WUVT-FM, the student-run radio station at Virginia Tech, is building a new transmitter site. This first installment of Projects in Progress will follow the status of this undertaking. Student managers from the station will provide photos and updates along the way.

WUVT was in the news in April 2007 when several people were killed and many injured during a campus shooting. One of the people injured was Kevin Sterne, the WUVT chief engineer. We reported on this in the Radio Currents. Sterne’s story caught the attention of broadcast engineers, and the Society of Broadcast Engineers, Clear Channel, Cumulus and several broadcast consultants stepped in to offer assistance to the station on Sterne’s behalf. The result of these efforts is the construction of a new transmitter site for the station.