J.J. Jackson at WTUR

[Brian Vita]

Care to elaborate on the "famous railroad tracks" incident?


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> From: boston-radio-interest-bounces@rolinin.BostonRadio.org 
> [mailto:boston-radio-interest-bounces@rolinin.BostonRadio.org]
>  On Behalf Of Eli Polonsky
> Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 10:32 AM
> To: boston-radio-interest@rolinin.BostonRadio.org
> Subject: Re: J.J. Jackson at WTUR
> 
> 
> As far as I've heard, Tufts radio under the WTUR call
> letters was always a closed-circuit or carrier current 
> operation on AM, save for the infamous railroad tracks 
> incident which happened perhaps a year or two before the 
> station made it onto the public airwaves as WMFO 91.5 FM.
> 
> I believe that any accounts claiming that WTUR was on the 
> public airwaves on AM (with 20 watts?) either legally or 
> illegally are incorrect, and may be confused with WMFO's 
> original power on FM of 18 watts ERP (10 watts w/antenna 
> height gain) as of it's official sign-on in 1970 until about 
> 1982 when they got the present 125 watt directional signal on the air.
> 
> WTUR may have also had a "leaky cable" or other very low
> power transmitter operating on FM prior to their legitimate 
> Class D signal signing on as WMFO but I don't know of that.
> 
> Their station website claims the first song broadcast on
> WMFO in January 1970 was The Beatles "Here Comes The Sun",
> but the first thing I remember hearing on the station at
> around that time was testing/stunting with a repeating
> loop of "Rubber Ducky" by "Ernie" from Sesame Street.
> 
> EP
> 
> 
> > > From: Donna Halper <dlh@donnahalper.com>
> > To: boston-radio-interest@rolinin.BostonRadio.org
> > Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 12:25:56 -0400
> > Subject: J.J. Jackson at WTUR
> > 
> > I found an article from an old (1970) Boston magazine about 
> WBCN, and 
> > it said J.J.Jackson first worked at WTUR at Tufts. The article says 
> > the station was an FM-- but I thought it was an AM.  Do any of you 
> > recall the station?  I  know the story that is on Wikipedia 
> about it, 
> > but before it got in trouble with Tufts, was it in fact a regular 
> > college station, or was it always an illegal station?  Does anyone 
> > remember it?
> 
>  
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