Now that maybe gets us down to the building, you know, where it might be operating. Radio 510 International - European relay station broadcasting every weekend on short-wave to all of Europe, Northern Africa and the Middle East on 13840 kHz. We hope you understand, and are grateful for your support. 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. Everyone should agree that pirate radio stations - by any definition - are completely illegal. Radio and electronics were my hobbies. Radio Caroline. MR. SWARZTRAUBER: Right, he's no the public face of it. 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. They could stream. 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. MR. DOMBROWSKI: Well that's what I went up with. And they come -- I've worked with them when they have bulletproof vests on and automatic weapons. The BBC played catch-up launching Radio One and recruiting the same pirates for their roster. Ask your local radio club or search the Internet for local/regional pirate stations. 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. 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. 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. Pirate radio or a pirate radio station is a radio station that broadcasts without a valid license. Once you get a license it restricts you where you can operate, how much power you can use, what antenna you can use, and how high your antenna is. 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. Ex-Beatle George Harrison was sufficiently appreciative of Radio Caroline's mission that he even wrote a sizable check in the early 1970s to help keep the ship in operation, according to Ray Clark's book "Radio Caroline: The True Story of the Ship That Rocked.". And audiences can get the station on inexpensive radio receivers there's no need to have a computer or a smartphone with 5G, or to pay a monthly subscription fee or worry about blowing through their data limits. Unlicensed radio broadcasters have been around practically since governments started trying to control and regulate the airwaves. These include Amateur Radio Newsline, a weekly audio news [] Marshal Service actually and that allows us to go in with the U.S. ACTIVITY. For consistencys sake, I will use the term pirate radio in this article. We call them Notices of Apparent Liability where we will fine the operator. 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. 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. Collection Info. So, the F. The Who actually paid homage to Radio Caroline and other offshore broadcasters by parodying them on their 1967 concept album "The Who Sell Out," as music historian John Atkins has written. So when we finally are able to pick up the signal in our car we then drive in the area in kind of a circle around the source and we plot lines, we call them lines of bearing on a map, and where they intersect is where this transmission source is originating. In January, President Donald Trump signed into law the Preventing Illegal Radio Abuse Through Enforcement (PIRATE) Act, which gives regulators the ability to hit pirate stations with fines of up to $2 million, according to this summary from Radio World. 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. That doesn't prohibit somebody from filing an anonymous complaint, we still take those. 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 --. Addeddate 2022-03-13 23:21:58 . MR. DOMBROWSKI: And so that's not practical for somebody that wants to operate a radio station to cover an entire community. He got the craft back and kept at pirate radio for nearly another quarter century. We usually go with the police just for our protection and also for the protection of the occupants inside the residence. It's a very calm, peaceful, that's what our agents are trained to do, because it works a lot more in getting the truth of what's going on rather than being threatening and forceful. In 1971 I was ordered to Cease and Desist by our friends at the FCC. Total . Note: This podcast was recorded on June 21st. 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. Radio GDay came on from Australia occasionally, but no one else. MR. DOMBROWSKI: Hometown. Created on. * Shows you how to find pirate stations on your AM/FM, shortwave, and online radios. They are not advertising. MR. SWARZTRAUBER: Right. 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. Bruce will host a new daily show for Bauer's station Greatest Hits Radio, taking his iconic PopMaster game with him. 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. 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. If you've been binge-watching movies lately, you may have come across "Pirate Radio." MR. DOMBROWSKI: Yes, it's -- Pirate radio has been around for decades. This includes the FM, AM and shortwave radio bands. MR. SWARZTRAUBER: Yes. We'd like to contact you. Now I know that finding pirates is reasonably achievable; at least, it is possible to know roughly where, and generally when, to find them. If you live outside of North America and Europe, that doesnt mean there arent pirate radio stations to be found. MR. SWARZTRAUBER: Yes. These guys aren't blowing off their listeners like the other radio stations. MR. SWARZTRAUBER: And we talked a little bit about why this is a problem. "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. 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. 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. Hobby Broadcasting Blog: http://hobbybroadcasting.blogspot.com/. It could be computers, antennas, coaxial cables. He was out of Berkeley, California, and his station was called Radio Free Berkeley. Hover over one of the three pirate radio neighborhood zones (the center zone has the most stations) and click for a list of stations that broadcast to those areas. MR. DOMBROWSKI: Sure. Yes, so it's kind of like a cascade of options --. MR. DOMBROWSKI: Yes. 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? 10. 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:. That's really helpful because then we can note when to send the agents out. They lose advertisers because of it, they lose coverage area because of it, and it all comes down to dollars and cents. And so when a station operates say on 95.5 megahertz they now have potential to cause interference to other stations on 95.5 that may be a little distance away. Answer (1 of 14): Why I am qualified to answer this question. So --. Across the country, FCC officials are working to identify and take action against unlicensed radio operators that illegally use the frequencies allocated for legitimate radio operators. So we have a team here in the Enforcement Bureau that does that, our Spectrum Enforcement Division. We are not trying to teach you to do something illegal, we are trying to prevent you from doing something illegal, so you can stop your Google search. MR. DOMBROWSKI: Okay. "He created Radio Caroline operating in that way and the station was at once called a 'pirate,'" Moore says. The Moody Blues are one example of this." MR. SWARZTRAUBER: -- and you always try to go with the least destructive one. Well I want to, you know, just emphasize the importance of this issue. MR. DOMBROWSKI: No, and some of these are in high crime areas where there is a lot of drugs. Back when KIWI was on the air regularly in the 90s, I assumed that pirate radio would explode in Oceania and Asia. MR. DOMBROWSKI: Yes, to lease some air time off these legitimate stations. 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. Again, they are not law enforcement, so we don't have weapons. 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. I keep a copy handy as it helps me identify stations and better understand their format. 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. Liverpool vs Wolves will kick-off on Wednesday, March 1 at 8pm. Marshals actually seize 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: 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. The library's newest additions include deep historical resources and contemporary reporting about the world of radio. It will also help to have some sort of adjustable bandwidth filter (wide/narrow). They label the equipment as something else. So that's been great because now we can work with the local authorities, such as the police or the district attorney's office, and get them involved in the investigation, and they have the power to arrest and fine people. So those are some of the challenges that you all have to tackle in taking on this important enforcement function. Goren, who's been monitoring the airwaves since the law was passed, notes that on a typical day, he picks up about 26 pirate stations in Brooklyn alone. I know at least in our region we get them everywhere. MR. SWARZTRAUBER: Oh, yes. 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 I will put in the show notes a link to the FCC complaint page and the phone number if you would like to get involved. 19. r/HamRadio. The British government, though, didn't appreciate what Radio Caroline and other pirate broadcasters were doing. I am Evan Swarztrauber. Before we talk about where to hunt pirates, however, we need to talk about the necessary equipmenti.e., your radio and antenna. Weve now covered the who, what, where, when, and how of pirate huntingbut what about why? 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. This article originally appeared in the February 2014 issue of The Spectrum Monitor Magazine. Has that happened? "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. As this 2009 article from the Independent, a British newspaper, details, O'Rahilly obtained a 63-ton (57-metric ton), Danish passenger ferry, the MV Frederica, and renamed it Caroline, after the daughter of the late U.S. President John F. Kennedy. MR. DOMBROWSKI: So all that good equipment just gets recycled. So, for example, if youre listening for North American pirates from Europe, youll need to plan accordingly. And so, yes, we may -- We have a warrant for the property. So what is pirate radio? 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. Is this something that plays a role in alerting you to these stations that broadcasters themselves are identifying them and complaining about them? MR. SWARZTRAUBER: All right. MR. SWARZTRAUBER: Ten times as much, that's big, yes. 14 July 2020. 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 -. 2. Most pirates transmit using SSB with modern ham radio equipment, others use AM utilizing vintage or homebrew equipment. They have a bill circulating around called the PIRATE Act. 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. 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. 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. Winning a con. That would be not a good practice. 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. It is portable, but can also be used as a permanent FM radio station. 123. MR. DOMBROWSKI: Yes, everyone's dream job. 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. 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. MR. SWARZTRAUBER: Right. Recycling is good. 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. Join. March 13 2022 . You might need that sensitivity and an outdoor antenna to pull these relatively low-powered signals from the ether. Google Maps is a web mapping service developed by Google. We take it all. 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. 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. Now one thing I want to talk about is Part 15. The important thing here is that you invest in a receiver with a respectable degree of sensitivity and selectivity. The U.S. MR. SWARZTRAUBER: Well at least you are recycling. 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. Many are confused by the term pirate radio, otherwise known as free radio. Either term is sufficient, and some stations prefer one designation or the other. "He was waiting several months to come back on the air (and therefore was only willing to speak off the record to me). I was glad to be here, it was a great opportunity. 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But by the 1960s, the postwar baby boom filled the U.K. with millions of teenagers who were eager to hear the rock 'n' roll records that the BBC declined to play. Marshals, Department of Justice, because we are a federal agency, but have we leveraged the resources and the knowledge of local law enforcement in working on this, are there, you know, different approaches from different States? And then he had, you know, he was on the internet. MR. DOMBROWSKI: Yes, there was a case back in the 1990s, late 1990s. 1. And an overall limit of $2 million. MR. SWARZTRAUBER: That's some great local cooperation right there. Very old school, and cheap enough for anyone's budget. 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. MR. DOMBROWSKI: Yes, this is the fun part, the (inaudible). 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. A few of them broadcast from ships, such as Rev. The most popular frequency used by U.S. and Canadian pirate radio stations is 6925 kHz, transmitting in the AM or upper sideband (USB) modes. Additionally, pirate broadcasters don't have to deal with all the legal complexities of setting up and running a streaming internet service, such as writing terms of service or meeting contractual obligations, he notes. So I never left, I've been here for over 25 years. Well joining me to discuss this topic is David Dombrowski, Regional Director for Region One in the FCC Enforcement Bureau. Sweet! And I have had to make this clarifying point on other podcasts that I have done at the FCC. 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. Last updated: December 2022 To track pirates, youll need a radio with both AM and SSB modes. And it was good media coverage, too. Yoder actually addresses this apparent restriction, to some degree, in the 2013 Pirate Radio Annual, which has only just been released. 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. If they have some skin in the game, an operator or a landlord or a property owner that let somebody put a station up on their rooftop, you know, it's illegal for them to have that station there. We have a call center, it's 888-CALL-FCC where we have staff there during business hours to take your complaint. Select a station from the list and it will play on the tuner. But please note that we will never create a post and product link explicitly to receive a commission. "How Pirate Radio Rocked the 1960s Airwaves and Still Exists Today" Use promo code ROGUE to get a shot at MILLIONS OF DOLLARS in total prizes! MR. SWARZTRAUBER: So what is the current state of pirate radio? 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. VIEWS. It was the strongest pirate station I have ever witnessed. Having that exposure helped boost the careers of scores of British bands whose music eventually made it to America. And so we need to make sure that we stop the importation of this equipment, we stop the marketing of these illegal transmitters. I mean stream --. MR. SWARZTRAUBER: It doesn't say FCC pirate agent? The U.S. has had its share of pirate broadcasters over the years as well. tyson jost dad; sean penn parkinson's disease; mockingbirds attacking my cat MR. SWARZTRAUBER: All right. Open up the transmitter Locate the seam on the transmitter's case and pry it open with a putty knife (if your transmitter is screwed shut, you'll need a screwdriver to open it). And that's it, we will catch you next time. Jason Scott Archivist. 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. MR. DOMBROWSKI: A lot of these stations are streaming at the same time so it really boggles my mind why an FM station that's unlicensed, you know, has its stream content and then also it's broadcasting over the airwaves. 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. 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. 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? It would create chaos if we allowed them. Are people generally cooperative or are people just like I have no idea what you are talking, I have never seen anything, what is this, I don't want to deal with this? MR. DOMBROWSKI: Well there was a version of the bill that passed the House first and now there is a similar bill being considered by Senate. Not just Aussie and NZ pirates, but stations in places like The Phillipinesmaybe Japan, South Korea, or Thailand. MR. SWARZTRAUBER: So, David, you are uniquely qualified to talk about this topic and to help listeners to understand just how qualified you are how did you get to this current position at the FCC. It had a 20-mile range. bclc lotto app not working; signs your internship will turn into a job; mary suehr schmitz. 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. But what hast made the problem really expand is the equipment is readily available with the internet now. 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 also spent the regulatory fees that they have to, you know, spend I think yearly, and so they have an investment in their service and these unlicensed stations NP that. 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. It takes a lot of time to process just one complaint and so it is distracting our agents of getting into the database and populating all the fields and calling the complainant. The original converted ferry sank in 1980, but the five DJs on board and the ship's canary, Wilson, named after British Prime Minister Harold Wilson all were rescued, according to O'Rahilly's New York Times obituary. MR. DOMBROWSKI: We do make them aware that they are contributing to this illegal activity. 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