How a Hackerspace Built a Legal FM Radio Station

Presented at The Circle Of HOPE (2018), July 21, 2018, 6 p.m. (60 minutes)

Montana Ethical Hackers (MEH) walks you through the trials and tribulations of developing KMEH 107.9 - End of the Dial Hacker Radio. Their presentation ranges from overcoming low budget logistical challenges and the FCC application process to convincing the U.S. military to give up a call sign. Content generation and copyright issues will be covered. The talk will also include a quick background on the pirate radio movement of the 1990s, and how that spawned the legal LPFM service, which created thousands of legal LPFM stations. You will learn about some of the practical challenges of starting radio stations, radio's role in today's media environment, and the future of community radio.


Presenters:

  • Saint
    **Saint** has six CVE>7 0days and has been obsessed with programming since 1995. They started the first hackerspace within 500 very lonely miles in Montana. Literate.
  • Pete Tridish
    **Pete Tridish** has built studios, raised towers, drafted regulations, passed a law through Congress, been the plaintiff in a federal lawsuit against media consolidation, started nonprofits, and been arrested as a protester on various occasions. He has been a radio pirate, a policy advocate for community media, a carpenter, an environmental educator, a solar energy system installer, a squatter, a homeless shelter volunteer, and an activist in many social movements since the age of 16.
  • Hook
    **Hook** has been phreaking since 1984 and hacking since 1986. They set up the first responder system for counter-bioterrorism throughout the United States.

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