They spent the fees to get the license. Our agents will contact you. MR. DOMBROWSKI: So you could cause like a catastrophe if we, you know, let this continue. But it worked out great, it was a great career in the media bureau. In 1971 I was ordered to Cease and Desist by our friends at the FCC. MR. SWARZTRAUBER: We only waited 15 minutes into the episode to get to the fun part so I hope you are listening. But if we sign it into law we would have some additional resources, first increasing the fines. Select a station from the list and it will play on the tuner. Total Views 29,573 (Older Stats) ITEMS. If you live in other parts of the world, pirate hunting can pose serious DX challenges. You have somebody that puts a station on the air and then what that person does is he leases air time for his station for other DJs and they come in and so he is getting a kickback from the DJs and he is getting advertising revenue. One of the FCC's top enforcement priorities is cracking down on pirates. It's eminently cheaper to purchase or build an unlicensed radio station than it is to set up a robust streaming channel online, especially if you're looking to cover a local area. So, the F. Ive had great results in the past with an old Icom IC-735 and a 40-meter dipole antenna. Stations such as Weekend Rush, Kool FM, Pulse and Innocence wanted to represent the streets and promote local scenes.. Carl McIntire, a fundamentalist preacher who briefly broadcast fire-and-brimstone sermons from a converted minesweeper off the coast of New Jersey, as this 2014 NJ.com article details. Do you hear it on the weekends or is only a station that operates during the weekends? It was the strongest pirate station I have ever witnessed. Its much better, of course, if you have a table-top receiver, software-defined radio, or ham radio transceiver with a general coverage receiver hooked up to a resonant outdoor antennaespecially if you live outside Europe and North America. So somebody that hasn't invested a lot of money in equipment and the single processing to make it sound richer you could tell if you have an ear to it, our agents can do that. If you are given ten choices make sure the one you actually one is your eighth choice because that's going to be the one that you get. Additionally, pirate broadcasters don't have to deal with all the legal complexities of setting up and running a streaming internet service, such as writing terms of service or meeting contractual obligations, he notes. Let's say they are listening, they think something is suspicious they get a tip, they see something weird in their building, what can they do to help you and the FCC tackle this problem? North American Pirate Radio Frequencies By far the most active ranges in North America are 43 meters (6800-7000 kHz), 46 meters (6200-6400 kHz) and 73 meters (4000-4200 kHz), with some activity in the 60 meter band (4700-5300 kHz) as well. "One reason I've found as to why people are still using pirate radio is that these communities have very strong cultural and historic connections to radio," Goren explains. North American Pirate Radio Frequencies By far the most active ranges in North America are 43 meters (6800-7000 kHz), 46 meters (6200-6400 kHz) and 73 meters (4000-4200 kHz), with some activity in the 60 meter band (4700-5300 kHz) as well. So that is quite a large area. We have had meetings with broadcast associations where we went a room with other broadcasters and that's a very big concern of them, the financial end of it. This little book by Andrew Yoder is the equivalent of the WRTH (World Radio TV Handbook) of the pirate radio world. Set up your Raspberry Pi You'll need to get Raspbian, the Linux-based operating system for the Raspberry Pi. Revealing the history of pirate radio from 1925 to today, author Andrew Yoder, pirate radio aficionado and long-time writer on radio, electronics, and audio subjects:. We also get the other federal agencies involved, the Department of Justice, U.S. Attorney's Office, where we can seek a warrant. I mean you got to give it to Congress for the bill naming that they do. We have language to kind of consider them an operator, so they could be liable for a fine and we do issue them a warning letter. In addition to this 2019 BBC documentary, Goren also has created the Pirate Radio Map, which documents pirate radio stations in Brooklyn and even includes brief samples from their broadcasts. It would identify what are the legitimate stations and also identify what stations we sanctioned so they could better get an understanding, you know, is this a legitimate station I am hearing or not. This station was operated in Pennsauken, New Jersey, which is right across the river from Philadelphia, and it covered the entire Philadelphia area. We'd like to contact you. And I am glad you mentioned call signs because that could be a potential suspicious signal is that pirate radio stations, because they are illegitimate by their very nature, are not doing typical radio station things like announcing their call sign at the top of the hour or doing, you know, certain regular scheduled activities, so that could be something that might mean you are listening to a pirate station. I have four offices, it includes Chicago, it includes Boston, New York, and Columbia, Maryland. Want to know why the usually run them out at sea. The important thing here is that you invest in a receiver with a respectable degree of sensitivity and selectivity. MR. SWARZTRAUBER: And it's important to clarify that FCC enforcement agents are not law enforcement agents, but I was struck by how some of the work that goes into identifying and shutting down a station is like good old-fashioned police work, like knocking on doors saying, hey, have you seen anything weird, have you seen people carrying around transmitters or antennas. Pirate radio stations are a crucial part of British music culture. It has a radio receiver in it, it has a computer screen with a map, and it has a little compass rose that tells us what direction the signal is coming from. Unlicensed radio broadcasters have been around practically since governments started trying to control and regulate the airwaves. It's covert surveillance equipment. Violators faced two years of imprisonment and fines. MR. DOMBROWSKI: No, not the public face, but he's all the behind the scenes guy. But please note that we will never create a post and product link explicitly to receive a commission. We also would be required to file a report to Congress annually on our enforcement activities in pirate radio. They can be highly entertaining or thought-provoking, and thus are, themselves, a unique art form. Indeed, this past November, I listened to the pirate Channel Z while sitting in my truck; I was only using a Tecsun PL-660 with the antenna extended out of my opened drivers-side window. Keep in mind that pirates are relatively low-power broadcasters. Pirates tend to occupy swatches of the shortwave spectrum that are relatively quiet, avoid intentionally broadcasting on top of one another, and typically operate at fairly low power. In the U.S., pirate stations have popped up in recent years all over the country, from West Virginia to Washington state, according to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), which plays a continual game of whack-a-mole in an effort to keep them off the airwaves used by licensed broadcasters. This book makes it easier for you to locate and tune in pirate stationsand tells you all about the unlicensed broadcasters who play David to broadcasting conglomerates' Goliath. 2022-03-13 23:21:58 Storage_size 430.3 GB (in 25,377 files) Title Pirate Radio Airchecks. Be specific. Additionally, you can always tune a remote receiver, via the Internet on the Global Tuners website, or via the University of Twentes SDR in the Netherlands. We take it all. Let's say you don't get cooperation from a building owner, you don't get cooperation from the eventual studio, maybe it's in their apartment and they're not opening the door, obviously, because they don't want to get caught. MR. SWARZTRAUBER: Got you. There was an operator named Stephen Dunifer. MR. DOMBROWSKI: And so that's not practical for somebody that wants to operate a radio station to cover an entire community. Fortunately for the beginning pirate-hunter, there are now online message boards, free radio logs, and even publications (like Yoders excellent treatise on the subject) to help guide your tuning (see resource links below). My most recent logging of a Euro pirate from North America was Radio Borderhunter on 15,500 kHz; his signal was quite amazing. So we have a lot of those stations operating, so it's big revenue for them. MR. DOMBROWSKI: Yes, we have a lot of stations in New York, in particular. Now you usually get one of your top, you know, first or second choice. So we eventually went to the courts and fought. Now one thing I want to talk about is Part 15. Are we talking about U.S. marshals with machine guns kicking in doors, are we talking about politely knocking on a door and saying, hey, guys, your time is up, we found you, you know, what's the image that essentially you see when this goes down in your experience or is there kind of a spectrum of different cases, some are a little bit more intense than others? "Pirate Radio" is a period piece, set in a time when the Rolling Stones' "Let's Spend the Night Together" and the Who's "My Generation" were still scandalous and controversial rather than nostalgic anthems for today's aging baby boomers. MR. DOMBROWSKI: Yes, the legitimate one, the licensed station. That was particularly true on the other side of the Atlantic, where the U.K. allowed only state-controlled radio from the 1920s through the mid-1960s. For his new show, Bruce promises "me and my musings and all the great . Yoder actually addresses this apparent restriction, to some degree, in the 2013 Pirate Radio Annual, which has only just been released. MR. SWARZTRAUBER: And that is obviously at the highest importance when we are talking about public safety. MR. SWARZTRAUBER: Welcome to "More Than 7 Dirty Words," the official FCC podcast. We do a field strength measurement to see if their power exceeds that threshold and if they meet the Part 15 requirements or not. MR. SWARZTRAUBER: Do the pilots only complain if it's a song that they don't like? If we are out there just gathering evidence for the first time our agents will go to the door, they will identify themselves with their badge. Unauthorized stations are particularly prolific in the New York City area, where a 2016 study by the New York State Broadcasters Association (NYSBA) found that there actually were more pirates then on the FM band than legal licensed stations. I am Evan Swarztrauber. If you have information about a pirate radio station, you can notify the FCC by calling 888-CALLFCC or filing a complaint online at https://consumercomplaints.fcc.gov. MR. DOMBROWSKI: It's not, you know, and we didn't talk about, there are other legal ways to go about it. Do you hear it any other time, you know, at night time? MR. DOMBROWSKI: Okay. Most pirates transmit using SSB with modern ham radio equipment, others use AM utilizing vintage or homebrew equipment. Again, they are not law enforcement, so we don't have weapons. Dont believe me? They just twist the dial. And one of the reasons that they are causing harmful interference, in particular to the FAA operations, is because they are not tested, right. The history of pirate radio stations is inextricably linked with the development of countless genres, including hip-hop, garage, punk, and grime. When do you hear the station? And as a bonus, Radio Caroline still exists though, ironically, it's gone legal. And what the pirate radio operators do is they don't obtain a license, they don't go through this process, and they try to find vacant spectrum between these stations. Total Views 29,203 (Older Stats) ITEMS. And that's it, we will catch you next time. They have a bill circulating around called the PIRATE Act. But the easiest way to file a complaint is go online. Before we talk about where to hunt pirates, however, we need to talk about the necessary equipmenti.e., your radio and antenna. MR. DOMBROWSKI: No, and some of these are in high crime areas where there is a lot of drugs. "By playing nonstop current pop music in a situation where this had never before been available, Caroline had within months a larger audience than all the BBC stations combined," Moore explains. MR. DOMBROWSKI: Yes, everyone's dream job. So that's been great because now we can work with the local authorities, such as the police or the district attorney's office, and get them involved in the investigation, and they have the power to arrest and fine people. And you have tools to escalate the situation. It will also help to have some sort of adjustable bandwidth filter (wide/narrow). And while pirate radio stations can be found across the radio spectrum, especially on AM and FM in urban areas, in this primer Ill be focusing on those that inhabit the shortwaves. They are very low power and the range of them are very small. They are not advertising. What can the average person do? And another thing, also, we would have to direct our attention annually to five markets that are most affected by pirates and we would do some step-up enforcement. "How Pirate Radio Rocked the 1960s Airwaves and Still Exists Today" And he had some good backing, financial backing, by the ACLU who were fighting for him, and he was a microbroadcaster and he tried to encourage others to follow in his footsteps and protect our First Amendment rights, so he was --. I was still a teenager. After that we just destroy it through an electronics recycler. Multiply the answer from #1 by the fraction of wavelength of your antenna's design (most antennas are 1/2 (.5) or 1/4 (.25) wave; the popular Comet is a 5/8 (.625) wave antenna). Marshals actually seize it. It has become more common for pirates to transmit images using SSTV.A few have experimented with FM or digital modes like RTTY, PSK31 . MR. DOMBROWSKI: Yes, to lease some air time off these legitimate stations. MR. DOMBROWSKI: No, it doesn't have -- It's not marked with pizza delivery guy either. MR. DOMBROWSKI: So this equipment helps us track us down. MR. DOMBROWSKI: Thank you. 1. MR. SWARZTRAUBER: All right. Pirate cards are among the most unusual of QSL cards, that often incorporate obscure or vintage imageryhumor, horror, or other graphic oddityor cast the pirate in a unique character representation. This is likely due to the early sunsets and cold winter nights of the northern hemisphere that tend to keep people indoors, which in turn encourages pirates to hit the air. Well I want to, you know, just emphasize the importance of this issue. All you need is a location to host the antenna and access to electricity unless you've got batteries, then just the location.". Unlike the rock 'n' roll hipsters of 1960s British pirate radio, who aimed at a mass audience, most of Brooklyn's unlicensed broadcasters seem to be immigrants and members of ethnic and religious minorities trying to reach their own groups and neighborhoods. Last updated: December 2022 They can call their State Broadcast Association to get our contact information. 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