Category: pirate/free radio

Sue Carpenter, author of 40 Watts from Nowhere, files an article for the LA Times on the decentralized network of pirate stations that will carry the audio webstreams out of NYC: Beginning today, RNC protesters plan to use wireless phones to call in live, in-the-trenches reports that will be streamed over the Internet and picked…

Boing Boing points to a design for a tiny amplifier to boost the signal of the iTrip personal FM transmitter, which is the older brother to the iTrip Mini, blogged about yesterday as hackable to do short-range “pirate” broadcasting. One of the basic problems with boosting the signals of these mini FM transmitters is that…

Gadget blog Engadget posted that they were able to extend the range of their iTrip mini FM transmitter for the iPod Mini, along with instructions. Essentially what they did is open up the iTrip to get to the internal antenna and get it outside the case. I’ve often told people that these little personal-type FM…

Wired News reports on FRB and Stephen Dunifer’s Radio Summer Camp, which gives intensive training in building a station, putting it on air, and dealing with the authorities. I’m a little surprised that one alum of the camp went on record with an apparently real name and a geographically identifying station name, talking about her…

Provided all goes as planned, we will be talking live with San Francisco Liberation Radio on tonight’s mediageek radio show, 5:30 PM on WEFT 90.1 FM in Champaign, IL. For the rest of you more than 30 miles away, it’ll be archived on the radioshow page this weekend.

The folks at Liberation Radio have sent out an update giving their version of their day in court last Friday: FCC vs. SFLR: Round One ends Inconclusively! On Friday April 30th San Francisco Liberation Radio had our first day in court. The matter we were debating was very specific and only touched on all the…

This coming Friday, April 30, San Francisco Liberation Radio will meet the FCC in court to challenge the Commission’s raid on the station last October. The foundation for SFLR’s challenge is that the station was denied due process, based upon the fact that the FCC never contacted the station or its legal counsel when it…

Word has it that today the judge hearing the FCC’s case against Radio Free Brattleboro did not grant the Commission’s request for a preliminary injunction to shut the station down. The judge apparently has asked for further briefs from both sides, especially regarding RFB’s claim that they have no legal recourse to broadcast because the…

The Brattleboro Reformer has covered the travails of RFB with remarkable fairness and depth, especially for a small-town newspaper. It must be at least party due to the success of RFB in making itself valuable to the community of Brattleboro. On Friday the paper had a nice overview of the situation and the station’s legal…

John alerts me to the fact that Radio Free Brattleboro won the support of nearly 2/3 of Brattleboro voters who pledged their support of the station in this ballot initiative: “We, the undersigned registered voters of Brattleboro, Vermont, request that the following advisory question appear for vote by Australian ballot on the Town Meeting Ballot…