KRBS EXPANDS
KRBS-lp, Bird Street Media Project’s low-power radio station now has a translator operating out of Berry Creek at 95.9 Megahertz!
A translator receives a signal from KRBS operating on 107.1 Megahertz using a receiving antenna on the tower on Bloomer Hill in Berry Creek and then transmits that same signal through a transmitter tuned to 95.9 Megahertz and cabled to another antenna aimed towards Concow, Yankee Hill, and the east side of Paradise. Other local areas which can pick up the signal are Cherokee and the east side of Kelly Ridge and the Oroville Lake.
It has taken us three years to see the fruition of our attempt to install the translator after applying during the Great Translator Invasion when 10,000 applications were turned in during a short window in 2004. Eighty percent of those applications were from Religious Organizations of which three of the largest applicants started selling them for profit after getting them for no application fee. Consequently, the FCC closed down the issuance of any additional licenses after about 3000 had been issued. Fortunately, KRBS’s applicant received one of the two which were part of the GTI. Another remains in limbo waiting for the FCC to open up the translator issuance again (if ever).
This translator, if it reaches the areas within its contour, will possibly double our market population. The installation team consisted of Mark Miller (Engineer at KEWE, Erv Knorzer (Gen'l Mgr), Darryl Autrey (KRBS technician) and Chuck White (clilmber and Union Organizer working pro bono).Thanks to everyone who participated and who donated funds to see it through.
