Werent they an AM station before?

WA1CRZ · #1 (**permalink**) 11-18-2007, 05:37 PM

Or have they always been FM?
http://www.ontheradio.net/radiostations/wumsfm.aspx

nexus · #2 (**permalink**) 11-19-2007, 01:30 AM

just curious what gave you the idea they were once an AM station?

slicerwizard · #3 (**permalink**) 11-19-2007, 04:50 AM

Yes, it used to be 92.1 AM (due to a minor typo on the purchase order), but very few listeners had suitable receivers, so they switched to FM.

nexus · #4 (**permalink**) 11-19-2007, 05:50 AM

92.1 AM? That isn't a valid AM broadcast frequency.

n4yek · #5 (**permalink**) 11-19-2007, 09:38 AM

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Originally Posted by slicerwizard

Yes, it used to be 92.1 AM (due to a minor typo on the purchase order), but very few listeners had suitable receivers, so they switched to FM.

Quote:

Originally Posted by nexus

92.1 AM? That isn't a valid AM broadcast frequency.

slicerwizard is being sarcastic.

kb2vxa · #6 (**permalink**) 11-20-2007, 07:32 PM

Hi all,

WUMS (We're an Unknown Mysterious Station) was a pirate station operated from Proctorville Ohio by David T. Thomas beginning in 1925 at age 16. It's a bit too long of a story to type here and I can't copy and paste from a .jpg image. You can find in a dusty old archive somewhere a copy of Electronics Illustrated May 1963 and read the article The Strange Case Of Radio WUMS by C. M. Stanbury II.

I may as well admit it, I resurrected the callsign for another pirate, me. My friends and I rocked the NYC/NNJ metro area with 200W on 1430KHz from June 1965 until August 1971 when we got a cease and desist order from the FCC which naturally we complied with, the "or else" part looked pretty ominous.

Yeah, originally WUMS was AM, twice. (;->)

I'm glad to know it's been assigned to a legal broadcaster if for no other reason than to piss off Tom Kneitel whose name I have probably misspelled but you probably know him as John Teach, Kurt N. Sterba and a few other nom de plumes in Monitoring Times.

LONG LIVE WUMS THE STATION THAT ROCKS THE NATION! Long be remembered Tommy Thompson, K. G. the D. J., Casey Filter, Jim Nazy, Big Rich, Ramblin' Jack, Big Bad John and the rest of the gang of cutthroats that turned Brooklyn on it's ear.

WRNI YOU DIE!

WA1CRZ · #7 (**permalink**) 11-21-2007, 01:35 PM

Youre either getting Alzheimers or dyslexia Warren. It was 1340 khz, NOT 1430 khz.
1430 was WNJR. I doubt even you could overcome their signal.

kb2vxa · #8 (**permalink**) 11-21-2007, 11:46 PM

Probably both. Right, they had an RCA BTA5F into two 208' towers and we had a homebrew 200W transmitter into a 1/4 wave inverted L.

Hey, how did you know it was 1340? Hmmm...

"I am the Fulminator!"

How right you are. (;->)