If you want to hear a limited sampling of what will soon be broadcast on Colorado's newest low-power FM radio station, you can tune in online for now. In early April, the FCC gave a green light to the Colorado Society of Wireless and Broadcast Engineering, a collective that described itself to the FCC as local university students, amateur radio operators and engineers. The group has proposed a 100-watt station on 107.1-FM. The website that previews some of the programming belongs to the society's founder, Vlad Fomitchev, KX4TH.
The station's December 2023 application was approved by the FCC after rejecting claims from the license-holder of a nearby translator station that the minimum separation distance between the translator and the proposed low-power FM station was not met.
According to a report on the Radio World website, the low-power station is designed to benefit its participants as well as its listeners by providing training in audio, computer, electrical and mechanical engineering. The group has also said that it hopes to present community programming, collaborative programming from the nearby university and will experiment with open-source digital HD Radio.
If you want to hear a preview of what will eventually be on the air, visit the link in the text version of this week's newscast at arnewsline.org