Bethel public radio station KYUK's 50-year-old AM transmission tower came down Thursday, clearing the way for a replacement — FM service is unaffected by the upgrade.
It was a big day. We’ve had our 640 AM transmitter, and antenna and tower that go along with it up for now, it’s been serving the region for 50 years. However, it’s been sinking into the permafrost, and we’ve been planning for years to get it replaced. And today was a big day when we brought down the old tower. It’s kind of like a toothpick tower, it stands up through the tension on mainly three, three guy wires.
And then fortunately, too, we have nine repeaters and outlying areas, places farther away from Bethel, places like Aniak, up the Kuskokwim. Emmonak and Nunam Iqua on the Yukon, Quinhagak, Good News Bay out on the coast. So those repeaters are unaffected, they are still picking up our signal. So while we hate to be down on 640, especially during break up, we are happy that almost everyone is still able to receive our services.
It’s the villages that are not quite far enough away that they needed a repeater, but that are too far to receive the FM signal. They’re going to be the ones that have a tough time hearing us right now. And that’s a handful of villages. And we’re going to do everything we can to get back on the air as quickly as possible. And of course, there’s always KYUK the stream on the internet.There are four main funding sources.
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