[grc] the relevance of local radio

[Donna]

There was a group inNY that I met in Urbana at GRC. I was quite impressed. They sure had the "nuts and bolts" down. Gotta love the creativity when our rights to communicate are denied.

                   Donna DiBianco
        Station Start-up Specialist

> On May 5, 2016, at 3:10 PM, Brian Shiratsuki via grc <grc at maillist.peak.org> wrote:
> 
> In Syria, a German group called Media in Cooperation and Transition
> (MiCT) has been equipping towns with transmitters called PocketFM,
> built around Raspberry Pis, to provide Syrians with independent radio.
> Each transmitter has 4 to 6km (2.5 to 3.75 miles) of range, which is
> sufficient to reach a whole town.
> 
> In many parts of Syria, it’s impossible and politically unwise to
> build large transmitters, so a small device like PocketFM that can be
> easily concealed and transported, and that can be run off solar power
> or a car battery, is ideal...
> 
> <https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/pocket-fm-independent-radio-syria/>
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