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Subject: [MRN] Do-it-yourself pirate radio kits available now
From: "radtimes" <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, February 11, 2009 20:02
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Do-it-yourself pirate radio kits available now
http://artthreat.net/2009/02/do-it-yourself-pirate-radio-kits-available-now/
February 2009
Ever wanted to make your own pirate radio station? Well, you're in
luck. The folks at Free Radio Berkeley http://www.freeradio.org/
have put together a short video that walks you through the actual
making of a 10 watt FM transmitter. That's enough radio juice to
broadcast in a 3-4 mile radius.
[See URL for video.]
The fun thing is they will send you all the parts they sell the
kits for between $280 (15 watts) and $1050 (300 watts). And all you
have to do is sit down with your soldering iron (and leadfree
soldier) and follow along. Now, I own a 2 watt transmitter that I
built under the tutelage of Canadian performance artist (and former
electrical engineer) Bobbi Kozinuk, who in turn developed the
transmitter design from Tetsuo Kogawa's pioneering work in the 1980s in
Japan.
Owning your own portable radio station is pretty much the funnest
thing you'll ever do. I've broadcast a show in East Vancouver about a
movement to stop a disastrous transportation plan, and also in Cape
Breton with the Chapel Island First Nation, the first time they had
ever heard their own voices, music and language broadcast locally. A
microtransmitter is also a wonderful art tool used it once to help
stage a performance in a parkade across the street from a gallery,
audience on the roof, performers engaged in clandestine movement,
music, and delight.
To be fair, it is a little complicated to put together a transmitter,
soldering is a skill and some of the components can be fried by too
much heat, but it seems like the folks at Free Radio Berkeley are
doing this for all of the right reasons and will likely be available
to help you get through any tricky patches.
Overall, the video is a great introduction, maybe not quite enough to
have you broadcasting to your friends and fellow citizens
immediately, but with a little dedication, patience, a few emails and
maybe a telephone call or two to the Free Radio Berkeley pirate radio
champions, a radio station could be yours. Radio Free Berkeley is a
pirate radio station that has been broadcasting in the Berkeley area
on a 50 watt transmitter since 1993. Props to Ceci Moss at Rhizome
for picking up on the video.
.
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