Was that "Lucky 7" from out of Syracuse? I remember a local news report on
my Milwaukee TV station about it. The operator would appear on the screen
wearing a gas mask.

-John L.

"Robert Casey" wrote in message
...


Many pirates are radio amateurs - they have the knowledge and skill to
put
together a station. :-)





We did that back in college back in the 1970's. One of us bought a
homebrew transmitter,
did some repairs to clean it up some, threw together some turntables and
a crude mixer
board, used a mic from a cassette recorder, and went on the air Friday
night. We knew that
the nearest FCC office was about 150 miles away, and was closed for the
weekend.
We played records mostly. Some jocks from a local licensed station
found us, and
did a few shifts of our air time! (Guess they wanted the opportunity to
play their own
selections instead of a mandated playlist). I commented on our crude
equipment, and they
said that they had seen worse at licensed stations. We shut down Sunday
night and
dismantled the setup.

Later on someone else at our college did a pirate TV station! That made
the New York
Times! This was when the VCR was first comming out on the market. It
was
said that someone built that transmitter out of an old guitar amp.
Sounds ludercutis,
but if it was a tube amp, could actually be done. Use the VCR's channel
modulator
as the exciter, and that feeds the "guitar" amp.