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Date Posted: 00:33:15 09/18/11 Sun
Author: Howie
Author Host/IP: 24.63.117.156
Subject: Re: WOMB.
In reply to: Kelsey 's message, "Re: WOMB." on 00:52:39 09/16/11 Fri

I'm going to need to awaken many dormant neurons for that! It was early September, 1970, before classes started. I was talking with this new teacher (may have been Dave Osher, or Tom ???) and he asked how come Franconia didn't have a college radio station. I said that I didn't know, but I had a few years' experience in my former college's radio station and could certainly get one together. He said he would see what he could do to sponsor it if I could estimate the cost. I knew a place that sold new and used equipment (Boynton Studios in Scarsdale, NY), knew the company that made the carrier-current transmitters we would need (I think it was LPR - Low Power Radio), and had a contact at the Intercollegiate Broadcast System (IBS), which we joined.

I had Boynton on the lookout for a control board for us. They also got us the Ampex half-track reel-to-reel tape machine, and the cartridge tape machine, in used, but excellent shape. The turntables and microphones were new. Someone from LPR flew a private plane up to Whitefield and we did a survey of the college and downtown, and decided two small transmitters, one in Frost and one in International House, plus a larger one in the Main Building would give us great coverage. We also decided that 570 kHz would be the best frequency to use. He also brought me up to speed about how to deal with the phone company for the lines to connect the studio to the two transmitters in town, as well as the phone patch to put phone calls on the air.

Dave/Tom/??? and I figured out we needed to turn the creation of the radio station into a college course, and he made it happen. Chris Roop and Dave Fox were key people in building the interior double walls, as well as the walls between the office, control room and the studio, and the shelves for the albums. I don't recall who designed the U-shaped console with me, nor who built it. We kept the windows in place, and some sculptor/welders installed creations inside the window frames that looked a lot like theft-deterring bars, for which credit was also awarded. With the help of IBS and Joe Schuman, who had a relative "in the business", we contacted the record companies who then sent us advance demo copies of their albums.

If anybody's interested, outside of a small circle of friends, I'll dredge up more of the story.

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