"The government decided that radio was too influential as a means of mass communication to be in private hands," Peter Moore explains in an email. Marshal Service and seize all of the equipment that is associated with the operation of a radio station, really anything physically connected to the transmitter. KQLZ Pirate Radio stormed the Southern California airwaves in 1989, and. 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: Pirate radio. The Radio Informer - The latest info on the world of radio including:world,shortwave . What would that bill do differently? So just keep in mind next time you read some nice hipster article about how great pirate radio is in your community, that there are serious issues at play and what the FCC is doing is really important and that's why it's so great to have you on here to share your perspective and some of your history working on this and we really just want to thank you for your service. Total . ACTIVITY. He's the station manager for today's legal, land-based version of Radio Caroline, which obtained a license to broadcast at 648 Khz on the AM band in 2017, but still strives to preserve the rebellious spirit of the original operation. 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. They can call their State Broadcast Association to get our contact information. 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. So hopefully that's enough for them to get the station taken down and maybe share some information about who the real operator is. 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. They are not advertising. 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? Whether youre a QSL collector, a content DXer, or the casual SWLer, I find theres something in pirate radio listening for everyone. What's more, pirate radio stations gave us access to some of the most pivotal figures in UK music . I mean they have a significant financial investment in their stations, they have gone through proper FCC process, and now they are competing for listeners with stations that did not go through that process, did not necessarily bear the same financial burden to get up and running, and they are not maybe just competing with listeners, as we have mentioned we've been competing with, they are competing with advertisers as well. Give me an address or an intersection in the town that you are picking it up on. . MR. DOMBROWSKI: And so they said well because we were here before it was colonized our federal laws don't apply to us. I received this QSL from the amazing Radio Ronin Shortwave shortly before he received the knock from the FCC and stopped transmitting. 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. Listening to pirate radio is perfectly legaland frequently an ear-opening experience. MR. SWARZTRAUBER: My guest has been David Dombrowski, Regional Director for Region One in the FCC Enforcement Bureau. 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. So they thought that was a way for them to avoid detection by hopping from building to building and frequency to frequency. Enter ZIP code or city, state as well. Dont believe me? Click here to view a list of all sponsors. So we have a lot of those stations operating, so it's big revenue for them. MR. DOMBROWSKI: Yes, everyone's dream job. As Yoder goes on to explain in his introduction of the 2012 Pirate Radio Annual, pirates are often confused with radio bootleggers (who conduct unlicensed two-way conversations), clandestine stations (usually political stations), and jammers (who intentionally try to block broadcasts). MR. SWARZTRAUBER: There is not a sign on the box that says illegal pirate radio transmitters. And they could also --. 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. I was glad to be here, it was a great opportunity. It will also help to have some sort of adjustable bandwidth filter (wide/narrow). Now one thing I want to talk about is Part 15. We also get the other federal agencies involved, the Department of Justice, U.S. Attorney's Office, where we can seek a warrant. But they also encroach on those legitimate stations that made significant investments and secured the necessary regulatory approvals to obtain a license. . 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 --. The British government, though, didn't appreciate what Radio Caroline and other pirate broadcasters were doing. MR. DOMBROWSKI: Yes. "One is cost. 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. "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. 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. So when they say, oh, I don't need a license to operate I'm a Part 15 transmitter, well we have to do studies and measurements to see if that's true. Winning a con. . A lot of times you can tell by the audio quality. So that's why the licensing process is so important to avoid that interference. 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. 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. That would be not a good practice. If they are getting interference to a station they would like to listen what station is that, give the call sign. Compared to big-gun broadcasters, pirates are much more elusive game as very few announce their broadcasts in advance, and theres no telling where a pirates transmitter is located: it could be in their home, on a boat, or a portable one dropped in a remote location and later retrieved. MR. DOMBROWSKI: That's not going to be my cell phone is it? Marshals actually seize it. They came and seized all of my equipment. Ive hunted pirates with a range of such radios, among them the Sony ICF-SW7600GR, the Grundig G3, the Grundig G5, the Tecsun PL-600 and PL-660, and even the new Tecsun PL-880. MR. DOMBROWSKI: So the complainant needs to tell us where they hear the station. Why? And then they said to me well here is ten jobs that you potentially could have which one is your top choice? A lot of stations conceal their antennas, they hide behind things, they take the antennas down during they day, so they try avoid detection. MR. SWARZTRAUBER: No. Well, I can't say exactly what it is, but, yes, they're --. 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. 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 --. Indeed, since pirates are operating at lower power, they get much more bang-for-the-watt out of SSB. bclc lotto app not working; signs your internship will turn into a job; mary suehr schmitz. This means that by clicking on these links, a small percentage of the purchase price for goods you purchase from these sellers will help support our sites running costs. 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. 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. MR. DOMBROWSKI: Okay. 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. Thank you, too, for your support of these sites. 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? So we try to shut down, you know, that equipment coming in to the purchasers. 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. Do a little pirate radio hunting yourself. For consistencys sake, I will use the term pirate radio in this article. 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. DOMBROWSKI: No, it doesn't have -- It's not marked with pizza delivery guy either. Moreover, summer conditions in the North American 43 meter band are often much noisier, thus pirates know theyll be fighting static crashes to be heard during the summer months. 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. Thank you! While the magic of shortwave radio can transport a small signal vast distances, to hear pirates regularly and clearly, some precision is required. The original 60s pirate station, playing fresh pop / rock music to Britain's young masses from a boat in the North Sea, floating in international waters four and a half miles off the Essex coastline. Keep in mind that pirates are relatively low-power broadcasters. Jason Scott Archivist. "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. 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. comment. MR. DOMBROWSKI: Yes, we have a lot of stations in New York, in particular. MR. DOMBROWSKI: Hometown. 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. 1. 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. And then he had, you know, he was on the internet. Give us a sense of the universe of this problem given that it is such a priority for this FCC to crack down on it. Do you hear it any other time, you know, at night time? MR. DOMBROWSKI: No, not the public face, but he's all the behind the scenes guy. "He was waiting several months to come back on the air (and therefore was only willing to speak off the record to me). VIEWS. Since FM radio is broadcast as a mono signal, with a left-minus-right signal sent alongside, they can make a two-channel stereo station by recreating the stereo pilot carrier and then adding in. MR. DOMBROWSKI: Yes, well just in the FM band particularly, if we just let everybody operate where they want it just creates chaos, and that's always been our argument that it creates chaos it the spectrum. 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. 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. 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. The history of pirate radio stations is inextricably linked with the development of countless genres, including hip-hop, garage, punk, and grime. Weve now covered the who, what, where, when, and how of pirate huntingbut what about why? MR. DOMBROWSKI: Yes, to lease some air time off these legitimate stations. We usually go with the police just for our protection and also for the protection of the occupants inside the residence. Indeed, since pirates are operating at lower power, they get much more bang-for-the-watt out of SSB. So sometimes the apartment owner, the building owner, or whatever, is totally in the dark about this, didn't know about. The Moody Blues are one example of this." MR. DOMBROWSKI: Yes. Is this something that plays a role in alerting you to these stations that broadcasters themselves are identifying them and complaining about them? comment. Coffee helps fuel the SWLing Post! We want them to be as descriptive as possible. Answer (1 of 14): Why I am qualified to answer this question. 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: Yes, so you have options. Enter a location to find a nearby pirate radio stations. This article originally appeared in the February 2014 issue of The Spectrum Monitor Magazine. 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. Not all the illegal stations are pirate stations! 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? 19. r/HamRadio. MR. SWARZTRAUBER: And that is obviously at the highest importance when we are talking about public safety. 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. So, for example, if youre listening for North American pirates from Europe, youll need to plan accordingly. Recycling is good. For his new show, Bruce promises "me and my musings and all the great . Collection Info. I mean you got to give it to Congress for the bill naming that they do. Tribute to Pirate Radio, KQLZ 100.3 FM Los Angeles. 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. Well we did go to the courts, we got the warrant, and the U.S. Of course, the chaos of the radio spectrum was one of the reasons this agency was created in the first place, including our predecessor agency The Federal Radio Commission, but there are other issues that broadcasters in particular complain about. The BBC played catch-up launching Radio One and recruiting the same pirates for their roster. They were also changing frequency. 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: You know, that's hard to say. 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. Marshal Service actually and that allows us to go in with the U.S. They can be just talk radio stations, they could be religious broadcasters, or they could be full-fledged stations that have a staffing of 20 people that make commercials, that create the jingles for their station ID, and the ones that have more money and the money advertisers are the ones that are very hard to distinguish. Each issue also contains a CD of sound clips from various pirates, several articles about the state of pirate radio, and other relevant info. Radio and electronics were my hobbies. Pirate radio operators usually have day jobslike most of usthus only transmit while home from work. So a transmitter that complies with the Part 15 requirements has a very small operating range, about 100 feet. More areas, more just the urban areas. MR. SWARZTRAUBER: Yes, and it's also I assume illegal for these advertisers to be advertising on pirate stations, they just might not know that they are pirates. So what is the state of pirate radio in the U.S. and how is the FCC taking it on? So it's not just that a pirate radio station might be harming other radio stations, which is bad in and of itself and could pose a public safety risk with emergency communications, but we're talking serious stuff when we talk about FAA and air traffic control. They can be highly entertaining or thought-provoking, and thus are, themselves, a unique art form. They label the equipment as something else. 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? We would also have to create a database for the public access. It is portable, but can also be used as a permanent FM radio station. 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. MR. SWARZTRAUBER: All right. MR. DOMBROWSKI: It's not, you know, and we didn't talk about, there are other legal ways to go about it. 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. Some pirates have even shown in in the SWBC bands, including 49, 31 and 25 meters. 16 days ago. "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. And that's it, we will catch you next time. A lot of times the studio is not co-located with the transmitter. Finding Shortwave Stations and Broadcasts. So you couldn't be blamed for assuming that it depicts a long-vanished phenomenon, like Nehru jackets with iridescent scarves and psychedelic-patterned paper mini dresses. 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. The bulk of the pirate radio broadcasters I log transmit just below the 40-meter amateur radio band: anywhere from 6,850 kHz to 6,970 kHz and typically on a frequency spaced at 5 kHz. 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. He then obtained another ship, a German trawler called the Ross Revenge, which continued to host the station until it ran aground along the British coast in 1991. Now some folks might be asking themselves this is all great, I totally agree that pirate radio is bad, and I think that you should absolutely go after it, but what about the First Amendment? MR. SWARZTRAUBER: Well at least you are recycling. I am a Philadelphia native, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and I graduated Temple University and my first job was the FCC right out of college and interestingly --. So what is the state of pirate radio in the U.S. and how is the FCC taking it on? MR. SWARZTRAUBER: And we're talking about air traffic control? Pirate Radio goes on the air in Los Angeles by "taking over" K-Lite 100 (KIQQ). Use promo code ROGUE to get a shot at MILLIONS OF DOLLARS in total prizes! (Disclaimer). But if we sign it into law we would have some additional resources, first increasing the fines. MR. DOMBROWSKI: Well that's what I went up with. 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? 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. We have pirate radio there, too, not as bad as we did in New York. We call them Notices of Apparent Liability where we will fine the operator. Enter the dawn of pirate radio. Now, of course, my favorite thing that I want to ask you is what are some fun examples, maybe not fun, but interesting examples of cases that you have closed where maybe the circumstances were a bit bizarre or interesting that might help a listener understand just how weird some of this stuff can get and just how interesting some of these operations can be. Now you usually get one of your top, you know, first or second choice. 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. 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. It eventually regrouped and resurfaced as an internet station, which gave it a global reach. Our agency was delegated by Congress to allocate frequencies and allocate it in the public interest and it's a resource. MR. DOMBROWSKI: Yes, there was a case back in the 1990s, late 1990s. MR. SWARZTRAUBER: Right. Now when we talk about enforcement actions, you know, I'd like to kind of paint a picture for our listeners. There was an operator named Stephen Dunifer. All you need is a location to host the antenna and access to electricity unless you've got batteries, then just the location.". They are very low power and the range of them are very small. MR. DOMBROWSKI: Yes, very creative on that, wasn't it? Just browse the pirate radio category: https://swling.com/blog/category/pirate-radio/. MR. DOMBROWSKI: Right. The government authorities in charge of the surveillance of the radio-electric spectrum can use the PROWATCH instruments to detect and locate the pirate and irregular broadcast stations of radio and TV. I was still a teenager. MR. SWARZTRAUBER: -- and you always try to go with the least destructive one. Unlike major broadcasters, many pirates dont stick to AM as a preferred mode. So I have -- In terms of population I manage 20 States in the Northeast area of the United States. Want to buy me a cup of coffee? Nothing. David Goren, a veteran radio producer who's created programming for National Public Radio, has spent years studying pirate broadcasters. We'd like to contact you. Other times though you might have reason to suspect that they are in on it, they are getting a kickback. 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. Of course, it's called the PIRATE Act, and that stands for Preventing Illegal Radio Abuse Through Enforcement Act. As soon as there were laws on the books, there were pirate radio stations on the air. 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. 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. If you've been binge-watching movies lately, you may have come across "Pirate Radio." He was out of Berkeley, California, and his station was called Radio Free Berkeley. MR. SWARZTRAUBER: Welcome to "More Than 7 Dirty Words," the official FCC podcast. 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 we get complaints from the FAA quite often, more than a few times a month in New York, and that the pilots are flying over the city and they are trying to communicate with air traffic control and all of a sudden they pick up a radio station. Liverpool vs Wolves will kick-off on Wednesday, March 1 at 8pm. But if you are buying something off of the dark web or whatever and it's coming into the U.S. you don't know, and when we talked before the show you mentioned that a lot of times with these FAA complaints it's a malfunctioning transmitter. Yes, they come with weapons. The antenna is not where the people are necessarily or where the rest of the equipment is. While you can hear some on weekdays, your best bet is Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights, local time. 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:. 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