The Yuba River Radio
Project Newsletter KYRR-LP 93.3 FM Nevada City / San Juan Ridge, California
KYRR 93.3 FM 2007
In 2007 KYRR focased on improving the sound quality and kicking up the volume. Many of the folks bringing you the content have gotten darn good at digital audio recording, editing and processing. We have started posting Open Mic on Radio4all.net for broadcast to a national audience, and is heard in Atlanta, Ga on WREK and in Lowell, Ma. on WUML.People are coming from all over America to play Open Mic at the Crazy Horse. In addition KYRR has been getting a small percentage of the bar, enough to keep up on the air and legal for 2008 without fundraisers, memberships or underwriters.
At first we didn't believe the rumors, but the Feburary ratings proved that we are one of the top 10 low-power FM stations in America with a local market share of 26%, number 2 in California, number 9 in the US. This gives us over 40,000 listeners. We have reports of Sacramento Valley reception from Citrus Heights to Chico. Dang good for 7 watts! Wow!
KYRR and it's listenership was successful in gaining the support of Rep. John Doolittle, R Roseville, on pending LPFM legislation that will expand LPFM to American citys coast to coast. Wow!
Over the year many new shows have been produced including expanded punk, world, folk and local music and shows.
KYRR was a generous partner in Ridgestock, providing staging and infrastructure.
We own nothing, it is all a gift, treat it with respect while in it's presence, don't forget to laugh, love your mother.
We believe the station lives up to this.
The Future
The station depends on your contributions of fresh content.
Bring on the music
We play anything submitted, we can fix 7 words, but... Don't give us music that you know sucks.
1) Please tell us about language.
2) Please tell us about questinable content.
3) If we have to listen first it may take some time to add it to the playlist.
Stop by Grizzly Hill School Libaray Tues 3-6 pm, or the Crazy Horse Weds 8-12 pm
The really strange stuff
We are a household word in Atlanta, Ga. We continue to keep under the radar of the local paper!
Tips for improved reception
Newer digital radios work better those old slider-style radios. Use a TV antenna with a booster up high facing Blue Tent/Edwards Crossing. Reception works better on cold, cloudy days. New car radios get Yuba River almost everywhere. Our biggest problem is interference that we have no control over. Sometimes moving the radio 20 feet will make a big difference. Good LPFM service depends on the reception-end improvement. KYRR has one of the biggest footprints of any low power in America, and we were one of the first to already get an increase of power from the FCC.
Physical aspects of the operation
Housed in a donated camper on a ridge above Edwards Crossing is a donated computer that holds all the music and content submitted by the listening community. Every day at 9:20 am the old computer that contains a list that was made by someone, boots. The list has everything that will play all day long. Every day is handmade and different, containing a representative sample of all the submitted music, calls, cc's, psa's and shows. At 9:30am, homeboy hits a transmit button and the whole thing works most of the time. At about a quarter to midnight we sign off and the whole thing is over 'till the next day.
A few words from the licensee
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Thank you community for making this radio station happens. It is what you truly
have brought forth. I am stoked at the outpouring of goodwill and the way the
listeners have shaped this station. The community has proven this past year
that it can hold this little wonder together through the thick and thin. Bless
you all for making this collective community art project successful" SJ
Michelsen, trustee/licensee
We're taking back the airwaves.
Against all odds, we as a community have put the ridge in the national spotlight for doing the impossibe. The hope this tiny station has given to other communities for local media is far reaching.
KYRR comes in on good days in Cascade Shores on Pasquele Rd, Mcourtney Landfill, and Pleasant Valley Rd. past the dam in Penn Valley, Dobbins, near Allegany, in Pike, the parking lot of California Organic, Gaston Grade, Brunswick Basin behind B&C, Chico, Engelbight Lake.
KYRR almost never comes in on the Washington Ridge, downtown Nevada City, The little town of Washington, Mother Truckers, Milhous, Petersen Corners, the top of Cruzon Grade, and the south side of Round Mountain.