Join with other listeners, community members, the Board and KVRF FM program hosts as we celebrate another on-air year.
Keynote speaker is Elise Patkotak, author, columnist and longtime participant in the Alaska scene from Barrow to Anchorage.
Snacks provided by Turkey Red.
We will be electing new members to the Board of Directors and listening to your suggestions as we move forward.
THANK YOU Mat Valley Federal Credit Union for a grant of $1500 for a stereo processor at the Lazy Mountain site. This will mean our signal to the Palmer area will be in stereo! We needed an additional $300 dollars for the equipment – an anonymous donor offered a $150 match and a member rose to the occasion. Now we just need to schedule the broadcast engineer. We’ll keep you posted. (We have grants requests pending to bring stereo to Sutton as well.)
We use Spinitron to log all our music. If you want to know more about a song you heard, you can see the current playlist in the menu on the right. You can browse our Spinitron site for our playlists back to Oct. 2012. If you buy a track from this link, we get a small royalty.
RFP just received a grant award for $800 for a UPS at the studio. This is part of our emergency preparedness plan as outlined here:
Radio Free Palmer (RFP) broadcasts at KVRF, 89.5 FM, to Palmer, Sutton, Chickaloon, Lazy Mountain, Butte, and parts of Wasilla. We are poised to provide FM radiobroadcast announcements to these areas of the Mat Su Borough during emergencies and natural disasters. A few more pieces of equipment will make this possible.
Disasters such as the recent super storm and power outages on the East Coast warn about the weakness of depending on a functioning power grid during emergencies. However, car radios as well as windup and solar powered radios continue to function.
Plans for RFP to provide this vital communications link came from conversations with the Emergency Services Director of the Mat Su Borough, the Public Safety Director of the City of Palmer, and representatives of the committee working on the Homeland Security grant for the Borough in 2012. There is a consensus that there is a need to improve communication during emergencies and public officials support this project. The intention is to write RFP into the Borough’s emergency planning protocol. We will become a link in the circle of information to keep the local population informed of public safety information.
RFP’s Chief Operating Officer has been appointed to the borough-wide Local Emergency Planning Committee as the media representative. The radio station is located in downtown Palmer and is staffed locally, providing easy access to Borough offices, police and fire services.
During a generalized and lengthy emergency situation – especially one accompanied by a power outage – the entire population within our broadcast area will be a targeted beneficiary group (approximately 30,000).
During acute shorter emergencies various populations: parents with school age students during snow emergencies or seniors during hazardous wind and air quality alerts, will benefit from broadcast without interruption.
The plan is to have auto start propane powered backup generators at our transmitter in Sutton and our translator on Lazy Mountain. An additional UPS that can be charged by a car or at the borough building will serve the downtown Palmer studio.
Communication between the studio and sites will be by POTS (plain old telephone service) and line of site radio dishes. Our goal is to provide a signal from the studio to the transmitter and translator even when there is no grid-based power. The station has begun development of failover systems that will allow communication between either the studio or a roving site and the transmitters in the event of a loss of Internet and cellular service.
Some of the pieces are in place. A $5,000 grant from the Mat Su Health Foundation enabled us to install the generator at the transmitter in Sutton. The dishes are installed between the studio and the translator. We are seeking funds for a propane powered generator for the translator site ($5,000) and for an additional backup UPS at the studio ($800).
We are an all-volunteer station with lots of opportunities for community members to be involved:
Do you have a particular talent or skill that the station could use? We’d love to hear from you. You may just have the skill that we need. Contact us please!
Hi all,
We want to share a few news items for the New Year:
A couple of our wonderful office volunteers have been ripping CDs and as a result we’ve added close to 500 new songs to our music library. Thank you Patti and Trish! We still have about 100 more CDs to rip and add to our collection of over 12,000 tracks. We continue to accept CDs that need a good home.
We have slightly updated the programming schedule for the New Year. Nothing drastic. The biggest change is the 9-11 pm slot on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Fridays is now a random music mix of Rock, Pop, and Blues. Take a look at the schedule. Let us know what you think.
A grant from the Mat Su Health Foundation has allowed us to begin making the station operational when the power goes out. We are installing a propane generator with automatic switch over at the Sutton site. We are applying for grants for a generator at the Lazy Mountain translator and at the studio.
We are looking for new members. Members are the lifeblood of any community radio station. If you are not yet member, please consider joining. If you are a member, please encourage others to join. Lastly, please consider donating to us via Pick, Click and Give when you file for your PFD.
Thank you for listening!
Lee Henrikson, President, Radio Free Palmer
Hello, this is Lee Henrikson, president of Radio Free Palmer. I would like you to consider making a year-end gift to Radio Free Palmer. Your gift will help KVRF- 89.5 FM to provide local programming and is fully tax deductible.
Just click on the Paypal link in the upper right corner. Thank you and happy holidays.
Radio Free Palmer offices will be closed
Happy Holidays!
Click on the meeting stream to listen to holiday music. We’ll run the stream at least through Christmas.
Due to the holiday and Mike’s vacation:
Mike will be on vacation through November 30. Fill-in hosts for the Mike and Friends show, 7-9 am:
Robert Forto: Wed. 11/21; Tues. 11/27, Wed.11/28, and Th. 11/29
David Cheezem: Fri. 11/23, Mon. 11/26, Fri. 11/30
Thanksgiving schedule: classical music until 9 am. No Mike and friends, no Citizen Lobbyist. Both will return on November 29.
Valley Edition is cancelled for Nov. 23. We will run a Peace Talk radio show titled Declining Violence. Valley Editon will return on Nov.30
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