92.9 Dance Pirate

[d21ofnj]

There has been couple reports of a dance pirate station on 92.9 which is decently covering the Trenton area.  Sometimes, they would stream the great Pulse 87, 1 Dance.FM and 1 Club.FM.  Last week, this pirate was supposedly playing dance hits on their own.  Anyone with more info on this if they are on every night, only on weekends, or randomly selecting days?  Could this be the same pirate that did a dance format on 95.3 and 94.9? 

[Nick]

Last week I just heard non-stop dance/house mixes on the 92.9 pirate in Trenton. I listened for a while but heard no IDs at all. It sounded overmodulated and has a coverage area as large as the Newark pirate stations, but when there's tropo, Magic 93 and 92.9 WEHM kill its signal along the Turnpike so it's probably broadcasting from a tall building with a low power. I could hear it for miles on the Turnpike.
It's had a variety of formats (probably simulcasting different Internet stations), even had a Caribbean format for a while, and has been on for at least 2 or 3 years since I first heard it in 2008. Of course, the FCC could care less. It even bleeds on to WOBM and WPAT in Trenton, but both of those stations are weak and the pirate is overmodulated. It goes on and off the air (usually never on for more than a few days at a time), or I think it hops between all 3 of the frequencies since I've heard it on 94.9 and 95.3 before. Probably changes its frequency every day.

Don't get this confused with the "Party 93" pirate I used to run from 2005-2006 also on 92.9 in West Windsor that I made out of a Belkin tunecast FM transmitter, an amplified antenna, and a non-amplified rabbit ears antenna. It was about a watt and covered less than a mile.

[d21ofnj]

To that 92.9 Trenton dance pirate.....GOOD JOB!!!! Keep up the good work 

[Nick]

It might sound ironic coming from someone who used to run a (small) dance pirate station, but pirate stations don't do much good for the dance industry.

If we had dance music on pirate stations everywhere, the format would be regarded as "the music pirate stations play" just like Caribbean music is now.

[d21ofnj]

I guess it will just be a Jersey thing.  Nobody is complaining about Out 97 in Binghamton.

[d21ofnj]

It might sound ironic coming from someone who used to run a (small) dance pirate station, but pirate stations don't do much good for the dance industry.

If we had dance music on pirate stations everywhere, the format would be regarded as "the music pirate stations play" just like Caribbean music is now.

You know, from reading this, the way terrestrial is going now with only CHR, CHR/Rhythmic, AC, Sports, and AM simulcasts on the dial, I guess all the other formats will be "the music pirate stations play."

[d21ofnj]

Okay, resurrecting an old post here, but I finally checked out this dance pirate station, got a couple of airchecks, and found out this station is NOT from Trenton.  I picked it up from the Route 29 Tunnel to Six Flags while driving on I-195.  I do not know how far north/south it can be reached, but I do know this is not from Trenton.