[Rfu-barnraising] Taking Back All Kinds of Airwaves- Come Help Us Build Community Radio and Community Wireless in Urbana, Illinois 11/11 to 11/13

[Danielle Chynoweth]

1 proposed changed.  if it's too late, no big deal.  change in is caps.  
the party for RFU on sunday will likely draw lots of folks from the 
community to celebrate the new space - great outreach all around.  -d

> UCIMC & Prometheus Radio Project
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> present
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> RADIO STATION BARNRAISING: RADIO FREE URBANA, WRFU-LP!
> 11/11 to 11-13
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> Join the Urbana Champaign Independent Media Center, CU Wireless and 
> Prometheus for
> another hair-raising spine-tingling electrically-charged weekend radio
> project!  Jump in with hundreds of volunteers from around the country as
> we come together to build a new radio station from microphone to antenna
> in three headlong days.  THIS BARNRAISING WILL ALSO BE THE GRAND OPENING 
OF THE NEW IMC SPACE - THE DOWNTOWN POST OFFICE - WHICH WAS PURCHASED BY
THE IMC LAST MAY.

> No longer content to engage & enthrall scores of volunteers with a
> plain old radio barnraising, Prometheus and the UCIMC take the mammoth
> task of building a radio station over the course of a singe weekend in
> stride.  This time, we're not stopping at the FM AIRWAVES; we're setting
> our sights on freeing the whole SPECTRUM for use by democratic
> communications as we look to the future of radio!  This barnraising 
> round,
> we'll also build out the Urbana Champaign wireless network, a pioneering
> leader in community broadband services.  While some of us construct the
> studio & raise the antenna to get WRFU on the air, others will set up
> access points to expand  this open source community wireless network!
> 
> Dozens of radio workshops and station building will take place at the
> sparkling  new IMC space in Urbana's former Post Office Building.  
> Radio Free Urbana,
> WRFU-LP, 104.5 FM will be born on Sunday, November 13th!  All skill
> levels encouraged, from engineer to nowhere near, and no one will be 
> turned
> away for lack of funds!
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> You Be There!  We'll Be There!
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> for info or to register, visit www.prometheusradio.org
> Registration is $125 for the full weekend, all meals included
> (coming straight from local farmers who support local radio)!
> Free housing available if you register by November 1 and are not too 
> fussy about where you lay your head
> Discounted and other slashed rates available, so no excuses!
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> we have phones too! (215) 727-9620.
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> pe'tre dish (n): a squat, cylindrical, transparent article of 
> laboratory glassware, useful in observing resistant strains of culture 
> in aetherial media.
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>   petri at prometheusradio.org
>   www.prometheusradio.org
>   Prometheus Radio Project
>   215-727-9620
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> see more about the stations we just built in 
> Tanzania!!!www.prometheusradio.org/tanzania.shtml
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