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KYKD Radio KYKD is a Christian radio station located at Bethel in far western Alaska. It is part of the I-AM radio network owned by Voice for Christ Ministries, Inc.

KYKD Weekly Verse
06/14/2026

KYKD Weekly Verse

KYKD Weekly Yup’ik Verse
06/14/2026

KYKD Weekly Yup’ik Verse

06/10/2026

Notes used for the VFCM Staff Meeting on 6/10/2026

KYKD Translator and Class D Village Station Update:
All six KYKD translator stations and all four VisionAlaska Class D stations are on the air this morning.

The necessary monitors to activate the two Raspberry Pi computers at Meadow Ridge have arrived at the Anchor Point Post Office and should be picked up today. Palmer then intends to configure and send the devices to provide remote access at the KIAM tower site and at the K231BJ translator station in Eagle. He has not yet been asked to help set up the BRIC-Link for K231BJ, but is available to do so.

There is no further development in the plan for Palmer to visit the village on the Bering Sea coast in August to evaluate the potential for establishing a VisionAlaska station in that village.

VisionAlaska is willing to consider cooperating with VFCM in applying for new translator stations during the expected upcoming window to expand Christian radio in Alaska in partnership with VFCM.

KYKD Station Update:
Overall, remote operations of the stations from Meadow Ridge have again gone well this week.

Last Thursday the mysterious 11-second issue reappeared on the Yukon on-air computer. It was resolved by the usual restart of Simian on that computer. The next day an even more serious malfunction occurred when the Arctic on-air computer locked up and went silent in the early morning, which also destroyed the ability to contact the machine remotely. Jesse Ernst, on his last day in Bethel for several weeks, was able to force a restart and the computer recovered. Bonnie later discovered early on Saturday morning, however, that Simian File Sync had not resumed properly and thus many programs were not properly updated Friday night. Palmer manually restarted that utility remotely and all files were quickly brought up to date.

Shortly after 9:00 p.m. on Saturday evening KYKD was contacted by a listener complaining that two programs were airing on the station at the same time. Palmer accessed the station remotely and verified that that the problem was not local in Bethel but was present on the download stream of Faith of Record being received and directly aired from the I-AM Network satellite. Before he was able to contact Nenana about the issue, Mike apparently resolved it. Thanks much.

Yesterday KYKD sent a payment to SonSet Solutions for 20 more solar-powered SonSet radios. SonSet Solutions informed KYKD that the organization "Delivering God's Word Campaign" has added a blessing by providing an additional 20 radios and adapters free of charge.

Very early tomorrow morning Audio Scripture Ministries will interview Palmer in their weekly staff prayer meeting. That organization has long been involved with KYKD regarding the production of the Yup'ik Audio Bible.

Palmer expects to return to Bethel next Wednesday, June 17th, for some project work. Another trip which will include a work project to reinforce the Bethel broadcast tower is planned for early August. He has located small excavator in Bethel which will be available to excavate the anchorage holes, saving a lot of manual digging.

06/04/2026

Notes used for the VFCM Staff Meeting on 6/3/2026

KYKD Translator and Class D Village Station Update:
All six KYKD translator stations and all four VisionAlaska Class D stations are on the air this morning.

The necessary monitors to activate the two Raspberry Pi computers at Meadow Ridge are still somewhere in transit. One remote access system is intended for use at the KIAM tower site and the other for use at K231BJ in Eagle. The three monitors which were "lost" in transit a month ago, and for which refund has been received, have now suddenly arrived in Bethel, so it appears KYKD may have plenty of mini-monitors for a while.

The prospective host for a new VisionAlaska Class D station in a Yukon River village has now declined to pursue that idea further. Conversely, enthusiasm in the Bering Sea coastal village remains strong but the annual summer flurry of activity in that village is making it difficult to gather people there to make any further decisions. The current plan is for Palmer to visit the village in August after the commercial fishing season winds down and people return to the village.

KYKD Station Update:
Overall, remote operations of the stations from Meadow Ridge have gone well this week.

Palmer has been working with the Harwood family in Montana with a view toward having them visit Bethel for about a week-long "vision" trip in September. Consideration of their involvement at KYKD has been ongoing for several years.

Nearly all of the technical challenges experienced last week have been adequately resolved.

Palmer expects to return to Bethel in a couple of weeks for some project work. Another trip which will include a work project to reinforce the Bethel broadcast tower is planned for early August.

05/27/2026

Notes used for the VFCM Staff Meeting on 5/27/2026

KYKD Translator and Class D Village Station Update:
All six KYKD translator stations and all four VisionAlaska Class D stations are on the air this morning.

The K229CV translator station in Kalskag performed well this week, apparently fully recovered from the ailments experienced last week.

Palmer has two Raspberry Pi computers with him at Meadow Ridge, one intended for use at the KIAM tower site and the other to use at K231BJ in Eagle. Palmer has reordered monitors for these two computers and when received, will complete the configuration and send then to their respective locations.

There is no progress to report regarding either of the possible new VisionAlaska Class D stations.

KYKD Station Update:
Overall, this has been a good week at KYKD.

All stations aired the Jerry Stewart Memorial Day special during the 5:00 p.m. hour on Monday as well as several hours of special patriotic music.

Palmer and Bonnie arrived at Meadow Ridge Ranch late on Friday after three busy but productive days in Anchorage. Saturday morning it was discovered that on Friday evening the Yukon cluster's on-air computer had locked up and could not be contacted remotely. Jesse Ernst went to the station and working telephonically with Palmer was able to reboot the machine and reestablish connection via RemotePC. Palmer was then able to resume normal broadcasting about 9:20 a.m. in time for Keys for Kids.

Several days of technical challenges then began when it was discovered Saturday morning that the new Windows 11 laptop would not print to the printer at Meadow Ridge, even though it is exactly the same make and model as the color laser printer in Bethel. By Sunday Palmer had developed a work-around that involved using the old Windows 10 laptop functioning as a printer server to which documents could be sent over the local area network. On Monday his daughter, Sara Bailey, worked with him remotely several hours and together they were able to get the new laptop to print most documents, such as Word documents and Excel sheets, directly on the printer. Palmer was later able to install a couple of additional software items which have now enabled him to create and print PDF documents in a "normal" manner.

Palmer expects to return to Bethel in about three weeks for some project work. Details and duration are yet to be defined. There have been no further developments regarding the work team project to reinforce the Bethel broadcast tower in early August.

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406 Ptarmigan Street
Bethel, AK
99559

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