Engineering

Planned Downtime of FM Broadcast 3/19/2021

This Friday, March 19th from 8PM to Midnight KBOO Engineering will be taking down the FM Radio transmitter for repairs and maintenance.  This means 90.7 as well as our translators on 91.9 and 104.3 will not be operating during this time. We will continue to broadcast on our... Read more

Interview with Critical Resistance

Airs at: Mon, 05/03/2021 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
Please join us as we talk with members of Critical Resistance this week about their efforts to outreach to all 14,000 people held in custody at Oregon's state prisons. On March 9th, Critical Resistance Portland, with the help of Willamette Valley Abolition Project, and Sis... Read more

Episode 9

Airs at: Fri, 11/08/2019 at 8:00am
  We are starting an indoor winter garden with this light...Follow the story! We can make a difference!  Read more

Episode 6

Airs at: Thu, 11/07/2019 at 10:00am
Ocean Wave Renewable Energy (Special Guest - James Kelly) Read more

KBOO Webstream Upgrade!

KBOO Web Stream Upgrade We are pleased to announce that KBOO Engineering has installed a new Telos Zipstream R1 audio streamer to upgrade our online audio experience for our listeners. The new hardware went live on Thursday March 9th. Our old streamer was a desktop PC with... Read more

KBOO's Tower and Transmitter

Stonehenge Tower, Portland, Oregon   This is a picture of the Stonehenge Tower, in Portland, built in 1990. The picture is a video capture taken by Kevin Rogers, KD7HDN, from his balcony in downtown Portland. Gray Haertig purchased the house next door to the north (rig... Read more

Corvallis Translator Gets the Flu

KBOO’s Corvallis Translator broadcasting at 100.7FM has been faithfully serving our loyal listeners in the Corvallis/Albany area for some 21 Odd years. Last week it suddenly stopped operation. A replacement transmitter has been deployed to keep us on the air, however, the s... Read more

Real Life Adventures in Live Remote Broadcasting

    In our last episode you may remember our intrepid technical and air talent volunteers broadcasting live from remote locations such as the Occupy Encampment, the Waterfront Blues Festival, PDX Pop Now, The Q Center and Pickathon. We link back to the station using audio s... Read more

Engineering Workgroup Destroys Air Room Console

On November 5th KBOO’s Engineering Workgroup led by Chief Engineer Tom Hood and Broadcast Contractor Mike Johnson descended upon the KBOO Air Room for some serious maintenance and calibration fun. It had been years since this kind of in depth maintenance had been performed.... Read more