Interesting. The overwhelming number of actions is for the FM band. The only AM action that I saw in quickly scrolling down the list was the Michigan station that was discussed at some length here.
I haven't been caught because my pirate radio activity is a thought crime, and the fcc field equipment isn't sensitive enough to detect it.
Meanwhile, I imagine having a full-wave tower way up into the sky with 1-million Watts at the center of the AM dial, using a transmitter I designed from spare parts, recycled beer cans and surplus CD disks.
My imaginary station has an all female staff and they pay me to work there.
The President tries to reach me for advice, but I won't take his calls because the radio station comes first but I would give him his own weekend slot if he wanted.
Rich F. is my chief engineer and... maybe I'm going a bit overboard.
However, as Einstein said, "Imagination is more important than knowledge."
I see a couple for Kentucky, that rarely happens.
The Michigan one was also listed as "repeated contact."
A lot of pirates come and go in the
Hartford CT area.
Last I checked there were 2 pirates on FM
fairly close to here with with large coverage
areas. One is on 101.7 and the other is on
103.3. This is second adjacent in a licensed
Hartford FM on 102.9, and nothing has happened
in several years.(!) Several others come and go
with large coverage areas, but the 103.3 is the
most powerful.
I take a lot of taxis, and one Sunday a couple of
years ago, I was picked up by a taxi driver who
had a Sunday show on the 103.3. He was listening
to it on the cab AM/FM radio, and when I heard
it, our conversation led me to find out about what
he was doing there.
Anyway, he thought all the 103.3 had to do was to
go on the air, do stuff for the community, and then
apply to eventually get a license. (Eventually?!)
I told him what the real deal was. He was a very nice
guy, and of course, just didn't know the reality of the
thing. I don't know if he stayed on with the 103.3 or not.
I told him that being there was risky.
So 5 or 6 FM pirates have come and either stayed or gone
in the last 5 years or so.
As far as AM goes, there is a 1700 that I can hear - it's
on one side of Hartford somewhere. It could be
something like a Rangemaster up on a big pole, I
guess. It sounds like a "fire and brimstone" operation
in the Spanish language.
These FM pirates are very sophisticated. They sell
lots of commercials for local businesses in lots of
small communities. They move around. I heard if
they get a notice from the FCC of unauthorized operation,
they just pick up and move to another address.
The real big problem is that some of these pirates
really are SERVING their communities.
It's a big mess.
Anyway, it's interesting about this latest
FCC action report.
Bruce
Up above I shared my pirate radio thoughts and have now boosted power to 2-million Watts and increased tower height to DOUBLE full-wave, but there's a good reason the FCC can't come after me...
The FCC rules do not apply to anything under 10 kHz, and thoughts exist in the ELF (Extra Low Frequency) region below 20 Hz.
Ha!
FCC Limits go down to 9KHZ
9KHZ?
I've shut down my imaginary superstation until this gets sorted out.
Gilligan's Island comes to mind.
I did a quick study at Wikipedia to recall the Gilligan show, which I sort of forgot about.
I guess I am being compared to the mistake prone Gilligan character, based on my mistake reputation.
But maybe you could switch me to the character Thurston Howell the III, the well educated millianaire played by Jim Bachus. Why?
Well, I self-identify with both higher education and have been a thousandaire, plus a brush or two with Jim Bachus.
As a child (still in progress) I realized that Mr. Magoo cartoons were the best entertainment I would ever know, the voice was by Jim Bachus.
Then, as a self-starting commercial producer I sat in the waiting room hoping to sell my announcing services to a big time ad agency, and was waiting to see Mae something, the big shot.
In order to brush me off while leaving a big impression the secretary explained to me that Mae was on a call with Stan Freberg and had Jim Bachus on hold.
That was their way of telling me that I was an unknown nobody.
That ad agency went out of business and I still pretend I'm in business, so who's a big shot now?
Jim Bachus was from my neck of the woods, Cleveland Ohio.
It's a holiday ritual to watch Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol at our house every year at this time.
Sadly, the Mr. Magoo character was deemed PI (Politically Incorrect) and no longer shown on TV. It seems the organizations for the visually impaired felt the character was offensive to those with a visual impairment.
Ya, it is too bad that Mr. Magoo got moth-balled because of the near-sighted handicap humor that put him in such treacherous situations of which he was never aware.
The same thing happened to the most popular radio series in its time, Amos and Andy, with two white actors playing the parts of black guys who blundered around plus their black families, who played hilareous supporting roles.
It's strange to track the history of what is and what isn't politically correct.
From a book I read recently the group now an approved target of ridicule is the white male of the family, who can be made out to be a witless bumbler constantly outdone by children and wives.
Carl wrote: "From a book I read recently the group now an approved target of ridicule is the white male of the family, who can be made out to be a witless bumbler constantly outdone by children and wives."
Yeah, one of my favorite tv shows ( and mind you, i don't like tv ) was Married With Children.
Poor Al Bundy (Ed O'Neil) was always trying to get a leg up but his wife and two kids always mucked it up for him.
"Mr. Mcgoo's Christmas Carol"
has an absolutely beautiful
musical score.
I wonder who wrote it.
"Winter Was Warm" is one
song that comes to mind.
Even though it's a cartoon,
Jacob Marley coming up the
cellar stairs still creeps me out.
So does the image of the Lion
doorknocker as it's face turns into
Marley's face. It scared the living
daylights out of me when I was a kid.
We watch it every year too, provided
I can find the VHS tape, or if it's on TV
on some channel we get.
"Great To Be Back On Broadway!"
Bruce