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.