[BC] FM History

[WFCR Engineering]

Thanks Dana. I agree.

When I was growing up in the suburbs northeast of Hartford, CT, WAAF was 
almost a local station, along with
the West Peak Meriden, Springfield and Avon/Farmington stations. When the 
"Rock and Roll Air Force" moved their tx,
they dropped their coverage significantly out that way (it probably didn't 
matter to them from a sales perspective.)

Then WPLR (99.1) in Hamden (New Haven county), CT stunted their signal to 
the north to "help" their sister Lazer 99.3
in MA, and Hartford County lost yet another clean signal to "benefit" a 
station you can't reliably hear anyhow.

Chuck D

From: "Dana  Puopolo" <dpuopolo at usa.net>
WAAF used to transmit from this tower. Here are pictures. It's the 3 bay 
half
wave spaced Shiveley with radomes in the the bottom half of this page:

http://www.necrat.us/waaf_pro.html

You can see the tower still looks very much like it did 60+ years ago.

IMHO, WAAF had a far better FM signal from here then the WUNI TV tower they
now use.

-D