WA2XMN
| City of license | Alpine, New Jersey |
|---|---|
| Broadcast area | New York City metropolitan area |
| Frequency | 42.8 MHz |
| First air date | June 12, 2005 |
| Last air date | August of 2015? |
| Format | Public Radio/Eclectic Music |
| ERP | 3,000 watts |
| HAAT | 425 feet (130 m) |
| Class | Experimental Apex |
| Facility ID | 20458 |
| Transmitter coordinates | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
| Callsign meaning | Referring to W2XMN, Edwin Armstrong's original station call-sign |
| Website | http://www.wa2xmn.ar88.net |
WA2XMN is an experimental FM radio station broadcasting at 42.8 MHz from the Armstrong Tower in Alpine, New Jersey. The station is named after Edwin Armstrong's original experimental FM station, W2XMN, that broadcast from this location from June 13, 1938 to March 4, 1954[1][2]. The building still has the call sign of the original station written above the entrance, W2XMN.[3]
With a tower height of around 430 feet, and sitting on top of the 500-foot-tall Pallisades (for a total height above average terrain of nearly 1000 feet), WA2XMN has a listening range of roughly 60-100 miles.
The station signed on using a restored phasitron transmitter[4] built by Steve Hemphill,[5][6][7] with technical assistance from WFDU 89.1, which broadcast from the tower since its launch in 1971. When WA2XMN signed on, very few people had VHF receivers that could tune in to the frequency. This was not a problem, however, as their broadcasts were simulcast on WFDU's signal and internet stream.[8][9]
Despite being in the Apex band, the station broadcasts in modern FM instead of AM, as the original Apex stations did.
References
- ↑ https://www.fybush.com/nerw-20150615/
- ↑ http://www.radioworld.com/columns-and-views/0004/armstrong-honored-with-plaque/327920
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ http://www.w9gr.com/phasitron.html
- ↑ http://www.wa2fnq.com/armstrg/armstrg1.htm
- ↑ http://www.wa2fnq.com/armstrg/armstrg2.htm
- ↑ https://blogs.cul.columbia.edu/armstrongpapers/tag/steve-hemphill/
- ↑ https://www.fybush.com/nerw-20130610/
- ↑ http://www.radioworld.com/news-and-business/0002/alpine-tower-to-be-site-of-commemorative-fm-broadcast/308683
External links
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