From: bigsteve@dorsai.com (Steve Coletti)
Subject: Re: pirate radio in the south bay
Organization: The Dorsai Embassy +1.718.729.5018
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Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 20:49:55 GMT

pozar@remarque.berkeley.edu writes:
: 
:    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...) 
: 
One of the dirtest tricks was pulled by WAPP, when they were at 103.5, (now
after ownership and channel switch they are WQHT, 97.5, With 103.5 now WYNY).
 
A ten watter from Brooklyn Community college has been causing interference to
city wide channel WFUV/90.7, and WFMU/91.1 for years.  They've been, and
continue to be on 90.9. (WKRB).  About 10 years ago they got a change to
103.1 which upset WAPP's owners (Doubleday).  They sent their C.E.out to
Brooklyn and he took measurements directly in fromt of the antenna.  Then went
to the FCC claiming interference.  WKRB had to switch channels back to 90.9.

It seems the frequency was given to a 9watt translater not too long after
that.  The owner is a member of the local SBE and has been a C.E. himself.
This translater is located on an aparment bldg. in  Ft.Lee NJ that overlooks
the Hudson river.  I have tracked this thing all the way east over NYC and
into Nassau County on a foggy night.  WKRB on the other hand HAS no height and
rarely gets out of Brooklyn.  103.1 was also the frequency that was applied
for by a group in Yonkers, the city just north of NYC and not too far from
Ft.Lee. It was reject by the FCC and being too close to the city.

It just so happens that the Yonkers group was also Radio NY International who
ran the pirate radio ship off Long Beach, Long Island at 103.1 among 
other frequencies.  It seems that the translater owner has wanted to do local
origination for a few years and has been making himself a legal pest.  Now it
turns out that the FCC has authorized construction of a station in Long Beach.
That means that our NJ translater may soon be a thing of the past.  

I've seen the situation close up and still can't figure who pulled the
dirtiest trick.


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