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we got another pirate, fun fun fun

K

kd8hho

well, i was scanning the fm band last night and drifted by 102.9 which is one of then translators. but this time instead of the normal "religious" it was death metal.
with someone talking over the music cussing, praising satan, ect

only lasted about 10 minutes before it dropped to a dead carrier then the religion returned.
 
....Each generation has its naugthy boys! Might have been the guy that ran through a Church service one day.. Prancing up and down the isle and praising himself as satan and bubeezelbub! The hated, the damned, the evil prince, etc., etc... About a minute into his rant, the Deacon stood up and shook his hand and welcomed him by saying: " Hey Pop! I've been wanting to meet you! I'm the guy that married your daughter and we've been married for forty-eight years!" :p
 
Probably some kid in tech school who found a frequency generator and decided to try his hand at "glorious FM broadcasting!!" Keep listening and see if he's dumb enough to air a number for taking requests...it's been known to happen...
 
skippertthomas said:
....Each generation has its naugthy boys! Might have been the guy that ran through a Church service one day.. Prancing up and down the isle and praising himself as satan and bubeezelbub! The hated, the damned, the evil prince, etc., etc... About a minute into his rant, the Deacon stood up and shook his hand and welcomed him by saying: " Hey Pop! I've been wanting to meet you! I'm the guy that married your daughter and we've been married for forty-eight years!" :p
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that made me laugh lol, ill listen tonight see if it pops up again. now im not shure if its local (anderson) or if its someone found a way to hijack the translator (which i think is in muncie)
 
kd8hho...

In 1975, some 'kids I knew' (forgot their names) rigged a radio shack kit and on a late Friday night at midnight, showed up at our local AM Top-40 Chicken Rock transmitter site.. Stephen King would love the place.. They tapped into the phone line after the AT&T/Bell box (never mess with national carrier stuff)...The station was dumb enough to run cheap phone cable from the phone company box along the back wall and through the wood framing on the double doors to the transmitter room.... "Snip" and pull back the cheap insulation off the lead lines (twisted pair) and run alligator clips into the feed wires... They were ready at 12:40am and waited until 1:00am when the jock was ready to sign off (stupid in those days, to take a regional AM down at 1:am and come back on at 4:50am)...As ABC Contemporary News ended they heard the jock read "Riverside Weather" and as soon as he gave the famous airport and downtown along the riverside temps, they hit a cassette with a 'demon effect voice' spewing "This is WJPS...Which Means "We Just Play S*#t!!" Turned off the recorder and took the alligator clips off the line and made sure the violated insulation looked like wear from the elements and booked.. All that was heard from the minimum wage night guy say was how sorry he was that something had interfered with the sign off and would look into the studios to see who was playing the joke... I worked with him later in our lives.. We laughed about it...They got the idea from Johnny Randolph in Louisville, who did "WAKY" jingles over the "WKLO" 15k broadcast lines when he booked 1080/'KLO for 790/Wacky...... I also did some ENG for that old AM site in recent years and the same phone lines run into the building at a higher point and then into the 15k amplifer box....
 
skippertthomas said:
kd8hho...

In 1975, some 'kids I knew' (forgot their names) rigged a radio shack kit and on a late Friday night at midnight, showed up at our local AM Top-40 Chicken Rock transmitter site.. Stephen King would love the place.. They tapped into the phone line after the AT&T/Bell box (never mess with national carrier stuff)...The station was dumb enough to run cheap phone cable from the phone company box along the back wall and through the wood framing on the double doors to the transmitter room.... "Snip" and pull back the cheap insulation off the lead lines (twisted pair) and run alligator clips into the feed wires... They were ready at 12:40am and waited until 1:00am when the jock was ready to sign off (stupid in those days, to take a regional AM down at 1:am and come back on at 4:50am)...As ABC Contemporary News ended they heard the jock read "Riverside Weather" and as soon as he gave the famous airport and downtown along the riverside temps, they hit a cassette with a 'demon effect voice' spewing "This is WJPS...Which Means "We Just Play S*#t!!" Turned off the recorder and took the alligator clips off the line and made sure the violated insulation looked like wear from the elements and booked.. All that was heard from the minimum wage night guy say was how sorry he was that something had interfered with the sign off and would look into the studios to see who was playing the joke... I worked with him later in our lives.. We laughed about it...They got the idea from Johnny Randolph in Louisville, who did "WAKY" jingles over the "WKLO" 15k broadcast lines when he booked 1080/'KLO for 790/Wacky...... I also did some ENG for that old AM site in recent years and the same phone lines run into the building at a higher point and then into the 15k amplifer box....
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oh man i would have laughed, even tho it really is a serious matter. as far as the 102.9 pirate havent seen a peep out of them since the weekend. so my just be a weekend thing
 
We have had problems in muncie for some time on many frequencies but not 102.9. Didn't look to see who's it is. This is heard in Anderson?
 
ChiefEngineer said:
We have had problems in muncie for some time on many frequencies but not 102.9. Didn't look to see who's it is. This is heard in Anderson?
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well i am in anderson, i just stumbled onto it last weekend. haven't heard it since. i know there is a translator over in muncie on 102.9. not shure if the pirate was here local in anderson, or if it was over by the trans.
 
I know when I got discovered in 1994, I got a phone call to stop and a week later a letter and a $1000 fine. two years later I got a GROL.

I was running it along I-70 at Emerson, I always wandered if a certain station with their tower 1/4 mile from me turned me in for the fun of it.

Fines are now $10,000 (and loss of gear), good luck to them if found and I don't think you can get any license if cought now days also.
 
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