Start your own legal pirate radio station

Start your own legal pirate radio station for fun, profit and the Gospel.

Note that applies to the United States and its territories. Probably not legal in other countries.

No you probably don't have several million in your back pocket to start your own broadcast radio station but fortunately according to the Federal Communications Commision you don't have to.

Also I am not referring to an Internet Radio Station although that is a possibility as well. You could take the same content broadcasting to your physical radio station to also form an online station as well and some of the same principles apply here.

This is legally possible in the U.S. because the FCC has long allowed what is called Part 15 non-licensed lowe power (not to be confused with licensed LPFM stations) transmitters which on FM frequencies are limited to an effective service range of approximately 200 feet (61 meters). See https://www.fcc.gov/media/radio/low-power-radio-general-information#UNLICENSED

Because this is a physical rado station you will need some things that can be relatively inexpensive. A list is below.

List of basic equipment

• Studio to record messages, audio and music. This could be a computer that can be run 24x7 hours a day with a headset or microphone and a clean line-level audio output. It could be just a human and a microphone but I doubt you willing to be on this 24 hours a day so you need some automation to be effective. I recommend a small Linux desktop or server but Windows desktopp will also work. Make sure it can stay on all the time.
• FM Part-15 type transmitter