Awards at Members Meeting / Appreciation Party January 27, 2019
KMUD / Redwood Community Radio wants to thank the community for coming out to participate in our annual Members Meeting and Appreciation Party on Sunday, Jan. 27 at the Mateel. Both the meeting and the party were well attended and a very productive exchange of information took place concerning KMUD’s current status, including the station’s…
Storm Impairs KMUD Radio’s 90.3 Signal
Storms on April 11 are the cause of signal impairment for Redwood Community Radio’s KLAI (90.3 FM). Update May 3, 2017On Tuesday, May 2nd professional climbers from Six Rivers Communications in Eureka installed a signal antenna to restore service to much of the area served by the original antenna array. Due to the nature of the…
Testing nitrate levels in well water
A new interactive online search tool, called “Is My Property Near a Nitrate-Impacted Water Well”, was recently posted by the State Water Resources Control Board. The tool alerts users if privately owned water wells are located within 2,000 feet of a nitrate-impacted well – defined as a water well with at least one detection of nitrate…
How to Improve Radio Reception
(With thanks to Colorado Public Radio for much of this info) All radio reception is affected by distance, physical obstacles and other broadcast signals. But often the handicaps imposed on radio signals can be lessened with relatively simple enhancements. Below are some general tips and a few examples of the kinds of antennas that may…
Listen to KMUD online
Click here for updated Streaming Link for 2020 (radiorethink.com) Note: Blog post info below from 2012 KMUD has been providing a live audio stream since 1997. Using the Realaudio codec for the first few years, we have since moved on to the mp3 format.Choose our trusty 32kpbs mp3 stream or the new higher quality 96kbps stream, works on all…
Change is in the air at Redwood Community Radio. Literally.
Transmitter upgrades to start this week.
Soon, three of Redwood Community Radio’s four signals will be improved to provide listeners with better service, including HD radio. Most dramatically, KMUE’s power will increase from the current 1.25 kilowatts to 10 kW, using new and much more reliable equipment. Its frequency will move from 88.3 to 88.1, just a click to the left.
The funding for all this comes from two principal sources: the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) and the property bequeathed RCR by classical programmer Marian Mapes-Bouck. Of course, we need and welcome additional donations from the communities we serve.
Listeners need not worry about running out to buy new radios. The new, digital signal will be bundled with an analog version, which is what RCR uses now. This means that existing radios will continue to function as they do now. HD radios (HD stands for “hybrid digital”) will receive a signal that does not suffer from interference, multipath, or fade like analog FM does. What is more, HD radio offers the possibility of additional channels on the same frequency. RCR might, for example, broadcast community meetings in their entirety instead of the abbreviated versions necessitated by present programming capabilities.