Question Twelve: What can be done to improve our signal strength?

You can find all of the listener candidate's answers to Question Twelve on this page.

KPFA Listener-Sponsor candidates

Bob English

Keep our transmitter in top shape.

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Dianne Enriquez

I think it is important for members of the board take the expert advice of our engineers and staff and really do the best possible to support their opinions and ideas.

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Sherry Gendelman

Restoring the full power of the transmitters is a great start.

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Chandra Hauptman

I don’t know. Not my area of expertise.

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I don’t know what the FCC rules are but putting repeaters in weak areas would probably help. I know a few places where I lose reception because of mountains and/or valleys. This should be studied and see where it would be cost effective to add the extra antennae.

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Warren Mar

We have a great reach now but there are some canyons. There are parts of the West side of San Francisco, where KPFA’s signal is hard to get (the Sunset neighborhood). We need to look at the areas where our signal is weak, the populations we are not reaching and look at the most financially cost effective way we can try and change that.

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Susan McDonough

One immediate task for the board could be to raise funds for a repeater in Auburn to reach a wider population in the eastern part of the state.

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Antonio Medrano

This I would need to study, do not know enough.

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Attila Nagy

As in the case of the Sacramento area, placing signal repeaters is a solution. Also, making sure that cable providers carry KPFA.

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Richard Phelps

Put signal repeaters in the weak reception areas.

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Mara Rivera

Have repeaters in areas of poor reception, such as many places in San Francisco, where I live. We could have many more listeners if this were done.

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Paul Robins

Negotiate repeater stations in areas where the signal does not reach.

Increase funding to pay for increase in power.

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CC Campbell Rock

These are technical questions, but I would suggest investing in a larger, more strategically placed tower.

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Tracy Rosenberg

Look into repeaters where signal trouble has been reported.

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Gerald Sanders

Put signal repeaters in the weak reception areas. Maybe Sacramento?

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Sureya Sayadi

KPFA past management unfortunately did not challenge the encroachment of our signal in Sacramento
by a commercial station and this is one of the reasons we lost many listeners there. We need to work to
get KFPA and Pacifica on local cable stations and community access stations. We should also work
with sister station KPFK to have state wide programs on housing, health care and labor that could not
only bring new voices on but help build a statewide audience on the issues facing working people in
California.

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John Van Eyck

no answer submitted

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Joe Wanzala

Pacifica needs to conduct an analysis the signal strength of its listening areas and identify pockets that for various reasons, from geographic barriers to interference from other signals, do not receive the signal and develop a comprehensive plan to install additional repeaters at strategic locations. Pacifica may also consider utilizing public access cable networks to reach listeners.

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Jim Weber

Local station signal strength has always been a problem involving local politics. But one KPFA problem area near San Francisco was solved, I believe, by an alliance with a cable company that served that area. There was also a discussion at KPFA for a phone line connection to New Orleans to broadcast KPFA over a local station to the Katrina victims. That tactic may work in many areas.

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Stan Woods

To set up repeater stations in weak signal areas like Sacramento and even parts of San Francisco.

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Steve Zeltzer

KPFA past management unfortunately did not challenge the encroachment of our signal in Sacramento by a commercial station and this is one of the reasons we lost many listeners there. We need to work to get KFPA and Pacifica on local cable stations and community access stations. We should also work with sister station KPFK to have state wide programs on housing, healthcare and labor that could not only bring new voices on but help build a statewide audience on the issues facing working people in California.

Finally, the KFPA board has passed a resolution to build a Pacifica station in New Orleans and I support this initiative. The people of the South and the Katrina area desperately need free speech radio and we could build tremendous support nationally for the establishment of a station in this area which would also help get our signal out nationally.

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