Berkeley LPFM

[Mark Roberts]

The Unitarian Universalist fellowship in Berkeley has gotten an LPFM CP for 100.1 at 3 watts, based in the Kensington hills. Somehow it all fits.

 

[408listener]

From what I could gather of this Radio Locator map, San Jose's 100.3 KBRG has relatively weak class B coverage in the SF/Oakland corridor; I imagine the hillier terrain of Kensington would further block South Bay FM signals.
Speaking from personal experience living in Alameda and Contra Costa counties, I found that my favorite San Jose stations were easier to pick up at sea level than the hills.

 

[TomásEstefan]

The Unitarian Universalist fellowship in Berkeley has gotten an LPFM CP for 100.1 at 3 watts, based in the Kensington hills. Somehow it all fits.

They should probably just try to lease time on KPFB in Berkeley because I think all it really does is operate as a translator for KPFA if memory serves.

 

[Mark Roberts]

They should probably just try to lease time on KPFB in Berkeley because I think all it really does is operate as a translator for KPFA if memory serves.

It's just a repeater. There is some history of KPFB running separate programming from KPFA that was Berkeley-specific but I don't know of anything recent.

 

[TomásEstefan]

It's just a repeater. There is some history of KPFB running separate programming from KPFA that was Berkeley-specific but I don't know of anything recent.

I think I read somewhere that in the early days (1950s) of Pacifica Radio, KPFB was established as an "educational" facility, whatever that means.

Oops ! Just went to their website: KPFB airs Berkeley City Council meetings, otherwise it's a simulcast of KPFA.

 

[RF101]

Audio streams for some of the affiliates :

https://mail.pacificaservice.org:9000/

Audio streams for KPFA/KPFB/Pacifica-related

http://streams.kpfa.org:8000/

You can see when the KPFA and KPFB streams split...