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07-30-2009, 11:45 PM
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OK, OK-- So why hasn't this thread exploded? I guess there just aren't many tv pirates left...
Here in NYC I cannot seem to find any. I've got 3 analog UHF channels and nothing on VHF at this point. Anyone else care to report their findings? 
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07-30-2009, 11:52 PM
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Nothing here.
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07-31-2009, 02:11 AM
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The "TV pirates" I have heard about, broke into the signals of regular TV stations. Putting your own TV signal on the air, with a signal range wide enough to be received by ordinary viewers with average TV antennas, is a lot more complex than having a pirate AM or FM radio station. Next, you need to have programming. Most pirates would not want to show their picture on the screen (and be easy to identify when it is time to arrest them). So, if they just ran old recorded TV shows or something most of the time, any viewers might not even know it was a pirate station unless they paid good attention.
Having said all of this, I do occasionally put my own TV station on the air here in the Bay Area. It is, however, FCC-licensed, on the UHF ham radio bands.
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07-31-2009, 12:58 PM
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I can recall first dicovering TV DX as a kid. One night, it was getting close to 10, I was twisting the UHF dial of the old GE when I found a station in the low 40s. But we didn't have such a station locally-wow! So I told my mother...she had apparently heard about pirate stations, and told me that was probably what it was. Sure caught my attention! Later I realized it was ch. 43 out of Philadelphia.
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07-31-2009, 01:59 PM
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I tried DXing late last night but no luck. Tried a bunch of sets. Guess there just aren't any analog stations left ... and I have a slim to none chance of picking up other countries of course!
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08-01-2009, 12:26 AM
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I haven't caught anything but a couple of LP UHF stations.
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12-17-2014, 03:23 PM
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So, any update on unexplained "pirate" analog TV popping up?
On occasion I do a quick scan of the airwaves on VHF and UHF, but it's mostly all digital signal noise.
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12-17-2014, 06:19 PM
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I've contemplated setting something up. I liked to idea of using a channel that was in use, so that if someone turned an analog set on it would likely already be tuned in. Channel 2 was in use here, but there is no DTV down that low and as far as I know the low VHF channels haven't been reallocated to other services.
I picked up some kind of VHF Low base station transmitter thinking I may be able to feed a modulator into it's output stage. Then I shelved the idea because I really don't know enough about RF to do this without making a mess. Proven kits for FM broadcast transmitters up to 100W or so are easy enough to find, but I haven't seen anything for TV (not that I've been looking seriously).
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12-17-2014, 07:08 PM
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I could see it perhaps serving a somewhat practical purpose in areas where the internet isn't good enough to stream reliably. Play stuff that's popular/recent enough and people would probably watch. You may not last long before getting busted for an unlicensed transmitter, copyright or both.
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12-17-2014, 07:24 PM
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As far a DXing goes, I've had good luck with digital,
gettng from here in central IL down to central KY and northern TN and over in SE MO. I used a 16 element Ch 44 Yagi and a 0.5 dB GaAsFet preamp. That was in my old 3rd floor apartment, however. You need a spectrum analyzer to find them, however, before using a TV. One of those $20 USA DVB-T dongles and SDR# works fine.
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12-17-2014, 07:36 PM
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My block has an 3 unlicensed TV transmitters covering part to all of it. I'll give ya one guess who's they are.
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Am I interpreting this right that you're basically using the off the shelf ADC hardware in the dongle with the SDR# suite to run analasys on the video broadcast spectrum (and anything in between)? Can you recommend a really cheap but good coverage dongle? Dont' get me wrong, I do love my my HP CaLan, but it's almost a "vintage" piece itself at this point. 
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