[BC] Class C... and now, the rest of the story

[Dana Puopolo]

I was involved in a Barix configuration call with the faculty manager of WSAJ
and asked him why they turned the AM licesne in. He told me it was for several
reasons. First off, no one was listening to the AM. Second, he said that the
AM needed both antenna work and a new transmitter-and with the limited budget
the radio station has they felt the money was better spent on a power increase
for the FM (which they apparently did do). Finally, he lamented that it's been
really difficult to get students involved with the station for some time-as
interest in college radio as a school activity is on the wane-and so they run
a large part of their broadcast day on autopilot-and the hassle having a body
there to run the AM for a few hours two nights a week just wasn't worth it any
more.

-D

From: Timothy West <n3drb at comcast.net>

I was told the TX came out of Oil City, but it's kinda cool to have  
the fybush article fill in the blanks.

the WSAJ AM license was surrendered back to the FCC in 1996. I bet  
from the transmitter description
that it was a GE BT 20A.

Does anyone know of a 250 watt AM  that actually pays for the power  
bill, much less anything else?

Tim