o ~ ") o ~ ~d- ~ c\ · o f7 ~ o .\J~ '{ , address correction non. prOlIi~ requested organlaatlan 1406 harvard ave. U.I. pOlta.. paid seattle, wal". 98122 I.attt., walh. return posta •• permit no. 9566 guaranteed O! KRAE IS ANON-PROFIT, NON-COMMERCIAL, LISTENER-SPONSORED RADIO STATION, BROADCASTING AT 45,000 WATTS ERP FROM OUR TOWER LOCATED ON COUGAR MTN. 187.7 ,. GUIDE EDITOR PAMf:LA JENNINGS GENERAL MANAGER HAL LEE OFFICE MANAGER PEGGY HELANDER ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT CHUCK REINSCH PROGlf?-AMMING BOB FRIEDE NEWS JEFF MICHKA PUBLIC AFFAIRS DAVID MACDONALD SPOKEN ARTS PAMELA JENNINGS SCIENCE JON GALLANT MUSIC TOM BERGHAN ARCHIVES LEILA GORBMAN ENGINEERING GREG BROWN , BEN DAWSON, CONSTRUCTION JEFF JOHNSON BILL DAVIES 208 325 -5110 gel a frieoti Ii .subscribe " •• • IF A PATRON BUYS FROM AN ARTIST WHO NEEDS MONEY (NEEDS MONEY TO BUY TOOLS, TIME AND FOOD), THE PATRON THEN MAK.ES ' HIMSELF EQUAL TO THE ARTIST: HE IS BUILDING ART INTO THE WORLD; HE CREATES." I'VE BEEN LISTENING T0 THE OUDS, LUTES, ---EZRA ProND SAXOPHONES. POLYPHONES, POETRY, BIRDSONGS AND MICROPHONIC ODDITIES ON .nab-fm. I WANT TO SUPPORT THIS RADIO FREE SPIRIT BY BECOMING A PART OF OUR LIVING, BREATHING, PEOPLE! RHYMING, SINGING KRAB-FM COMMUNITY. Program Director; KRAE thanks you for your contrLlouthms th.~ough­ out our "mara than". Your money, nearly $40:;0, HERE'S MY TAX-OEOUCTIBLE CONTRIBUTION TO has secured our C.P.B. grant. Enclosed please find M.O. for one year THE NORTHWEST'S MOST VERSATILE NON-COMMERCIAL subscription extension. We sti II hold a letter from Nancy Keith (anyone remember RADIO STATION: Thank 1I0U also for putting up with our her?) dated 12/8/64 notifying me that my sub pi tche~ and our failure to p~cxluce a !larch was about to expire. We have been a member quide. Since we ran the month's programs 0$25 FAMI LY - ONE YEAR of KRAB ever since. The important thing, around the marathon, scheduling a guide was DNEW impossible. however, (my value judgment) is to , 0$15 I ND IV I DUAL - ONE YEAR compliment you (Bob Friede) on your qUite inspiring and great essay in the "marathon" o RENEWAL Particular apprecia tion is extended to the o $ 2 FOR NEXT MONTH program guide just received. You rea Ily ~'olunteers who put out so much effort doing put your'thought, proposals (for the station), the "on the air" fund raising--a job hardly and the English language together very well. NAME __________, ________________ __ relished. There would be no station without our vol'unteers. Much (and continued?) success to the success ADDRESS of free radio as performed by you and your Future hope for the -financing needed to opera te assoc i ates. KRAB lies in the more traditional techniques; CI TY _________-'STATE, _______ grants, foundation funding, concerts and Fraterna Ily yours, parties. This is an open solicitation for Z I P___________ _ lLstener input concerning these , or. any ideas of value ,to KRAB'. Robert L. Fish MAl L TO: Again, Pe~ple, thank you. KRAB·FM 107.7 Hal Lee 1408 Harvard Ave. Manager Seattle 98122 Dear KRAB Persons: 208· 325 5110 I greatly enjoyed the Women's Day A NOTE TO LISTENERS -- Program. I thought it was superbly done. Let's have more of the same and The 'Morning Show revolves primarily around eventually make it permanent. the music of the Medieval and Renaissance eras with music of later date heard also _ In appreciation, THE KRAE PROGkAM GUIDE IS PUBLISHED MONTHLY both sacred and secular, instrumental and vocal. AS A VOLUNTEER EFFORT BY THE WORKERS AT KRAB ;- Ms. Carole Goodwine Also, when a vailable, tapes of live perfor­ mances of Northwest artists and the, newest Dear Carole, releases in early music. The listeners are invited to call up (325-5110) ,",ith any questions about the music, instruments, Listen to WOMEN EVERYWHERE, Women's composers, or the performers. News, every Monday at 7:30 pm, and SURFACING: A SHO~I OF WOMEN, every Tom Berghan Thursday at 1 to 3 pm. These are • Music Director & Uor.ning Man both new and promise 'to be interesting, informative, and entertaining. 2 COPYRIGHT (£) 1974, KRAB Dear E~ i tor: I read the anguished letter from the lady who I i,ves on the west side of Queen Anne Hi II, and fe I t compe I Ied to rep I y. KRAB-------- My first suggestion would be' that an outside KRAB Radi 0 antenna (avai lable for $10 from a loca I radio As your possibly furthest west listener supply place) pointed toward the direction and karrric devotee, let me say, say no Hey I don't believe you people. For 11 that gives the best signa I (which may not be more ••••••••• months I've been listening ft.1 Seattle toward Cougar I~t.) wou Id be a good th i ng to and until tonight didn't know where yo,u try. Fai ling that, the Queen Anne Hi I I cable I I ive on the bay in Gard iner, Washington, were. All you crazymuddafuggasgotagoodthinggoinand TV 'i s probab Iy the next best bet, if they are and lIsten to the Lobo Wolves in their tonight I was trippin and found your station carrying the Seattle FM stations. (We don't pen across the hi£hway, the gul Is going and I think it's the most original and far-out kn'ow--the Cable TV regulations and operating crazy with their sky, and like a friend fucked up thing going. procedures are such a mess that it's vi rtua I Iy waking in the next rcom, KRAB. impossible to tel I what cables are and what NO~I I'm a t the Monroe Reforma tory see, and aren't carrying KRAB or any other FM stations). Keep it together. Love those old blues there are 495 people here, see, and I am sure and string band pieces. And th~t Science that at least a couple hundred of em wi 11 I did want to say some general things about Fiction Theatre is a blast on the spatial tune you in and some even subscribe, see, the transmitter move/power increase. plains, no shit, and of course. tber~'s which I can't do right now for lack of funds always th,e announcers. Too much, KRAB. Propagation of radio waves at VHF frequencies but listen you , just send me your program and I'll promote your station and your cause. I is at best an empirical science. Seattle is Thanks, an~ a tip 0' the hat from: one of the WORST (riva ling San Francisco) guarantee you a buncha more listeners. places I have , ever heard of for good FM and Rick & Gay Dale Viertel TV coverage and reception. There is simply Coupl~ folks spaced out in Gardiner no good p lace to put FM station transmitters. Monroe, Wa. There are some reasonable places, but they are al I compromises in some way or another. Further, for regiona I coverage--Olympia., Tacoma, Everett, Ft. Lewis, Mt. Vernon, 'Bell ingham (I hope)-­ Dear Ham Rad io Hours; Cougar is a much better site than the TV towers. - Even the stationson the TV towers have holes • I n response TO your pleas for rna i I I am writing to Tell you that I find your in their coverage--bad ones in some cases--in per i od i c broadca sts over KRAB-FM for i'he ----Out of work and in dire financial places like Rainier Valley, Lake Washington­ straits for over a year now, I happened Blvd., west Capitol Hi II for KUOW, Sandpoint most part rather smug, but immensely more entertaining than \olhat is usually upon a letter from our ubiquitous IRS office: NAS area for KING-n~. a ired with th.e except i on or the exce I 1- a $50 income tax refund! Operating with 45 kw. from Cougar (which is eni' Earth M,usic program. What pleases only 3 db. less than maximum power, which roe rlost about your show is that you neg­ However, I'm forward i ng ita I I to you. Since would bankrupt the station) less of the lect to remind your I isteners every 15 (using the ole dope adage) being poor and having potential audience wi I I have problems than minutes of what an exceptional STation KRAB is better than not having any KRAB anywhere else. I hope th i s makes the lady KRt\R is. None of you seen to bu par'ti e­ at a I I. on west Queen Anne happier. u I ar Iy mess ian i c about the meri i's of Ilstnner supported radio. - nor do you Many of your programs are du I I and some of Respectfully, waste a lot of ~'ime over the a ir loIith your OJ's are obnoxious, but (again applying hare krishna i'ype donation scams •••••• the ole standard) bad KRAB is better than no Benj. F. Dawson I I I, P. Eng. I would like to take advantage of your KRAB. Partner, Hatfield and Dawson Consulti~g Harn Radio Hours offer. Please send an Eng i nee'rs autographed pi ci'ure of E Ima in the Send me a program guide to paste on my bare Member, alack Straw Foundation Board of kitchen and i'he other goodies to: wa I Is! Trustees Char I ie Krafft Ken Berry La Conner Seattle Dear Kra bb i es, P.S. Don't worry. I spent al'I my time and money bumming around Europe and have just - D i cked UD a chea D iob .