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Wave 105.3 Cape Cod?

raccoonradio

raccoonradio

Anyone know about this? One of my followers on Twitter is picking up a station calling itself Wave 105.3 on terrestrial radio as well as online--no
call letters but webpage with stream says it's in Cotuit on Cape Cod. "Doo wop and oldies".Briefly heard stream
last night...
https://mytuner-radio.com/radio/the-wave-1053-fm-cape-cod-465999/

Has a Wave 105.3 jingle but otherwise jockless.
Maybe someone has it as flea power (I just asked
him where he is..he had said it's indeed on terrestrial at 105.3...looked online and saw no reference
to an LPFM or FM translator.
On page above it says
Frequencies
Barnstable..105.3 FM
FM 105.3 W.A.V.E.

Cotuit is one of the villages in the town of
Barnstable. (Years ago while on the Cape I heard an ad for a local business: "You can do it, at Cotuit, Liquors.")
 
raccoonradio said:
Anyone know about this? One of my followers on Twitter is picking up a station calling itself Wave 105.3 on terrestrial radio as well as online--no
call letters but webpage with stream says it's in Cotuit on Cape Cod. "Doo wop and oldies".Briefly heard stream
last night...
https://mytuner-radio.com/radio/the-wave-1053-fm-cape-cod-465999/

Has a Wave 105.3 jingle but otherwise jockless.
Maybe someone has it as flea power (I just asked
him where he is..he had said it's indeed on terrestrial at 105.3...looked online and saw no reference
to an LPFM or FM translator.
On page above it says
Frequencies
Barnstable..105.3 FM
FM 105.3 W.A.V.E.

Cotuit is one of the villages in the town of
Barnstable. (Years ago while on the Cape I heard an ad for a local business: "You can do it, at Cotuit, Liquors.")
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In neither Barnstable nor Dukes counties is there anything... not even an LPFM licensed to 105.3 other than a translator in Orleans for a local AM WFPB... that I can find.

Check https://fccdata.org/?lang=en&latd=41.6592&lond=70.3531 for everything there and in surrounding areas.
 
Whatever its legal status, it's playing everything from the Monotones (not "Book of Love" but "You Never Loved Me") to Sammy Davis Jr. ("The Candy Man") to America ("Daisy Jane") to Leo Sayer ("How Much Love") to Murray Head ("One Night in Bangkok") to the Clash ("Train in Vain") to Shania Twain ("Still the One"). Also heard in the past hour: a "live" rerecording of "When Will I Be Loved" by the Everly Brothers that sounds more like Linda Ronstadt's version than the Everlys' original, and the Oak Ridge Boys' "Love Song."

Not sure who would listen to this long-term but its owner/programmer and people with ridiculously broad tastes in popular music.
 
The Yarmouth Drive-In Theater uses 105.3 FM to transmit the sound of their films and live concerts to people's cars in their lot. That must be Part 15. I wonder if it's getting interference from this "Wave" station that must be a pirate?
 
Looked up and saw it's about 10 or 12 miles between Cotuit and (West) Yarmouth. Not sure of the power this possible pirate has. Interesting if there may be interference.
 
The person on twitter wrote:
"Very interesting I caught it just by chance the other night West of Hyannis on 105.3 then went online to listen to it. Cotuit is maybe 4 or 5 miles from my location. Also of note the Yarmouth Drive-in that was put up this summer 20 miles East of me was permitted to use 105.3.Just for a very low frequency use on their property for audio of films,concerts and sports. I'm sure this station is not them. "
 
My twitter contact adds they were playing a promo for Fri night with "Bobby Dee" and the music mix was artists like Four Tops/Musical Youth (Pass the Dutchie)/ The Vapours/ Eurthythmics
 
Wow this is the first pirate on Cape that I've ever seen. I've only been able to listen online. I don't think I'd be able pick it up on terrestrial radio off cape. Id imagine it would interfere with WOCN 104.7 as well as WCOD 106.1. Looks like whoever is doing this is attempting to revive "The Wave" oldies format which used to be on 101.1 and 93.5 prior to the Frank-FM format.
 
Some of the artists and songwriters whose work is being played on this station are missing out on royalties they haven't seen in years! I wonder how long this streaming pirate will be able to continue. If he/she/they are paying Sound Exchange, where is the money coming from?
 
jradioguy1 said:
Wow this is the first pirate on Cape that I've ever seen. I've only been able to listen online. I don't think I'd be able pick it up on terrestrial radio off cape. Id imagine it would interfere with WOCN 104.7 as well as WCOD 106.1. Looks like whoever is doing this is attempting to revive "The Wave" oldies format which used to be on 101.1 and 93.5 prior to the Frank-FM format.
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Unless it's transmitting spurious off-frequency signals (which pirates do much more often than legitimate stations due to lack of complying with engineering standards and enforcement), its main signal shouldn't be interfering with stations three or four channels away in either direction on any decent quality radio.
 
CTListener said:
Some of the artists and songwriters whose work is being played on this station are missing out on royalties they haven't seen in years! I wonder how long this streaming pirate will be able to continue. If he/she/they are paying Sound Exchange, where is the money coming from?
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Who's going to enforce royalty payments from a pirate? Like many thousands of other amateur music streamers and podcasters, they're either ignorant of the regulations, or counting on enforcement being unable to catch even a small fraction of the large numbers of people doing it.

No music DJ's who I know from professional broadcasting do it (without paying) because they know about it, and don't want to risk becoming one of the few caught and fined.
 
Eli Polonsky said:
Who's going to enforce royalty payments from a pirate? Like many thousands of other amateur music streamers and podcasters, they're either ignorant of the regulations, or counting on enforcement being unable to catch even a small fraction of the large numbers of people doing it.

No music DJ's who I know from professional broadcasting do it (without paying) because they know about it, and don't want to risk becoming one of the few caught and fined.
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Don't streaming pirates get caught more frequently than over-the-air pirates, though?
 
I just drove from the bridge to downtown Hyannis this morning. All I heard was a very weak WSHK and traces of the Brockton Haitian pirate. If it’s on the air, it’s probably someone’s flea power toy, covering a block or two.
 
To jlehmann:

No, they have some coverage. I can get it in Osterville, which is 4 miles away from where I suspect the xmitter site is in Cotuit. It does go off the air often though, sometimes for hours at a time, so that must have been why you couldn’t receive it.
 
Tomgsinger said:
To jlehmann:

No, they have some coverage. I can get it in Osterville, which is 4 miles away from where I suspect the xmitter site is in Cotuit. It does go off the air often though, sometimes for hours at a time, so that must have been why you couldn’t receive it.
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It's amazing what just a few watts will do.

When we were setting up WSRA in Puerto Rico in 1993, audio was being sent from the automation to the transmitter before airdate. The transmitter was on "ready" which meant the exciter was on, but the final stage was not. In San Juan, over 35 miles away, we could hear the 10 watt exciter coming through the final stage which was off and to the transmitter at probably 2 or 3 watts.

In Ecuador, one of my AM stations was over 20 miles from the studio. The studio had a 60' tower with a yagi on it fed with a 10 watt FM transmitter on 91.9. The transmitter site had a big telephone pole, maybe 30 feet high, with another directional antenna aimed at the studio. We never had trouble linking with the 10 watt FM link.

So that station, at 4 miles distance, could be as low as a couple of watts and just have its antenna on a rooftop or hidden in a treetop.
 
Speaking of Cape Cod radio here in Beverly I was just getting an FM translator of Koffee FM at 100.5 (played Fleetwood Mac Don't Stop)

Wiki: "On February 19, 2020 WKFY moved from 98.7 to 101.5 MHz while also moving to a new transmitter site in Orleans, Massachusetts and increasing its effective radiated power from 3,200 watts to 6,000 watts "
The 100.5 I got was W263CU in Hyannis.Signal
approx via radio-locator
https://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/finder?call=W263cu&x=12&y=6&sr=Y&s=C
 
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