Wow, we just kinda skipped forward through 2013. Kind of a blur. The year started out preparing for Blossom, our yearly Benefit / Auction. It was a double edged sword. It was an incredible gathering against all odds of weather and more. It featured Bear, Ashley and Friends, Parking Lot, Ben Hanna, Other People Under the Sun, Blue Mountain Jam and Gipsy Moon. Local talents also appeared at our open mic Amber, B Hawk and Ella. The press leading up to and after was incredible. Alot more folks became aware of our gig. BUT, we missed covering some of the organizational aspects of the event like collecting money for concessions. Essentially, we threw a big party and broke even, kind of.
We learned a whole lot from that event. You would think after all these years that we would have it a little more together by now. You'd think....Blossom was bigger than anything else we had done , in many ways. There was also other underlying challenges. But, hey we pulled it off and many new seeds were planted. From that point on the summer flew by under cloudy skies ending with The Great Flood of 2013, in September. It was our first big test of providing for the Community in the event of an emergency. Personally, I (DJ Willl E) feel that we failed miserably. Essentially, we had no plan, and when the electricity went off, we were "dead in the water", so to say. So, we're working on it. A generator has already been dedicated and a ham radio is on the way. We just need to coordinate with our local Police and Fire Department.
Another bump in the road in 2013 was an on going misunderstanding with a DJ that has caused some major misunderstanding of how and why this radio is run. In response we created printed guidelines called "Everything You Wanted to Know About Way High Radio". You can find them here on the "Guidelines for Volunteers" page. It still hasn't completely solved the misunderstanding so let me say this; We have few rules on this ship, mainly respect each other and our listening audience, team players only. Defying these simple things WILL get you thrown overboard.
The year ended a on an upswing with the creation of The Colorado Community Radio Project. This project is a network of existing Pirate Radio stations that will eventually have a website that allows us all to share our shows in real time or stored format. It creates a cohesive bond between the member stations and their respective communities. Although still a concept, we have begun show sharing with Greenlight Radio KGLR 97.1 /95.3 in Boulder and KNED 95.3 in Nederland and Rollinsville. It's pretty cool to be driving down Broadway in Boulder and hear our DJs shows. Another aspect of this project is a loaner transmitter program and we were the first to be gifted. Right around Christmas we received a 75 watt transmitter from KNED as they upped theirs to 150 watts. Since then, we've been trying to fix the kinks in the thing. It worked great for KNED til they unplugged it. We are determined and we will jump to 75 watts in the near future. We will be passing the faithful "Mighty 10 Watt" on to Planet Mind so they can put their signal back out in Ned. It only seems fair after all the support they've given us over the years. This leads us to one last thing ......
We will be switching to 90.5 FM as soon as we get the 75 watt transmitter up. Transmitting at 75 watts on 89.5 will definitely crush KUVO 89.3 and Grace Broadcasting 89.7 out of Loveland. We don't want to do that. We will try and let our local audience know when we move. This upgrade should push our signal to Bar K, Hidden Lake, Upper Brainard, south to maybe the outskirts of Ned and maybe even Gold Hill. So the days of 89.5 FM are coming to a close. Stay tuned for the New 90.5 Way High Radio! And that's it for now! We thank all of those folks who continue to support this on going experiment. You know who you are...........
We learned a whole lot from that event. You would think after all these years that we would have it a little more together by now. You'd think....Blossom was bigger than anything else we had done , in many ways. There was also other underlying challenges. But, hey we pulled it off and many new seeds were planted. From that point on the summer flew by under cloudy skies ending with The Great Flood of 2013, in September. It was our first big test of providing for the Community in the event of an emergency. Personally, I (DJ Willl E) feel that we failed miserably. Essentially, we had no plan, and when the electricity went off, we were "dead in the water", so to say. So, we're working on it. A generator has already been dedicated and a ham radio is on the way. We just need to coordinate with our local Police and Fire Department.
Another bump in the road in 2013 was an on going misunderstanding with a DJ that has caused some major misunderstanding of how and why this radio is run. In response we created printed guidelines called "Everything You Wanted to Know About Way High Radio". You can find them here on the "Guidelines for Volunteers" page. It still hasn't completely solved the misunderstanding so let me say this; We have few rules on this ship, mainly respect each other and our listening audience, team players only. Defying these simple things WILL get you thrown overboard.
The year ended a on an upswing with the creation of The Colorado Community Radio Project. This project is a network of existing Pirate Radio stations that will eventually have a website that allows us all to share our shows in real time or stored format. It creates a cohesive bond between the member stations and their respective communities. Although still a concept, we have begun show sharing with Greenlight Radio KGLR 97.1 /95.3 in Boulder and KNED 95.3 in Nederland and Rollinsville. It's pretty cool to be driving down Broadway in Boulder and hear our DJs shows. Another aspect of this project is a loaner transmitter program and we were the first to be gifted. Right around Christmas we received a 75 watt transmitter from KNED as they upped theirs to 150 watts. Since then, we've been trying to fix the kinks in the thing. It worked great for KNED til they unplugged it. We are determined and we will jump to 75 watts in the near future. We will be passing the faithful "Mighty 10 Watt" on to Planet Mind so they can put their signal back out in Ned. It only seems fair after all the support they've given us over the years. This leads us to one last thing ......
We will be switching to 90.5 FM as soon as we get the 75 watt transmitter up. Transmitting at 75 watts on 89.5 will definitely crush KUVO 89.3 and Grace Broadcasting 89.7 out of Loveland. We don't want to do that. We will try and let our local audience know when we move. This upgrade should push our signal to Bar K, Hidden Lake, Upper Brainard, south to maybe the outskirts of Ned and maybe even Gold Hill. So the days of 89.5 FM are coming to a close. Stay tuned for the New 90.5 Way High Radio! And that's it for now! We thank all of those folks who continue to support this on going experiment. You know who you are...........
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