Pirate Radio Stations

Tuning in to Underground Broadcasts in the Air and Online

Andrew Yoder

366 pages, parution le 14/02/2002

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Résumé

Experience Radio's Swashbuckling Side!

Listening to pirate radio is perfectly legal—and frequently an ear-opening experience. This book makes it easier for you to locate and tune in pirate stations—and tells you all about the unlicensed broadcasters who play David to broadcasting conglomerates' Goliath. Revealing the history of pirate radio from 1925 to today, author Andrew Yoder, pirate radio aficionado and long-time writer on radio, electronics, and audio subjects:

Explains how to buy and use equipment to listen to pirate stations
Shows you how to find pirate stations on your AM/FM, shortwave, and online radios
Explains how pirates have "gone legit" on the Internet, with "how-to-listen" directions, and hard-to-find pirate URLs
Showcases stations operating since at least 1995
Provides details on political, local, holiday, and special-events pirates
Tells you about offshore, European, and pirate stations around the world
Takes you inside illegal stations, some of which have up to 75 volunteers
Shows you how the FCC tracks pirates and often enforces its regulations harshly
Gives you a CD with over 80 minutes of audio from dozens of underground stations

PINPOINTS THE NEWEST, MOST ACTIVE PIRATE STATIONS

COVERS THE INTERNET PIRATE RADIO, WITH URL DIRECTORY

EXPERIENCE RADIO'S SWASHBUCKLING SIDE!

74 MINUTES OF AUDIO FROM DOZENS OF UNDERGROUND STATIONS!

Listening to pirate radio is perfectly legal—and frequently an ear-opening experience. This book makes it easier for you to locate and tune in to pirate radio stations—and tells you all about the unlicensed broadcasters who play David to broadcasting conglomerates' Goliath. Inside, pirate radio aficionado and long-time writer on radio, electronics, and audio subjects Andrew Yoder—

Shows you how to find pirate radio stations on your AM/FM, shortwave, and online radios
Gives you a CD with audio from dozens of pirate stations
Explains how pirates have "gone legit" on the Internet, with "how-to-listen" directions, and hard-to-find pirate URLs
Showcases stations operating since at least 1995
Provides details on political, local, holiday, and special-events pirates
Tells you about offshore, European, and pirate stations around the world
Takes you inside illegal stations, some of which have up to 75 volunteers
Shows you how the FCC tracks pirates and often enforces its regulations harshly
* Reveals the history of pirate radio from 1925 to today

Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: The History of Pirate Radio (1900-1975)
Chapter 2: The Dawn of the Modern Era (1976-1982)
Chapter 3: Pirate Radio Since 1983
Chapter 4: Inside Pirate Radio
Chapter 5: European Offshore Radio (1958-1986)
Chapter 6: American Offshore Pirates
Chapter 7: International Pirate Radio
Chapter 8: Political Pirates
Chapter 9: Local and FM Pirates
Chapter 10: The FCC and Enforcement Actions
Chapter 11: Verifying Pirates
Chapter 12: Equipment and Information
Chapter 13: Computers and Radio
Update
Index
About the Author

Caractéristiques techniques

	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Mc Graw Hill
Auteur(s)	Andrew Yoder
Parution	14/02/2002
Nb. de pages	366
Format	18,5 x2 3,4
Couverture	Broché
Poids	793g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780071375634
ISBN13	978-0-07-137563-4