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CHIRP sees the transmitter at the end of the tunnel

CHIRP sees the transmitter at the end of the tunnel

Ten years after the Chicago Independent Radio Project recruited its first volunteers, it’s finally hitting the airwaves.

By Kevin Warwick

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