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. "I spoke with a pastor of a church in the community which had a station and the antenna was taken down by the FCC," Goren says. Not just Aussie and NZ pirates, but stations in places like The Phillipinesmaybe Japan, South Korea, or Thailand. MR. SWARZTRAUBER: And then just out of those four offices you then have to dispatch agents to 20 different States, so it's quite a big chunk of the country in terms of population. Ragnar Daneskjold hosts an occasional podcast serving the shortwave pirate community; it includes pirate radio news, off-air recordings, and more. The price of the equipment is $2,960.51. Now that maybe gets us down to the building, you know, where it might be operating. You know, there was a glowing article in a certain New York publication that at least one FCC commissioner was irked by because it seemed to be kind of glorifying this underground practice and making it seem like some interesting thing, but you really got to keep in mind not just the radio stations that are interfered with, but emergency communications. And so we need to make sure that we stop the importation of this equipment, we stop the marketing of these illegal transmitters. MR. DOMBROWSKI: Raise it all the way up 100 feet and our director at the time rode up there and got the antenna down. MR. SWARZTRAUBER: So what is the current state of pirate radio? To prove my point, here are some MP3 recordings of some of my favorite recent pirate radio stations/broadcasts: Though pirates can be located anywhere on the planet, and therefore can broadcast, hypothetically, anywhere on the radio dial, patterns are actually fairly predictable in order to draw a listening audience. I decoded this Wolverine Radio SSTV QSL on the SSTV iOS App. Is this something that plays a role in alerting you to these stations that broadcasters themselves are identifying them and complaining about them? Pirate radio broadcasting on shortwave radio in North America is mostly done in a frequency range just below the 40 meter amateur radio band, from about 6815 kHz to 6970 kHz. In January, President Donald Trump signed into law the Preventing Illegal Radio Abuse Through Enforcement (PIRATE) Act, which gives regulators the ability to hit pirate stations with fines of up to $2 million, according to this summary from Radio World. He has taken, you know, money from under the table to allow the station to operate from the rooftop without the property owner's knowledge. Ex-Beatle George Harrison was sufficiently appreciative of Radio Caroline's mission that he even wrote a sizable check in the early 1970s to help keep the ship in operation, according to Ray Clark's book "Radio Caroline: The True Story of the Ship That Rocked.". While the magic of shortwave radio can transport a small signal vast distances, to hear pirates regularly and clearly, some precision is required. MR. SWARZTRAUBER: It doesn't say FCC pirate agent? MR. SWARZTRAUBER: No. 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. 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). And, of course, just finding the antenna is not the end of the story, because it's not like when you find the antenna the DJ is standing right next to the antenna being like, uh, you got me. The antenna is not where the people are necessarily or where the rest of the equipment is. 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. Indeed, since pirates are operating at lower power, they get much more bang-for-the-watt out of SSB. And as a bonus, Radio Caroline still exists though, ironically, it's gone legal. Open up the transmitter Locate the seam on the transmitter's case and pry it open with a putty knife (if your transmitter is screwed shut, you'll need a screwdriver to open it). Hobby Broadcasting Blog: http://hobbybroadcasting.blogspot.com/. We do that with every pirate station. Is it when you are driving in, you know, to and from work? They could stream. If you live outside of North America and Europe, that doesnt mean there arent pirate radio stations to be found. MR. DOMBROWSKI: Yes, it may not start to cause interference as soon as you open up and out of the box and operate it, but over time with the heating up of the electronics inside it starts to malfunction and cause what we call spurius emissions where signals are operating outside your intended band and cause interference to other radio services. After the reorganization and modernization of the field I then became the Regional Director and manage several offices now. MR. SWARZTRAUBER: So everyone can now breathe a deep a sigh of relief, you are not going to have to go out and get a license for your security camera and you garage door opener. A lot of times the studio is not co-located with the transmitter. It's covert surveillance equipment. Do you hear it on the weekends or is only a station that operates during the weekends? Here's a 12-minute recording of Radio Caroline DJ Tony Blackburn's show in 1965, which includes both a breakfast cereal commercial and the Animals' "House of the Rising Sun" and "For Your Love" by the Yardbirds: Because the station had to fill so much airtime DJs had to come up with 2,500 tracks to play each week Radio Caroline helped foster what Moore calls "an explosion of new artists and bands who may have started recording conventional pop music, but who then expanded their musical abilities. Enter Ronan O'Rahilly, who learned that the U.K. government's jurisdiction ended 3 miles (5 kilometers) off the coast, and that stations from other countries already were exploiting that loophole by putting transmitters on offshore ships, according to Moore. Weve now covered the who, what, where, when, and how of pirate huntingbut what about why? Additionally, we always try to include links to other retail options if they are available, as we support and freely advertise independent ham radio retailers. We have had cases where we have gone in on in rem seizures and found drug paraphernalia inside the building and so that becomes now a law enforcement issue and they take care of that, they handle that situation. And those parameters, you know, restrict your operation and the coverage of your station because we have a whole engineering study that needs to be done so you don't cause interference to other stations. Has it gotten worse, has it gotten better? An excellent and active pirate radio forum hosted by Chris Smolinski. Find this podcast in the iTunes store or Google Play or wherever you get your podcasts. We do follow the bread crumbs to where it leads us and a lot of times we are able to identify the operators and where the studio is and have success in getting the station shut down. Be careful to. Airchecks from unauthorized broadcast radio stations throughout the years. Bruce will host a new daily show for Bauer's station Greatest Hits Radio, taking his iconic PopMaster game with him. Winning a con. Like me, you might just get hooked! But the FCC, Congress and the commercial broadcasting industry don't see the pirates as serving such a benign purpose. South America was strong for a while in the 90s, but that has also fallen silent. 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. (Click to enlarge). Want to know why the usually run them out at sea. MR. DOMBROWSKI: So some States have laws on the book that prohibit pirate radio operation, States like New Jersey and New York and Florida. It's something we have been doing as long as the equipment has been available we've always had pirate radio operators. Join. 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. Over the past few years, Ive found that one of my favorite listening activities has become searching for unique pirate radio stations, and readers of my blog appear to have followed suit. Goren, who's been monitoring the airwaves since the law was passed, notes that on a typical day, he picks up about 26 pirate stations in Brooklyn alone. I mean you got to give it to Congress for the bill naming that they do. That would be inappropriate, particularly given my employer, but is it hard for the average listener, particularly in a dense metro area, you're dialing your car radio or your home radio to even know the difference? Keep in mind that pirates are relatively low-power broadcasters. MR. SWARZTRAUBER: Right. Total Views 29,203 (Older Stats) ITEMS. Evan is joined by David Dombrowski, Regional Director for Region One in the FCC Enforcement Bureau. 2. And so that impedes the investigation a little bit because it is difficult to find where that studio is located, but we do, we do a lot of interviews. MR. SWARZTRAUBER: Well let that be a lesson to the youngsters listening. March 13 2022 . 1. MR. DOMBROWSKI: And so they said well because we were here before it was colonized our federal laws don't apply to us. For many of the people in those communities, who may not be able to afford a computer or a smartphone and a broadband connection, pirate radio is an affordable medium. "Pirate radio continues to exist in the internet age for a variety of reasons," John Nathan Anderson, a broadcasting scholar and author who is working on a book about pirate radio, explains via email. So we would rather take one single complaint from a broadcast licensee saying, hey, I've gotten 50 listener complaints in this area, here is where we are hearing it, do a little leg work yourself and verify that it's an unlicensed station, and then we can work with them in getting the station off the air. The Pirates flagship radio station, SportsRadio 93.7 THE FAN, will air extended local pre-game and post-game coverage before and after every broadcast. MR. DOMBROWSKI: And there is a lot of digital FM stations out there that are looking for programming so they could maybe work out at least an arrangement. MR. DOMBROWSKI: Yes. Ive also been encouraged by pirates to hone my weak-signal DXing using exalted carrier reception (ECR)zero-beating an AM signal in SSBin an attempt to hear weak AM pirate stations. MR. SWARZTRAUBER: That's some great local cooperation right there. I asked him why he would still take the risk to go back on air and he said he wanted to reach the homeless, the shut-ins, the elderly who couldn't access the internet.". Unlike trying to locate China Radio International, Radio Australia, or the BBC World Service, hunting pirates requires a decent-quality radio and antenna. In the U.S. the most famous example of a Pirate Radio station was Mexico's XERF. Well I want to, you know, just emphasize the importance of this issue. 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. Radio 510 International - European relay station broadcasting every weekend on short-wave to all of Europe, Northern Africa and the Middle East on 13840 kHz. So over the last ten years people get online and purchase a transmitter and get it delivered to their door and so that makes, you know, everybody a hobbiest now and to have an interest to start a pirate radio station because it's so available. Pirates Week: http://shortwavepirate.info. MR. SWARZTRAUBER: Yes. As soon as there were laws on the books, there were pirate radio stations on the air. . As a self-proclaimed content DXer, what interests me in pirate radio is that the listener never knows what to expect, but you can guarantee that the content will be different from that of the major broadcasters. MR. DOMBROWSKI: Yes, well, you know, they operate in the AM band so it sounds really distorted when you are trying to listen to FM radio on an AM radio. 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. More areas, more just the urban areas. The warrant is issued to the U.S. MR. SWARZTRAUBER: Just because it's easy to buy it doesn't mean it's legal. You know, is this a massive national problem, are there particular areas where it's a problem? Now many listeners as you know have the experience of tuning their dial and there appear to be vacant channels you have said that one of the reasons for that is to guard against interference, but someone listening might say well why do we care, right. While you can hear some on weekdays, your best bet is Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights, local time. Other times though you might have reason to suspect that they are in on it, they are getting a kickback. Many are confused by the term pirate radio, otherwise known as free radio. Either term is sufficient, and some stations prefer one designation or the other. bclc lotto app not working; signs your internship will turn into a job; mary suehr schmitz. PIRATES RADIO NETWORK AFFILIATES Pennsylvania PITTSBURGH: KDKA-FM 93.7 Altoona: WVAM-AM 1430 Ambridge: WMBA-AM 1460 Beaver Falls: WBVP-AM 1230 Bradford: WESB-AM 1490 Butler: WISR-AM 680 Tribute to Pirate Radio, KQLZ 100.3 FM Los Angeles. The British government, though, didn't appreciate what Radio Caroline and other pirate broadcasters were doing. It was a three bay antenna for any of the those tech-y's out there, so it was a high efficient antenna and a very high powered transmitter. He was going around the country and stirring the pot and getting a lot of people excited about microbroadcasting, so that's really where it started to really proliferate. PIRATE RADIO Once you remove the idea of pirate radio from its mythology, you. Dont believe me? MR. DOMBROWSKI: So we have fines that we could issue. Some of those, you know, if you tune your dial and find some spaces where there is some dead air, well those are intentionally put there in order so that stations don't cause interference to each other. It will also help to have some sort of adjustable bandwidth filter (wide/narrow). They spent the fees to get the license. With that said (and for reasons I dont fully understand) depending on where you live in the world, you will either find it very easy to locate piratesor extremely difficult. They also cover your wireless routers in your house. 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. That would be not a good practice. Ive noticed increased pirate radio activity during the winter months, as well. Yes, they come with weapons. If they have some skin in the game, an operator or a landlord or a property owner that let somebody put a station up on their rooftop, you know, it's illegal for them to have that station there. The BBC played catch-up launching Radio One and recruiting the same pirates for their roster. These guys aren't blowing off their listeners like the other radio stations. The station is capable of running off of 13.8/28 volts DC battery, which can even be charged with solar power. But they also encroach on those legitimate stations that made significant investments and secured the necessary regulatory approvals to obtain a license. Now if you go that menu there are several options of different radio services. 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. MR. DOMBROWSKI: Well that's what I went up with. Please copy/paste the following text to properly cite this HowStuffWorks.com article: Patrick J. Kiger In the United States, the term pirate radio implies the unlicensed broadcasting use of any part of the radio spectrum that is reserved for use by governmental, public or commercial licensees by the Federal Communications Commission. MR. SWARZTRAUBER: Because you don't know what you are running into. 2022-03-13 23:21:58 Storage_size 430.3 GB (in 25,377 files) Title Pirate Radio Airchecks. Across the country, FCC officials are working to identify and take action against unlicensed radio operators that illegally use the frequencies allocated for legitimate radio operators. These include Amateur Radio Newsline, a weekly audio news [] MR. SWARZTRAUBER: All right. In some cases, radio stations are considered legal where the signal is transmitted, but illegal where the signals are receivedespecially when the signals cross a national boundary. There is always a building manager they call the supra and he has a shop down in the basement and a lot of times we find the equipment down in his shop. MR. SWARZTRAUBER: Yes, so you have options. I mean are there tell-tale signs or are some of these stations so sophisticated that it's really hard for the average person to distinguish? So we have a lot of those stations operating, so it's big revenue for them. * Shows you how to find pirate stations on your AM/FM, shortwave, and online radios. Our agency was delegated by Congress to allocate frequencies and allocate it in the public interest and it's a resource. Broadcasting at 250,000 watts, XERF was five times as powerful as the most high-powered Top 40 AM stations on the West Coast. So for that period of time they lose communications and they have to try to find another available channel to keep that communication line open. Now one thing I want to talk about is Part 15. 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. Again, I turned to Andrew Yoder for insight about pirate radio activity in the rest of the world; his reply: Im always amazed at how few areas in the world have pirates that are connected to any scene. So that is a big concern for the broadcasters in those areas. But the interesting thing about this was that it was operated by a group of people who considered themselves Moors, which are indigenous people of the United States who were here before the United States was colonized. So when the FCC licenses FM stations those stations are generally not going to interfere with aeronautical operations because we make sure that they are not. Liverpool vs Wolves will kick-off on Wednesday, March 1 at 8pm. 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. Nothing. Yoder actually addresses this apparent restriction, to some degree, in the 2013 Pirate Radio Annual, which has only just been released. 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. Recycling is good. MR. SWARZTRAUBER: Right, he's no the public face of it. MR. DOMBROWSKI: Yes. The HF Underground: http://www.hfunderground.com. There were helicopters flying over and taking videos, so we got on a little TV, and that helps to go a long way when we get a little media coverage. Has that happened? A new, raw, grassroots kind of pirate radio exploded from 1992 onwards. To track pirates, youll need a radio with both AM and SSB modes. Friday March 17, 1989 5:00 am. What can the average person do? MR. DOMBROWSKI: Well they had their antenna up really high. KQLZ Pirate Radio stormed the Southern California airwaves in 1989, and. 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. Unlicensed radio broadcasters have been around practically since governments started trying to control and regulate the airwaves. MR. SWARZTRAUBER: Got you. Launched just five months ago, Internet Archive's Digital Library of Amateur Radio & Communications has expanded to more than 61,000 items related to amateur radio, shortwave listening, and related communications. Marshals went in with us and we seized the equipment. A lot of times you can tell by the audio quality. In the late 1980s, unlicensed operators tried broadcasting from a Honduran-flag freighter in the waters off Long Island, according to The New York Times. There is a studio somewhere. MR. DOMBROWSKI: It's kind of sad to see, but --. . Even then, though, Radio Caroline wouldn't go away. Before we talk about where to hunt pirates, however, we need to talk about the necessary equipmenti.e., your radio and antenna. Now this is not just a focus of the FCC, Congress is also interested in this. Radio and electronics were my hobbies. "In Haiti during the Duvalier regime, people depended on radio to get news from independent sources off the island. "Private radio was prohibited and only the British Broadcasting Corporation, which was part of the political establishment, sent radio to the British people with the remit to be morally uplifting, informative and educational," Moore says. So the avenues of working with the district attorneys is a great way to get the injunctions, the court orders, for the pirate station to cease operating permanently. Marshals, Department of Justice, because we are a federal agency, but have we leveraged the resources and the knowledge of local law enforcement in working on this, are there, you know, different approaches from different States? So we try to shut down, you know, that equipment coming in to the purchasers. So they thought that was a way for them to avoid detection by hopping from building to building and frequency to frequency. MR. SWARZTRAUBER: So there are no doubt some good samaritans listening to this show that want nothing more than to help with the scourge of pirate radio. My most recent logging of a Euro pirate from North America was Radio Borderhunter on 15,500 kHz; his signal was quite amazing. So what is the state of pirate radio in the U.S. and how is the FCC taking it on? And that is where we ask for the public's help. But they secure the property for us so that we feel safe going in there and then we help them identify what equipment we need to seize. Pirate radio or a pirate radio station is a radio station that broadcasts without a valid license. Do a little pirate radio hunting yourself. And so it ranges from Maine down to Virginia and all the States east of Missouri, Iowa, and Minnesota. Listening to Other Stations: Click on the tuning arrows ( TUNE >) to listen to stations up and down the dial. Thank you, too, for your support of these sites. Having that exposure helped boost the careers of scores of British bands whose music eventually made it to America. 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. If they are getting interference to a station they would like to listen what station is that, give the call sign. When do you hear the station? I am Evan Swarztrauber. Radio GDay came on from Australia occasionally, but no one else. 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. MR. DOMBROWSKI: So this equipment helps us track us down. You still have to go down on foot and go out onto maybe the rooftop where the antenna is to confirm that that is the source. 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 --. Thanks to e-commerce, it's also easier than ever for a would-be pirate to find the necessary equipment and have it delivered to his or her door, as FCC enforcement official David Dombrowski described in this 2019 podcast. So how do you escalate the situation, you know, what tools do you have to say, okay, we're not getting cooperation let's take this up a notch? But the easiest way to file a complaint is go online. MR. DOMBROWSKI: So the complainant needs to tell us where they hear the station. After that we just destroy it through an electronics recycler. MR. DOMBROWSKI: And so that's not practical for somebody that wants to operate a radio station to cover an entire community. 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:. 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. MR. SWARZTRAUBER: So don't bother looking for it. Sweet! It lasted three years there and then I had an opportunity to get to the Philadelphia Office Enforcement Bureau with the field work and that's been -- I was there for 20 years. To have a radio station here helps to establish the station's operator as an important source of information and influence in the community.". Like if a pirate, you know, gets his station up and running, he finds that no one is in a channel, and he says, oh, I guess I'll set myself here, other than the law, which is obviously important to some people, most people it should be, but why should we care that they are using vacant spectrum? * Explains how to buy and use equipment to listen to pirate stations. The FCC argued that we were here to regulate the airwaves. Note: This podcast was recorded on June 21st. The U.S. has had its share of pirate broadcasters over the years as well. MR. SWARZTRAUBER: Well at least you are recycling. VIEWS. And then they said to me well here is ten jobs that you potentially could have which one is your top choice? MR. SWARZTRAUBER: We only waited 15 minutes into the episode to get to the fun part so I hope you are listening. 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