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What Is a Barnraising?
Click on an image below to learn about our seven amazing
Radio Barnraisings! Clockwise from Upper Left: Immokalee, Florida; Deale, Maryland;
Spokane, Washington; Opelousas, Louisiana; Portsmouth, New Hampshire;
Oroville, California; and at the bottom, Nashville, Tennessee.
Two or three times per year, Prometheus Radio Project
partners with a community group that has received a construction
permit to build their station. These groups have been waiting a long
time for the chance to build their stations, and the construction
permit allows them to move ahead in the process. They now have
eighteen months to build the station and begin to deliver regular,
community-based programming to their cities and towns..
For these special stations each year, the Prometheus volunteers crowd into trains, planes, and automobiles -- and rush to the site of the station to get it on the air! In the spirit of neighbors pulling together to put up a new building, Prometheus gathers Low Power FM radio applicants, journalists, radio engineers, students, lawyers, musicians, activists and folks from across the country to raise the antenna mast, build the studio... and flip on the station switch... all over a long weekend!
Barnraising weekends are much more than a team of a few volunteer engineers tuning a transmitter and raising a tower. Each Barnraising produces a radio station, yes, but also hundreds of newly trained volunteers, ready to support the new station and ply their skills at other stations all across the country. Barnraising attendees also work tirelessly to expand Low Power FM, and inspire communities who have been left out of the process to fight to bring more stations to people all across America. After building, teaching, and learning at our sixth Radio Barnraising in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, September 10th-12th, 2004, Jane Braaten, of Valley Free Radio in Northhampton, Massachusetts, said it best:
"The main thing was the spirit of the gathering -- it was a diligent,
1) February 16th-18th, 2002: Deale, Maryland Click Here for A Page Featuring Other Great Stations Prometheus Has Helped Take to the Airwaves!
Success Stories -- LPFM Stations On the Air Right Now!
Read About Groups Who Were Left Out of the Low Power FM Process
Call and Write your Senators and Congressmen RIGHT NOW!
Why Take Action? Download This Document and FIND OUT!
Want to Bring LPFM to Your Town? Click here.
And Read About Our Radio Barnraisings Below!
Prometheus Barn Raisings!
Read about our next barnraising
here!
What is a Barnraising?
Prometheus Invites You to Learn More About These Amazing Community Events!
What Happens at a Barnraising?
Communities Coming Together To Build a Radio Station -- and Help It Grow in the Future!
common effort by a very motley group of people. The second most important
thing was that it is possible to create a radio station from scratch -- and
from the volunteer efforts of a bunch of dedicated, yet more-or-less
inexperienced people, just as they are. Even us nobodies can do it!"
Learn More!
Read About our Past Barnraisings, and Learn How You Can Help Build a New Low Power FM Station!
2) April 12th-14th, 2002: Oroville, California
3) November 15th-17th, 2002: Opelousas, Louisiana
4) October 24th-26th, 2003: Spokane, Washington
5) December 5th-7th, 2003: Immokalee, Florida
6) September 10th-12th, 2004: Portsmouth, New Hampshire
7) April 1th-3rd, 2005: Nashville, Tennessee
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