720 AM broadcaster in Creole

Richard Chonak richard@chonak.com
Wed Feb 13 19:44:54 EST 2019


A pirate could get VOA audio from the web:

https://www.voanouvel.com/live/audio/47/4764423?withmediaplayer=1

--RC



On 2/13/19 2:41 PM, Rob Landry wrote:
>
> And its relaying the Voice of America? How weird.
>
>
> Rob
>
> On Wed, 13 Feb 2019, Jeff Lehmann wrote:
>
>> This is not a legitimate broadcast. It’s a pirate coming from the 
>> roof of a house in Mattapan/Dorchester using a typical TIS type antenna.
>>
>> Jeff Lehmann
>>
>>> On Feb 13, 2019, at 10:15 AM, Rob Landry <011010001@interpring.com> 
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> There is a Voice of America Creole service. And VOA stations do not 
>>> use call signs, so the lasck of a call sign doesn't preclude this 
>>> from being a legitimate VOA transmission.
>>>
>>> The question is: how does it come to be audible at 9 AM? VOA isn't 
>>> supposed to target domestic audiences, so if it is VOA it's aimed at 
>>> Haiti.
>>>
>>>
>>> Rob
>>>
>>>> On Tue, 5 Feb 2019, dav2149@comcast.net wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Where is the 720 AM signal in Creole coming from? Only ID on the 
>>>> hour (9:00a.m. 2/5) “This is the Voice of America in Creole”. All 
>>>> other programing in Creole. Steady signal heard here in Wellesley 
>>>> on car radio.
>>>> David Wilson
>>>>
>>


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