Micolithe
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36 years old
Philadelphia, PA
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Last Login: 08/30/2007

Agender Enby, Trans, Gay, AND the bearer of the gamer's curse. Not a man, not a woman, but instead I am puppy.
I got a fat ass and big ears.

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Yes I did the cooking mama Let's Play way back when. I post alot about Tech (mostly how it sucks) and Cooking and Music and Television Shows and the occasional Let's Play video
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We all do what we can ♫

So we can do just one more thing ♫

We can all be free ♫

Maybe not in words ♫

Maybe not with a look ♫

But with your mind ♫


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nicky
@nicky

i'm in the East Bay, like 15 minutes out from Oakland. i'm listening to the one good jazz station (shout out to 91.1 KCSM) and i'm getting a bit bored of the current tune. they can't all be winners. anyway i set my iPod radio to scan through to find something else. it lands on a station playing this. i'm like "yeah it's after midnight and im wide awake, lets dance" so i stay put on 92.7.

after DJ Jean got us completely and thoroughly ready for the launch, a station identification plays. it's got all the flashy over-the-top sound design you'd expect and a voice with a slightly british accent goes–92.7 P-p-p-p-pirate radio. The 24/7 soiree never stops!

this tune starts up, but at this point i'm more focused on trying to make sure i had heard that correctly.

did it just self identify as a pirate radio station?


jay
@jay
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in reply to @nicky's post:

hi i'm one of the ten people left on earth that listens to radio for the aesthetics. this is a wonderful and exciting story.

There is a relatively vibrant pirate shortwave radio scene! they play similar things and usually operate around 6.9 to 7.0 MHz (right below the 40 meter ham band - good coverage and gear is easy to modify).

Fortunately the season is coming up - Halloween is the #1 shortwave pirate day of the year so I will be tuning in as I can and i'll share some recordings.

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Speaking of radio vibes, the Denver area has one of the few remaining AM college stations. Somehow they retained their AM license despite IHeart's lobbying, and you can tune in any day of the year and listen to indie rock or bloopy techno through that wonderful 5khz bandwidth crackly-when-it-lightnings mode. It's such a joy and is more lofi hiphop beats than any youtube stream.

This is a great story and I'm looking forward to hearing the idents. One of the stations I listen to when I've got my FM radio on is,, god I don't think I know the name but I'll have to go check later. It's great because it's very old school in that it was clearly run from above a chicken shop it advertises all the time, which expanded to a bar/club run by the same people (again, advertised a bunch as part of the places to be in the evenings).