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

[Doug Kitchener]

Is WFED still out of the Wheaton site Ed?

List - Sorry if I added to any confusion!  ("I'm from IT, I'm here to help you!")

:)

DK



----- Original Message -----
> From: Ed Tobias <edtobias at comcast.net>
> To: Doug Kitchener <oldsdoug at yahoo.com>
> Cc: scan-dc at mailman.qth.net
> Sent: Wednesday, May 8, 2013 11:58 AM
> Subject: Re: [Scan-DC] Confirmation - RE:  message from the folks in IT
> 
> 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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