Conelrad

[Doug Drown]

I can only guess what a delight a small-town 100-watt or 250-watt
"graveyard" station must have been years ago.  I'm not being nasty here.
Some of my fondest listening memories are of little 1,000-watt WGAW in
Gardner (250 watts at night).  Real home town radio.  I'll bet there aren't
many of 'em doing a full-service format like that anymore.    -Doug


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dan.Strassberg" <dan.strassberg@att.net>
To: "Stephanie Weil" <stephanie@gordsven.com>; "Bill Dillane"
<dillane@sbcglobal.net>
Cc: <boston-radio-interest@lists.BostonRadio.org>
Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 10:35 AM
Subject: Re: Conelrad


> No, 1440; you are thinking of WGBB Freeport, which was just 100W when
> I was a kid. Before it became a full-timer, WGBB shared time with
> several other stations, one of which was WFAS White Plains. The
> time-share was broken up at the time of NARBA (March '41) and two
> stations survived, WGBB, which went to 1240 with 100W-U and WFAS which
> went to 1230 with 250W-U. Eventually, both WFAS and WGBB increased to
> 1 kW-U, but before that, WFAS moved from a tower not quite atop the
> Roger Smith Hotel in downtown White Plains to Greenburgh, where it
> constructed an efficient half-wave stick on which the WFAS-FM antenna
> was also mounted. The original Greenburgh stick was a self-supporter
> but it was replaced at some point with the present guyed tower. And
> now I guess the FM is moving south. 103.9 has been granted a CoL
> change (to Bronxville, I believe), which may allow a Tx move into the
> Bronx. I'm guessing that 103.9 will then flip to Spanish.
>
> As for 1440 in Babylon; it has applied to change its CoL to Medfod NY
> at the eastern end of Suffolk County, where it will diplex from the
> 1580 towers. That move will allow WNSW 1430 to diplex from the Clifton
> site of co-owned WPAT 930. WNSW has a CP for 10 kW-D/7 kW-N DA-2 from
> the four self-supporting, top-loaded WPAT sticks, which are 225
> degrees at 1430.
>
> And now you know the R-R-R-R-REST of the story!
> -----
> Dan Strassberg (dan.strassberg@att.net)
> eFax 1-707-215-6367
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Stephanie Weil" <stephanie@gordsven.com>
> To: "Bill Dillane" <dillane@sbcglobal.net>
> Cc: <boston-radio-interest@lists.BostonRadio.org>
> Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 10:05 AM
> Subject: Re: Conelrad
>
>
> >
> > On Sun, November 25, 2007 10:56, Bill Dillane wrote:
> >
> >> False.  I grew up a mile away from a 1240 tower.  As a young kid I
> >> couldn't
> >> figure out how this little station in a small city was going to
> >> save us
> >> all.
> >
> > And there's also little WNYG out of Babylon, New York (on Long
> > Island).
> > They've been on 1240 forever.
> >
> > Stephanie Weil
> > New York City, USA
> >
>