[Scan-DC] Confirmation - RE: message from the folks in IT

[Ed Tobias]

When WTOP moved from 1500 to 103.5 the 1500 frequency became WFED, Federal 
News Radio.  It's still 50kw and at night its pattern is changed to 
North-South directional, protecting KSTP in Minneapolis/St. Paul.  WFED and 
WTOP are co-owned by Hubbard Broadcasting.

Ed (I worked at WTOP for a couple of years in the late 1970s)

-----Original Message----- 
From: Doug Kitchener
Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2013 11:25 AM
To: Rick Hansen ; Scan-DC at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Scan-DC] Confirmation - RE: message from the folks in IT

Xmitter is still there, but apparently the station that uses it is no longer 
called WTOP but something else... or maybe the power has been cut back - 
something, I forget.  I looked into this awhile back when I saw something on 
a Baltimore station's web site about it being "Maryland's only 50KW station" 
or something.  I gotta get ready to go to work, will have to look that back 
up if I get a chance.  I grew up not far from there (near Holy Cross Hosp) 
and WTOP was the first radio station I ever listened to, on one of those 
"Rocket Radio" germanium xtal things!  Exchanged a bunch of emails not long 
ago with a guy named Lee Shepherd who was a DJ there back then... we need to 
kick all this around at the next scan-dc get-together!

DK




----- Original Message -----
> From: Rick Hansen <Rick.Hansen at apsglobal.com>
> To: 'Doug Kitchener' <oldsdoug at yahoo.com>; Scan-DC at mailman.qth.net
> Cc:
> Sent: Wednesday, May 8, 2013 11:17 AM
> Subject: RE: [Scan-DC] Confirmation - RE:  message from the folks in IT
>
> Back to the scanning aspect, when WTOP had a 50,000 watt transmitter in
> Wheaton (is it still there?) the signal would get picked up by telephones 
> in
> the area. I spend a day at a friend's house putting bypass capacitors on 
> the
> telephone jacks. My fillings never picked it up, but some people claimed 
> it
> would play in their head when they drove by on University Boulevard. Ah, 
> for
> the days of dental fillings using mercury...
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: scan-dc-bounces at mailman.qth.net
> [mailto:scan-dc-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Doug Kitchener
> Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2013 11:01 AM
> To: Scan-DC at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [Scan-DC] Confirmation - RE: message from the folks in IT
>
> eww... if I listen to WTOP in the car, will it screw up the radio and take
> over the engine control module?
>
> What about the Pepco smart meters and the steel plate in my head?
>
> :)
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>>  From: Rick Hansen <Rick.Hansen at apsglobal.com>
>>
>>  For now, get your traffic info from www.sigalert.com.
>
>>
>>  May we listen *and* browse well 'n often,
>>
>>  R.
>>
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