The late 1980s and early 1990s were also spent chasing a power increase to 3,000 watts. Planned as soon as 1986, fundraising efforts included a "3000 Watt Dance" sponsored by the station. The necessary $40,000 expenditure for a new transmitter was approved by the Federal Communications Commission and school administration in 1988 only for the latter to order efforts to cease in April 1989 because it had no underwriters and was almost entirely dependent on student fees. As the existing 100-watt transmitter aged, station staff were required to throw snowballs at it to knock off the ice that formed, as the transmitter did not get warm enough to melt it in cold weather. It was not until May 1991 that KWCR relocated to Promontory Tower and activated its higher-power facilities, after two weeks off the air; the power increase attracted underwriting attention from businesses as far away as Salt Lake City and expanded the coverage of a new radio reading service subcarrier and the station's specialty programming in Spanish. The transmitter, however, was not entirely new. It had been purchased by engineering professor Bill Clapp from a man in Texas for $300 after it was struck by lightning; the equipment was being stored in his garage.