This book pinpoints the newest, most active pirate stations. It 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; and reveals the history of pirate radio from 1925 to today.
- ISBN10 0071705996
- ISBN13 9780071705998
- Publish Date 10 January 2002
- Publish Status Temporarily Withdrawn
- Publish Country US
- Imprint McGraw-Hill Education Tab
- Format eBook
- Pages 350
- Language English