Radio Bayonne

1992 | Transmitters, headphones, mics, electronics, carrying case

I SUGGESTED that the School of Bayonne should create a pirate radio station to broadcast art propaganda to lower Manhattan, and then built a 15-watt TX from a Ramsey kit sent via Canada (low-power FM was illegal in the US). I also built a 5-watt portable TX, left, so the School could broadcast from remote locations. In 1993, the SOB held the first juried exhibit of visual art over the airwaves. It was broadcast from a two-story antenna erected on top of a five-story building on Lispenard Street in the city’s Chinatown. Radio Bayonne’s radical programming eventually attracted the attention of NPR, which did a segment on SOB for its evening news show, “All Things Considered.”