[BC] No time for pirates

[Rob Landry]

On Sat, 19 Jul 2014, Ira Wilner wrote:

> You have to pull the right strings.  The local FCC field office has twice
> come out and scared a local pirate off the air.

One of my clients recently reported a pirate to the local FCC field 
office. The FCC showed up at the pirate's location and asked him to shut 
down.  He complied, and a few days later my client noticed that the 
antenna was gone from the pirate's roof.

Shortly afterward, my client began getting reports of a new pirate on the 
same frequency a couple towns away, sounding the same as the old one.

On another occasion, the FCC traced a pirate signal to the roof of a 
building in Brockton, MA, where they found a transmitter, antenna, and a 
Barix box, but no studio. They confiscated what they found, but never 
located the broadcaster. The FCC's jurisdiction ends, it would seem, once 
the offending signal is off the air.

Rob