Re: Globe on John Garabedian

[Rick Kelly <nuhuc@juno.com>]

On Sun, 2 Feb 2003 11:40:33 -0500 "elipolo@earthlink.net"
<elipolo@earthlink.net> writes:

> There was another one (pirate) on for a number of months in 1973/1974
from 
> Watertown.

This was WOJX, a friend of mine helped build and run it.  Those involved
published 
DX News, the National Radio Club newsletter.  As I hear, they did not
operate 
on 1210 more than once or twice; mostly on 1200.  Transmitter was an LPB
10 
watt carrier current transmitter, the origins of which I do not know. 
This 
was used to drive a 200 watt linear transmitter, feeding a 1 inch wooden 
dowel rod with 1/2 wave of coil wound for 1200 kHz mounted vertically on
the 
side of the owners home in Watertown.  An identical dowel rod with open
copper 
wire was buried underground, oriented to produce a figure eight pattern 
running east-west.  At night, WOJX's signal was solid in-car from
Watertown 
to Government Center, and was heard as far away as Revere Beach and 
Framingham.  The antenna did not throw much of a signal north or south. 
The 
theme from "A Clockwork Orange" was used as a sign-on anthem, followed by
an 
eclectic mix of music.

The station disappeared in late 1973 when a fire destroyed the upper 
two floors of the owners' home, taking the transmitter and audio gear
with it.

Rick Kelly
www.northeastairchecks.com


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