While I don't support illegal activity (but do support revising the law--and
the publics right to access expanded spectrum), as a teenager I loved to
search the SW bands for pirate stations--I still hope the youth find as much
pleasure as I did in that pursuit--somewhere...

Especially interesting were the "Pirate ships", ones with xmitters
onboard... I would listen late into the wee hours... still managing to get
to school the next morning...

Warmest regards,
John
--
Marbles can be used in models with excellent results! However, if forced
to keep using all of mine up... I may end up at a disadvantage... I seem
to have misplaced some already!!!


"Ken Scharf" wrote in message
. ..
| John Smith wrote:
| I guess if the equip would have been homebrew it would have been more
| difficult to trace--got any friends in the electronics lab?
|
| Cheaper to lose homebrew equip too...
|
| Warmest regards,
| John
| Anybody ever hear of a bootleg radio station called WCPR? (aka WFAT).
| They were on from Brooklyn NYC in the 70's.
| They hung out on the upper end of the AM BCB (1650 ish).
| Their equipment was an old Collins transmitter. I don't
| remember the model, but it had plug in coils to change bands,
| a slug tuned vfo (actually wasn't a vfo, but could be set
| via a screwdriver to frequency, no crystal used), and used
| a pair of 807's in the final modulated by 4 6L6's in push-pull
| parallel. Using a long wire flat top about 200 feet long between
| two 23 story high apartment buildings they were heard across the pond.
|
| A friend of mine gave the equipment to two college kids that
| put the station on the air using their stereo as a mixer
| panel. They also used phone loop-line numbers to take over
| the air phone calls without giving out their own phone numbers.