Re: WUMB, WMWM, and You

["Bill O'Neill" <billo@shoreham.net>]

John writes:
> Did WPAA Andover Ma 91.7 ever up there power above
> flea power (10 watts?). I remember in the early 1980's
> the FCC stongly recommended these very low power FM
> stations up their power / classification or very
> likely get bumped into unprotected status.
>
> When I used to work in Shawsheen Village in Andover
> about 4 miles north of WPAA I could get them with some
> difficulty. Now that I'm on the banks of the Merrimack
> River in Andover (across the street from Roger), and I
> don't ever hear them.

IIRC, WPAA did up to 25 watts in the early 1980s.  I understand that
most of their programming is a dead carrier.  Nice beat and you can
dance to it.  Ironically, WJUL (91.5 Lowell) had to become _very_
creative in not only it's original directional FM configuration but in
its now current signal in order that it protect the ("My daddy works at
the FCC") prep school.

Bill O'Neill