The alternative choice to mainstream radio is looking to upgrade.
CFBX Radio is the TRU campus and community radio of Kamloops. Depending on where you are in the city, you are able to hear feint beats of music if you’re turned onto the station at 92.5 FM.
The station is holding a beach-theme fundraiser called Beach Party 4 on Saturday, January 30th with funds going towards relocating the stations tower and transmitter.
Currently, the headquarters, located on University Drive on the TRU Campus, resembles a small house with a large antenna poking out of the back.
Funded by TRU students and donations, CFBX has been around since 1999 and is run by two full-time employees and over 50 volunteers.
“You can hear us in most parts of the city, but sometimes it’s not that clean,” station Manager Brant Zwicker said. “It’s kind of a weak signal because buildings and electrical devices all get in the way of the signal.”
Zwicker says when it comes to FM radio, it’s more about the location rather than power. Like other radio stations in the city, Zwicker hopes to move the tower onto Mount Dufferin.
“That’ll give us a much better signal, a much cleaner, further reaching signal,” said Zwicker. “If we get it up nice and high, more people will hear us and they will hear us better.”
According to Zwicker, the project will cost the station about $25,000 to relocate the antenna. Beach House 4 is the first of many other fundraisers planned.
The fundraiser will be held at Zack’s Coffees Teas & Gifts in downtown Kamloops.
Beach wear is encouraged as Punk band Fuss, Shoegazers Daydreams and DJ Beach Barnacle will be performing.
Admission is $5 and doors open at 8 p.m.
