Creating an ultra-low-powered radio device has always been thought impossible because it would rely on perpetual motion to generate energy. That's because the second law of thermodynamics, one of the ...

My first dabbling in low-power “broadcasting” occurred in childhood. A Radio Shack P-Box kit, namely a wireless AM microphone, was the start. The study of electronics and my work at a community radio ...

Hundreds of applications available for nonprofits after year-long policy review From the Winter 2001 issue of The News Media &… Hundreds of applications available for nonprofits after year-long policy ...

Radio stations and engineers are hearing a lot of questions from U.S. churches and hospitals inquiring whether they can legally set up low-power radio broadcasts to their parking lots. What’s the ...

A growing number of independent community stations are rising up to serve local audiences at a time when the larger, corporate-owned stations are airing the same content shared among numerous stations ...

Jabari Moketsi was a radio talk show host at WVGB until the struggling station was sold to a company that broadcasts classic rock. He had no interest in spinning songs by Boston and Bad Company, so he ...

Community activists in Seattle have been working to create low-power FM radio stations for the past two years, and success is in sight: Seven local stations now have Federal Communications ...

A few miles and a world away from my house was KDIF 102.9 FM, a low-power FM station in South Phoenix. My drive to the station took me from the prosperous and developing parts of Phoenix to the ...

Researchers report that lab tests of a new metasurface-based antenna that can harvest 100 microwatts of power, enough to power simple devices, from low power radio waves. This represents an important ...

For now, one of the newest entries into the Twin Cities radio scene is a couple of people sitting behind a folding table covered with a mess of cords, two computer monitors and a microphone. Inside ...