From: pozar@remarque.berkeley.edu
Newsgroups: ba.broadcast,alt.radio.pirate
Subject: Re: pirate radio in the south bay
Date: 21 Nov 92 16:25:49 GMT
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Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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In article <1992Nov21.071302.5081@netcom.com> ser@netcom.com (Steve Rubin) writes:
>Well, I would be EXTREAMLY interested to find out exactly how we
>interfered with you any more than the station on 104.1 that is in
>Modesto.  Also, we are 2 channels away from KKSF, and I know for 
>A FACT that our transmitter is in perfect working order, and is 
>EXTREAMLY clean.  This isnt some little peice of crap that one of
>us built, this is real equipment.  A real Exciter, a REAL stereo generator,
>a REAL peak limitter, a semi-real antenna (its pretty close to real..).  
>We put out a very stable signal (we spent a year's repair budget on our
>crystal).  
>
>PROOF!  Lets hear some proof.  
>
>I hope you realize that by shutting down out radio station, you
>have added several years to my schooling and deeply hampered my 
>education.  Thanks alot, jerk.

   Geez, grow up.  Your the asshole that built the pirate station on a
second adjacent, not me!

   As for proof, as of about 5 months ago we started to get a flurry of
complains of blanket interferance from listeners in San Jose.  I imagine
that most of the complaints were from folk that had crappy tuners or were
so close to you as to get blanket interference.

   I remembered hearing your station several years ago and even called in 
a request or two.  I had thought, what school would risk building a course 
for radio and invest in building studios if it was an illegal station.  
Nah..  SJCC surely wouldn't.

   I called up our lawyers and asked them about "KJCC" and told them that
I wanted a copy of the authorization.  They could not find a record of you
so we knew we had a pirate interfering with listeners.  I then sent one of
my engineers down with a FIM-71 to look at your field strength and as it
happens you were off the air that day.  I told a friend of mine that I 
contract with on occasion about the situation and since he was going to be
in the area for the next several days, he would bring a FIM-71 down with
him and try to get a reading on you.  Two days later he had readings of 
your field strenght.  (BTW lousy pattern buddy...) 

   At this point I would have walked in to your studios and asked to see
your authorization.  If you couldn't come up with one (as in your case), I
would have asked you to shut down, or move frequency.  I would not have
called the Feds.  But your's was a special case. (Oh well...)

   I should provide some background...

   There is a station in Marina that is trying to put a translator on in
SJ.  We have filed a petetion to deny on the grounds that it would
interfere with us.  It just so happens that this station wants to fire up
this translator on 104.1MHz, the same freq your were running. Wow! proof
that a station in SJ running on 104.1 will interfere! So, in order to
boost our petetion to deny, we got the FCC involved to have it on their
records as a interference complaint.

   If you want paper proof, I would suggest that you get your FCC
attornies to grab our ammendment to our petetion to deny.  You can also
view it in our public file in about a month.

    Oh, and as for your question, regarding KHOP-FM, there is terrian
sheilding that lessens the interference from them.  They are in the vally
and there is a number of mountians in the way.  Note that I didn't say
that there isn't any interference at all, there is a little bit of their
signal dripping over into SJ. Their signal is far less than yours in the
vicinity of SJCC, and we can do something about you...

   Be seeing you!

        Tim

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