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Microbroadcasting Summer Camp
ScottGant writes "Wired has this
story about Steven Dunifer and his four-day Radio Summer Camps sponsored by Free Radio Berkeley that offers how-tos for building transmitters and antennas, along with advice on handling any FCC agents that might come knocking. Imagine this: A thousand little stations send radio programming across cities and towns from senior centers, dorm rooms and attics. The understaffed FCC would be powerless to shut them down. Audiences would have substantive content choices. No one would tune into Top-40 radio. And the media moguls would slink back into their caves. The FCC and Big Radio are obviously paying attention to the microbroadcasters -- it was
pressure from independent broadcasters that forced the FCC to grant a limited number of low-power, or LPFM, radio licenses to community organizations, a decision that the NAB resisted. Are these Pirates or Patriots?"
I helped set up a pirate radio station once. Well, I painted it camo so the FCC wouldn't find it... They found it anyways. That's why we moved it into a van. After that, they left us alone :)
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I don't know if we are patriots or pirates, but I do know that I'm putting mine in a van and getting Chrisian Slater to man it.
-Peter
We need these low power broadcasters! I don't know if you have cruised up and down the radio dial (AM or FM), but all that is there is basic crap. We need these people to give us other viewpoints, and some good music too.