https://citizensradio.org/ An independent magazine about community and low-power FM radio: stations, FCC rules in plain language, radio history, podcasts and emergency broadcasting. en-us https://citizensradio.org/stations-near-you/find-community-station-dial/https://citizensradio.org/stations-near-you/find-community-station-dial/Mon, 13 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0000Community radio hides between the big signals. Learn the band LPFM occupies, the databases that list stations and how to hear a 100-watt signal well. https://citizensradio.org/stations-near-you/campus-radio-88-to-92/https://citizensradio.org/stations-near-you/campus-radio-88-to-92/Mon, 20 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0000Why 88.1 to 91.9 MHz belongs to education: the reserved FM band, the college stations that built it and where campus broadcasting meets the LPFM world. https://citizensradio.org/stations-near-you/what-100-watts-sounds-like/https://citizensradio.org/stations-near-you/what-100-watts-sounds-like/Mon, 10 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0000The honest sound of low-power FM: signal edge, compression choices, local speech and the music policies that only a 3.5-mile signal can afford. https://citizensradio.org/stations-near-you/independent-record-culture/https://citizensradio.org/stations-near-you/independent-record-culture/Sat, 12 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0000The complementarity between low-power local radio and independent labels in keeping music scenes alive, with France as the documented example. https://citizensradio.org/stations-near-you/hometown-festival-on-air/https://citizensradio.org/stations-near-you/hometown-festival-on-air/Sat, 12 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0000How a small station or a town broadcasts its own festival: the webcam, the live remote, the recording and the rights questions nobody clears in advance. https://citizensradio.org/stations-near-you/civic-event-on-air/https://citizensradio.org/stations-near-you/civic-event-on-air/Sat, 12 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0000How a community station turns a published local calendar into programming: the events segment, the agenda reading and what organizers should send in. https://citizensradio.org/stations-near-you/records-requests-newsroom/https://citizensradio.org/stations-near-you/records-requests-newsroom/Sat, 12 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0000A community station cannot afford a lawyer, but a state access law gives it a calendar and a price list: the records request, worked on the Maine example. https://citizensradio.org/stations-near-you/field-trial-remote/https://citizensradio.org/stations-near-you/field-trial-remote/Sat, 12 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0000Covering an organized outdoor event with a schedule, a course and a results sheet: what retriever field trials teach a community station about remotes. https://citizensradio.org/stations-near-you/covering-local-development/https://citizensradio.org/stations-near-you/covering-local-development/Sat, 12 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0000Patient document-led coverage of local development: clearances, industrial estates and sector files, and what a small newsroom learns from a worked example. https://citizensradio.org/stations-near-you/sybrowser-a-mac-sql-client-from-1999/https://citizensradio.org/stations-near-you/sybrowser-a-mac-sql-client-from-1999/Tue, 15 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0000SyBrowser was a Mac SQL client for Sybase, PostgreSQL, MySQL and SQLite, first released in 1999. What it did, and how to pick a Mac database client today. https://citizensradio.org/stations-near-you/reading-smart-ram-and-voltage-sensors/https://citizensradio.org/stations-near-you/reading-smart-ram-and-voltage-sensors/Tue, 15 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0000How to read memory test results, SMART attributes and voltage sensors on an unstable PC, and what each reading can and cannot prove. https://citizensradio.org/stations-near-you/abap-basics-syntax-data-types-keyword-index/https://citizensradio.org/stations-near-you/abap-basics-syntax-data-types-keyword-index/Tue, 15 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0000A plain guide to ABAP basics: how statements are written, which data types exist, and where to find a keyword index for daily work.