J.J. Jackson at WTUR

[Jim]

I was an undergraduate at Tufts 1966-70. WTUR was carrier current in the
dormitories, on 560 kHz if I recall correctly. You could barely hear them in
the parking lot outside the dormitory. I do seem to remember that they did
put an FM transmitter on the air that had a bit larger range. I think it was
on 88.3 Mhz. The range was barely the entire campus, however. I lived a
block away from the campus and could not receive it there, and it did not
interfere with WTBS (at the time) on 88.1 mHz. This was distinct from WMFO
which came along later. I wonder if WMFO was incorporated in 1970 to make it
the University's responsibility, rather than a "student club" as WTUR was. 

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[mailto:boston-radio-interest-bounces@rolinin.BostonRadio.org] On Behalf Of
Eli Polonsky
Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 2:07 PM
To: boston-radio-interest@rolinin.bostonradio.org
Subject: RE: J.J. Jackson at WTUR

> > From: "Brian Vita" <brian_vita@cssinc.com>
> To: "'Eli Polonsky'" <elipolo@earthlink.net>,
>     <boston-radio-interest@rolinin.BostonRadio.org>
> Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2007 11:59:36 -0400
> Subject: RE: J.J. Jackson at WTUR
> 
> Care to elaborate on the "famous railroad tracks"
> incident?

Here is Wikipedia's account of it.

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WTUR

However, what it doesn't say is how far away the signal
could be heard from the railroad track to which this
low-powered transmitter was hooked up.

Though the reports that the signal could be heard along
the entire length of the track may be correct, I doubt
it could have been heard very far away from the track
itself.

Also, I still think that though the incident did happen,
their account classifying WTUR as a licensed broadcast
station is incorrect. I don't believe that WTUR was on
the air as a 20 watt AM licensed station, and therefore
could not have had their license revoked, unless closed
circuit stations had some sort of license in those days.

EP