[Sue Carpenter] ↠ 40 Watts from Nowhere: A Journey into Pirate Radio [Journey Book] PDF ☆ Read Online eBook or Kindle ePUB

All rights reserved. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. . But her frank, often funny narrative is easily absorbed, and the story's a good one: one woman quitting a humdrum receptionist job to flout the law by filling the airwaves with the indie rock she loves, mu

• Title : 40 Watts from Nowhere: A Journey into Pirate Radio
• Author : Sue Carpenter
• Rating : 4.65 (706 Vote)
• Publish : 2014-11-24
• Format : Hardcover
• Pages : 240 Pages
• Asin : 0743229886
• Language : English

All rights reserved. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. . But her frank, often funny narrative is easily absorbed, and the story's a good one: one woman quitting a humdrum receptionist job to flout the law by filling the airwaves with the indie rock she loves, music she believes the monolithic Clear Channels of the world aren't playing. Her characters are right out of central casting: she describes herself as "a motorcycle-riding blonde with a bunch of leather in her closet"; her ne'er-do-well musician boyfriend as someone who has "an affection for needles"; and her tech-support guy as a likable slob with awkward social skills. With the station inevitably shuttered in 1998 by the FCC, one wishes Carpenter had gotten the book done a bit sooner for full cutting-edge effect. From Publishers Weekly Carpenter has penned an endearing if flawed memoir about running a pirate radio station out of her Los Angeles apartment for three years and meeting all sorts of oddballs, rock stars and wanna-bes while staying one step ahead (well, most of the time) of the FCC. The oddballs mostly come acro

It's an amazing true story, one that will instantly appeal to music fans -- and free spirits -- everywhere.. 40 Watts from Nowhere is Sue's frank and hilarious account of her bizarre double life during the height of California's pirate-radio boom: journalist by day, counterculture icon by night. When law office receptionist Sue Carpenter first asked how she might start her own radio station, everyone laughed. But in 1995, with the help of a few subversive techies and pirate-radio gurus, Sue built her first transmitter in her hilltop San Francisco apartment and launched KPBJ, enlisting friends as DJs. In the three and a half years before the FCC finally caught up with Sue, KBLT went from interviewing unknowns to hosting live performances by the Red Hot Chili Peppers -- without ever leaving Sue's apartment. The station expanded its playlist from indie rock to an eclectic mix of jazz, hip-hop, electronica, and countless other styles. From these humble beginnings KBLT emerged as one of L.A.'s best-loved radio stations, staffed with more than a hundred DJs and supported by major music labels eager to reach a different kind of audience.

I grew up in Oak Ridge in the 60's and 70's and my father worked on the Molten Salt Reactor Experiment. Ironically, before creating her pirate radio stations, the author wasn't actually a huge alternative music fan and mentions attracting all sorts of semi-famous musicians to the station,without being all that steeped in their music. This book is a treasure I am eager to share with family and friends.. It provides great insight into the motivation of a group of physicists who discovered a seductive new technology and thought it could solve all of the world's problems.. The only problem? It was against the law. An eloquent writer, his book is not necessarily targeted towards engineers like myself, but would be very worthwhile to anyone interested in nuclear enterprise, or energy in general. I also order the IBC loose leaf and it DID come with a binder and labels. Good book for me too keep up dated.. This is the unusual success story of low-power, Pirate Radio in one of America's largest cities- Los Angeles.In an attempt at curbing the boredom of a 9 to 5 job as a receptionist, Sue Carpenter decided to purchase a small transmitter and set up shop in her apartment, eventually enlisting a small army of 25 or so volunteer disc jockeys playing everything from folk to punk. Weinberg discusses pioneering neutron transport, working with the Manhattan