Re: Radio Free Brattleboro Shut Down

[Aaron Read <aread@speakeasy.net>]

It's all but impossible to operate as a pirate in the FM band...at least in 
New England...for very long before you annoy someone enough to contact the 
FCC to bust you.   Radio Free Allston (ABfree's former incarnation) found 
that out the hard way.  I seriously doubt WROR was really getting 
interference complaints about RFA but the brass isn't gonna tolerate a 
pirate camping next to its frequency.

The AM band, however, particularly the expanded band in New England, is 
another story.  Keep a low profile and I'd say nobody cares much, at least 
from what I've seen and heard.  Hell, some of them have quietly or actively 
voiced support for some of them...


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Aaron "Bishop" Read             aread@speakeasy.net
FriedBagels Consulting          AOL-IM: readaaron
http://www.friedbagels.com      Boston, MA


At 02:33 AM 6/27/2003, Bob Nelson wrote:
>--- Larry Weil <kc1ih@mac.com> wrote:
> > Radio Free Brattleboro has been shut down by the
> > FCC:
>
>(snip)
>
>If they were on under flea power (like Allston-
>Brighton Free Radio)--which they were not--
>maybe they could have gotten away with it,
>but I guess those two complaints were what got the
>FCC down there to shut them down. On several
>visits to Brattleboro, I found they could be
>received in the downtown area well, and faintly
>for a few miles (as the article said, basically
>within the town limits).