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Amp gets new calls

Doctah said:
U Arizona's student radio station also goes by the call letters KAMP: http://kamp.arizona.edu/
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...except they don't. As a proud former KAMP student radio member, I can tell you that they have NO call letters. We were told specifically not to refer to the station as K-A-M-P, as those were the call letters of an Alaskan radio station at the time.

But yes, it is (or at least at times was) a broadcast radio station. We had a full 10 watts on AM and a half watt on FM. Truly blazing across the Arizona desert!
 
If it was broadcasting but had no calls, I'm guessing you were running a pirate radio station then.
Why the "KAMP" reference on the web site? If they don't refer to themselves as "KAMP" on air, I don't get why the website says that. What DOES the station refer to itself as?
 
Where on the website does it say "KAMP"?
The website has never placed any call letters on the website, KLSX or KAMP
The station refers to themselves as 97.1 AMP Radio or just simply AMP, 97.1 or AMP Radio
 
Doctah said:
If it was broadcasting but had no calls, I'm guessing you were running a pirate radio station then.
Why the "KAMP" reference on the web site? If they don't refer to themselves as "KAMP" on air, I don't get why the website says that. What DOES the station refer to itself as?
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radiojomo said:
Where on the website does it say "KAMP"?
The website has never placed any call letters on the website, KLSX or KAMP
The station refers to themselves as 97.1 AMP Radio or just simply AMP, 97.1 or AMP Radio
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I believe that poster "Doctah" was referring to the Univ. of Arizona station, not the L.A. station. As far as the L.A.'s station website goes, it's not unlike most other station's sites that don't mention the actual call letters except for possibly via the "Contact Us" link or within the fine print at the bottom of webpages. It promotes consistency with branding across all platforms. Besides us dedicated radio fans, I'm sure most listeners would search/access their favorite station's website via the brand name rather than the call letters.
 
I agree with a previous poster. KXXX-FM, X-100 was a good name for a station. The problem I had was that if you tuned your radio to 100, before digital tuning, all you heard was snow. On a digital tuner, the closest tuning is 100.1 or 99.9 fm. Still got snow. 99.7 was a stretch to be called 100. I kept thinking they should have advertised the station as, "EXactly 99.7, X-100, round it up, crank it up!"
 
I noticed on the FCC site that today Amp changed their calls from KAMP - which they established on 6/30, to KAMP-FM. Not sure why, but if I were to guess, maybe they decided that the "AM" in their calls might cause some sort of confusion and they want to insure to brand themselves as an "FM" station - especially with out of market media buyers new to using the station.
 
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