Re: Pirate or "Part 15" on 102.9?

["Kaimbridge M. GoldChild" <kaimbridge@my-dejanews.com>]

I wrote,                                       v-corrected
~ I noticed a low power spanish station on 102.9, a couple of
~ nights last week....  They are apparently within a mile or less of
~ South Station (Boston), ...there is little or no loss in 102.9's
~ signal (real weak, like it's a Cape or Providence station). Rather
~ than a pirate, could this be another low power, "Part 15" station,
~ like the one on 1.640 in Mattapan?

Rick Levy <radiowaves@compuserve.com> replied,
> Over how big an area is this signal audible?  Is this the same
> Spanish-speaker reported heard near Kenmore Square?  As a general
> rule, if it can be heard even one city block away (and that's
> generous), it's too strong for a Part 15 signal. 

That's what I would think, too--but I *can* get the 1.640 from Mattapan,
at work/South Station (it actually comes in strong, if I hold the radio
against a particular grounded pipe at work:  The whole band lights up
about 100 fold!).
At night anyways, it seems to repeat WLYN-1.360, *EXCEPT* early Monday
morning, when 1.360 //1.330's public affairs shows(?) and 102.9
continues the other prgmg feed (spanish and english-spanish
preachers?)--even relaying 1.360's legal ID.
Since it appears to have been on now full time (at least 2200-0700)
since the first of the year, I don't think it's a pirate--since it
//1.360 and 1.640//1.360//1.330, I wonder if it is part of the 1.640
operation.
Now, it's no where as strong as the 101.3 translator from the Pru (which
I get up here on the North Shore), but it does seem to behave in the
building's FM null spots as if it is real close but low power.

     ~Kaimbridge~

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