FM Spanish Pirate at 87.7
Brian Cochran
wc4j at wc4j.com
Thu Aug 20 19:01:04 CDT 2009
Please remove me from this list
It is spam I'm not interested in and I don't know how I got on it or why
Brian Cochran, WC4J
703-965-6011
----- Original Message -----
From: wb5mmb <wb5mmb at pobox.com>
To: Bob Rice, KG4RRN <kg4rrn at yahoo.com>; WB4JFI <wb4jfi at knology.net>; tacos at amrad.org <tacos at amrad.org>; kg4rrn at yahoo.com <kg4rrn at yahoo.com>; Brian <wc4j at arrl.net>
Sent: Thu Aug 20 19:22:08 2009
Subject: RE:FM Spanish Pirate at 87.7
Bob, the FCC knows about them. They gave them a
license. It is a low power TV station. The audio
is hot the better to hear on a FM radio. The
video is what looks like a Windows Media Player
screen with dancing spectrum display and an error message I cant quite read.
Sandy
WB5MMB
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WDCN-LP VA FAIRFAX USA
Licensee: SIGNAL ABOVE LLC
Service Designation: TX Translator station
Channel: 6 82 - 88 MHz Licensed
File No.: BLTVL-20070410ACR Facility ID number: 20450
CDBS Application ID No.: 1180908
38° 53' 45.00" N Latitude
77° 08' 8.00 " W Longitude (NAD 27)
Polarization:
Effective Radiated Power (ERP):3. kW ERP
Antenna Height Above Average Terrain:- meters
HAAT --
<http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/haat_calculator?dlat=38&mlat=53&slat=45.000000&ns=N&dlon=77&mlon=8&slon=8.000000&ew=W&nad=27&rcamsl=198.4&nradials=360&terdb=1>Calculate
HAAT
Antenna Height Above Mean Sea Level:198.4 meters AMSL
Antenna Height Above Ground Level:76.2 meters AGL
Frequency Offset: 0 (zero)
Directional Antenna ID No.:
75482 Pattern Rotation: 115.00
Antenna Make: - Antenna Model: -
Relative Field values for directional antenna
<http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/polarplot?frame=Y&temp=75482&rotate=115.00&p0=0.172&p10=0.098&p20=0.068&p30=0.075&p40=0.088&p50=0.118&p60=0.212&p70=0.377&p80=0.557&p90=0.742&p100=0.882&p110=1.000&p120=1.000&p130=0.887&p140=0.742&p150=0.552&p160=0.372&p170=0.182&p180=0.047&p190=0.012&p200=0.007&p210=0.007&p220=0.148&p230=0.298&p240=0.418&p250=0.588&p260=0.658&p270=0.678&p280=0.608&p290=0.498&p300=0.463&p310=0.518&p320=0.554&p330=0.511&p340=0.404&p350=0.279&p360=0.172&>Relative
Field polar plot
Relative field values do not include any
pattern rotation that may be indicated above.
0° 0.172 60° 0.212 120° 1.000
180° 0.047 240° 0.418 300° 0.463
10° 0.098 70° 0.377 130° 0.887
190° 0.012 250° 0.588 310° 0.518
20° 0.068 80° 0.557 140° 0.742
200° 0.007 260° 0.658 320° 0.554
30° 0.075 90° 0.742 150° 0.552
210° 0.007 270° 0.678 330° 0.511
40° 0.088 100° 0.882 160° 0.372
220° 0.148 280° 0.608 340° 0.404
50° 0.118 110° 1.000 170° 0.182
230° 0.298 290° 0.498 350° 0.279
Additional Individual Tower Information from
the Antenna Structure Registration database.
(Use the Registration Number link for detailed information.)
ASRN
Site
Elevation
(meters)Overall Height
Above Ground
(meters)Overall Height
Above Mean Sea
Level (meters)NAD 83 Tower Coordinates
-----------------------------------------------Convert to
NAD 27
Latitude Longitude
<http://wireless2.fcc.gov/UlsApp/AsrSearch/asrRegistration.jsp?regKey=611228>1049508
122.2 87.4 209.6 N 38°53' 44.9" W 77°
8' 6.8"
<http://www.ngs.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/nadcon.prl?DIRECTION=83to27&LATITUDE=38,53,44.90&LONGITUDE=77,8,6.80&TYPE=SINGLE>To
NAD27
At 10:53 AM 8/20/2009, Bob Rice, KG4RRN wrote:
>TERRY,
>cc: friends
>In regards to the 87.7 FM station..it is Still there...
>-Mexicana musica (SALSA?).........
>wonderful.....where is the FCC????
>It sure would be fun to DF that....
>I am listening for announcements or commercials,
>but I don't speak a lick of Spanish...they
>started on AM, this is the first one on FM,
>and illegal at that, but right off the band
>edge, pretty good signal too...clean.
>Here is the F.C.C. form(attached), (also note it
>can be made in Spanish), if you wish to file a
>complaint, I feel if enough hams do so, it will
>be off the air.....must be commercial equipment
>and a CD stacker...no voice announcements yet, just music.
>/s/Bob Rice, KG4RRN
>McLean, VA. FM18jw
>Notary Public(VA)
>ANM,NCS Northern Va.Traffic Net (NTS affiliate)
>V.P., Jefferson Co. WV. Amateur Radio Club
>
>
>--- On Wed, 8/12/09, WB4JFI <wb4jfi at knology.net> wrote:
>
>From: WB4JFI <wb4jfi at knology.net>
>Subject: RE: FM Pirate at 87.7
>To: "Frank Gentges" <fgentges at mindspring.com>, "Tacos" <tacos at amrad.org>
>Date: Wednesday, August 12, 2009, 12:34 AM
>
>I'm not sure that 87..7 is a pirate station. I'm not there anymore, but I
>recently saw some mentions at dcrtv.com about the 87.7 station, and owners
>Mega Media, planned to do a dance radio station, ala a "Pulse" station in
>New York.. Since then, Mega Media has filed for chapter 11. Check out
>dcrtv.com for ongoing DC area radio and TV gossip.
>
>That doesn't sound like a pirate to me, just bad business decisions.
>Terry
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: tacos-bounces+wb4jfi=amrad.org at amrad.org
> > [mailto:tacos-bounces+wb4jfi=amrad.org at amrad.org]On Behalf Of Frank
> > Gentges
> > Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 6:01 PM
> > To: Tacos
> > Subject: FM Pirate at 87.7
> >
> >
> > Tacoistas,
> >
> > Bill Finn, N4TS dropped by the lab and mentioned there was a strong
> > pirate on 87.7. Sure enough, we tuned and there it was. It is a
> > Hispanic station so I do not understand it or know quite why it is
> > there. Is this some sort of a special agreement with the FCC that
> > certain people get? Is it a special format BPL signal? Can I expect to
> > see it next week?
> >
> > I'll see everyone Thursday night at the meeting for the talk on
> > precision clocks.
> >
> > Frank K0BRA
> >
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