Reposting someone else's post in the SF broadcasting n.g.

The Tenderloin is south of Nob Hill and north of Civic Center. It has
a lot of poor people with various problems and some southeast Asian
immigrants. "Tenderloin" is old police slang for the neighborhood
where you can make so much in bribes from illicit and other easily
shakedownable businesses that you can have tenderloin for dinner every
night. I have no knowledge of this still being true.


Newsgroups: ba.broadcast
Subject: KTPR-Tenderloin Pirate Radio 1600 on the air tonight

I heard them by accident months ago asked a few questions,left my
number with the right people and they called me today.

For those who missed by earlier post they have a different van each
week that drives around the Tenderloin giving helpful information from
location of soup kitchens to where the police are stopping people.

I am told the power is 750 watts and drive between Van Ness on the
west,Mason on the east, Turk on the south and Post on the north (going
higher up the hill will draw too much attention).

Will follow up tonight with a report as I will be driving in that area
to listen in.

On Jul 12, 7:20 am, Tester wrote:
Reposting someone else's post in the SF broadcasting n.g.

The Tenderloin is south of Nob Hill and north of Civic Center. It has
a lot of poor people with various problems and some southeast Asian
immigrants. "Tenderloin" is old police slang for the neighborhood
where you can make so much in bribes from illicit and other easily
shakedownable businesses that you can have tenderloin for dinner every
night. I have no knowledge of this still being true.

Newsgroups: ba.broadcast
Subject: KTPR-Tenderloin Pirate Radio 1600 on the air tonight

I heard them by accident months ago asked a few questions,left my
number with the right people and they called me today.

For those who missed by earlier post they have a different van each
week that drives around the Tenderloin giving helpful information from
location of soup kitchens to where the police are stopping people.

I am told the power is 750 watts and drive between Van Ness on the
west,Mason on the east, Turk on the south and Post on the north (going
higher up the hill will draw too much attention).

Will follow up tonight with a report as I will be driving in that area
to listen in.

I used to live on the edge of this area, on Sutter and Polk. There
used to be an FM "Radio Libre" broadcasting from the Mission district
a few miles south that could be heard at my QTH. Radio Libre was run
by the same folks who ran SF Liberation Radio. They had ties to
Stephen Dunifer of Free Radio Berkeley. The modern pirate radio
movement was born in the communist boiler rooms of SF and Berkeley in
the early 90s. Dunifer had guts, fighting against the government for
the right to broadcast low power FM in court for years on donations
and sympathetic lawyers who donated their time. Finally he ran out of
gas, and so did most of the original FM pirates. The FCC let a Santa
Rosa station set up a repeater on 104.1, FRB's freq, which put them
out of business. This pirate is probably the most action SF has seen
in years-the commies moved on long ago, and every time some kids get a
tx running the feds shut them down. What action there is is confined
to shortwave. This guy should be audible in all of east SF and parts
of Oakland and Berkeley. If this is at night, he could concievably
cover much of CA, albeit intermittently.