Radio Summer Camp - Seize the Airwaves

A four day workshop session sponsored by Free Radio Berkeley to teach you how to build FM broadcast transmitters (and other related items such as antennas) and set up a low power (15-100 watt) community radio station capable of covering a broadcast radius between 5 and 15 miles depending on power, terrain and antenna height.

Radio Summer Camp

A four day workshop session sponsored by Free Radio Berkeley to teach you how to build FM broadcast transmitters (and other related items such as antennas) and set up a low power (15-100 watt) community radio station capable of covering a broadcast radius between 5 and 15 miles depending on power, terrain and antenna height.

The workshop tutition is $100-$200 sliding scale. Kits for transmitters, antennas, etc. may be purchased for assembly during the workshop session. Average cost for a broadcast station kit package (transmitter, antenna, cabling power, supply) runs between $300 and $600 depending on kits and power level chosen.

All Radio Summer Camp sessions will be held at Free Radio Berkeley's shop in Oakland, CA. FRB's Micropower Broadcasting Primer, available on the web site www.freeradio. org, will be used as one of the primary documents for the sessions. Anyone interested in attending should download this document which is in pdf format.

Four Radio Camp sessions, which run Friday through Monday, will be held on the following dates:

June 4,5,6,7
July 2, 3, 4, 5 (Fourth of July holiday weekend)
July/August 30, 31/1, 2
September 3, 4, 5, 6 (Labor Day holiday weekend)

Sessions will start at 10 am and end at 6 pm everyday. At least one session, the July 2-5 one, will be bi-lingual, Spanish and English.

An attempt will be made to make housing arrangement for out of town participants. If possible, attendees should arrange for their own housing needs.

Contact Free Radio Berkeley for further information

Free Radio Berkeley
1442A Walnut St.
Suite 406
Berkeley, CA
94709
510-625-0314
xmtrman@pacbell.net
www.freeradio.org