Pirate Stations Invade Crowded Aviation Airwaves

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As if the radio frequencies weren’t already busy enough, now pirate radio stations in Florida are interfering with aviation communications. “It’s a nightmare,” Jim Marinitti, president of the Miami Tower branch of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association, told the South Florida Sun-Sentinel on Monday. For the last month, pilots have been hearing hip-hop tunes and Haitian music instead of clearances and callbacks. Police traced the signal of a radio station that calls itself Da Streetz to a warehouse with an antenna, but nobody was there. Audio broadcasting equipment was confiscated, but the music has kept on playing. “It’s sporadic, but it always seems to happen at the most inopportune time, as soon as traffic starts to pick up,” Marinitti said.

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