Hey sea lion fans!
I wanted to let everyone know that the colony of sea lions camped out in the Ballard area of Seattle has their own radio station now -- SeaLionRadio.org
All that ever airs on the station is the barking and snorting of these amazing animals.
7:30 UTC on RNZ International from Seattle Washington USA. This is au naturelle! With good old School Radio Shack high Impedance stereo! My best settings to get it to sound just so or it's best, is to go straight AM. Slow AGC. 4 0 Bandwidth. No Bass and No Treble. Know your radios and know what sounds absolutely best! Mostly to you! For a radio that's well over 20 years old, mine sounds great! It has some limitations but Old School Sounds are beautiful! There are a couple of cons, like you can't run the lamp without draining the sound on strictly battery. You generally can't Sync on Battery. You have to go straight AM. Your AGC, generally has to run Slow and definitely No Attenuation! But heck! If it ain't a darn good sounding Premium Rig! I don't know what is!! Enjoy! As an aside, even NZ is losing it's patience with Canks Mc Taco Tits! Lol! 25th Amendment Now! Please! And for God Sakes no more Racism in this world! As an Internationalist and Shortwaver, and as a True American! I've bloody well had enough!! BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN FOR PRESIDENT 2028! 😁
I haven't found unfortunately the BBC podcast of an interesting interview I heard yesterday night about a man who dreamed since young age become a radio dj
This is GGR radio a cool kind of radio pirate
we transmit on cb around Okotoks South Alberta and also live stream on YouTube
we mostly play video game ost and go crazy to a point of someone saying more the n what the hell is is that
is you wanna check our streams here you go the channel to the stream
this is a 2 man operation so it won’t be perfect but enjoy
GGR giggly giggly musics fun!
Heya there everyone (pirates included)!!
I’m on a bit of a mission to get a solo, ultra-local FM broadcast back up and running here in Orem, Utah, and my Reddit deep-dives have officially begun! I was actually reading some awesome RF engineering math dropped by u/No_Coffee4280, who mentioned a theoretical minimum of ~77 dB attenuation, with a "safe" engineering margin sitting around 80–90 dB total attenuation.
If I'm reading that math right, it feels like the whole Orem FM dial is just way too crowded for standard -40 dB attenuation in the eyes of the FCC—and not just the usual 88 to 108 MHz pocket.
I want to make sure I am doing this entirely right, but my brain is hitting a bit of a wall with the engineering math required to navigate a crowded dial like ours. Could any of you RF gurus break down what kind of filtering or math I need to look at to keep things perfectly clean?
My absolute dream is to have this dialed in, tested, and ready to go just as the very first Fourth of July firework hits the summer sky. 🎆
To get there, I need some hardware help. I'm looking for a solid, extremely low-priced FM transmitter recommendation to anchor the setup. The only major catch: I strictly want to avoid the generic Chinese models (the ones known for splattering messy harmonics all over the dial and causing problems). I'd love something budget-friendly but cleanly engineered.
Any advice on the math, the Orem dial dynamics, or transmitter recommendations would make my day. Thank you all so much for being such a welcoming community!
Two real-life radio pirates, with 5 FCC busts under their belts, react to the Hollywood version of an FCC raid!
There are two video clips. In middle of these Windoze did an unsolicited update/reboot, grrrh. I hate when it does that, usually it asks.
The first video was recorded at 02:13 UTC and the second at 01:51 UTC. Listed backwards for reasons below.
The first video identifies the station and gives instructions on how to get QSL cards. This is why I'm showing it first. Lucky me, Windoze finished doing its thing and rebooted in time for me to capture this.
As you can hear from the music in the second video, reception was decent.
Station
Receiver
Bonjour,
je suis à la recherche de nom et d'endroit pour se documenter sur des radios pirates francophones (: c'est pour mon projet de diplôme qui parle de cette thématique. Je ne sais pas si on peut trouver des extraits sur le web... merci !
