Re: WUPI/WUPY?

[Donna Halper <dlh@donnahalper.com>]

At 07:19 PM 3/27/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>WUPY operated from probably about 1961 to 1963 on 105.3. It was licensed to
>Lynn with transmitter atop a hill somewhere in Peabody or Saugus. WUPY was
>somewhat more powerful than the Class A FMs of the day, which were limited
>to (I believe) 1 kW at 250' HAAT. I seem to remember facilities something
>like 3.3 kW at 270' (less than half the power of most of today's class As).
>The owner was a _real_ whack job. Harvey <something>.

His name was Harvey Sheldon, and yes WUPY was indeed  an FM licensed to 
Lynn.  It was listed in the Radio/TV Annual in 1961, 1962 and 1963, but in 
1964 the only Lynn station is WLYN-FM at 101.7.