[Milsurplus] TRC-1

[Hue Miller]

From: COURYHOUSE at aol.com
Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2012 10:47 PM
Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] TRC-1

Hue - yes...  the  fellow I  got  ours  from  was pondering using it  for a 
bootleg  FM...
are  you saying the kids got  busted!?!
Ed#P

-What happens in these cases is the bootlegger enjoys too much success and 
word
gets around and finally gets to the FCC. Yes, they were warned to shut down. 
I think
in those days, fines or confiscations were hardly ever applied. Possibly 
because the
warning and order to desist always worked.
There were some young fellows who bought the former Pacific N'West Bell 
marine
telephone AM transmitter, Seattle 2522 kc/s,  when AM went away at the end 
of 1976.
They modified it to 880 kc/s and to work thru the power lines - "carrier 
current" - and
modified it also for carrier control so they could do the output 
measurements with
no modulation and the numbers would be very small. I heard them every day at 
about
3 miles. Their downfall came when they began soliciting local businesses to 
buy
advertising on the station and word got back to FCC.   -Hue