Install roof antenna

KCMJ exceeded a remarkable milestone simply this past week-end, even as we setup our FM transmitter and antenna when preparing to commence broadcasting at 93.9 FM on January 29. Such as any other element of station-building (and community-building), many great folks emerged together Saturday to install kit.

The equipment is in location at Stargazers Theatre and Event Center, ready for some weeks of examination and adjusting. It was exciting for people to turn that transmitter on the very first time, switch on our FM radios, and hear our founding chair, Dennis Apuan, offer a couple of celebratory words. I do believe Stargazers’ Cindy Hooton might have been the most excited. After one hour of screening, we switched the transmitter cool off.

whilst transmitter and antenna have reached Stargazers, our studio continues to be within Tim Gill Center for Public Media. Nevertheless now we have the capability to broadcast live from both facilities. We all have been very thinking about the options broadcasting from Stargazers gifts.

It all leads up to the top day, January 29. That night we’ll switch on the transmitter and commence broadcasting our development 24/7. We’ll commemorate the event with a free of charge show and big celebration at Stargazers, so mark your schedule. This will be every night for all of Colorado Springs to celebrate community.

Keep your eyes available when it comes to Twitter occasion web page, additional information, and video clip from our landmark transmitter set up day. Doors available at 6 for blending, mingling and getting a good seat. We’ll have actually a volunteer recognition service at 6:30, together with main occasion will start at 7 pm. And, yes, it should be COMPLIMENTARY.

The beginning of FM broadcasting for KCMJ might in many ways be the culmination of many years of work by devoted volunteers just who believe in the worth of regional, separate news. It had been permitted by the support, during a 16-month fundraising campaign that climaxed with the wrap of Indy Give! after 2015. The provide! result? We lifted $4, 639 toward our $8, 000 Give! campaign goal.

This gets united states regarding air, however it does not keep a lot to protect our ongoing running expenditures, therefore you’ll still hear from united states about listener/memberships and underwriting possibilities.

Therefore, please…

If you missed the opportunity to pitch in, it’s maybe not too late. Some of our 100 watts are still available for use right here.

(with on-air communications), locking in prices that never be this reduced once more. Even as we start FM broadcasting, the prices goes up.