Hello friends of Heaven 88.7, We have been running on a temporary, 800-watt Antenna for one month now. In the meantime, we were getting quotes from various companies for a new antenna. After negotiating a good price, we purchased a Shively antenna. Before we could buy it though, we needed to have an engineer approve…
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This is an update to our previous post. Heaven 88.7 is back on air for the Fargo-Moorhead area! Our defective antenna is still mounted to the radio tower, but we were able to get a small temporary antenna installed. We are broadcasting with our main transmitter turned down to 800 watts, which is what this…
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Last week we had professionals climb the tower, inspect the antennae, and test our feed line. Reports are in, and we have a few things in need of repair. The line is still working (praise the Lord!) However, we need a new compressor-dehydrator to keep the line pressurized, but the biggest expense is that the…
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You may have heard some public service announcements on the station recently encouraging you to vote. Please visit https://kfbn.org/vote/ to learn about how you can vote.
On Wednesday, August 14, likely as the result of a lightning strike, our transmitter was forced to operate at low power due to a large amount of the power being sent from he transmitter not leaving the antennae as a radio signal, but being reflected back into the transmitter. Diagnostic work is being done, but…
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Heaven 88.7 now broadcasts a longer format of the Prophecy Today program with Jimmy DeYoung Jr each Saturday. The program is now in two parts, a 30-40 minute part and a second 15-20 minute part. The schedule is below: Prophecy Today Part 1 Saturday 12:15 AMProphecy Today Part 2 Saturday 1:05 AMProphecy Today Part 1…
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Heaven 88.7 is currently running between 50-80% power. We are waiting for new transmitter parts to arrive and should be back to full power after the first week in January.
Two weeks ago we had a major issue with our radio transmitter. An important part called the combiner stopped functioning, and was even producing electrical arcing. The transmitter we have is somewhat new – we purchased it in 2015. It had a nice feature where we can power down just the part of the transmitter…
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If you would like to call and pledge support, the phone number is 701-298-8877 or 888-232-5588Thank you for helping Heaven 88.7 stay on the air.
On April 1, 2005, KFBN was granted a license by the federal communications commission to serve the public interest as a public trustee until April 1, 2021. Our license will expire on April 1, 2021, and we have filed an application for license renewal with the FCC. A copy of this application is available for…
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