Stephen Dunifer (born 1951/1952) is an American
radio engineer
Broadcast engineering is the field of electrical engineering, and now to some extent computer engineering and information technology, which deals with radio and television broadcasting. Audio engineering and RF engineering are also essential par ...
, author and
anarchist socialist who founded
Free Radio Berkeley in 1993
Berkeley, California
Berkeley ( ) is a city on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay in northern Alameda County, California, United States. It is named after the 18th-century Irish bishop and philosopher George Berkeley. It borders the cities of Oakland and Emer ...
.
Free Radio Berkeley, an unlicensed
micropower
Micropower describes the use of very small electric generators and prime movers or devices to convert heat or motion to electricity, for use close to the generator. The generator is typically integrated with microelectronic devices and produces "s ...
pirate radio station, was an expression of Dunifer's socialist anarchist principles, and was inspired by Black Liberation Radio in
Springfield, Illinois
Springfield is the capital of the U.S. state of Illinois and the county seat and largest city of Sangamon County. The city's population was 114,394 at the 2020 census, which makes it the state's seventh most-populous city, the second largest o ...
and by
Japanese micropower radio stations. Free Radio Berkeley was involved in a protracted legal case with the
Federal Communications Commission
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is an independent agency of the United States federal government that regulates communications by radio, television, wire, satellite, and cable across the United States. The FCC maintains jurisdiction ...
in the mid-1990s. At the time, it was illegal to broadcast on less than 100 watts.
Selected works
* ''Seizing the Airwaves: A Free Radio Handbook'', 1998,
References
Further reading
* https://books.google.com/books?id=swv53KTLriAC&pg=PA288
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External links
www.FreeRadio.org
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American anarchists
American radio company founders
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