February 1, 2007 Thursday meeting

February 1, 2007 Thursday meeting of Berkeley Liberation Radio

Announcements

1. Homeless Union Rally before Berkeley City Council Tuesday Feb.27 at 6pm in front of 2124 Martin Luther King, Jr. Way
2. BLA wants to raise awareness about case in SF

Schedule

Some changes made, see updated schedule

Tech

1. Voted unanimously to go stereo because mono signal does not come up on that auto scan feature on modern receivers
2. CD2 has been having problems, not sure if it’s broke, to replace need another 5-cd tray player
3. Dual cassette player has also been having problems, not sure if it’s broke
4. Programmer complained because burner was removed, some other programmer thought it was broke, so put computer in it’s place
5. $400 for back up transmitter, agreed to go half now, half on completion
6. spectrum analyzer costs $5,000 approximately, field strength tester goes for between $100- $200

Solidarity with other stations

1. New station in Hunter’s Point
2. Bay Area Indymedia wants program exchanges
3. BVHP Radio (contact name & number available from meeting)
4. Democracy Now
5. Guns & Butter

Screening

1. DJ Him & DJ Her Pirate Radio USA screening at Long Haul, also provide DVDs for sale

Phone
Want to install phone line, need permission from House, phone service will mean internet access for us