[CTSARA] Stamford FM Pirate

[Tom Young]

Strong signal in Shippan this AM (11/2).  Went away abruptly at 10:57am.
Seems like some kind of call-in show w/music(and voice over), plus

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On Tue, 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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