This past weekend I heard a station broadcasting on 87.9 fm in the NYC metro
area. It played reggae music Saturday a.m. I tuned in Sunday and it was on
the air. Come Monday and Tuesday - no signal.

Anybody know anything about this station?
Exactly, what kinds of stations - commercial, non-commecial, lpfm - are allowed
to broadcast on 87.9?

EKSMITH

87.9 is also active in the Newburgh , NY area with Latino music. I suspect
it is a pirate station.

Steve

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"FAZAMY" wrote in message
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This past weekend I heard a station broadcasting on 87.9 fm in the NYC
metro
area. It played reggae music Saturday a.m. I tuned in Sunday and it was
on
the air. Come Monday and Tuesday - no signal.

Anybody know anything about this station?
Exactly, what kinds of stations - commercial, non-commecial, lpfm - are
allowed
to broadcast on 87.9?

EKSMITH

In article , FAZAMY wrote:
This past weekend I heard a station broadcasting on 87.9 fm in the NYC metro
area. It played reggae music Saturday a.m. I tuned in Sunday and it was on
the air. Come Monday and Tuesday - no signal.

Anybody know anything about this station?
Exactly, what kinds of stations - commercial, non-commecial, lpfm - are allowed
to broadcast on 87.9?

87.9 FM is called "channel 200." It is sort of in the FM band but it's a
special allocation. A station cannot be licensed for 89.7, but an existing
station can be moved to 89.7 in order to avoid interference if there is no
TV Channel 6 nearby.

Strictly speaking, this is in the guard band of TV channel 6, but it's also
in the FM band.

Almost certainly the station you heard was a pirate and not legally licensed
for that frequency.
--scott


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Anybody know anything about this station? Exactly, what kinds of stations -
commercial, non-commecial, lpfm - are allowed to broadcast on 87.9?

Since the FCC database shows exactly two allocations on 87.9...one in
California, and an experimental license in Texas...it's a good bet the one you
heard was a pirate.

Thanks for the responses about this frequency. What is most interesting, the
host of one of the shows was reading commercials and gave a request line phone
number. No call sign was ever announced.

How's that for brashness.

Evan

FAZAMY wrote:
Thanks for the responses about this frequency. What is most interesting, the
host of one of the shows was reading commercials and gave a request line phone
number. No call sign was ever announced.

How's that for brashness.

Typical. No station legally licensed for 87.9 would be reading commercials,
I'll tell you that.

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production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid." --FZ