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  • Micro-Transmitter Manufacturer Fined by FCC

    Ramsey Electronics has been well known in micro-radio circles for selling small Part 15 transmitter kits that often function as many folks’ first introduction to unlicensed broadcasting. A few years ago Ramsey started selling transmitters that put out much more power, at least 1 watt, which greatly exceed the Part 15 limits for unlicensed operation…

  • mediageek radioshow headlines: Indecency at the Senate; Google Won’t Pay Telcos; Stern Back on FM… Pirate FM

    These are the media news headlines as read on the mediageek radioshow on Jan. 20, 2006: Indecency Day at the Senate Commerce Committee; Consumer Groups Prefer A La Carte; Google Says It Won’t Pay Telcos for Consumer Bandwidth; Stern Gets Pirated. Indecency Day at the Senate Commerce Committee Decency, and indecency was the big topic…

  • Pirate Shortwave DXing Can Be Fun, too

    In the spirit of last week’s post about broadcast radio DXing, Ragnar’s Pirates Week podcast from Dec. 27 features 45 minutes of his loggings of pirate shortwave broadcasts he received over the Christmas weekend at his cabin in the woods. Some of it is pretty rough listening, in that pirate’s use low power levels and…

  • No Surprise, NPR Smears Florida Pirates

    In the 1970s NPR lobbied the FCC to get rid of low-power FM radio, and in 1978, the Commission did. Then in 2000 NPR lobbied Congress to hem in the new low-power FM service, and Congress did that. Now it’s 2005 and it should be no surprise that the public radio network would air a…

  • Stream Anything with VLC

    Engadget has a how-to for streaming anything with the free VLC player, which is obviously more than a player, since it also includes a streaming server. What’s nice about VLC is that you don’t have to be tied to a patent-protected format like MP3 or some varietal of MPEG video. Streaming makes a great way…

  • Rest of Pirate Radio USA Interview Will Be Posted by Midnight

    Like I did with the part of the interview with WFMU’s Ken Freedman that didn’t air during the regular radio show, I will post about six minutes of my interview with DJ Him and DJ Her who produced the documentary Pirate Radio USA that there wasn’t time to air during today’s radioshow. If you’re already…

  • Ay, One More Piece of Pirate News

    According to this post at the Free Radio Network, while 106.9 FM is closing down, Free Radio San Diego is coming back on the air in a “limited capacity.” The station was shut down by an FCC raid back in July.

  • Arrrgh, Pirate Radio News Pieces

    Here’s a little round-up of pirate news from around the US and UK: John at DIYmedia.net discovered that the FCC has delivered a notice of unlicensed operation to Zach De La Rocha, former singer for Rage Against the Machine. Zach has been an outspoken proponent of pirate radio in the past, making a tribute in…

  • DJ Johnny Silver Is Back and Online

    Got an email today from Nyack NY’s own pirate DJ Johnny Silver. He says Iron Action Radio is back up for nightly broadcasts, beginning tonight both at 102.5 FM in Nyack and on-line at Shoutcast. Johnny says the broadcasts will start along the lines of 7 or 8 PM Eastern time. I can confirm that…

  • Fresh Signs of Pirate Life on the ‘net

    I was just purusing the FCC Enforcement Bureau’s list of “Field Issued Citations, Notices of Apparent Liability and Notices of Violations,” because that’s one place to see if there’s been any pirate radio activity noticed by the FCC. I came across a Notice of Apparent Liability from June for a hip-hop station operating out of…