Broadcast Engineering at NSPR

It is a challenge to move radio waves across valleys, through forests, and around mountains to bring NSPR to listeners in 11 Northern California counties. If you listen in Hayfork, Weaverville, Dunsmuir, Burney, or Redding you have experienced over the past few months some dropped signals or less-than-clear transmission. Although the NSPR streaming service at mynspr.org is always running, we know you want to listen in the way it is most convenient—be that the FM radio in your truck or the FM radio in your home or at work.

We’ve made many trips to Shasta Bally Mountain this summer and fall as well as to the Burney and Dunsmuir/Mt. Shasta transmission sites. When the snow starts to fall in November we will have completed $25,000 of upgrades that will ensure improved radio broadcast to the mountain and valley communities NSPR serves. The work just completed includes

• a new back-up generator on Shasta Bally Mountain (KFPR),
• a new studio-to-transmitter link (STL) to Shasta Bally Mountain,
• a new FM stereo processor at the Cohasset transmitter, and 
• a new translator antennae serving Dunsmuir and Mt. Shasta.

The KFPR transmitter sends a signal to the greater Redding area, but we require translators, lower wattage antennas, to push the signal into remote mountain and valley communities. The KFPR 88.9 transmitter relays signal to Mt. Shasta/ Dunsmuir at 92.3 FM, Burney at 91.9 FM, and Weaverville at 89.5. With these recent upgrades your NSPR radio service will be more dependable.
Your member dollars are what make these critical repairs possible. Thank you for supporting North State Public Radio.