WHMP Northampton

[Paul B. Walker, Jr.]

They can legally ID the translator using FSK... Frequency SHift Keying,
which is inaudible to the regular listener. You definately heard 96.9.

The translator can be referred to as WHMP-FM all they want as long as they
properly id it when required.

http://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/pat?call=W245BK&service=FX&status=L&hours=U

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency-shift_keying




On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 4:52 PM, A. Joseph Ross <joe@attorneyross.com> wrote:

> 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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