On March 4, a crew of nine Electrical Engineering students, led by instructor and Electrical Curriculum Supervisor Noel Lamothe, volunteered their time and talent to trace and label each of the newly-installed Ethernet lines from the outlets in our new Green Room studio and the Mezzanine above it to the basement two floors below so that the cables can be connected in the proper sequence to the Town Hall server rack.
Continue reading →At some time tomorrow our antenna will be disconnected from our transmitter array and removed from its current location at the Gavitt Wire & Cable’s old factory. It will be put in storage until some time late in the following week, when it will be remounted on the Brookfield Town Hall Clock Tower just down the street from our current location. Until then, Apple Country Radio, WACF-LP 98.1FM will go dark. We will be off the air for the time being while we move the rest of our transmitter equipment to the Town Hall to await its re-connection to the … Continue reading →
Over the past three years, donors and listeners around the region gifted Apple Country Radio with over 50 cartons of CDs and vinyl! Those cartons have been stored at the former Gavitt offices, awaiting transport to the storage room above our new studio space at the Brookfield Town Hall. On Thursday, October 9, at 11am, a group of volunteers arrived in a white van from Jillian Carty’s CAD class ready to help! These students were eager to work and superbly organized. They loaded a truck trailer with two loads of those cartons as well as studio equipment and supplies with … Continue reading →
…in Brookfield Town Hall continues! Friday and Saturday we began freshening up the paint on the Green Room adjacent to the Ballroom stage on the second floor, where our shared studio space with Brookfield Community Arena will be located, as well as the Mezzanine (storage area) above it. Helping out were volunteers including Holly Chisholm and Rob Raslavsky, who helped us finish painting the Mezzanine (and start in on the Green Room). That room looks so much lighter and brighter now! It will be used mainly for storage by both WACF and BCA, as well as a voice-tracking station for … Continue reading →
As some of you may have heard, Apple Country Radio/WACF-LP 98.1 signed two rental agreement contracts with the Town of Brookfield this past April granting permission to move our broadcast studio and transmitter from the former Gavitt factory complex (which is being sold) to unused rooms in the second floor of the Town Hall, and to relocate our antenna atop the Town Hall clock tower. At their July 29 meeting, just as we began renovating the Town Hall spaces we hoped to occupy, the current Select Board and Zoning Enforcement Officer informed us that we needed to obtain a Special … Continue reading →