I Ran a Pirate Radio Station and Got Busted by the FCC! 

No idea where I am… but when this man says he ran a pirate radio station, I believe him.

I worked at a AM Radio Station that went off at midnight. Sometimes i would go up around 3am anf just turn it on amd start playing music 🎶. Never got caught by bosses or anyone else. I worked part time there on a Sunday night til midnight. About the last hour of my 6 hour shift, I'd ignore the programming printout and play entire Albums from 11pm to midnight. Well, after a few weeks i got caught and got fired. Ended up having a following and some commercial got pulled because i wasn't there . The Station manager got FIRED, and i was brought back lol.

i was stationed at an air force base in the 1980s and ran a pirate FM station from the barracks for several months. my "exciter"was an old car radio where i used the local oscillator and fed the mono audio in through the AFC diodes. then i modified a cheap FM microphone PCB with a 5 watt output transistor as the output device (i was probably only getting 2 watts out of it) . i ran antenna wire out of my 3rd story window to the top of a nearby tree. it was a thin wire, so it was not visible from the ground. i ran that station for several months from midnight to 3am until my schedule changed and i was moved to a different room on a lower floor of the barracks. quite a few people in that barracks listened to it, but were befuddled that they could only find the signal between midnight and 3am. i only played good music, no speaking, so nobody ever figured out it was me.

Great story. Had a friend that set up a pirate FM station in the mid 90s' Was totally automated and ran about 40 watts. He operated that 24/7 for about 25 years and was never caught. Covered the entire town. One day it was off, so I figured he had a knock at the door, but as it turned out a wind storm took down the tree the antenna was in.

"Don't get caught" is the best advice anyone can give

If you play terrible music and lots of ads you will never get shut down by the FCC.

Some survival tips are #1. Never tell anyone or friends...#2. Never keep a regular Schedule. ... #3. Keep it Short

18:53 Pirate DJ: "Got any requests?" FCC: "Please cease and desist."

Hi Barry, I'm a fellow Minnesotan. As a high school student, I was also on pirate radio in St. Paul a long time ago. the station stated after 3 pm and all day Saturday and Sunday with some fellow friends and young radio enthusiasts. Our FM station did not get out as far as yours, only about 2-5 miles depending on the terrain. We used a Radio Shack wireless mic (p-Box Kit) and substituted parts for a stronger output. The power source was two 12-volt car batteries in series (24 volts). We also made sure not to interfere with other stations. After broadcasting for a year we discovered other pirate stations that existed in Minneapolis and made friends with them. The guys at our station and the other pirates had a love of radio and most went on to work for major commercial stations. I eventually did evenings at a 50,000-watt Country FM station in Minneapolis. Others did bigger things, one guy working at our St. Paul station went to work in Dallas and was named the Billboard major-market program director of the year 2-year in a row. Another worked at a Minneapolis 50,000-watt AM station doing overnights, and one became a well-known program director and later operations manager at the major Classic Rock station in Minneapolis. These stories, airchecks, and photos can all be seen and heard at the following website: TwinCitiesRadioAirchecks.com/pirateradiotwincities.html A number of us went to Brown Institute, a broadcast school in Minneapolis. The Saint Paul owner/operator and site owner worked up near you in Northern MN in at a station in Grand Rapids, MN in 1972 on the air and as the chief engineer. Fortunately, we did not get a visit from the FCC. Not sure how that happened. We had a request phone number given over the air and took requests., We were on regular hours every week. Doing all the things that can get you a door knock from the FCC. We were underage at the time, not hurting anyone or any station, just having lots of fun. Thanks, Barry for a great story. Hope you like the website.

Never ran a pirate radio, but we built a giant Tesla Coil , by giant it was about 25 feet and powered by arc welders driving two pole pigs. It lobbed sparks from the top that were 50 feet long. We played with old 8 foot floresent tubrs running the thing while we were having a pretty lively house party. Anyway a few hours in, we had cops and the FCC show up. Turns out it was jamming most of the AM band as well as nany FM bands. They told us to cease and desist, dismantle the tesla coil, and a few people got ticketed. 😂

That red shirt, looked like a prisoner's jumpsuit... thought at first you were broadcasting from inside the penitentiary. Haha. Great story!

I knew a guy who broadcasted a Pirate station in Philadelphia on the weekends. He said after a few months he received a letter from the FCC stating what he was doing was illegal and prompting him to take advantage of the Public Broadcasting stations in his area that were available to him. This went on for a few more months when one weekend he decided to mention a local Pizza Place that told him they’d hook him up with some free food in exchange for mentioning them on the air. That next Monday Feds raided his house and confiscated all of his broadcasting equipment. The Feds told him they would probably have never made physical contact with him if he didn’t advertise that Pizza place, as soon as he benefited monetarily the game was over.

Alright, I gotta chime in. I ran a pirate FM for a decade in my hometown. God bless my parents for letting me do it. My dad even built a mast on the roof for my 1/4 ground plane antenna that was fed by a ten watt transmitter. Only stopped because I moved out, never got caught. Signal wasn't too bad even though the heavy foliage ate up the RF quite a bit. I started when I was 16 or so, slowly over time improved the audio and signal, and brought in many of my friends. Towards the end of the station when I was much older and wiser, it was running 24/7 using RadioDJ and StereoTool for processing. The damn thing sounded better than many of the local FMs! Once you experience the thrill of running your own station, you really can never shake it off. Not saying to go out and build your own, but..y'know.

Have you guys heard of FM pirate radio stations on boats broadcasting 12 miles from Los Angeles in the Pacific Ocean ? International waters, no FCC enforcement.

I was a an FM pirate running 10W into a well tuned antenna. Got out very well. The FCC came around after a few months of broadcasting 2 times a week. We took requests for music and had the best sound. This was 1973. FCC decided to just let it go. I told them everything was destroyed.

Several decades ago, while I was in college, I worked in the college's FM radio station, 100,000 watts and classical music. In those days the station signed off at midnight and I often worked the sign off shift. I would hit the switch to shut off the transmitter at midnight and then run to my dorm room where I would fire up my own FM radio station. It was a crude oscillator that was FM modulated and I had it tuned to the exact frequency of the college's station. There was a flurry of activity in and out of our dorm room as calls would come in from students in other dorm rooms all around the campus requesting songs to be played so we often had to run around to our neighboring rooms to find the specific albums we needed. We didn't play classical music.

I ran a pirate radio station for 2 years as a commercial business. Got a 30 mile range with 100 watts and never had an issue with the FCC, but that's because I stayed away from FM. I eventually shut it down after my neighbor got cable installed and I was getting my station on his TV, phone line, and every band on his radio. I'm not an engineer and I couldn't figure out how to make it stop, so that was the day the station died.

Barry if you are interested, in the UK their was a pirate radio station called Rinse FM that went legit. They set up and broadcasted on an antenna erected on a tall high rise and then connected to the antenna via wi-fi. Enforcement could find the antenna but not the location where the wi-fi was coming from with 1,000s of wi-fi enabled apartments nearby.

You had me with Rush dude!🤩Attention all listeners of this neighborhood radio station, we have assumed control, we have assumed control, we have assumed control.

Before I retired, I worked for a local government agency. One day, after just finishing my lunchbreak, I was driving back toward my shop. (I worked in 2-way radio communications). I tuned in the vehicle's FM radio to catch some tunes on the way back. I caught a station, playing some decent music. I quickly realized that it was not licensed. Pretty strong signal. Being experienced with direction finding, I found the transmitter without much time or effort. As I passed the house, the signal left the air. I guess the sight of a white van with a yellow government tag and "Communications" printed on the side of it, didn't set well with the broadcaster. I never heard the station again.

I'm a retired CATV tech. Back in the mid 90's when I lived in a trailer park, I back fed my cable line and tap with about 60 Db of a xxx ( American Exxxtasy) channel from my big dish. I remember calling my friend next door and asking him to tune to such and such channel. His response was "WTF" LOL. The signal would have covered about half of the trailer park in the FWD direction of the line amps. I only ran it for a few minutes just so I could see if it would work.

Dude, this is a great story. So earlier in my life i lived in a crappy apartment at a certain beach town somewhere... While I was there a guy in the apartment next to me that was a very well educated guy who used to be a criminal defense attorney that had been disbarred for doing drugs and some other stuff... But anyway, he and I hung out a bunch and mostly just goofed off and laughed at tourists trying to get at quarters we had glued to the sidewalk while we knocked back cold ones on the weekends. We would go to local bars where you could only play music with those stupid 0.75c per song juke boxes that always seemed to be run by shady ppl. But some bars would put on the radio when it was early for the locals. Anyway, one day my neighbor, lets call him, "Jared" asked me, "Dude I want to start a pirate radio station and play great music with no ads for the local bars". So eventually he got a transmitter and set it up in his place because "Jared" always said that he would use his extensive legal background to throw anyone off. Someone... used a network analyzer to tune up an antenna that was put on the roof. Also an empty FM band was chosen to not conflict with anyone. The FCC never showed up and that thing played ad-free music for several summers until some lightning hit the antenna during a storm and killed it. But for a while, locals would go to bars for 10 or so miles around and they would tune in to non-stop 24/7 classic rock!

I'm 65 years old and boy do I miss pirate radio. Radio today is so bad I haven't listened to it in over 30 years. Now I have my own collection of music that I run off my own server. Thanks for the video, good stuff!

I ran a 150W FM pirate station when I was a youth. Best fun I've ever had. Right now I'm learning to build RF transmitters. Never got busted here in the UK.

Enjoyed the video as it's something fresh for once, and also something of the US and not of the UK, etc.. I've ran a periotic station for 30 years. Never once been bothered by the feds. I worked in commercial radio too as on air dj and technical engineering as needed. I would work my jobs then come home and fire up my own operation. Today I no longer work in the commercial field but I still have my pirate operation. I don't put it on antenna very often these days, mainly because times have changed and is difficult to really get any following via terrestrial broadcasting. Also my older age has played a factor. Not that I don't enjoy working with the stuff. FCC enforcement so I have discovered, clearly depends where you are, and the operation. I have talked to the enforcement bureau and actually had a very polite one on one conversation with a fellow at the FCC. They knew of my operations but told me they didn't care about it because of my location. At the time, I was a 500W too. The agent told me they were concerned about operations in large markets and those selling ads. Also that they didn't have the time and money to go after even legit commercial stations that aren't following the rules. Today, being an over the air pirate really isn't worth the time, effort, money and even risks as most people don't even have radios to listen to such broadcast, sadly. From what it is today, the only ones that play with it logically are like myself that are more interested in the actual radio aspect, not so much being a radio DJ. In a way, the old song does hold true, video killed the radio star but with cell phones and spotify. Maybe at some point like records and tapes, it will make a comback.

Barry this is amazing. Not going to lie enjoyed every moment of this

A fascinating tale and well narrated. Some parallels in my life too, I built an FM transmitter when I was at school, my radio amateur father just let me get on with this stuff. The transmitter was very low powered and i knew nothing about aerials/antennas. No idea if I had any audience at all, used a reel to reel tape recorder as an audio source, took a portable radio out to see how far away it could be heard. Later on a friend and I built a 3 element cubical quad antenna for it using scrap aluminium from window extrusions. Was never caught, probably due to low power and very little air time. About a decade later I was working for the UK equivalent of the FCC. I went on to spend about 40 years in legitimate radio.

You won my thumbs up and sub after saying your type music you were playing was rush. 🤘🤘🤘🤘

Great story! I am a ham radio operator, and one thing is clear when it comes to the FCC- they only care about the money. There's been a few amateur frequencies where the rules have been being broken daily for decades- music, illegal power, intentional jamming- you name it. The FCC does NOTHING about this, and I can only assume it's because once you pay a small fee for your license, use of those airwaves is free. Now, in the commercial spectrum- broadcast radio, television, business bands, etc., The FCC makes A LOT of money off of the leases of those frequencies. If you go clowning around in the frequencies that butter the FCC's bread, they'll throw down the hammer, and they're not much interested in easily letting a small hobbyist play- even if there are huge gaps between stations. but enforcing their own rules on the amateur bands? Nah, they can't be bothered with that.

Bro, u totally look like someone who would run a pirate radio station

Fantastic story and storytelling as well!

Loved your story. Always great to hear and be reminded what a curious youth's mind can accomplish when they've put their energy into something. Never get old, people. 😀

I think I am a tiny bit older but it's not surprising to hear you operated a pirate broadcast station in the 70s. There were quite a few pirate stations across the country. Most that could be picked up ran only in the early morning for only two or three hours. But the 70s were a cool time to be a teenager / young adult. Rock on dude. . . .

I used to run a non licensed FM station in Houston over 20 years ago. I used a one watt driver which I hooked to the sound port on my computer and then I hooked the driver to the final box which was about 35 watts. . I had a antenna about 30 feet in the air . I would broadcast various on line radio shows etc. I got good coverage in the Houston area. What's funny about its that sometimes when I was out riding my bike here and there, I would hear someone listening to my radio station , while they were walking in the park etc. Thank goodness Uncle never bothered me even though their office was just a few miles from my house. I think in the early 2000's the FCC busted a bunch of micro stations in the Austin area but many more popped up after that .

Your story brought back fond memories of some of my childhood. It's an honor to meet you.

Nice story! The joy of being young and precocious, thanks!

Great story thanks for sharing! This reminds me of a few stories Jean Shepherd told one time on his radio show out of NYC back in the 60's - 70's. When he got his HAM license he found out there were "outlaw" HAM operators in his area when he was a teenager. One actually got not just once , but twice ended up going to jail. Best story he had was one were a couple of guys wanted to get into radio so bad, that they started procuring the proper equipment illegally and actually even had a building to broadcast from. They got got quickly broadcasting one day. Of course they were totally stunned. The FFC couldn't believe all the equipment they had.

While in the U S Navy stationed in Sicily, my roommate, an AE, Aviation Eltronics Mate, and I ordered up a Radio Shack FM transmitter. He boosted the output to 15 watts. We lived off base in a three story apartment. We rigged an antenna above the third floor patio. We linked our two reel to reel machines to t h e transmitter and we're able to broadcast 6 hours of music. We made little sounders between full length albums to simulated live broadcasting. We then would turn it on and then drive around in our Fiat 500 listen to our pirate radio station. We would broadcast on Saturday and Sunday. In listen to the local teen population, they knew of the venture and tuned into our programing. It was a bit strange to hear our channel on radios in the little shops in the town. We never got caught in the 6 months or so we operated KLSD FM.

Called mine WTNT ..."The Burnt spot on your Dial" !!....

Very interesting. Thanks for sharing. Glad you got off easily.

Great story. I never bothered with AM. Just FM. I tweaked a RadioShack Wireless mic and got out about two miles. I was running a 40 watts FM stereo transmitter in 2003. I'm pretty sure my ex friend ratted me out to the FCC. They drove 100 miles to my house. They complemented me on how good it sounded then told me to turn it off. They made me sign a paper, and they left. Never heard from them again. A few months later I was back on the air at 40 watts, and never had another visit. A few years ago my wife suggested I put on a low power FM transmitter for our park. I decided to bring out the old the 40 RF Amp. We are a bit high in elevation. The station got out 20 miles west. That was fun! So I scaled it back to almost nothing. One day I get a visit from the local radio engineers. They came right up to the door of my house. They didn't even see the antenna. The only way they could have done that was that someone tipped them off, and gave them my address. Only one person had that address, and that was my ex friend. Never never tell anyone what you're doing. Especially a friend who you might piss off sometime.

When I got my first full band scanner with all mode I was scanning the TV UHF band and I picked up the mic packs from my nearby TV station. I was Shocked how far those reached Listening to the behind the scenes talk was cool

Great video thanks, sounds like you had fun times , awesome music choice too 👍

Love the story. You're a great storyteller. Thanks for uploading this!

Great story! Thanks for sharing it with us.

Thanks for sharing, love this story!❤

i enjoyed the story, and it's nice to find a youtube channel where the audio actually sounds good lol

I ran an fm pirate station back in the 90s in Corpus Christi on the Southside. Put out flyers in clubs and music stores. My efforts were to play 80's hair metal and to expand what Corpus didn't have, and San Antonio did (99.5 kiss). 2 watt amp and a j-pole antenna, Ramsey transmitter kit, rat shack mixer, the works on 100.5. Fun times back in the day. 🎸

Cool story. I’m happy that they let things slide. Thanks for the good advice. 🎉

So many parallels. At age 12 I got so busted by Uncle Charlie in the early 70's running an old Tempo One (very early tube Yaesu) SSB on 11 meters. (slightly extended band). The same charge and it scared me pretty bad. Remember sweep tubes? They and the driver tubes would have such a glow in the dark. I've had the bug since infancy. Radio has followed me (happily) all my life. A true joy. Antennas to me are an object of great beauty. I am subbed.😀

Brilliant. All the way around! Thank you for this great story- Rock on- 🎉

Enjoyed this!!

Great story thank you for sharing. Very interesting and I listened beginning to end, very cool!

Been pretty cool finding you through this video. Great story and delivery; wish you all the best in life

I was quite a precocious young brat myself, back in the 90's, so this rings true for me! I didn't engage in this particular shenanigan myself - mostly for lack of access to the equipment - but I do remember thinking about it and wanting to run a pirate radio station. BTW, your dad sounds so much cooler than mine! Mine regularly admonished me for my "don't get caught" philosophy.

Thankyou for the story!

Awesome story mate, enjoy these historic radio tales.

Hey Barry I was busted by the feds too back in 1975 as a teenager in Tucson, Az. but I was running illegal on the CB radio. I got visited by 2 FCC agents at my house. I was 18 and got fined by the FCC for various offenses. I learned also but quite an experience for me too! I became an electronics technician a little later in life myself. 73 Barry and stay out of trouble!

I love it! what a fantastic story, Barry you're just too cool man! 😊 ❤

I was a Dxer back in the 80s and 90s scanning the shortwave frequencies for all the pirate stations. I still have cards from plenty of far off stations.

You brought back memories being young along with my brother that has long passed . Thankyou ! WA3FRD

Cool story, and you told it wonderfully. Glad you didn't get a fine! Thank you for sharing it!

Nice story! Thanks for sharing the memories

Great story/ true situation… listened all the way thru..😊

Thanks for sharing this story. It was super entertaining

Fantastic, makes two of us. Built my own 20W AM transmitter many moons ago. I then learnt how to build FM transmitters (once I got the pre-emphasis, PLL properly locked and stereo MUX working). The FM transmitter was running about 10 watts. Used RF power transistors from a two way radio I bought for a few bucks. They were fun days, I still remember the Gerard turntables I used and an old Philips mic, which sounded great. For antennas, on AM I used a shortened vertical whip which was base loaded and a pretty good earth system. For FM, just used a 4 way power divider feed into four dipoles. That pretty much got me a 360 degree radiation pattern. On AM got about 50 miles while FM was around 10 or so miles. Thanks for reminding me of those carefree teenage years. BTW for FM, you can actually use Class C amps (no linear amps required) as long as you properly filter the output before feeding into the antenna.

Yo, this is a really cool story bro and, just the element that you simply a, young, intelligent, innovative and exploratory kid, at the time is entertaining and im waiting to here they recognized your potential, and hired you!

That was a great story man.. Thanks for sharing!!

Your story brought back a lot of memories from the 60's for me.. I did exactly the same as you, on the AM band with a bit more power than your transmitter (around the 100 watt region), fed into a tuned long wire, end fed antenna between two buildings, hardly visible from the street below. This was not in the U.S., in fact I was in a southern European country. I broadcasted regularly for over 4 years, between 9.00 pm and midnight without been detected by the authorities. I was a bit smarter though, not giving my phone number on the air for requests. Instead, the number of a friend of mine was given (with his approval of course), some 5 miles away from the transmitter site. He was taking the requests and then phone me and pass them on. He was raided by the police who searched in vain to find the "illegal equipment" without any success. What made triangulation difficult for them was the fact that, I lived in a very densely populated area full of tall buildings with many floors of apartments. This ended when I decided to go abroad and, by then, there was already a few private but licensed FM stations which was a new thing at the time. Yet, I had a lot of fun broadcasting and, to my surprise, I had reports of people receiving my broadcasts well over 100 miles away. That of course was the night propagation that increased the signal traveling much further. Thanks for sharing your childhood adventures with us. BTW, in my case, I was around 17 y.o. when I did this so, I should have known better! Best regards from Australia.

Very cool. Thank you for sharing. First time here.

I cant think if anything cooler than what you have acheived . Fn cool

Great story - thanks for taking the time to tell it! My only related memory would be in high school around 2005ish I made a very simple crystal AM radio receiver for a project, but on the day of presenting it didn't work because of (unbeknowsnt to me at the time) a broken wire. It had worked great and was a pretty cool novelty of the past for some of my closer friends that had heard it outside of school. It was such a let down and I got like a low B, still remember it very well. What is worse is later in the day I discovered the issue, but it was too late. Going to explore some of your other videos!

Thank you for that story, Mr. Watson. I dont even know why this popped up in my RU-vid suggestions, but I am pleased. I would love to hear more of your antics.

i've always wanted to run a radio station....thanks for the info...very inspiring!

Now THAT was a good story. I'm not much younger but as a kid in the 80's I hung around similar people as my mother was a licensed HAM operator and went to the local meetings, etc. I'm I.T. guy by trade but never ventured into HAM, GMRS, etc. or any other kind of radio transmitting. But i'm starting to become interested in it. Don't worry i'm not going to be standing up any kind of pirate broadcasting, either radio or IP based, lol. But yeah I very much enjoyed you telling this story from your teenage years, Barry!

You are very relaxing to listen to, I’m happy that this appeared in my recommended. Great story.

That's an awesome story mate. I love it & thankyou for sharing this. I just subscribed. I'm glad they were lenient on you as you were just a kid ⚡🙏⚡

Awesome story. Sounds like a great time!

Enjoyed your story, I’m in to ham radio since 1996.

Fun story, thanks for sharing.

Grear Story Barry. Thanks for sharing.

Great talk. I was in the cb game a while!

I too put together a pirate radio station. It was 24/7. It was stereo. First was a 5 watt exciter. We had a Beringer compressor, a Radio Shack mixer, phone patch, a Free Radio Berkeley exciter, a homemade transmission line bandpass filter, SWR meter,100 feet of Belden 9913 feeding a J-pole antenna made of 1/2" copper tube. BTW you can run Class C on FM with good filtration. We switched to a 35 Watt final amp and a commercial 5/8 wave antenna. The mistake that you made was broadcasting from a house with a ham license attached to it and secondarily inviting the agents in. Our (and I said our because I invited the community in) policy was to ask for a warrant. The transmitter was in an activist flop house. One day, two suits were at the door. One suit said that they were from the FCC and they wanted to inspect the transmitter. The 12 year girl that answered the door said "Ya got a warrant?" The one suit said "No mam". So she replied "Hit the road. ". Years later they came back with a warrant. The person who was on the air announced the raid. Members of the community came down and darned if all of the air leaked out of their tires. They took all of our equipment and a month later FRSC went on the internet and a different group of people (the same people) brought another transmitter back up with a headless computer, a sound card and an internet connection in a different location. I had three shows. A political call in called Connect the Dots with a theme song TVII by Ministry. A call in talk show called alt.talk. The theme was things like paganism, S&M, Cosplay, gaming and stuff. I had a third show called Cold Dark Matter that was an Industrial/Gothic music show. I had Netwerk, Wax Trax et. al. sending me free CDs. We had (I guess they still have) 2 turntables, 2 cassette players, a phone patch, a couple of SM78s, an SM7 and 2 CD players in the studio. The FCC couldn't touch that stuff and they never came back to the transmitter site either.

A really enjoyable story. You are a master storyteller! Thanks for sharing 👍

This was a super cool video! I'm sure if I had the same equipment when I was younger I would have done it too. Stay safe out there man.

Thanks for sharing that store. It was fantastic.

Wow really great story. You are a great story teller. Very relaxed and engaging narrative. My friends and I built an FM transmitter on a small chassis but I don't remember every trying to put it on the air. We were all in high school in the mid seventies and met in the electronics class. I think the fun part was just building it. TYFP!

Funny thing is, is that I'm pretty sure many listeners won't care of a pirate station is licensed or not. No matter the station, the people running it are delivering information, usually vital in one way or another, listeners all around the globe (or at least those that can hear said radio station.

This is hilarious! Good job Barry!

Great story, i was waiting for you to say it was called " Radio Carolina "

Cool story man! Ive always been excited about radio because my grandfather was a ham radio operator.

Loved the story!!

they just showed 'Rick O'Shea' 🔫 and his pirate radio space capsule last week on 'The Thunderbirds'. KLA was the callsign.

I ran 911fm 300watt station transmitting my local police scanner 24hours. I got busted and received a warning letter in mail by FCC. They saw my large antenna

Great story. Thank you.

Fantastic the way you told us your story. Overhere in europe there are still a lot of pirate stations around. Not so on fm because these now are licensed, but around 6200 khz and also at the end of the MW band +/- 1600 to 1770 khz, these are AM stations.

That was an awesome story. Thanks

Really cool story. Sounds like this was the Napster of my childhood.

So cool, thanks for sharing

Thanks for sharing. I started my LPFM station in NZ in 2006 after working in commercial radio. Still running today and turning 18 years old on July 1st