RMCR SHARED ENGINEERING INITIATIVE

Rocky Mountain Community Radio’s Shared Engineering Initiative is a network-wide effort to strengthen engineering capacity across all 21 member stations.

Funded by Press Forward—a national initiative to reimagine local news—the initiative addresses challenges shared across the region, including limited engineering support, aging infrastructure, and increasing technical complexity.

The goal is to establish a shared engineering system that strengthens technical resilience, supports local news infrastructure, and expands access to skilled engineering resources across RMCR member stations, and to serve as a model for other public media collaboratives.

The initiative includes direct engineering support, preventive maintenance, improved documentation and remote monitoring, shared technical resources and standards, training, and long-term development of engineering capacity throughout the RMCR network.

Engineering support is available to all RMCR member stations through the RMCR Shared Engineering Initiative.

Whether you have a specific technical problem, a planned project, a preventive maintenance need, or something you would like the Regional Engineer to help evaluate, start by submitting a request.

REQUEST A PROJECT

Use the Project Request Form to tell us:

What problem or project you need help with
How urgent it is
Any deadlines or seasonal access issues
Any other information that will help us understand the need

You do not need to have the solution figured out before submitting a request. Part of the Regional Engineer’s role is helping stations determine what needs to happen next.

REQUEST A PROJECT

EMERGENCY ENGINEERING NEEDS

A true emergency generally means a station or major service is off the air, critical equipment has failed, broadcast service is at serious risk, or waiting could result in additional damage or affect emergency information.

For a true engineering emergency, contact:

Kit Haskins
RMCR Regional Broadcast Engineer
719.660.3350
engineer@rockymountaincommunityradio.org

Please also notify the Project Coordinator as soon as practical so the request and response can be tracked.

SHARED ENGINEERING RESOURCES

Third Thursdays at Three (RMCR Peer Learning Sessions)

Overview

Join us every third Thursday at 3:00 p.m. Mountain Time for RMCR Open Office Hours. Each session will feature one or two invited experts who will lead a conversation on a specific topic relevant to RMCR member station engineers and operations staff.

Learn more here.

RMCR Member Stations

RMCR Member Stations
We are using AirTable to give stations access to see station profiles and contacts with other member stations’ engineering staff and volunteers. These features will be available only to RMCR member stations.