WHMP Northampton

[A. Joseph Ross]

On 10/2/2013 10:40 AM, Scott Fybush wrote:

> What you were hearing (on 96.9, if memory serves) wasn't WHMP-FM. The 
> old WHMP-FM on 99.3 is now WLZX, a rock station Saga is running out of 
> its Springfield/East Longmeadow studios.
>
> The "WHMP-FM" you heard is W245AK Amherst, an 88-watt translator that 
> relays WHMP(AM). It's been running for about five years now and was 
> one of the first batch of FM translators relaying an AM station. At 
> just 88 watts, it doesn't do much by way of wide-area coverage, as you 
> noted.

I did hear it on the Pike, just not as far east as the 1600 AM East 
Longmeadow station.  I think I did hear a legal ID or two on the hour, 
but no translator ID.  I'm pretty sure they just said "WHMP-FM."  But 
next time I'm out that way, I'll listen more closely.

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