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What is this on 100.1 ?

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Jkf

This has been an ongoing "pirate" in the north hills area, along McKnight Road, and Babcock Blvd towards the hospital.

I have heard it rebroadcast the instrumental XM channel. But mostly, I hear what sounds like really old radio shows. At first, I thought this was someone's in-home stereo or XM repeater frequency. It's far too strong for that to be. Around McKnight Rd and the Outback Steakhouse, my radio actually stopped on 100.1 while in scan mode. They were playing what sounded like a 1940s radio drama. I have heard it on overnight, and during the day. Always with the same programming.

Oddly enough, it seems clearest when you can hear Froggy's North Park / McCandless repeater on 99.3 FM. Which, by the way, is only coming through the left channel again.
 
Jkf said:
This has been an ongoing "pirate" in the north hills area, along McKnight Road, and Babcock Blvd towards the hospital.
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What you are hearing is a new 90 watt repeater that has been installed on KDKA TV's Tower off of Ivory Ave. It will shortly be broadcasting WPYT 660 AM's new urban format
 
filenz said:
Parttimer said:
Blazin' hip hop and R&B with 90 screamin' watts of power...... yoi.
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90 watts at over 900' will cover Allegheny County
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You are correct sir! When we moved JAS-FM from Green Tree to WIIC's tower, the consultant insisted that we go with the lower power and move up higher.

By the way, we are having a radio gathering on April 7. Hope you can join us.
 
WOW. Everything old comes around again. Reminds me when R&B was on the 1,000 watters in most cities like WOOK, WOL, WWIN, KGFJ, WJMO, and WHAT to name a few. Good luck to this new station.
 
I wish Mr. Martz well. However, south and east of the city where I'm at, unless something really has changed in the past 48 hours, what I've been getting is a sometimes clearer-than-usual signal from WCLG-FM in Morgantown. Especially at higher elevations it seems to come in almost as well as WAJR-FM, which I sometimes can scan for at 101.9.

Still, what's coming at AM 660 could be a throwback, to use a term at another posting, to the days of WILY-1080 (sold to help create the Metromedia TV empire, now of course the Fox O&Os, including the old DuMont DC station WTTG-5) and WHOD-860. "Could" is the operative word. At their respective peaks, both were very good with limited power and hours. (Then again, their respective peaks are but a distant memory these days.)
 
This is not the repeater for 660. It fades out by Ross Park Mall. Again, it's strongest around North Park, up to about the new Lowe's store. Best place to catch it is around the Outback and Arcadia office complex across McKnight rd. This has been on for awhile, long before 660 was even applying for the 100.1 frequency.

The signal is in stereo and it is on most of the time. Today, it was airing what appeared to be a radio drama again. I just don't see how this could be someone's home audio setup as it is on a lot and always with either instrumental programming or old radio dramas. When it is instrumental, it relays the xm beautiful music channel.
 
I'd wager that 100.1 was a pirate, most likely... wonder if 107.3 is also a popular pirate frequency (closest 107.3 is in DuBois, some 90 to 100 miles away I believe) ;)

Wonder if AM 660 might try to get the WAMO calls if they're still available...
 
danikayser84 said:
I'd wager that 100.1 was a pirate, most likely... wonder if 107.3 is also a popular pirate frequency (closest 107.3 is in DuBois, some 90 to 100 miles away I believe) ;)

Wonder if AM 660 might try to get the WAMO calls if they're still available...
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The popular pirate frequency seems to be 88.7. There is also a guy on 87.9 from time to time running about 50 watts from the South Hills Village aera. Here are a couple links to his pages that I found by searching.

http://matthewdesantis.homelinux.org:8080/879extreme/
http://matthewdesantis.homelinux.org:8080/px50/
http://matthewdesantis.homelinux.org:8080/mfd-2000/
 
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