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nicky
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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?


surely that's... they wouldn't just SAY that out loud right? there's no way i just stumbled onto an illegal broadcast, this is some weird branding for someone trying to compete with clearchannel/iheartradio or SOMETHING.

so i go online to find out what the hell 92.7 FM is. it's... unclear. skimming wikipedia shows there was some court stuff over the ownership and that it seems somewhat ongoing. as far as i can tell, the FCC filing for whatever it used to be is inactive and there are no current active licenses. another station ident plays–We rave The Bay... 365, 7 days a week, 24/7. It's the all new Pirate 92.7!, new song. notice how they keep avoiding giving out a callsign. that's not a valid station ident!! that clinches it for me. this is an illegal FM broadcast.

HELL YEAH

HOW COOL IS THAT

i grab my handy dandy focusrite scarlett and plug it into my ipod. i record about 30 minutes of the broadcast because i want to preserve some of these station idents. i got a fantastically weird one that goes like–And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music [40 dubstep sounds] Pirate 92.7!

i wanted to record more but my iPod dies and then i get very sleepy and go to bed (at this point it's like 1:30am). i wake up around 10. unplug the iPod from the charger, plug in the radio dongle, plug in my headphones, tune to the station. dead fucking silence. i was told the 24/7 soiree never stops and yet here i am listening to not-even-static. hopefully this just means they only broadcast late at night because i want more pirate radio. yeah, sure, at one point they played a Chainsmokers song and i wanted to vomit.

but it was illegal. and it was beautiful


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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).