Comments by "Bond25" (@Bond2025) on "$2 Million Fines For New York City Radio Pirates" video.

  1. What made you go for inverted L on MW? I used a 180ft long wire from a tall building down to nearly ground at a 45degree angle, an inverted V from the corner of a building and 180ft horizontal between two buildings that were 120ft tall. The best for around a 30mile local coverage using 100Watts on MW was the vertical. The inverted V wasn't much different. The horizontal was not as good for local. SW sounds interesting to try. Many pirates I listened to were around 6205KHz. What I don't like is people that bought amateur radio equipment and put it on SSB, it limits the audience compared to AM. For VHF I used 65Watts in to a slim jim antenna and due to the location was able to get a 40mile radius. Using colinears meant less coverage due to the radiation angle, so it was a trade-off between loads of ERP firing up to the stars, or less gain but a blanket coverage. Radio is for experimenting with ! Tell us more about the SW set up.
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  2. I only got in to amateur radio through CB and pirate radio. I used to tune about on a radio when I was younger and heard music and people having a laugh and knew it wasn't a legal station. After a year of contacting the station when I was at school, they met me and let me go and have a look. I was SO disappointed!!! I am not sure what I was expecting, but the station was in a flat and consisted of a record deck, tape player and a home built transmitter. I remember it was a PCB on the living room floor with other bits of pcb glued on the top and components all soldered on and a bit of coax going up to a dipole on a chimney. Power output was 25Watts. It was powered by a CB power supply and there was a mixer, headphones and mic. It sounded really good on air, but I was expecting some fancy studio! I started learning more and put my own TX together, wiping out a whole street of TVs. Over a few months I refined it, taught myself more and even built a stereo encoder. I was never in to the music side of it then, I just etched PCBs and bought all the bits from my local electronics shop. I then moved in to aerial design, audio processing and really went wild. By this time, raves were becoming popular, so I got in to the dance/trance/techno stuff. I had a few near misses, but was never caught.
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  3. WOW, I remember listening to Laser 558 !
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