Re: 1957

[Shawn Mamros <mamros@MIT.EDU>]

>I also remember that when WTBS, now WMBR, first came on, I found that I 
>couldn't receive it in Bedford at all.  Not even as badly as I was getting 
>WHRB.  But that was a few years later, I understood about low power 
>stations by then, and I simply assumed that I was too far from the 
>station.

Heck, with all of ten watts of power off of the top of a three-story
building (which is all the station had for its first ten years on FM,
1961-71), WTBS was probably lucky if it made it out to the near side of
the Arlington hills, never mind going beyond that...

Anybody know just how far the station's reach was in those days?
(I wasn't born yet, and even by the time that came around, I was
still 600 or so miles away... the 86th harmonic of KDKA was probably
stronger than WTBS! :-)

- -Shawn Mamros
E-mail to: mamros@mit.edu

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