FCC shuts down 2 pirates in Erie,PA

What about AM pirates, they are out there!

I can't hear KYW 1060 AM philadelphia, because here in elkridge, md, there is some hispanic pirate operating on 1060 and totally ruining their beautiful 50,000 watt flamethrower signal! But then I can hear it fine over on the eastern shore of maryland!

AM signals travel so much farther than FM so it just crowds things even more.

Anyway, the FCC really needs to get their act together.

While not pirates in the ultimate sense of the term, many foreign language broadcast operators do seem to operate in a pretty heavy handed manner.

Here in the 4th corner we get clobbered by Hindu language stations broadcasting out of southern BC at the high end of the dial, several local spanish outlets and one southeast asian language station, from where I'm not sure.

All have more splatter and heavier audio processing than the more traditionaly operated outlets and seem to really crap all over reception of anything at night.

most of maryland is in their fringe contour. a local part 15 station could easily over ride their signal.

don't automatically assume that it is a pirate.

this is the same conclusion that broadcast engineers jump to.

see...
http://www.radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/pat?call=KYW&service=AM&status=L&hours=U

elkridge is definitely in kyw's fringe contour.

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=elkridge,+md&sll=38.833289,-76.500549&sspn=1.009847,2.469177&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Elkridge,+Howard,+Maryland&ll=39.215231,-77.03064&spn=2.008785,4.938354&t=h&z=8

before calling the FCC try and find out if they are running a rangemaster or other certified part 15 am transmitter before you sick the FCC on them.