Re: [HCDX]: 1640kHz station unmasked! (fwd)

["Bill Harms" <wharms@xxxxxxxxx>]

Paul,

	Sounds like a "free-radiate" station. WDKW 1630, Dundalk,Maryland 
and KUTE 1610 Salt Lake City, Utah are classic examples.

See http://www.radiosystems.com/am/free.radiate.html for details 
about this category of station.

73's  
Bill

> 
> Subject: 1640kHz station unmasked!
> 
> 
> Hi folks,
> 
>  Several people (Mark Mohrmann, VT and Jerry Berg, MA and others)
>  have
> heard a Haitian Creole station on 1640 kHz in the Northeast US.
> Jerry alerted me to it and I heard it weakly (S5) in Medford, 10
> miles North of Boston.  Jerry told me that he heard a Dorchester
> (part of Boston) advertisement on it. I was born and raised there,
> with my parents still living there, so I called my parents. They
> said the 1640 kHz signal was "booming in". 
> 
> Today I called several of the Haitian Multicultural Service Centers
> in Dorchester. I talked to Henry Josephs at the Haitian Women's
> Center. He is a member of the radio station. Here's what he said.
> 
> The station's call letters are WFNM, slogan "Radio Liberte'". It
> started about 2 months ago but just recently increased its power
> when it got the authorization to do so from the FCC (he didn't know
> the power).  The phone number for the station is (617) 298-1640. It
> is located in Dorchester (don't have an address yet, I'm working on
> it). 
> 
> He said that the radio group has been renting air time on radio
> stations for 10 years, but the group is unhappy because it costs a
> lot of money and were often pre-empted by things like baseball
> games. Now it has its own low power station which is cheap, is not
> pre-empted by ball games, and is actively looking for advertisers in
> the Boston area.
> 
> That's it. I'm waiting for the engineering group to call me back.
> I'll ask them about how much power they run and where to write for a
> QSL. 
> 
> enjoy,
> paul mcdonough
> medford, MA
> pmcdonou@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> 
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73's
Bill
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