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Prometheus Radio's ongoing mission is to maintain ownership of the airwaves in the hands of the citizens, "Freeing the airwaves from corporate control." The corporations that monopolize the public airwaves are among the best funded in the world. Prometheus depends upon contributions from citizens like you to continue the struggle.

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Chuck Tarver
Chuck Tarver

Broadcasters are trustees of the public airwaves obligated to serve the "public interest, convenience, and necessity." This relationship has been broken since the passage of the Telecommunications Act of 1996. Radio has changed. Corporations have seized greater control of stations. Communities have been deprived of their voices. News, information, community issues and cultural forms of music have all disappeared.

The Prometheus Radio Project, created in 1998 by former pirate radio operators, signaled the re-emergence of community radio and the democratization of the airwaves. By 2000, Prometheus and other grass roots organizations had convinced the FCC of the error of its ways. Community radio, LPFM was born. Shortly thereafter, the broadcast lobby convinced Congress to limit the number of community radio stations that could be built. In response, Prometheus adapted and updated the tradition of barnraising to ensure that those stations that did receive licenses got on the air. To date we have successfully launched seven community radio stations and expanded the concept of barnraising to ensure that community groups have access to wireless Internet.

Your support is essential if Prometheus is to continue the struggle to restore ownership of the airwaves to citizens. On a daily basis, we go head-to-head against the best funded and most influential of all lobbies, the broadcast lobby. Your contributions and the creativity of the Prometheus staff have allowed us some surprising victories in this David and Goliath battle. In 2003, Prometheus succeeded in getting the Third Circuit Court of Appeals to issue a stay of FCC ownership rules that would have allowed major corporations to monopolize even more of the public airwaves. Also in 2003, the MITRE study showed no potential interference from LPFM (community radio) stations located on third adjacent channels. Prometheus re-launched its push to have the FCC restore those channels eliminated by the broadcast lobby's efforts.

Your contribution can help tip the balance. The corporations that monopolize the public airwaves are well funded. Prometheus depends upon concerned citizens like you to continue the struggle. Make your contribution now. You can fill in the form and send it to us, or make your contribution online.

Chuck Tarver
Co-Chair, Prometheus Radio Project Board of Directors

Volunteer with Us:

We need more people to join us in our work! If you have skills in radio engineering, law, audio, fund raising, web work and computers, and most of all, community organizing, we need your help!!! We also are always in need of photocopies, so if you got the free or cheap hookup, let us know. And if you do not have any of these skills yet, what better way to learn them than to volunteer with us? We are always in dire need of volunteers to assist our organization in supporting community radio across the country.

Items we need:

We at the Prometheus Radio Project love being gifted thingamajigs, doohickeys, gizmos and doodads. If you have one of the following items laying around your house, station, office, garage, or basement please donate it to us. Please remember that we are tax deductible and you can write off the value of your donations. Give us a call (215) 727-9620 x506 or e-mail us info(at)prometheusradio(dot)org to arrange a drop off.

Office Supplies

  • Desktop organizational supplies- i.e. mailboxes, wire folder organizers
  • Ergonomic keyboards
  • USB mice
  • Scissors
  • Pens, pencils, markers,
  • Dry erase boards, markers, erasers, supplies
  • 3 hole punches
  • Staplers
  • Paper ( card stock, colored paper etcetera, foam core). But please no 1 sided paper, we have enough of that, thank you very much!
  • Sticker paper
  • Fully working copy machine ( we already have enough broken ones!)
  • Fully working computers (Pentium 4 or faster, please!)

Tech Equipment

  • 3GHz Spectrum analyzer with Tracking Generator (such as the Anritsu MS2721B Spectrum Master)*
  • Frequency-agile Modulation Monitor (for example, an Inovonics 531)
  • Portable Oscilloscope (such as a Fluke Scopemeter 190 or Tektronix TDS3034C)
  • Real RMS Digital Multimeter (like a Fluke 179 or 287)
  • Drill, and other power tools
  • Hand tools such as wire strippers, especially electricians or plumbers tools
  • 3/4 or half inch copper or aluminum pipe
  • Electronic learning sets like lots of people have stashed from radio shack
  • Soldering irons
  • FM Radio transmitters
  • Mixers or small radio consoles (please no rotary knob consoles!)
  • Video projector
  • Video camera
  • Audio recording gear and media, such as flash recorders, minidisc recorders, microphones, audio cables (rca,xlr, rca to mini converters etc.)
  • Good deep cycle battery, float charger

Miscellaneous

  • Digital Camera
  • Firewire and USB cables
  • Frequent flyer miles
  • Hanging plant pots
  • Spraypaint
  • Cabinet with a lock on it
  • Ergonomic chairs to save our backs
  • Button maker
  • Bullhorn
  • Bike trailer/ cart to mount our sound system on
  • Solar panels
  • Climbing rope, gear
  • Power strips and extension cords
  • Light bulbs, cleaning supplies, a real good mop and bucket
  • Postage Supplies
  • Spare copies of the NAB engineers handbook, or similar works on Radio Engineering, Audio Production and so on.
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