Pirate Battles to Keep the Airwaves Open |  | 
Source: Free Radio Berkeley BERKELEY, Calif. - On a chilly Sunday evening, high in the hills overlooking the San Francisco Bay area, Stephen Dunifer sets down his backpack and prepares to put Radio Free Berkeley on the air. He pushes a 10-foot antenna into the earth, then wires together a car battery, a sound mixer and microphone, a portable compact-disc player and a home-brew, five-watt radio transmitter. "The people's technology is ready to strike back," he mumbles, turning his transmitter to 88.1 FM. With a flick of the microphone switch, he begins three hours of eclectic and illegal broadcasting.
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