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There is something for everyone on KQAL: jazz and rock music, public affairs, educational, arts, and culture programs, and WSU Warrior play-by-play action.\n\nKQAL is operated by the Mass Communication department at Winona State University and is staffed primarily by student volunteers. It has a dual mission: to provide career training for students interested in radio broadcasting as well as to provide the residents of southeastern Minnesota and western Wisconsin with quality educational and entertainment programming.\n\nCheck out KQAL today at 89.5 FM!\n\nThe KQAL Advisory Board meets at 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday December 1 in the Solarium River Room of Winona State University's Kryzsko Commons. This meeting is open to the public and is your chance to comment on KQAL programming.\nHistory\n\nKQAL-FM, 89.5MHz, at Winona State University in Winona, Minnesota went on the air in December 1975 as a ten watt station. An alternative independent radio station from the beginning, broadcasting began from the roof of the Performing Arts Center. KQAL was started by faculty members Jacque Reidelberger and Brice Wilkinson and student manager, the late Bruce Hittner. A laboratory for the Speech Department at WSU, KQAL has been staffed primarily by students from the very beginning.\n\nIn 1980 KQAL, Winona’s alternative music radio, was placed under the jurisdiction of the newly created Mass Communication Department at WSU. KQAL increased its power output to 1,100 watts in 1981 and it became a member of the Associated Press.\n\n1989 saw the power output increased to 1,800 watts and the transmitter moved from the roof of the Performing Arts Center to a 400 foot tower leased from KWNO on Garvin Heights. Also in '89 two satellite receiving dishes were installed at the Performing Arts Center.\n\nThe entire studio complex was remodeled in 1991 with new state of the art equipment and the newsroom went computerized. 1995 was the year for computer based digital audio editing equipment to be installed and when this website debuted.\n\nIn 1997 KQAL became the first radio station in Winona to broadcast using the RBDS standard, allowing KQAL to transmit data to the new generation of RBDS radios. Today in addition to being an alternative independent radio station, KQAL is still the only RBDS station in Winona.\n\nKQAL continued the transition to the digital era in 1998 when computer based, hard drive audio storage and automation was introduced, virtually eliminating the use of tape at the station. The original system was replaced in 2002 with a new, more robust and reliable system.\n\nIn the summer of 2009 Phelps Hall on the WSU campus was extensively remodeled and new radio and TV studios were constructed. KQAL began broadcasting from those new studios in January 2010, forever abandoning our home of some 34 years in the Performing Arts Center.\nTechnical\n\nHere is everything you ever wanted to know about the technical operation of KQAL-FM, as well as some facts about Winona's other radio stations:\nCall Sign: \tKQAL\nLicensee: \tWinona State University\nCity of License: \tWinona, Minnesota\nFrequency: \t89.5 MHz\nFM Channel: \t208\nFM Class: \tC2\nTransmitter Location: \teast Garvin Heights Road, Winona, Minnesota\n44° 01' 52\" North Latitude, 91° 38' 31\" West Longitude\nTransmitter: \t(Main) Nautel V1\n(Backup) McMartin BF-1K\nTelemetry can be seen here.\nExciter: \t(Main) Nautel M50\n(Backup) Continental 802D1\n(Backup) TTC (Larcan) 8090X\nLicensed Transmitter Power Output: \t1100 watts\nEffective Radiated Power: \t1800 watts\nAntenna: \tShively, 6810-3R-DA, 3 bay with radomes, directional (azimuth 300°), circularly polarized, power gain 2.45\nHeight of Radiation Center\nAbove Ground: \t360 feet\nHeight of Radiation Center\nAbove Average Terrain: \t628 feet\nOverall Tower Height: \t403 feet\nTransmission Line: \tAndrew, HJ5-50 Heliax, 7\u002F8 inch diameter, air dielectric\nTransmission Line Length: \t427 feet\nTransmission Line Efficiency: \t66.8% (including loss through Kintronic isocoupler)\nAural STL Call Sign: \tWLP-351\nAural STL Frequencies: \t949.3625 MHz (left channel), 949.6125 MHz (right channel)\nAudio Processor\u002FStereo Generator: \tOmnia One FM\nRDS Generator: \tInovonics 701\nModulation Monitor: \tInovonics 530\nRemote Control: \tSine Systems RFC-1\u002FB\nRemote Control Link: \tdial-up telephone line\nRemote Pickup Call Sign: \tKA-74942\nRemote Pickup Frequency: \t161.76 MHz\nStudio Location: \tRoom 232, Performing Arts Center, Winona State University\nStudio Equipment: \tAxia Element console with Axia Livewire IP audio distribution, Audioarts D-70 digital console, Tascam CD players, Technics turntables, BSI Simian hard-drive-based automation system, Yamaha digital effects processor, JK Audio telephone hybrid, Sage and TFT EAS equipment, Gateway computers, AudioScience sound cards, Tieline codecs\nMajor software used: \tAssociated Press NewsDesk, IQS Software Audio Workshop, Adobe Audition, BSI Simian, BSI Speedy, BSI WebConnect, A-Ware MusicMaster for Windows, Orban Opticodec PE\nSatellite Technology: \tTwo antennas looking at AMC-1 and AMC-3\nStreaming Technology: \tOrban Optimod PC 1100 sound card feeding an Orban Opticodec PE encoder driving an Apple QuickTime Streaming Server. 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