Two-tower directional 1270 WACM in Springfield is requesting FCC approval to go non-directional on 1490 WSPR's aux tower in West Springfield, and to go from 5k to 1k days, and 1k to 350 watts nights. Both stations have FM translators and are owned by Red Wolf Broadcasting. 1270 had been WSPR during most of its history until a call letters switch with 1490 nine years ago. The attached current and proposed coverage in included with the application.
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Western Mass. 1270 WACM in Springfield seeks to lower power
- Thread starter Bill-in-CT
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The old 1270 site seems to have been disturbed to the point of complete unsuitability for AM transmission. (2019 Google Street View)
What's disturbed about it? The towers are intact and fenced and presumably the ground system is still there in some form, at least in this picture.
Perhaps I should have said that the land was disturbed. Decades ago, when I visited 1270 WSPR, the towers stood in a field. There were no massive structures, no large trucks, and no roadways about the site. Dan Yorke told me that he had to install a ground system because there wasn't one when he purchased the station. Maybe it has survived, as you say, in some form.
1270 downgraded their signal sometime in 2023 before they flipped from Oldies to Hip-Hop in January 2024. Now they're applying to tweak their signal again. And although Redwolf is the name on the FCC license, no one calls it that. They call it Full Power Radio. A girl I went to high school with briefly worked at Full Power Radio down in Bloomfield Connecticut a couple ofvyears ago and she showed me her paycheck. It said "Full Power Radio" on it.
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