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The '''Free Radio Network''' (FRN) is a website popular with pirate radio DXers and broadcasters. Most of the activity takes place in the Message Board, which is broken down into several sub-boards. The most active of these boards are "The Grapevine Pirate Shortwave", featuring general discussion of pirate radio, and "The A*C*E* Loggings" which is where loggings are posted.
The '''Free Radio Network''' (FRN) is a website popular with pirate radio DXers and broadcasters. Most of the activity takes place in the Message Board, which is broken down into several sub-boards. The most active of these boards are "The Grapevine Pirate Shortwave", featuring general discussion of pirate radio, and "The A*C*E* Loggings" which is where loggings are posted.
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Although the rest of the site is very outdated, and new content does not appear forthcoming, the site remains the hub for shortwave pirate activity in North America.
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Although the rest of the site is very outdated, and new content does not appear forthcoming on the front page or static content articles, the site's discussion forums remain a hub for shortwave pirate activity in North America.
As of September 2007, the administrator of the site, [[Pat Murphy]], does not allow new users except under special circumstances, although anyone can read the forums without registering.
As of September 2007, the administrator of the site, [[Pat Murphy]], does not allow new users except under special circumstances, although anyone can read the forums without registering.
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As of May 25, 2011, the FRN was only intermittently available after a [http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/23/us/23tornado.html deadly tornado on May 22 struck Joplin, Missouri], where the website's server was hosted.  Site owner [[John Cruzan]] [http://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,4804.0.html confirmed] by May 23 that he and his family in the Joplin area were not injured.
As of May 25, 2011, the FRN was only intermittently available after a [http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/23/us/23tornado.html deadly tornado on May 22 struck Joplin, Missouri], where the website's server was hosted.  Site owner [[John Cruzan]] [http://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,4804.0.html confirmed] by May 23 that he and his family in the Joplin area were not injured.
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In the latter part of August, 2011, the FRN disappeared from the DNS (Domain Name Server), and has been unreachable since then. This was several days prior to Hurricane Irene striking the US, so the two appear to be unrelated.
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In the latter part of August, 2011, the FRN disappeared from the DNS (Domain Name Server). This was several days prior to Hurricane Irene striking the US, so the two appear to be unrelated.  Since that outage the FRN has resumed normal accessibility and has added other radio hobbyist discussion forums to broaden its appeal beyond the shortwave pirate radio genre.
== See also ==
== See also ==

Revision as of 12:38, 6 December 2011

As of the Ides of March 2011, the FRN was observing its annual hiatus/holiday, "FRN Annual Domain Expiration Day."

The Free Radio Network (FRN) is a website popular with pirate radio DXers and broadcasters. Most of the activity takes place in the Message Board, which is broken down into several sub-boards. The most active of these boards are "The Grapevine Pirate Shortwave", featuring general discussion of pirate radio, and "The A*C*E* Loggings" which is where loggings are posted.

Although the rest of the site is very outdated, and new content does not appear forthcoming on the front page or static content articles, the site's discussion forums remain a hub for shortwave pirate activity in North America.

As of September 2007, the administrator of the site, Pat Murphy, does not allow new users except under special circumstances, although anyone can read the forums without registering.

Once a year, usually on the Ides of March, the absence of opposable thumbs among lagomorphs results in the FRN domain expiring until superior hominids click the "Pay my bills" option, using the ironically named "mouse," after which the illusion of control is restored to the leporidae.

In early 2011, it was revealed that many of the user accounts of the FRN were actually a sockpuppet of Commander Bunny. These accounts included Beans, Thumper, and Mosby. Once this became widely known in the free radio community, Commander Bunny was forced to stop using these accounts. Many of the message threads containing posts by these sockpuppets have since been deleted, in an attempt to destroy the evidence. The Radio Paranoia blog has preserved screen copies of some of these threads.

As of May 25, 2011, the FRN was only intermittently available after a deadly tornado on May 22 struck Joplin, Missouri, where the website's server was hosted. Site owner John Cruzan confirmed by May 23 that he and his family in the Joplin area were not injured.

In the latter part of August, 2011, the FRN disappeared from the DNS (Domain Name Server). This was several days prior to Hurricane Irene striking the US, so the two appear to be unrelated. Since that outage the FRN has resumed normal accessibility and has added other radio hobbyist discussion forums to broaden its appeal beyond the shortwave pirate radio genre.

See also



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