WAAF would pop in on a car radio well north of Albany too. With a roof top Yagi antenna....WAAF came in like a local in Saratoga Springs. Even further north...WAAF was clearly audible on a portable radio when 107.1 from Glens Falls/Corinth would shut down at midnight...
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Question about waaf transmitter
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geesmith
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Did you know that 107.3 fm, now WAAF, was the very first licensed fm
radio station in the nation? If my history is right, they went on the
air in the 40's. Ironically, the original transmitter was located in
Boston...But someone thought: why would we transmit most of our
signal to the fish? So they moved the transmitter to the center of
the state. Hence, the (former) legendary signal.
radio station in the nation? If my history is right, they went on the
air in the 40's. Ironically, the original transmitter was located in
Boston...But someone thought: why would we transmit most of our
signal to the fish? So they moved the transmitter to the center of
the state. Hence, the (former) legendary signal.
Johnster said:
Jeff's excellent page details the beginnings of W1XOJ/W43B/WGTR, but not the end. I picked up the story in this piece 10 years ago : http://www.fybush.com/site-030313.html
The original Yankee Network FM at the Paxton site was off the air by 1950, and more than a decade elapsed before a new license came on the air at that location. WAAB-FM 107.3 signed on in 1961 and became WAAF a few years later, and while it tried to link its history to W1XOJ/W43B, it wasn't a continuous license all the way through.
The oldest FM station still in continuous operation appears to be WHCN in Hartford, which traces a direct line back to Doolittle's W1XPW in 1939. There's a case to be made as well for WHUR in Washington, depending on how well one can make the connection from W3XO in 1939 to WINX-FM in 1947.
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Jeff Berlin
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Great articles, thanks for sharing !
LA_Guy said:
I'm a little confused on this one.
Did WICN move from Boylston to Paxton before or after the upgrade from Class A to Class B1?
OR...Was the move to Paxton a part of the upgrade?
Scott Fybush said:
Plus the old WQXR-FM (now WXNY) New York, which I think went on around 1939. The original cloverleaf tower (long silent) is still standing on the Chanin Building!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Chanin_Building's_crenellated_top,_Manhattan.JPG
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geesmith
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Cool stuff. Here's one more article that supplements those:
http://www.bostonradio.org/stations/74467
http://www.bostonradio.org/stations/74467
WNTIRadio said:
I would LOVE to see a coverage map (just for giggles) anyone have the ability to knock one out using that frequency?
Did a Longley-Rice of it. Covers with a 40dBu from Long Island to the Cape, up just past Portsmouth NH.
To the west the mountains hem it in a bit, but the 60 goes almost to Pittsfield and the 40 gets in to Albany.
You can see how the old Yankee Network was able to hop long distances with these stations, say from Alpine to Meriden Mountain or Paxton to Mt. Washington.
To the west the mountains hem it in a bit, but the 60 goes almost to Pittsfield and the 40 gets in to Albany.
You can see how the old Yankee Network was able to hop long distances with these stations, say from Alpine to Meriden Mountain or Paxton to Mt. Washington.
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