It has been an interesting year.

Early in the year we received notification that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) had approved our application for a low power FM (LPFM) radio station.

We did some brain storming and came up with a few preferred choices for our call letters.  We applied for and received WMFH-LP.

We ran a crowd funding campaign on indiegogo.com, bringing in about a thousand dollars.  As a “perk” for that campaign we worked with a t-shirt company to design a shirt and get some printed up.

We put together  this web site, humble though it may be.

We continued working on our station automation system with the Rivendell software, downloading and cataloging content from the librivox.org website.

We went to a local-charities intro event at the Columbus Lowndes County Library.

We joined the Columbus Chamber of Commerce and attended a few of their events.

We expanded our board of directors to include more voices from the community.

We applied for  and received non-profit status 501(c)3 from the IRS  (so contributions are tax deductible!).

We put together an initial offering plan for underwriting and presented that opportunity to a dozen or more local businesses by email, postal mail and in person.

We searched the world for grant-making foundations and government organizations, seeking start up funds to buy our transmitter and EAS/CAP machine.  We have contacted over a dozen potential grant sources.

We designed and built an antenna (yet to be tested).

We toured non-commercial radio station operations at Mississippi State University (WMSV) and Mississippi University for Women (WMUW).

We have acquired some donated equipment:  computer system, microphones, telephone interface box.

We also have been in contact with experts in the fields of literacy education, radio reading service for the sight impaired, and radio station construction.