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Messages - John Poet

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you kept me very entertained tonight--- and I haven't logged anything in a very long time!

And to Chris Smolenski for your many SDRs--
I never got past the one with the 'big loop' since it was so good--
but you made my evening's several loggings possible tonight, since I have no antenna up!!!


Merry Christmas to all my old friends, and new stations!
I will do my best to be listening tomorrow!

197
Strong signal at 0007, off the Maryland big-loop SDR....

yes, sounds different but with FDR speech and GREAT audio...

(This program did indeed segue into a speech by Winston Churchill, around 0011 for several minutes,
the one that he delivered to the US congress in late December 1941, I do believe, when he visited FDR here after our entrance into WW2)

((I've read about it recently, in the book "December 1941" by Craig Shirley--- I am something of a student of WW2, as well as the American civil war))

After that into Christmas carols which continue at 0019--- still with very good signal and audio.


Station ID at 0023, "This is WFDR--- the REAL WFDR.  We might be back later!"  and off.


Very nice, and Merry Christmas to all!



198
Huh? / "There will be no QSLs for the White Man"!
« on: December 25, 2024, 0000 UTC »
Anyone still around here who heard such a station broadcasting with Native American music,
war dances and flute music,
way back in the "oughts", probably sometime before 2010 ??

I can't recall the exact ID now, but I think there was one...
Ended with that announcement, "There will be no QSLs for the White Man"!

I tried to search for it here, but found nothing.  Probably logged on the old FRN.
If any better Google internet aces can find anything on it, that would be great.
Sorry I can't remember any better details at this late date, but--


I am very belatedly "claiming responsibility".   Broadcasted with the TCS Johnson Valiant #1, no doubt....

YEAH, that was ME!

The non-QSL policy was my clever way of avoiding creating an Email address or QSL for the "station". 
Kind of lazy, yeah....

(Long, LONG before I got into the habit of creating an original e-QSL for every new TCS program)....


(( ALSO, I counterfeited a "WJFK" program at some point in the same period, but only once))






199
Flooding the Maryland SDR at 2342---- with music.
S-7 to S-9, very strong audio.


Could be Jimi Hendrix playing 'Silent Night' on guitar at 2345, but I don't know if such a recording exists...
'Little Drummer Boy' on electric guitar at 2347

OFF about 0003

THANKS for the show!!!!
I've been having a pretty good time tonight, listening to all you Christmas pirates!



200
Strong signal at 2258.... speech.

(none of these sound like FDR to me, but many different politicians want to send their Christmas message---
"lighting of the national Christmas tree" mentioned...)

'President Roosevelt, he's going to press the button-- and then deliver his Christmas message to the nation'--

Ok ok   Now into Roosevelt at 2301.... VERY good audio and signal!

"thank God for the interlude of Christmas" ~ FDR

FDR talking about the beginning of Social Security payouts--- (or "socialism" as the GQP always describes it!  oh excuse me)
at 2304 UTC

FDR quoting from Jesus 'sermon on the mount' 2305--
Into Christmas carols at 2306


Mostly S-9 to S-10 on the big-loop SDR in Maryland

Thanks for the repeat of this show (since I missed the others) !


ID as "WFDR--- The ORIGINAL WFDR" and off at 2321 UTC.




201
Wonderful USB signal, playing some kind of 'new age' sounding music ??  at 2239 UTC.
Into a more modern jazzy tune at 2242. 

Shout-out to "John Poet" at 2245--- well, thank you very much, amigos!
"it is our understanding that Santa Claus is currently flying over Slovakia"

Another report on Santa's location at 2253, but stated too fast for the old poet's ears to keep up...
into more music.     Audio may be degrading a tiny bit at 2255, but signal still very strong.


Still listening on the Maryland "Big loop" SDR
Must be at least an S-9, but I don't know how to read the damned thing....  jajajaja sorry
OK, I found it--- signal there varying between S-7 and S-9++
Very little noise, except when music audio pauses, so far....



202
North American Shortwave Pirate / UNID 6925 AM 2223 UTC 24 DEC 2024
« on: December 24, 2024, 2229 UTC »
Started with some CW, and a "Ho ho ho"

Into 'White Christmas', not sure what  version.....  No ID, into another Christmas song.

'Feliz Navidad' at 2230.

Good signal!  Low noise, no interference, good audio!
 Listening on Chris's big loop SDR...

Off at 2234  ??  Pity...   Thanks for the show!   I had good timing, for once...

Merry Christmas all!

203
0210 - Drift Away
0214- Led Zeppelin

Sounding good, S-9+ on the skyloop KIWI SDR in Maryland

Signal was weakening at 0223--  then I think they went off.
Thanks for the show!!!

204
It's the Justice Department which is tasked with collection, and they have to sue to do it.
They have too many other things to do, especially these days...


205
You're right, JP.   Having spent 45 years in loss mitigation, asset management and paralegal debt collection I can tell you that the 1st rule of debt collection is not how much is owed, its how much can you get?  First the plaintiff (in this case the FCC) has to get a judgment against the defendant to prove in court that the debt is legally owed.  The defendant has to be served with a subpoena (good luck finding them) . If they successfully serve them they probably won't show up in court . The FCC can  then get a default judgment which will probably be worthless because the defendants are long gone.  It makes zero sense to spend the money to collect on this debt.  But then again , it IS the Federal government so.........

Once I got a call from a debt collector who was seeking to collect a debt against my ex-wife....
but they used her remarried name, and I said "never heard of her!"
after which they politely ended the phone call. LOL

It was only afterwords that I realized whom they were talking about...



206
"WASHINGTON, April 25, 2024—The Federal Communications Commission today proposed fines against seven pirate radio operators under the Preventing Illegal Radio Abuse Through Enforcement Act (PIRATE Act) for operating six pirate radio stations. These pirate radio stations, investigated during the Enforcement Bureau’s sweep in the Boston area under the PIRATE Act, now face proposed fines totaling $857,775."

https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-402087A1.pdf


Asking ain't getting...
especially when they ask for unrealistically crazy amounts of money....

Think about it:   these fines go 10 times or 100 times beyond what violent criminals
might be fined...

A side note: the format of the board seems to have changed,
what happened to the "REPLY" button???

Took me a while to figure out to use the "quote" button to respond to posts here

Maybe this board is so busy that you don't mind cutting down on replies for the sake of web space?  I have no idea...
but the traffic here has gone way beyond the old FRN.  My congratulations to you!


207
General Radio Discussion / Re: Last FCC Bust of a SW Pirate?
« on: June 05, 2024, 2251 UTC »
The format FCC enforcement database does not make it easy to determine that but my potentially incomplete search revealed the following in 2015, from operation on 6876 KHz in Michigan:
https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-336269A1.pdf
which would be associated with this thread about The Crystal Ship, which was the "reboot" of a very well-known HF pirate in the 1980s, though there is no mention of "the knock" here, for what that is worth:
https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,23152.msg84410.html#msg84410

Going backward in time from there, the next thing I found was the YHWH incident at the end of 2014, already discussed in this thread. Before that, I found this from 2013:
https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-320165A1.pdf
I was unable to find an HFU thread associated with this incident.

Later that year, I found this though it is unclear to me if this was associated with what we would consider to be a pirate broadcast, or something else like run-of-the-mill RF interference, which is documented quite often in the enforcement database:
https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-324212A1.pdf
https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-324211A1.pdf

I do remember, back in 2016 or 2017, John Poet talking about getting the knock somewhere on the board. But I also remember that there was some heated argument where real names were revealed which I know got deleted forever by the mods or admin, and perhaps that particular post was among those that were removed. The gist was that some other pirate ratted out TCS, which led to JP finding other folks to relay his shows while he was still making them. He seems to be permanently retired now.

You are remembering the controversy over the 2011 bust, which continued for years...
I never made any public comment about anything which may or may not have happened after that, other than this:
http://www.tcsshortwave.com/2015/12/yes-virginia-there-is-still-tcs.html

Yeah, there was some tussel with JTA years later, after I had made some negative comment about "the rabbit",
and JTA posted my real name on this board (which everyone who cared already knew anyway),
stated that "any pirate who has been busted deserves to have their real name publicized"
or something to that effect, (talk about "fighting for free radio"??)

after which I reminded him that his home address was a matter of public record
because he held an FCC amateur license--
at which point the conversation was terminated, and removed by our kind host here.   LOL

Ah, memories

"Memories
Like the corners of my mind
Misty watercolor memories
Of the way we were"

Nothing but death is 'permanent', and I am still alive....
I have just been 'busy elsewhere', not permanently retired...


I guess this leaves my station or associated operations as the last "bust"  (sort of) of a shortwave pirate!
I will claim that mantle with pride, as I am incorrigible

However, please note that there were numerous TCS relay broadcasts in the months after that rumored second bust:
http://www.tcsshortwave.com/2015/12/yes-virginia-there-is-still-tcs.html


208
General Radio Discussion / Re: Last FCC Bust of a SW Pirate?
« on: June 05, 2024, 2233 UTC »
Anyone know the last time a shortwave pirate got busted in the US?

The format FCC enforcement database does not make it easy to determine that but my potentially incomplete search revealed the following in 2015, from operation on 6876 KHz in Michigan:
https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-336269A1.pdf
which would be associated with this thread about The Crystal Ship, which was the "reboot" of a very well-known HF pirate in the 1980s, though there is no mention of "the knock" here, for what that is worth:
https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,23152.msg84410.html#msg84410

Going backward in time from there, the next thing I found was the YHWH incident at the end of 2014, already discussed in this thread. Before that, I found this from 2013:
https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-320165A1.pdf
I was unable to find an HFU thread associated with this incident.

Later that year, I found this though it is unclear to me if this was associated with what we would consider to be a pirate broadcast, or something else like run-of-the-mill RF interference, which is documented quite often in the enforcement database:
https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-324212A1.pdf
https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-324211A1.pdf



One of my "relay friends" got a little careless for a time...

There was no mention of a "knock" because nobody ever heard or answered one...

There was never any public comment by John Poet, that is to say "me", about this alleged incident,
except for this somewhat cryptic blog post several months afterwards:

"Yes Virginia, there is STILL a TCS"
http://www.tcsshortwave.com/2015/12/yes-virginia-there-is-still-tcs.html


6876 kHz?  who ever broadcast on that frequency ??






209
Surprised to see R. Free Whatever only having three. I remember they used to be far more active.

Thanks for your cataloguing though, this is extremely resourceful. At least the pirates keep providing something good to listen to on SW.


Much more than 3 times in a month could be unhealthy.... I'm here to tell ya!   LOL


210
They won't....

The FCC had a poor record of collecting fines, even back when they were a few thousand dollars... and the US Justice Department, who would have been their primary means of collection action, had better things to do...

Millions??   This is a CROCK! 

Even if they had the means, which they probably don't, they would hang onto their money and skip town!

They will probably fold the station, and restart as another name and frequncy---
but if they are selling advertising and actually making money off their operation,
they may continue for a little longer--- using remote unmanned sites,
where there is no one who can be arrested....




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