Picked up a pirate radio station operating on 107.3 FM.\u00a0 It was strongest near 145th St. and Aurora Ave N.\u00a0 Barely receivable at 175th and Aurora and all but gone by 185th.\u00a0 They would have gone farther if they had picked a vacant frequency but 107.3 is already occupied by two distant commercial stations.<\/p>\n
The first clue that it wasn’t a commercial station was the ultra horrid audio, just slightly better than telephone quality but not much below 300Hz or above about 5Khz.\u00a0 Modulation pretty random, obviously no compressor or limiter, and about every third word was an F-bomb.<\/p>\n
I really hate to see pirate radio done this way, poor quality and just pretty much there to offend with absolutely no sense of responsibility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Picked up a pirate radio station operating on 107.3 FM.\u00a0 It was strongest near 145th St. and Aurora Ave N.\u00a0 Barely receivable at 175th and Aurora and all but gone by 185th.\u00a0 They would have gone farther if they had … Continue reading