MR. DOMBROWSKI: Yes. MR. DOMBROWSKI: Right. 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. Many of you have suggested in the past that the SWLing Post join an affiliate links program. 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. I have four offices, it includes Chicago, it includes Boston, New York, and Columbia, Maryland. That's part of it, right, and you rely on some cooperation in some instances to get it done. Buy me a coffee: https://www.paypal.me/ringwaymanchester Email: ringwaymanchester@mail.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/m3hhyofficial Facebook:. But please note that we will never create a post and product link explicitly to receive a commission. To have a radio station here helps to establish the station's operator as an important source of information and influence in the community.". So that is quite a large area. Indeed, this past November, I listened to the pirate Channel Z while sitting in my truck; I was only using a Tecsun PL-660 with the antenna extended out of my opened drivers-side window. So if they don't meet the Part 15 requirements they need a license. Some pirates simply key down their mike and begin talking, sharing their political or social views; others offer near-professional music productions, complete with listener feedback, and often acknowledge listener reports with QSLs (radio postcards). MR. DOMBROWSKI: Thank you. And so, yes, we may -- We have a warrant for the property. 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. 3. And you have tools to escalate the situation. 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. Note:Even though it is illegal to broadcast on the shortwave bands without a license, and those who do so are subject to hefty fines, it is not illegal to listen or to send and receive QSL cards from such operators. 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. 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 . Powerful, uncertified transmitters manufactured in foreign countries easily slip through customs at U.S. ports. While you can hear some on weekdays, your best bet is Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights, local time. It would create chaos if we allowed them. What would that bill do differently? 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. It might be illegal in terms of IRS about the taxes that aren't be collected off the exchange of funds in the business that's going on behind doors. But the FCC, Congress and the commercial broadcasting industry don't see the pirates as serving such a benign purpose. Thank you, too, for your support of these sites. And so he brought this argument up when we tried to get his station off the air by using the court proceedings and he fought that we were violating his First Amendment rights. Meanwhile, the Ross Revenge was repaired and converted into a floating museum for tourists. MR. SWARZTRAUBER: Because you don't know what you are running into. Total . 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. To track pirates, youll need a radio with both AM and SSB modes. MR. DOMBROWSKI: No, it doesn't have -- It's not marked with pizza delivery guy either. The warrant is issued to the U.S. So I have -- In terms of population I manage 20 States in the Northeast area of the United States. The important thing here is that you invest in a receiver with a respectable degree of sensitivity and selectivity. "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. We usually go with the police just for our protection and also for the protection of the occupants inside the residence. Marshals went in with us and we seized the equipment. Let's say you don't get cooperation from a building owner, you don't get cooperation from the eventual studio, maybe it's in their apartment and they're not opening the door, obviously, because they don't want to get caught. 14 July 2020. 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. 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 --. "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. So that is a big concern for the broadcasters in those areas. 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. April 8, 2015 - 10:43 am. We have been at in rem seizures we call them where the U.S. marshals come with the local law enforcement and there is 20 of them and they have to secure the whole block off, the have to secure the building for our protection. If you live in a geographic hotbed of pirate activity (again, eastern/central North America and Europe) you might find a portable radio ample for hearing a number of pirates. 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. 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. 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. They don't know how to reach us? They label the equipment as something else. Has it evolved over the years? MR. SWARZTRAUBER: And we talked a little bit about why this is a problem. We call them Notices of Apparent Liability where we will fine the operator. One of the FCC's top enforcement priorities is cracking down on pirates. 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. Now this is not just a focus of the FCC, Congress is also interested in this. "How Pirate Radio Rocked the 1960s Airwaves and Still Exists Today" 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. 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. It had a 20-mile range. But it worked out great, it was a great career in the media bureau. 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. 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. Though Channel Z was broadcasting in AM, as many do, its best to hunt pirates with an SSB-capable portable. On Easter Sunday in 1964, the station went on the air, playing the Rolling Stones' single "It's All Over Now" as its first song. 16 days ago. This metal-focused platform is available entirely online, so you can access the music from a lot of different locations, even though the station is based in San Francisco. MR. DOMBROWSKI: Yes. Unlicensed radio broadcasters have been around practically since governments started trying to control and regulate the airwaves. MR. SWARZTRAUBER: Welcome to "More Than 7 Dirty Words," the official FCC podcast. Well, I can't say exactly what it is, but, yes, they're --. MR. DOMBROWSKI: Yes. About Google Maps. 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. In the U.S. the most famous example of a Pirate Radio station was Mexico's XERF. Ask your local radio club or search the Internet for local/regional pirate stations. And they could also --. I used a pneumatic spud gun to launch an arborist's bag to deploy my 50' end fed antenna 40' up into a tree. MR. DOMBROWSKI: That's not going to be my cell phone is it? More areas, more just the urban areas. We also recommend that the complainant contact the station that they are getting interference to --. "In Haiti during the Duvalier regime, people depended on radio to get news from independent sources off the island. 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. Listening to Other Stations: Click on the tuning arrows ( TUNE >) to listen to stations up and down the dial. We get them in Virginia, we get them out in Illinois, even just remote areas of West Virginia they pop up. Want to buy me a cup of coffee? And then he had, you know, he was on the internet. MR. SWARZTRAUBER: And we're talking about air traffic control? And that's a pretty big deterrent when you show up with police officers threatening to arrest somebody because they are operating a pirate radio station. While the magic of shortwave radio can transport a small signal vast distances, to hear pirates regularly and clearly, some precision is required. Is this something that plays a role in alerting you to these stations that broadcasters themselves are identifying them and complaining about them? comment. 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. Airchecks from unauthorized broadcast radio stations throughout the years. So not only interference, but we also have issues of interference to other radio services. MR. SWARZTRAUBER: We only waited 15 minutes into the episode to get to the fun part so I hope you are listening. Searching for an FM radio station on your car radio is quite easy. 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. . Tribute to Pirate Radio, KQLZ 100.3 FM Los Angeles. Now you usually get one of your top, you know, first or second choice. Unlike major broadcasters, many pirates dont stick to AM as a preferred mode. Answer (1 of 14): Why I am qualified to answer this question. Now stop your Googling right now because that is illegal, right? 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. 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. So, for example, if youre listening for North American pirates from Europe, youll need to plan accordingly. 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. What's more, pirate radio stations gave us access to some of the most pivotal figures in UK music . "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. Please leave us a review because it will help others find this show. MR. DOMBROWSKI: So we have two ways to file a complaint. 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. "One reason I've found as to why people are still using pirate radio is that these communities have very strong cultural and historic connections to radio," Goren explains. South America was strong for a while in the 90s, but that has also fallen silent. Across the country FCC officials are working to identify and take action against illegal unlicensed radio operators using frequencies allocated for legitimate radio operators that are causing interference and other issues. And what the pirate radio operators do is they don't obtain a license, they don't go through this process, and they try to find vacant spectrum between these stations. 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. And did I mention the cool QSL cards? ACTIVITY. 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. And that is where we ask for the public's help. MR. SWARZTRAUBER: And those, and I think we mentioned New York, we mentioned Philadelphia, are there other hot spots in particular where this seems to just be a bigger problem than elsewhere in the country? MR. SWARZTRAUBER: Just because it's easy to buy it doesn't mean it's legal. After the reorganization and modernization of the field I then became the Regional Director and manage several offices now. MR. DOMBROWSKI: Yes, if it's imported. MR. DOMBROWSKI: Hometown. In the quieter winter months, stations seem to pop out of the ether. It's something we have been doing as long as the equipment has been available we've always had pirate radio operators. MR. DOMBROWSKI: And let them know. So we have a team here in the Enforcement Bureau that does that, our Spectrum Enforcement Division. 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. tyson jost dad; sean penn parkinson's disease; mockingbirds attacking my cat MR. DOMBROWSKI: No, and some of these are in high crime areas where there is a lot of drugs. I mean you got to give it to Congress for the bill naming that they do. Radio and electronics were my hobbies. Pirate stations want listeners to discover them, so they broadcast in various watering holes.. MR. DOMBROWSKI: Sure. Finding Shortwave Stations and Broadcasts. There is a reason that those devices operate in an unlicensed manner because they are not transmitting very far. That was right when the internet really started exploding so he was able to get his message out. We have pirate radio there, too, not as bad as we did in New York. There was an operator named Stephen Dunifer. An excellent and active pirate radio forum hosted by Chris Smolinski. 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. 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. Find this podcast in the iTunes store or Google Play or wherever you get your podcasts. 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. So what is the state of pirate radio in the U.S. and how is the FCC taking it on? Sweet! To track pirates, you'll need a radio with both AM and SSB modes. A lot of stations conceal their antennas, they hide behind things, they take the antennas down during they day, so they try avoid detection. Last updated: December 2022 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. 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. This radio in a single case is also capable of re-broadcasting any audio source. PROMAX designs several monitoring and spectrum surveillance systems. 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. Select a station from the list and it will play on the tuner. They are not advertising. We have language to kind of consider them an operator, so they could be liable for a fine and we do issue them a warning letter. 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. 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. It was the strongest pirate station I have ever witnessed. MR. DOMBROWSKI: Yes. 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SWARZTRAUBER: So let's say that either a broadcaster or a listener files a complaint, what happens then, what tools do you, your colleagues in the FCC, have to go about finding a station, shutting it down, bringing people to justice? The FCC argued that we were here to regulate the airwaves. I was hired into an engineering training program down in Norfolk, Virginia, where we got classroom orientation on all the different radio services and the bureaus and offices for the FCC. That happens a lot. Our agents are pretty smart on the tricks. 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. But if we sign it into law we would have some additional resources, first increasing the fines. Coffee helps fuel the SWLing Post! MR. SWARZTRAUBER: Right, he's no the public face of it. And so he kind of gets shielded, right, you know the operators who are operating the station because they advertise their phone numbers in social media and so we can easily identify them, but you always have somebody that's the money guy that's safely hiding behind all these other staff and --. 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. 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. 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? 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. Many of our links now function as affiliate links. 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. 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? So a pirate radio by simple terms is a broadcast station operating in the FM band, 88 megahertz to 108 megahertz that you dial up on your car radio, that is operating without a license. It is portable, but can also be used as a permanent FM radio station. MR. DOMBROWSKI: Yes, we have a lot of stations in New York, in particular. Click here to view a list of all sponsors. This includes the FM, AM and shortwave radio bands. They spent the fees to get the license. MR. SWARZTRAUBER: And that is obviously at the highest importance when we are talking about public safety. If they are getting interference to a station they would like to listen what station is that, give the call sign. "He was waiting several months to come back on the air (and therefore was only willing to speak off the record to me). 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 --. 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 So when we license stations, you know, I used to work in the FM branch so I am very knowledgeable about the process, but there is a whole legal and engineering study that has to be done before you get a license and it takes resources to do that, financial resources. There is a lot of misconception about what a low power transmitter is. Not all the illegal stations are pirate stations! 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? All you need is a location to host the antenna and access to electricity unless you've got batteries, then just the location.". We have a call center, it's 888-CALL-FCC where we have staff there during business hours to take your complaint. They came and seized all of my equipment. MR. DOMBROWSKI: So this equipment helps us track us down. 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. There was a case that I worked back in Philly back in the day --. 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? They lose advertisers because of it, they lose coverage area because of it, and it all comes down to dollars and cents. Given other responsibilities and obligations, however, the Commission's resources are stretched, and it seems that stopping pirate radio is not at the top of the priority list. 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. 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. And an overall limit of $2 million. MR. SWARZTRAUBER: Got you. KQLZ Pirate Radio stormed the Southern California airwaves in 1989, and listeners "flushed" their former stations as they. And so we need to make sure that we stop the importation of this equipment, we stop the marketing of these illegal transmitters. So we typed up this -- They showed me a license and it was something typed up on the computer that said we're licensed by their statutes of the Moors people and so they felt that they have a right to operate. 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. MR. DOMBROWSKI: Yes, to lease some air time off these legitimate stations. "He created Radio Caroline operating in that way and the station was at once called a 'pirate,'" Moore says. The U.S. Please support this website by adding us to your whitelist in your ad blocker. MR. DOMBROWSKI: Well that's what I went up with. I was glad to be here, it was a great opportunity. MR. SWARZTRAUBER: All right. Well I want to, you know, just emphasize the importance of this issue. MR. DOMBROWSKI: No, not the public face, but he's all the behind the scenes guy. 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. These guys aren't blowing off their listeners like the other radio stations. 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. The BBC played catch-up launching Radio One and recruiting the same pirates for their roster. No, not the Pirates of the Caribbean or East Africawe're talking about pirate radio. MR. DOMBROWSKI: So you could cause like a catastrophe if we, you know, let this continue. 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. Total Views 29,573 (Older Stats) ITEMS. 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. I mean stream --. 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. My most recent logging of a Euro pirate from North America was Radio Borderhunter on 15,500 kHz; his signal was quite amazing. Has it gotten worse, has it gotten better? Pirate stations want listeners to discover them, so they broadcast in various "watering holes." Want to know why the usually run them out at sea. Pirates Week: http://shortwavepirate.info. VIEWS. Thank you! 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. MR. SWARZTRAUBER: It doesn't say FCC pirate agent? 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? And so it ranges from Maine down to Virginia and all the States east of Missouri, Iowa, and Minnesota. Pirate radio operators usually have day jobslike most of usthus only transmit while home from work. 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