Surge plan by FM pirates
PA Auckland Auckland FM radio pirates plan to boost power output 10-fold next week-end and promise that their transmissions will reach the whole of the North Island. A group calling itself Radio 90.3 FM broadcast on: Saturday and on Sunday from; various locations on the North Shore using a 100watt transmitter.
A spokesman for the group said the transmitter had a broadcast range of about 40 miles but a 1000watt transmitter was being built and would be broadcasting next week-end. “We hope to be able to cover the whole of the North Island with our new transmitter,” said the spokesman. Since a recent close brush with Post Office radio inspectors, the FM pirates have set up a mobile broadcasting station and change the broadcast location every 45 minutes. Next week-end three •pirate FM stations are expected to broadcast
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Press, 20 January 1981, Page 7
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