Radio station WEFT on the air again with weaker transmitter

CHAMPAIGN – WEFT radio is operating off a small 50-watt transmitter following an outage on Friday night.

Radio station manager Mick Woolf said that severe thunderstorms caused a transmitter outage at about 6 p.m. Friday when a circuit board was damaged.

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