Pirate radio in Salt Lake City!!

[dxstuboy]

Wow! Here I thought I was the only one with a micro power broadcaster, but tonight, I found I'm not alone. This dude has a better signal than mine, unless he's close.

Anarchy Radio on 95.7 has a decent signal in South Salt Lake City, being received right as of this post.

I recorded the station identification:
www.ubstudios.com/dx/slcids/nrkslc.mp3

"You are listening to anarchy radio on 95.7 FM in Salt Lake City, Utah, yeah we're your pirate radio super station screwing around on a Thursday night, please enjoy..."

The programming is an interview with a guy who is an anarchist. I can't tell which direction its coming from, but I'll let you know if I find more.

This guy must not broadcast that often as it is the first time I have heard the station. Here's a shoutout though, I can hear you in S. SLC! To me this is exciting

I have updated my log with the new entry.
www.ubstudios.com/dx/slcfmdx.html

[CAwasinNJ]

The $64,000 question is whether it's legal. There have definitely been illegal pirates around before, though that's redundant. If it's legal it's by definition not a pirate.

The choice of frequency is interesting. That's first adjacent to both KYFO and its booster on one side and KMGR and KLZX on the other. If I was going to use a first adjacent, I'd look at 99.3 or 107.1 first.

Maybe you could do a little range testing if you hear it again?

[dxstuboy]

I like 99.9 simply because there aren't any other stations THAT close. It's a second adjacent to KJMY and KSFI. I noticed when I was searching for the guy's location that KYFO was bleeding over on my car radio, bad choice. As soon as I pulled out to search, he signed off the air. I believe he was only on air for a total of 30 minutes. At the sign off, he repeated most of what I wrote above and it sounded very amateurish. His transmitter (like mine if not wired right) has a hum, which also indicates to me that it's running illegal power. I'd guess 1 watt or maybe 1/2 a watt. No no!

[CAwasinNJ]

If you wanted to get a rough idea of what the ERP of a transmitter is without having to buy real detector equipment, do you have any suggestions?

I've got a battery powered mini transmitter ($8 by Scoche) and I was experimenting with running it off stepped down AC power. The voltage was only 3.2 volts instead of the proper 3 volts, but it got out noticeably better than when it was running off batteries. The setting is supposed to be 87.7, but my testing indicated it was more like 87.8 or so. Fine for hyper local broadcasting in a car that moves (which is what it's designed for) but does create a bit of interference to second adjacent 88.1 KWCR which I don't want.