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

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

KPFK Staff candidates

Douglas Barnett

Improve our silence. When spinning the radio dial, Our quite between every word or note, the silence of KPFK's clean audio carrier is an arresting quality no other FM signal has in Los Angeles.

We have a stereo pair of state-of-the-art 4 year old transmitters (with improvements) running on the top of a mountain giving us a ERP that some argue is the most powerful in the United States, exceeding our lone Santa Barbra competition by a few watts. We are allowed to increase our power one-half watt for each watt we sell as a common carrier product (SCA). Our 5 year contract to distribute stock exchange information to a secret investor subscription list, with rented decoders, is soon to expire.. As i have argued for more than five years, we should be transmitting to our own listeners a (acsronious) ADSL (with a $5 modem given as a prememum) web pages with pictures and footnotes supporting our programing- without the internet's obligatory handshake with Reston, VA. In fact, without any other internet connection required.

Ripping apart the fantastic quality of our audio by shattering every moment into digital blocks, assigning numbers to their timber and intensity, building a stream of packets or telemetry bits and forcing our listeners to buy the junk to re-assemble an un-listenable ranting, clipped HD audio? Another race to the bottom.

Why? because CPB finds easy baiting of their short-leashed left end stations, who then willingly become ginypigs for HD while Commercial radio smells problems. DON'T TAKE THE MONEY.

Federal financed hardware won't become Pacifica hardware for ten years. Don't Start The Clock.

(See #7 additional radio stations) (see the logic of the ghetto, second class food, third class radio)

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