 Bennett helped install the station's first equipment and was chief engineer until leaving for Alaska in 1939.Hiebert, a Bend resident in 1932 when he obtained an amateur radio license as a youth, returned from Wenatchee, Washington to work as engineer and announcer before leaving in August 1939 to help Bennett build KFAR.Wheeler, former announcer and newscaster at KOOS, Marshfield (Coos Bay, Oregon), was employed as commercial manager.