How To Save Analog Television - Pirate TV

Step 8 Now stare into your tv screen....

Nows the fun part. Sit back and relax and watch your tv station, without flipping through youtube's endless options or 1000's of mediocre cable channels.

Comments

[earthwindwater]

Nice write up. But, there is a much more simpler way. You can build your own channel with a Roku box. They are under $100 bucks. I got my channel up and running in a weekend. Just fyi...

[BtRanbo]

how does it work. im keen, will evry1 that owns Roku be able to watch my channel. does Roku works outside US and UK?

[johnnyme33]

HOW!! D:

[benwade]

Do you need to apply for a license? Do you need to worry about causing interference? How far are you allowed to transmit. What if there's an open channel, but competition on the frequency? Thanks in advance

[mattadamsnet]

Trying to be nice here... Are you Serious? Pirate TV how is that not a dead give-a-way? Yes you can Apply for a license, the FCC will deny you, then if you decide to proceed anyway they already have your address on a denied application to where you are and who you are.... The whole thing is, this may or may not be legal where you are, and chances are it's not. (Always check your local laws -- on ANY instructable)

(Assuming your in the US)
On interference -- If the FCC did accept your application they would assign you the channel number, no worries thats their job. You would have to jump through plenty of hoops to prove your transmitter is approved and that it does not cause interference on its own. Then theres the transmitter site, antenna height and design. All that has to be approved. If it was approved and you had done everything they asked and signed over your first born, your programming is very limited unless its completely original, you cant be playing anything thats copyrighted without permission. Then theres the constraints of regulation, you cant play nudity or use any curse words.

I think you missed the point of this instructable as a WHOLE, that is FREE TV not as in FREE to PAY but Free from regulation, constraint, moderation, administration, free from the government dabbling each and everyone of our lives whether we want them to or realize that they do.

PIRATE TV -- FREE to be FREE

[mattadamsnet]

And.. in all fairness this is the url for the maximum unlicensed legal limits, and if you would like to get a license the numbers at the bottom of the pdf to the FCC for more information... but nonetheless unlicened TV transmitting is not legal (in the US)

http://www.fcc.gov/ftp/Bureaus/Mass_Media/Databases/documents_collection/pn910724.pdf

[mattadamsnet]

http://www.scribd.com/doc/8556955/Moving-onto-the-Airwaves

This is what I'm talking about... taking back the spectrum.

[neutronbomb]

I bought a tv transmitter off ebay years ago when they first started talking about the transition to digital.. i still haven't gotten it up and running. are you guys still running your station?