Archive | October, 2000

Stephen Dunifer of Free Radio

Stephen Dunifer of Free Radio Berkeley posted an article to the Indymedia site declaring “FCC Declares WAR on Micropower Broadcasting – Fight Back!” He notes that there a number of new transmitter designs in the works to make getting on the air easier for new microbroadcasters interested in civil disobedience.

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A post to the Downstate

A post to the Downstate Illinois Radio Watch message board reports that there may be a new unlicensed station on the air in Decatur. The posted says the station is at 99.9 FM and is going by the name “Human Rights Radio.” Perhaps this broadcaster is on the air in solidarity with Mbanna Kanatko and […]

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Wired News has a story

Wired News has a story about Alan Freed and Beat Radio Minneapolis. Freed, who operated ulicensed Beat Radio until being shut down, lost his last appeal in the 8th circuit, challenging the constitutionality of the ban on low power stations and unlicensed operations. Like the outcome in the Free Radio Berkeley case, the judge ruled […]

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More on the Human Rights Radio Shutdown:

More on the Human Rights Radio Shutdown: As soon as the raid started Mbanna started recording things on his tape recorded. The full 36 minute undedited recording is now available in RealAudio at the Indymedia site, and in mp3 at the A-Info Radio Proejct site. Listen and hear our government at work. If you have […]

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On Friday, Sept. 29

On Friday, Sept. 29 at 5:15pm, pioneering Micropower Broadcaster Mbanna Kantako and his Springfield, IL, unlicensed micropower radio station, Human Rights Radio, were shut down by Federal Marshals and the Federal Communications Commission. The FCC charges that Kantako’s station, operating at less than 100 watts of power, threatened the radio communications for the Air Rendezvous […]

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