Re: Phillips Academy Andover Open; WPAA-FM Is B-a-a-a-ck

["elipolo@earthlink.net" <elipolo@earthlink.net>]

>From: "Joseph Pappalardo" <joepappalardo2001@yahoo.com>
>To: "Peter Murray" <pete@partnercomm.com>;
><boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>
>Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 12:59 PM
>Subject: Re: Phillips Academy Andover Open; WPAA-FM Is B-a-a-a-ck
>
>All Class D FM's (Limited to 10W TPO but their ERP's and HAAT may vary 
>wildly) are grandfathered.  The FCC has not accepted new Class D 
>applications since 1978, except in Alaska.  In 1978, all Class D's that 
>could upgrade to Class A status were required to do so, and those that 
>couldn't were allowed to remain on the air, but their frequencies were 
>changed at the FCC's discretion to make room for the other upgrading-to-A 
>Class D's.   That's how we got WRBB on 104.9 and WBRS on 100.1, and how 
>WMFO got on 91.5 (they were on 91.7 when they were a Class D)

WBRS and WRBB were both originally on 91.7, but WMFO was always on 91.5 for 
as long as I remember, even at their old 10 watt (18 watt ERP) circularly 
polarized power, which actually came in better in many areas to the west
and 
south of Medford than their current extremely directional 125 watts.

I remember WMFO doing a test broadcast on 91.5 back around 1970 or '71,  
playing a repeating loop of "Rubber Duckie" from Sesame Street. Some 
regular programming began the next day or so.

>During the madhouse that this process was, a lot of bizarre exceptions
were 
>made, including WBRS's getting 25W ERP (they had to sign an agreement with 
>third-adjacent WZLX that nobody who worked in the Rabb Graduate School 
>building was a WZLX listener...because within that building (which the
WBRS 
>tower is on) WBRS nukes WZLX...

I recall WBRS claiming they had 35 watts ERP back when they were at 91.7.

Eli Polonsky



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