Country Music band Farewell Angelina will be performing a benefit concert on April 26th to help raise funds for much-needed repairs to the 145.49 N0NWS Repeater. As you may know, a major lightning strike late last summer severely damaged the 145.49 repeater’s main transmit antenna, feed line, and final power amplifier knocking it off the air for the better part of a week. This also rendered our entire repeater network unlinked as the 145.49 repeater serves as a hub which interconnects all of our affiliated repeaters across southwest Missouri.
“More than $30,000 worth of new feed line and equipment has already been donated to us by various vendors and manufacturers,” says Michael Blake, N0NQW, trustee of the N0NWS Repeater. “However, we still need to raise around $20,000 to pay for additional equipment and a tower-climbing crew to install everything on the 1,000-foot-high tower from which we operate in Fordland,” says Blake.
Sponsored by Houston, Missouri business Pizza Express, Farewell Angelina has offered to hold a benefit concert at the Melba Performing Arts Center on April 26, 2018, at 7 p.m. Advance tickets are available for $15 by calling Pizza Express at 417-967-4473. Tickets at the box office will be $20. A VIP/After Party pass is available for $30. And, again, all proceeds will benefit the Southern Missouri Emergency Communications Fund which is the 501(c)(3) non-profit organization under which we operate.
To learn more about star act “Farewell Angelina”, visit their website at www.farewellangelinamusic.com. There you can sample their music and learn more about this band that Rolling Stone Magazine names as one of the “New Artists You Need To Know”.
The Melba Performing Arts Center is located at 214 South Grand Avenue in Houston, Missouri. Use the interactive Google Map below for directions.