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- WHO: You. If your values, culture and music are not served by existing radio stations.
- WHAT: The Virginia Center for the Public Press[501 c (3) tax-exempt educational organization] Radio Free Richmond Project is a plan to build a second Public Community Radio station. You are both listener and Host/DJ. As a part of a diverse volunteer on-air staff, you have impact, sharing what you think is valuable and newsworthy with your neighbors. Community radio is "Radio For the Rest Of Us," the Communities-Of-Interest unserved by other radio stations. Our proposed starting programming supplements other stations with contrasting programs such as:
You, to volunteer to exercise your right of assembly to make it happen. You to be the Pied Piper that calls the tune, not Ethyl Corporation, not Moore’s Volvo or Archer Daniels Midland Company.
- such as Talk Of The
Nation, Pacifica
News, Fresh Aire, Hightower
Radio, Democracy
Now
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Living On Earth, Counterspin.
- Bridges: A Liberal/Conservative Dialogue, Monitor Radio, This American Life
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Afropop
Worldwide, Hearts Of Space,
the music featured on
All Things Considered. -
PSAs and lectures designed to give you the informative tools/inspire you
to create your life as you see fit.
6pm-12Midnight: Free Form Radio
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Only four rules:
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12M-6am (overnight): Techno-Ambient-Trance-Dance
It has been noted that Techno music is the 21st century classical music. Mostly instrumental, it uses new technologies to create new sounds unheard before using new patterns.NOTE: This is a proposal for the starting programming lineup. Some may feel it ranges too far, some may feel it is too rigid. Research at other community radio stations across the United States shows that this will work as far as juggling between being so rigid (all Led Zepplin, all the time) that too few will benefit to a format that is too loose (no-one-has-a-clue-when-what-they-want-will-be-on-radio) such that listeners feel that the DJ is just doing an electronic version of the primal "look-at-me" scream and therefore do not support us. The idea is that we will try this for a year, then start intensively asking our listeners for input.
Ideally if the Low Power Radio Service passes at the Federal Communication Commission, Richmond will have 3 to 58 new legal slots on the FM dial, we could have 3 stations, a full-time news/talk, full-time Free-Form, and a full-time techno station!! It is up to you to support the Low Power Radio Service with a call to your Congressmen/Senators.
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WHERE: Here
in downtown Richmond.
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WHEN:
1999. We start now.
| HOW:
With your help.
The ways you can help are only limited by your imagination … what activities are you good at (or want to improve)? Who are you connected to? What do you have that might help us? |
Founding Philosophy:
The Free Press must be free to carry the full spectrum of human experience, culture news and views in order to serve as that chain of links between those who create policy and those who suffer from policy. When media becomes overly influenced by a few powerful interest groups, it becomes tainted with an overall bias. An unrepresentative media creates an unrepresentative and unresponsive government … leading to an unjust, unstable society and government.
Since radio stations use taxpayer funded government agencies to protect their use of a limited public resource, the airwaves ... an unrepresentative radio market is literally taxation without representation.
Radio Free Richmond seeks
to be a light unto those who are not illuminated by existing radio stations.
In this way we will contribute to a stable and just society so that everyone
can become who they want to be. We seek to enable
the weakest links in our society to become strong so that no-one can
thrive on the pain and weakness of others.
To Receive Diverse Radio:
1) With a good antenna.
A "Yagi" antenna ($20 at Radio Shack) can bring in weak local stations
(University of Richmond's WDCE90.1FM,
or Black Liberation Radio at 91.7FM) and out-of-town radio stations such
as (to the north in Washington DC) WAMU88.5FM
or WPFW89.3
(To the East in Norfolk)
WHRV89.5 or
(to the West in Charlottesville,
Va.) WTJU91.1FM.
That $20 Yagi works even
if you don't mount it on a pole on the roof.
You can just have it in
your bedroom as long as the walls are not made of metal or have metal on
them (like aluminum siding) or significant metal in them (such
as steel reinforced concrete and cinderblock or metal studs).
Generally the larger and
the more elements (cross pieces) the better.
Don't bother with an antenna
amplifier if you live in an urban area. It will not increase the
number of stations you can pick up but WILL increase the interference
by closer more powerful stations.
Instead, whether it is
outside or inside a wooden or brick structure ... THE KEY IS TO GET
THE ANTENNA AS HIGH AS YOU CAN.
Another Key to good reception
of distant stations is a good cable in-between the antenna and the receiver.
Other Reception Tips Here and Here and also here. Here is info on Skip.
Remember that the antenna
is the most important component of any attempt to receive distant or weak
signals and that the height affects it more than anything else.
2)
Cable FM Service.
Plug the MediaOne
TV cable into your
FM receiver GET:
WVCW (VCU)
WDCE (Uof R)
WHRV89.5 (Norfolk)
[Shifted to 90.9FM on the Cable FM Feed].
3)Internet. Go to //members.aol.com/Wrfr/ and you can follow the links to hear Hightower Radio, Pacifica and independent productions.
4)Community Radio … if you make it happen!
Call 804-649-WRFR or email
us.
