Prometheus Projects!

Our Barnraisings! Come Build a Station With Us!

Prometheus International! Get Technical Help, or Help Build a Station, All Around the World!

SPECTRUM! Our Airwaves Are A Valuable Natural Resource -- Keep Them Ours!

Hire Our Crack Technicians to Tinker With Your Station!

Stations We've Built, With Your Help!

What Is a Barnraising?

About the Barn Raising with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers!

About the Barn Raising with the Southern Development Foundation!

Highlights from our Maryland Barn Raising!

Hot Photos!

More on Barnraisings!

Sample Schedules and Schematics from Our Radio Barnraisings Below!

Technical Information on Our Radio Stations!

An Interactive Graphic -- How It All Works! (Shady Side, Maryland)

A Simple Graphic -- How It All Works! (Shady Side, Maryland)

An Interactive Graphic -- How It All Works! (Shady Side, Maryland)

Workshops, Panels, and Presentations

Friday

Working Day

10:00

Antenna Set up and work projects

12:00

Lunch

1:00

Press Conference & Mast Raising

2:30
Workshops

•An Introduction to Noise: Common Audio Problems (Sandi Woodruff)
•The FCC at a Glance (Ted Coopman)

3:00

Political directions for low power FM, Facilitated by Media Alliance

5:00

Dinner

7:00 Plenary

Welcome From Bird Street Media, and history of the radio project: (Marianne and Erv Knorzer)
What everyone should know about how this station will work, even if you will never touch a transistor: (Sandi Woodruff, Pete Tridish Erv Knorzer)
How the Barnraising will work: (Marissa Johnson, Pete Tridish)

Late

Tales of Unlicensed Radio

Saturday

Work Continues

8ish

Breakfast served in the Democratic Headquarters

10:00
Workshops

•Technical Track -- intro to audio -- sound, mixers, audiosources, connections digital vs/ analog (Brad Johnson)
• Management/Programming Track -- using minidiscs and dats for reporting, and interviewing skills (Jade Piaget-Seekins/Shereen Meraji)
• Political/Programming Track -- 4 approaches to making a radio show : (Marissa Johnson, Brian Terhorst KVMR, Anna Kastner KZFR and KRBS)

12:00

Lunch provided by Enterprise Rancheria (served in Ballroom)

1:00
Workshops

• Technical Track: intro to radio (Brad Johnson)
• Political / Programming Track: Independent Media Centers: Open Publishing and how to use it with your station. (Lisa Souza, Mark Burdett, Sheri Herndon, Jeff Perlstein)
• Management/Programming Track: 4 approaches to setting your programming policies (Brian Terhorst, KVMR), (Richard Edmundson, San Francisco Liberation Radio)

3:00

Political directions for low power FM -- facilitated by Media Alliance

5:00
Workshops

• Technical Track: studio transmitter links (Sandi Woodruff)
• Political/Programming Track: legal clinic (Luke Hiken, Micheal Cuzens)
• Management/Programming Track: organizing a radio news operation (Aaron Glantz Sheri Herndon

6:30 to 10:00

Dinner & Party - provided by the Organic Farmers (served at Democratic Headquarters) Party will be in Ballroom from 7:00 to 10:00/11:00. Featuring: The Midnight Cowboy, Bob Howard, and Barbara Manning

Late Night

Radio theater listening party, with pieces from the Hooligan Players

Sunday

Almost There

8ish

Breakfast served in the Democratic Headquarters

9:00
Application
Clinic

• Special Free Clinic with Broadcast Engineer Micheal Brown to fix any problems with your application, including competing applications and stations that were denied their frequency by Congress;
and right next door:
• The FCC Labrynth (Micheal Couzens, Communications Attorney) How to deal with staff, get information from the FCC website, understand the status of an application.

10:00
Workshops

• Technical Track: advanced audio -- Processing, recording, automation, trooubleshooting (Brad Johnson)
• Management/Programming Track -- 4 approaches to station governance (Brian Terhorst, KVMR?, Ted Coopman, Rogue Communcations, Laura Lukes KZFR Chico)
• Political/Programming Track -- international radio (Sharon Maeda, Stephen Dunifer)

12:00

Lunch provided by the Hmong Veterans and including traditional Hmong dance (served and preformed at the Senior Center located around corner)

1:00
Workshops

• Technical Track -- internet radio (Mark Burdett, Sandi Woodruff)
• Management/Programming Track -- fundraising (grants, underwtriting, individual fundraising) (Sharon Maeda, Shelley Mariposa, Caroline Leopold)
• Political/Programming Track -- the emerging media and democracy movement (Seeta Peña, Gangadharan, Martha Wallner, Dorothy Kidd)

3:00
Workshops

• Technical Track: advanced radio -- Pre-emphasis, interference issues, tough questions for the engineers (Mike Brown, Sandi Woodruff)
• Political /Programming Track -- Working session for Seattle Convergence Against the NAB (Sheri Herndon, Amoshaun)
• Management/Programming Track -- cut a news story minidiscs and soundforge/cooledit (Jade Piaget-Seekins, Shereen Meraji)

5:00

Flip the Switch and Bird Street Radio is on the Air!

6:00

Dinner