I've heard a mono dead carrier on 102.9 driving around south Cobb county, not local RFI and some flutter in the signal, so it isn't some guy sitting next to me with his FM modulator...heard it over several days in two different vehicles at that. Ideas?
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who is on 102.9 with a dead carrier?
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MRFLASHPORT said:
Could be W275AQ Kennesaw, translator is licensed to someone called Radio Assist Ministry (bible thumper). Appears to be newly licensed.
http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/fmq?list=0&facid=148961
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MRFLASHPORT said:
It is a pirate that seems to be located somewhere in the Smyrna area.
I first noticed them about three weeks ago on a Sunday morning broadcasting a religous sermon (if that's what you want to call it) by someone calling himself "Michael the Blackman". The rest of that Sunday was a dead carrier. However, by the following Monday morning, the same "sermon" was back and was played continuously for the rest of that week. The audio was so distorted to the point where you couldn't even understand it at times.
A couple of Friday or Saturday nights ago, I heard them playing what would be considered R&B Oldies with songs from Diana Ross & The Supremes, etc. During this time, it sounded as if a mic had been placed in front of the speakers. While the songs were playing you could hear what sounded like a room full of people talking.
Since that time, there has been mostly dead air. The FCC was notified a couple of weeks ago and as of tonight, the dead carrier is gone and hopefully it won't be back.
thought it was a pirate, come to think of it, I did hear some audio a couple of weeks ago, horribly overmodulated. This area seems to be a prime target for pirates. Back in 2005, I found a bold pirate on 103.7 in Smyrna. This carrier was so overdriven it was splattering on Kiss 104.1- which is what prompted me to tune around and find the offending signal. I was over two blocks away at Windy Hill and South Cobb drive, the pirate had a 5/8 wave groundplane on top of a 20' push up mast, poorly guyed at that, on top of an old 3 story office building behind Luupita's on South Cobb. I called the building owner who quickly arrived, unlocked the station door to find no one there, running automation (which was a Sony MD deck). It was one of those 20 watt export POS'es.
The building owner was very concerned about it and called the tenant, a man named "Loco" on his Nextel and handed me the radio which I told him he needed a license and he was interfering with a licensed facility. Loco responded over the radio telling me he was in Philadelphia at that very moment setting up another such outfit. Didn't seem too worried about the FCC either. I advised him as an amateur radio operator and commercial radio tech, the FCC doesn't take kindly to pirates especially those who run such high power and put out trash signals on the band. He immediately direct connected back and told the owner to turn off the power, they talked back and forth for 15 minutes, and he assured that he would have a license. Three days later the idiot turned it back on. I then sent emails to Cox radio engineering and the FCC EB contact. Two weeks went by then Loco's FM toilet was off the air, I noticed the antenna gone off the building too.
The building owner was very concerned about it and called the tenant, a man named "Loco" on his Nextel and handed me the radio which I told him he needed a license and he was interfering with a licensed facility. Loco responded over the radio telling me he was in Philadelphia at that very moment setting up another such outfit. Didn't seem too worried about the FCC either. I advised him as an amateur radio operator and commercial radio tech, the FCC doesn't take kindly to pirates especially those who run such high power and put out trash signals on the band. He immediately direct connected back and told the owner to turn off the power, they talked back and forth for 15 minutes, and he assured that he would have a license. Three days later the idiot turned it back on. I then sent emails to Cox radio engineering and the FCC EB contact. Two weeks went by then Loco's FM toilet was off the air, I noticed the antenna gone off the building too.
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MRFLASHPORT said:
I remember hearing that one and yes, the Smyrna area seems to be a prime target for these pirates. In 2005 there was also one broadcasting on 87.9 in the evening hours. There was one around for a couple of years on 88.9 but their coverage wasn't that good because whenever there was any slight tropo enhancement from the North, WMBW from Chattanooga had no problems making through the pirate's signal.
I believe this is a pirate. I'm not getting the correct level for stereo pilot injection.
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Yah its smyrna its back on again. POWERFUL THAN EVER!! You can get it at COBB GALLERIA NOW!!
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