[CTSARA] Stamford FM Pirate

[Karl Zuk]

Blasting away at 1630 tuesday...  Karl  N2KZ

On Nov 1, 2016, at 9:40 AM, Tom Alessi <tom at k1ta.com> wrote:

Has anyone heard these guys in the past day?

Tom Alessi
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> On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 11:58 AM, Karl Zuk <karlzuk at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> A strong pirate FM station is on the air from somewhere in Stamford.
> 
> 
> It is on 106.5 with reggae and R&B oldies music calling themselves 'Kyrie
> FM' or something similar.
> 
> 
> I work down on Harbor Drive in the Shippan area and it is strong enough to
> stop the scan function of my
> 
> car radio even when I am inside a concrete and steel parking lot.
> 
> I have been able to copy it way into Bedford and Pound Ridge going home,
> so they must be running some power.
> 
> They are not on-the-air on overnights. I travel to work between 5 and 6 am
> and they are silent.
> 
> On the way home, however - around 4 to 5 pm - they are always there.
> 
> They use a VOX mic - in Caribbean radio style - breaking into songs with
> their banal chat - and lots of inappropriate sound effects and such.
> 
> A great asset to our FM band - (sarcasm at 11.)
> 
> 
> Finding them would be a lot easier than a fox hunt, I would think.
> 
> Strong signal on the air constantly. Harmonic near our 220 band at exactly
> 213 MHz. Remember - it's wideband.
> 
> Get a rough triangulation and then just look on rooftops for a new
> vertical or crossed folded dipole.
> 
> Frankly, I haven't had the ambition to track this one down, but maybe I
> will.
> 
> 
> Any ideas, anyone, who this might be?
> 
> Is this an old station that is known already?
> 
> 
> Thanks for listening, Karl Zuk  N2KZ  Katonah, NY
> 
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