3 Nov
2013
3 Nov
'13
6:14 p.m.
Dudes I was THERE managing tech for Pirate Cat went that all went
down. See also:
http://nthmost.com/2011/04/radio-valencia-the-little-radio-station-that-cou…
The major difference here to what was suggested above is that Pirate
Cat hosted its antenna in many many different places over the years.
We moved it every 3 months or so. And 95% of the membership didn't
know where it was.
My point was to ask the question WHY put up the antenna at all.
The return on investment for putting up an antenna -- particularly,
one physically located at the locus of control as opposed to offsite
somewhere like in a van or something -- is pretty abysmal.
Listenership to the airwaves continues to drop.
If you decided to jam some corporate radio station, you'd be
implicating Sudo Room and the feds would come down on it sooner or
later.
If you just wanted to squat some frequency in the lower band, you'd
have an abysmal listenership at the cost of the power of operating the
antenna.
It's just not that compelling an exercise for the amount of risk.
Not for me, anyway. I guess a lot of people still feel that the
airwaves are somehow inherently exciting.
--Naomi
On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 5:54 PM, Gregg Horton <greggahorton(a)gmail.com> wrote:
We agree on absolutely nothing so I abstain
On Nov 3, 2013 5:17 PM, "GtwoG PublicOhOne" <g2g-public01(a)att.net>
wrote:
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If someone or a group wants to propose or operate a radio station in an
act of peaceful civil disobedience, they should research the regs, laws,
and potential penalties, and talk with an attorney who has represented
clients who have engaged in similar acts in the past. That would be a
project for a group that is not formally identical with SR.
The most successful peaceful civil disobedience actions in the past
fifty years have been conducted by people who were not only
well-grounded in principles, but also had trained themselves in how to
interact in a peaceful and effective manner with all of the people they
would come into contact with, including law enforcement and government
officials. The civil rights movement and the Clamshell Alliance
anti-nuclear group are excellent examples to study, and much of their
material can be found online.
All of that said, online/internet radio is still the fastest way to
reach an audience with no geographic limits or regulatory risks, and
spreading the word is easy. Linkage with other online broadcasters can
build up a seamless network with 24/7/365 coverage.
To challenge the existing AM/FM broadcast status-quo, will inevitably
require challenging station licenses in order to re-capture spectrum.
And the best place to start is by challenging the crowding of spectrum
by multiple redundant right-wing religious broadcasters. The case for
it is clear and obvious in any area with strong cultural diversity, and
a win is a victory on multiple fronts.
Under-thinking, rather than over-thinking, is the risk for failure.
Reaction is not action.
-G
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On 13-11-03-Sun 4:39 PM, Jake wrote:
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> Just
put a big fucking antenna on the roof and start broadcasting, if
> you don't, i will, god damnit.
>
> Stop overthinking things and do it.
Why? So you can inflict a $20,000 fine on Sudo Room as quickly as
humanly possible?
it takes a long time and a lot of work and listeners before you even
get the ten-day warning, let alone an unenforcable fine. Don't forget
that Berkeley Liberation Radio has been broadcasting for almost ten
years now, interrupted more often by their own failures than by two
FCC raids where the FCC basically snatched their equipment and fled
like cowards.
No one at BLR has ever been successfully "fined", and even the NAL
(Notice of Apparent Liability) filed against Stephen Dunifer of FRB
before them has just sat uncollected, like almost all NALs against
pirates, for twenty years now. Stephen's very public response to the
Notice of Apparent Liability was "Apparently not."
The FCC's fine enforcement mechanism is to threaten to revoke your
stations lisence. This works when they fine lisenced broadcasters for
the seven deadly words or whatever, but filed against an unlisenced
person it's a joke. Witness the fine against Daniel Robert of Pirate
Cat Radio, which is an example of a person who put his full name all
over everything and even corresponded with the FCC in the mail, making
it personal. They haven't even collected anything from him.
here's the story of pirate cat's fine:
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2011/10/fcc-fines-monkey-man-radio-pirat…
The point is, if sudoroom decides as a group to broadcast a signal
from the roof or wherever (we can stream over the internet you know)
then sudoroom can decide for itself whether it wants to keep going
after getting a "ten day notice to cease broadcasting" If that EVER
happens.
http://transition.fcc.gov/eb/FieldNotices/2003/DOC-264276A1.html
and if a broadcast is not coming from the building where sudoroom is,
then it is not even a matter for sudoroom to have to decide on.
Sudoroom can continue to have an internet streaming radio station and
leave it at that.
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