KUGS 89.3 is the student-run station at Western Wash. University in Bellingham
retired broadcaster: on-air, MD, PD, asst PD, Prod Mgr, IT, station technician/engineer, pioneer Internet webcaster, station installation/maintenance; 12 years in commercial radio, 17 years volunteer in campus/community radio in B.C., Alberta & Wash. Amateur radio operator & “DXer” specializing in AM night-time DX, short-wave DX/listening & remote SDR DXing/listening
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From the Internet Archive (www.archive.org) we reclaim some of our Lost Comments:
Steven Smith says:
August 4, 2018 7:26 am at
I was never involved with Kugs. But the licensing applications were in the works when I was at Western as a young adult. And the main proponent behind the signal was another student named Steve Smith. Since I was working Bellingham commercial radio at the time, people got us confused. I graduated in 1974 and the campus station went on the air sometime in that general timeframe. I don’t recall the specific year. I know that Ben Dawson, the well known Seattle PE, was involved in getting bugs out of the technical FCC paperwork.
mikec says:
August 4, 2018 2:50 pm at
KUGS hit the air with a whopping 10 watts ERP & was one of my favorite ‘hunting targets’ with my large rotatable FM yagi antenna. Sure enough I did hear it a few times at that power rating. Sometime in the early ’80’s they increased to 100 watts & just showed up one day on my receiver. My wife then became a long-time listener to the long-running Hawaiian music show heard Sat. mornings.