Check this out. Are you sick of the same endless drivel on your radio? Have you heard the same Aerosmith tune 3 times on 2 different stations during your morning commute? Do you wish you could wander in to the ClearChannel world headquarters and pummel the fuckwit executives responsible for the mess that is commercial radio? This project may appeal to you. There’s a slight ‘loophole’ in FCC regulations about radio broadcasts that allows anyone, without a license, to broadcast FM Radio from their homes, provided it is at .01 watts/200 foot radius restricted. What good is that you ask? Well, if you apply the same mesh network principles that activists are using to provide free internet access over 802.11 networks in urban areas, you can build a radio mesh network from these .01 watt microtransmitters, thus bringing fresh radio to the huddled masses who crave something beyond 24×7 Brittany. And it’s very cheap to do, $40 or so and even less if you’re handy with a soldering iron.

Is this a practical idea? Ha! Still, I love it. Anything that tweaks Clearchannel is ok in my book. Of course if this project achieves anything near minor success you will see the FCC fall all over itself to amend the laws that govern personal transmitters.