KCHU 20th Anniversary and Memorial Page

On August 28, 1975, a strange new radio station went on the air for the first time in Dallas, Texas at 7:00 PM. My role in all of this was engineering the station's first remote broadcast from a jazz club called The Recovery Room. This page contains links to information about the station and the people involved with it. What I hope to do is track down some of these people and get them to contribute stories and other stuff about the station to this page. Until that happens, the stuff here is mainly things I have written or that others have written about me. I really want this to be an unbiased reflection of the station, and that's why I'm asking others involved in the station to provide material. Here's what I've got so far.

Quick overview of the station
How I learned sound engineering
Spoof FCC licence exam question - ever have to take one of those horrid exams?
List of the volunteers involved with the station
Note from Lorenzo to the volunteers concerning programming
Other communuty access radio resources
See the KCHU studio from space - KCHU at 2516 Maple
The transmitter was located in Cedar Hill, Texas

The KCHU Pranksters

This is the story of our adventures at KCHU. The station was on the air from August, 1975 through August, 1977. Unfortunately, we could not come up with the funding to stay on the air any longer than that. This is the type of story that is best told Tom Wolfe style because it is a story about art and pranks. The chapters which don't have links are still in production.

How I learned sound engineering
The KCHU Pranksters - introduction: what the building was like
Starting the Station - getting on the air and introduces the rest of the Pranksters
The Remote Broadcasts - the art of getting audio from a remote site to the station
Live Day - 24 hours of nothing but live acts - no recordings allowed
The Chief Engineer Blows Town - and what happened to Colin when he split
The State Fair Remote - worst remote broadcast the station ever did
The Radioactive Island Acid Test
The Election - the station decides it needs a Steering Committee
The Tape Delay - it's supposed to keep the nasty words off the air
The Reggae Incident - the no-shows and the Pranksters ultimate prank - now with RealAudio
Power Struggle - the station develops serious problems
The Bummer of a Dead Radio Station

More About Community Access Radio

The National Federation of Community Broadcasters
Sonarchy: A Recording Studio on the Internet
Lorenzo Milam: JSF Founder - Information about Books by Lorenzo Milam about community access broadcasting
KRAB-FM FM 107.7 (1962-1984) - This was a Seattle based station
THE RADIO WAVES UNNAMEABLE - about Pacifica station WBAI and the counterculture
FCC religious broadcasting ban - AKA The Petition Against God