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. Whether youre a QSL collector, a content DXer, or the casual SWLer, I find theres something in pirate radio listening for everyone. Well I want to, you know, just emphasize the importance of this issue. When do you hear the station? We also would be required to file a report to Congress annually on our enforcement activities in pirate radio. 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). So a transmitter that complies with the Part 15 requirements has a very small operating range, about 100 feet. The Offshore Radio Museum website commemorates many of those pirates. 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. 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? I know out on the West Coast in California we have more significant numbers than other areas, so that probably would be one of the five markets identified, maybe the L.A. area would probably be another market that we would look at. Most pirates transmit using SSB with modern ham radio equipment, others use AM utilizing vintage or homebrew equipment. 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. MR. DOMBROWSKI: And so that's not practical for somebody that wants to operate a radio station to cover an entire community. And so, yes, we may -- We have a warrant for the property. They also have potential to cause interference to the adjacent channel stations, you know, up above their frequency and below their frequency. Radio GDay came on from Australia occasionally, but no one else. MR. DOMBROWSKI: Yes, we have a lot of stations in New York, in particular. MR. SWARZTRAUBER: Pirate radio. In 1967, Parliament enacted the Marine Broadcasting Offenses Act, which made offshore broadcasts from ships illegal, on the pretext that their broadcast interfered with marine weather radio and distress signals, as this contemporaneous New York Times account notes. Tribute to Pirate Radio, KQLZ 100.3 FM Los Angeles. Our agents typically work in a certain area so they become familiar with all the pirate radio operators and they kind of started to notice the pattern and so we were able to gather all of the evidence and go to the U.S. Attorney's Office and seize all that equipment and get the station off the air. And they also would be able to contact us and find out where the complaint is in the queue and, you know, what's going on with the complaint and have we investigated it yet. "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. They don't know how to reach us? 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? 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. We do a field strength measurement to see if their power exceeds that threshold and if they meet the Part 15 requirements or not. What's more, pirate radio stations gave us access to some of the most pivotal figures in UK music . Where are you hearing this interference problem? tyson jost dad; sean penn parkinson's disease; mockingbirds attacking my cat It's about $200,000 worth of equipment. In 1971 I was ordered to Cease and Desist by our friends at the FCC. So what is pirate radio? MR. DOMBROWSKI: Yes. Well joining me to discuss this topic is David Dombrowski, Regional Director for Region One in the FCC Enforcement Bureau. So that is a big concern for the broadcasters in those areas. MR. SWARZTRAUBER: There is not a sign on the box that says illegal pirate radio transmitters. Google Maps is a web mapping service developed by Google. We do that with every pirate station. Collection Info. 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. "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. You can sign up for the newsletter by emailing any of their edittors: John Brewer ([emailprotected]), Ragnar Danskjold ([emailprotected]), Harold Frodge ([emailprotected]), Dave Turnick ([emailprotected]) or Larry Will ([emailprotected]), OK, I suppose I must also mention my own humble blog, where I continue to amass numerous pirate radio loggings and off-air recordings. MR. DOMBROWSKI: Hometown. We'd like to contact you. I was still a teenager. 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. Yes, so it's kind of like a cascade of options --. 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. Bruce will host a new daily show for Bauer's station Greatest Hits Radio, taking his iconic PopMaster game with him. 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. 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. So it's not the -- In terms of size wise for mileage it's the smallest region, but it's the most populated. MR. SWARZTRAUBER: Probably just workload is another challenge in addition to folks moving the antennas around or taking them down during the day or only operating on weeknights and weekends, as you have said, which forces agents to work overtime. Pirate radio stations are unlicensed broadcasters. Ask your local radio club or search the Internet for local/regional pirate stations. Our agents are pretty smart on the tricks. 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. There was an operator named Stephen Dunifer. The British government, though, didn't appreciate what Radio Caroline and other pirate broadcasters were doing. Has it gotten worse, has it gotten better? Back in the 1980s, before the Internet and its online bulletin boards, I thought finding pirates was truly a huntrandom and altogether unpredictable. 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.". But the easiest way to file a complaint is go online. It eventually regrouped and resurfaced as an internet station, which gave it a global reach. They are not considered an operator by investing in that. MR. DOMBROWSKI: Yes, just 20. MR. DOMBROWSKI: That's not going to be my cell phone is it? 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. MR. SWARZTRAUBER: All right. Ive had great results in the past with an old Icom IC-735 and a 40-meter dipole antenna. And so these transmitters that they are purchasing and pirate stations are using do not go through the equipment process, the equipment authorization process, and that is a problem. If you live in other parts of the world, pirate hunting can pose serious DX challenges. "In Haiti during the Duvalier regime, people depended on radio to get news from independent sources off the island. I mean if you are familiar with telecom you know it's an illegal radio station, but what do we mean by pirate radio. MR. DOMBROWSKI: And so they said well because we were here before it was colonized our federal laws don't apply to us. Pirate radio or a pirate radio station is a radio station that broadcasts without a valid license. Listening to pirate radio is perfectly legaland frequently an ear-opening experience. While debunking myths about pirates, I can say that in my years of pirate radio listening Ive never heard a pirate intentionally jam a legal broadcaster. MR. SWARZTRAUBER: Oh, that's probably why they are complaining, right? I keep a copy handy as it helps me identify stations and better understand their format. Tracking a Pirate Radio Station The Modern Rogue Discovering Secret "Numbers Stations" The Modern Rogue Detecting a Wire and Hidden Spy Cams The Most Notorious TV Hijack of All Time Rodney P -. I decoded this Wolverine Radio SSTV QSL on the SSTV iOS App. MR. SWARZTRAUBER: So don't bother looking for it. But just as the British government's stiff penalties didn't deter Radio Caroline, at least so far, the U.S. government's crackdown doesn't seem to have deterred the pirates. MR. SWARZTRAUBER: And obviously as a good citizen I have never to my knowledge listened to a pirate radio station. Among the most popular queries made by readers is, How can I find and hear pirate radio stations? To help answer this question, Im writing this primer. They are not advertising. Some pirates have even shown in in the SWBC bands, including 49, 31 and 25 meters. To the contrary, though, more than a half-century later, pirate radio is still a thing. Buy me a coffee: https://www.paypal.me/ringwaymanchester Email: ringwaymanchester@mail.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/m3hhyofficial Facebook:. Listening to Other Stations: Click on the tuning arrows ( TUNE >) to listen to stations up and down the dial. For his new show, Bruce promises "me and my musings and all the great . For example, though Im a ham radio operator, I had never even attempted to decode the SSTV (slow-scan TV) mode until prompted to do so by Wolverine Radio: at the end (and sometimes in the middle) of their broadcasts, Wolverine is known to send electronic QSL cards via SSTV. 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. Ragnar Daneskjold hosts an occasional podcast serving the shortwave pirate community; it includes pirate radio news, off-air recordings, and more. So hopefully that's enough for them to get the station taken down and maybe share some information about who the real operator is. Pirates Week: http://shortwavepirate.info. They can call their State Broadcast Association to get our contact information. 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. SWARZTRAUBER: Yes, in those dense urban areas because the FM band is already pretty clogged up with legitimate stations that might be one of the reasons that people throw up their hands and say, well, I guess I'm just do an illegal station because I am frustrated by the legal process for getting a station, but that is not a justification in any sense of the word. 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. In fact, it's possibly more widespread than it was in the 1960s, even in an age when streaming internet services such as Spotify and Pandora put the equivalent of a jukebox in the pocket of everyone with a smartphone. 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? MR. DOMBROWSKI: And let them know. 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 --. Be careful to. It is illegal for companies to market equipment that hasn't gone through what we call a certification process, equipment authorization process, where they get a company to look at their transmitter to make sure it complies with our technical rules and doesn't have potential to cause interference to other radio services. MR. DOMBROWSKI: Yes. 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. Unlike trying to locate China Radio International, Radio Australia, or the BBC World Service, hunting pirates requires a decent-quality radio and antenna. MR. SWARZTRAUBER: Ten times as much, that's big, yes. VIEWS. So, the F. No, not the Pirates of the Caribbean or East Africawe're talking about pirate radio. Want to know why the usually run them out at sea. 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. Total Views 29,203 (Older Stats) ITEMS. MR. DOMBROWSKI: Well it depends what level we are at with the investigation. MR. SWARZTRAUBER: So when it comes to local law enforcement are they generally uninterested in taking this on or, you know, because you mentioned federal agents are often involved, it's federal courts, U.S. Pirate radio operators usually have day jobslike most of usthus only transmit while home from work. A few of them broadcast from ships, such as Rev. And as a bonus, Radio Caroline still exists though, ironically, it's gone legal. Where the "modern" history of pirate radio seems to begin, though, is in the 1960s when pirate radio operators would get on the air to spread their music to a wider audience. "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. The Moody Blues are one example of this." 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. Last updated: December 2022 Broadcasting at 250,000 watts, XERF was five times as powerful as the most high-powered Top 40 AM stations on the West Coast. Why? Searching for an FM radio station on your car radio is quite easy. And I have had to make this clarifying point on other podcasts that I have done at the FCC. The library's newest additions include deep historical resources and contemporary reporting about the world of radio. 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? Pirate stations want listeners to discover them, so they broadcast in various watering holes.. Do we have a right under the first amendment to speak via a radio station even if it is unlicensed by the FCC and is there potentially a case that can kind of exemplify why pirate radio is not protected under the First Amendment? But please note that we will never create a post and product link explicitly to receive a commission. Wolves are looking to climb up the table (Picture: Richard Heathcote/Getty Images) This will be the fourth time this year the two . I started as a field agent doing inspections and doing pirate radio enforcement was one of my jobs and then I moved into a senior agent position and then eventually the District Director, which the manager of the Philadelphia office. We take it all. 1. 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. If we can't get in touch with the property owner we try to use a locksmith and if we can't get the locksmith then the door comes breaking down and then we try to secure it before we leave. Interestingly, the antenna was so high up on the tower we had to bring a bucket truck in from a fire station and raise it --. Unlike major broadcasters, many pirates dont stick to AM as a preferred mode. Indeed, since pirates are operating at lower power, they get much more bang-for-the-watt out of SSB. Some stations think that it's best to flood the FCC with complaints. 14 July 2020. Sweet! Radio and electronics were my hobbies. There is a reason that those devices operate in an unlicensed manner because they are not transmitting very far. "To enforce the law and protect American radio listeners and lawful businesses, the Federal Communications Commission has made a concerted effort in recent years to step up our enforcement efforts against pirate radio stations.". So not only interference, but we also have issues of interference to other radio services. MR. DOMBROWSKI: So all that good equipment just gets recycled. MR. SWARZTRAUBER: They could stream it just like this podcast we're doing. And that is where we ask for the public's help. Even then, though, Radio Caroline wouldn't go away. Now that maybe gets us down to the building, you know, where it might be operating. He was out of Berkeley, California, and his station was called Radio Free Berkeley. It's covert surveillance equipment. 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. So we eventually went to the courts and fought. It would create chaos if we allowed them. And it was good media coverage, too. These pirate stations pose a host of problems for public safety, including interference with emergency alerts and air traffic control. Indeed, since pirates are operating at lower power, they get much more bang-for-the-watt out of SSB. While the magic of shortwave radio can transport a small signal vast distances, to hear pirates regularly and clearly, some precision is required. And one of the reasons that they are causing harmful interference, in particular to the FAA operations, is because they are not tested, right. They use either the internet or a wireless source to get the signal back to the transmitter. But the FCC, Congress and the commercial broadcasting industry don't see the pirates as serving such a benign purpose. After that we just destroy it through an electronics recycler. MR. DOMBROWSKI: Yes, the legitimate one, the licensed station. Its a simple technique, and although it takes some practice, will work on most any radio with a stable BFO (beat frequency oscillator). 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. We do contact the property owner before we execute the warrant to let them know we are at the door and we don't want to break the door down but we need them there to open it. Do you hear it any other time, you know, at night time? Right now it is $10,000 per day per occurrence. Just browse the pirate radio category: https://swling.com/blog/category/pirate-radio/. Give me an address or an intersection in the town that you are picking it up on. Andrew Yoder, author and publisher of the 2012 Pirate Radio Annual, defines pirate radio as: [A]ny unlicensed hobby broadcast operation that is using more power than the legal limit.. March 13 2022 . My most recent logging of a Euro pirate from North America was Radio Borderhunter on 15,500 kHz; his signal was quite amazing. But so when we say Region One I think even most people in the FCC are not necessarily aware of how the country is carved up when it comes to enforcement and the field offices, et cetera, so can you give the listeners a brief sense of what do we mean by Region One, what areas do you cover? MR. DOMBROWSKI: Yes. And did I mention the cool QSL cards? I apologize to the listeners in advance if I make any horrible, corny jokes throughout the course of this podcast, but it would probably help to start with a definition, right. And they could also --. 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. Ads are what helps us bring you premium content! The frequency spectrum is a natural resource and so all of our decisions that we make when we allocate spectrum is for the public interest. KQLZ Pirate Radio stormed the Southern California airwaves in 1989, and listeners "flushed" their former stations as they. Other times though you might have reason to suspect that they are in on it, they are getting a kickback. This article originally appeared in the February 2014 issue of The Spectrum Monitor Magazine. The reason is, no matter what time of the year it is, no matter what the space weather (yes, I said space weather) or conditions of the ionosphere are--FM stations are relatively few, local, and always broadcast in the same spots on the FM dial. Again, they are not law enforcement, so we don't have weapons. 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