  The Survey for Transient Astronomical Radio Emission (STARE) is a wide-field
monitor for transient radio emission at 611 MHz on timescales of fractions of a
second to minutes. Consisting of multiple geographically separated total-power
radiometers which measure the sky power every 0.125 sec, STARE has been in
operation since March 1996. In its first seventeen months of operation, STARE
collected data before, during, and after 173 gamma-ray bursts. Seven candidate
astronomical radio bursts were detected within +/-1hr of a GRB, consistent with
the rate of chance coincidences expected from the local radio interference
rates. The STARE data are therefore consistent with an absence of radio
counterparts appearing within +/-1hr of GRBs, with 5sigma detection limits
ranging from tens to hundreds of kJy. The strengths of STARE relative to other
radio counterpart detection efforts are its large solid-angle and temporal
coverage. These result in a large number of GRBs occuring in the STARE field of
view, allowing studies that are statistical in nature. Such a broad approach
may also be valuable if the GRBs are due to a heterogenous set of sources.
