One of the reasons I stopped listening to Liberty Net ... since I only have a scanner with an attached telescoping antenna.A half-wave dipole (120') fed in the center and thrown up on the roof in a zig-zag pattern might do you well (assuing it's not a conductive roof like 'tin' roof that is) and 'fed' with a piece of CATV coax (RG-59) would boost signals a lot (and work on other bands too).
Speaking of 'other bands' - I just ran across this - an interesting bit of a read -
We Want the AirwavesMORE: home.golden.net/~tekapo/words/wewant.html
Radio on the fringesBY DAVE FISHER
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN BROKEN PENCIL MAGAZINE, SPRING 1999THE SLEEPY LOGGING TOWN of Merritt, British Columbia might not seem like the place for a free radio movement, but for most of last year that's exactly what it was.
Home to the unlicenced Merritt Free Cast Radio (MFCR), the town was one of the few in Canada lucky enough to receive a radio station operated by somebody who cares about the medium. Featuring a schedule of public programming and music ignored by the rest of Canada's official radio community, MFCR was a station that dared to be different, and proof that great radio appears in the most unlikely of places -- out on the fringes of the dial.
Radio, you understand, has become a tired and banal medium. In theory it has limitless appeal to the imagination and is the unrivalled source for broadcasting recorded music. But the reality is too often a dismal failure. Even more alarming for it's future is that young people don't seem to care. For most of their lives, they've been treated with contempt by the corporate radio industry. Programming content is too often generated by computers and marketing techniques designed on Madison Avenue. The blame for the demise is varied -- certainly new media such as cable television and the internet are instrumental -- but a larger factor is the corporate mentality that cares for nothing except the bottom line.
In a respect, it's been that way since it's origins, with pioneers KDKA in Pittsburgh and WBZ in Boston both being owned-and-operated at Westinghouse Electric Company plants in the 1920s. Even the call letters of early stations told corporate stories: Chicago's WLS (World's Largest Store) was owned by Sears, and WGN (World's Greatest Newspaper) was the property of The Chicago Tribune. The Rogers' empire in Canada started with Toronto's CFRB -- Canada's First Rogers Broadcasting.
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PIRATE RADIO
Pirate radio is defined as any unlicenced radio operation that broadcasts for the purpose of an audience. Despite the decline in popularity of official radio, pirate radio is more active in North America today than at any time in the medium's history. Their forerunners are the 1960s offshore pirates in Britain, such as Radio Caroline and Radio London. Those stations were so popular that the British government was forced to shut them down with the Marine Broadcasting Offences Act of 1967.
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SHORT WAVE RADIO
When people think about radio, it's primarily in terms of the AM and FM dials found on their stereos and ghetto-blasters. This mind-set is depressingly narrow, but it's a perception that most of us are predisposed.
The term "short wave" refers to a wide section of radio frequency covering the spectrum immediately beyond the AM band. It runs from 1711 kHz all the way up to 30,000 kHz. (The AM band, also known as medium wave, runs a comparatively small 520-1710 kHz.) The advantage of short wave radio is that its higher frequencies allow for transmissions over great distances, often to the other side of the planet.
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The New World Order has been taboo in the mainstream media, though recently "New World Order" is being heard in mainstream news. Activists seeking to return the United States to early, basic Constitutional principles and who bitterly oppose anything that smacks of "New World Order" moves by government, broadcast regularly on short wave. These activists and broadcasters call themselves "[U.S.] Patriots".