
http://www.tcpalm.com> /tcp/palm_beach_news/article/0,1651,TCP_1020_1867095,00.html
>
 
According to Radio Locator, WRGP and <a target="_blank" href=http://www.radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/pat?call=WAYF&service=FM&status=L&hours=U>WAYF</a>, both on 88.1, have to overlap at least as much signal as they did.<P ID="signature">______________
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WMKL has been listenable throughout dade county for a while even before the bootlegger "well not a bootlegger, more like radio retard" I hate to That guy was just a retard.




> According to Radio Locator, WMKL becomes unlistenable as far
> north as extreme south Dade. It is very unlikely that any
> station in Palm Beach County, Broward County, or even
> northern Dade County would create an issue in their real
> service area, between Homestead and the middle keys. Two
> licensed stations, WRGP and WAYF, both on 88.1, have to
> overlap at least as much signal as they did.
>
 
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