ABFR actually goes back a little earlier than 2000, to about 1997; it was originally on FM (along with a slew of other pirates that popped up in the summer of 1997 in Boston) as Radio Free Allston and a round of busts by the FCC in about late 1997 brought an end to that. The operator, Steve Provizer, fancied himself as something of an east-coast Stephen Dunifer. It came back later as ABFR on AM. Boston has been a hotbed of unlicensed activity since that time, but ABFR is really the only one that pushed a truly community agenda. All others have been simply music or ethnic pirates.
Damon On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 18:46:32 -0500, Paul V McDonough <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Allston-Brighton Free Radio is gone, as of Jan. 1st. ABFR was a community > AM station on 1630 kHz. It was originally on 1670 kHz, but I noted it > changed freq last July. I hadn't heard it around the December holidays, > and became concerned. I found a connection to ABFR who said that the > station was in financial problems, and the equipment was sold and the > space gone. The station had started in 2000. > > Paul McDonough > Natick, MA > > =============================================== > 25th Edition of the AM Radio Log > ON SALE NOW - ON LINE > http://www.nrcdxas.org/Deals.html > > ---[Start Commercial]--------------------- World Radio TV Handbook 2005 is coming out. Preorder yours and support open communications for DXers: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0823077942/hardcoredxcom ---[End Commercial]----------------------- ________________________________________ Hard-Core-DX mailing list [email protected] http://dallas.hard-core-dx.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ _______________________________________________ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://dsl.org/copyleft/dsl.txt
