{"id":1854,"date":"2010-11-03T16:29:09","date_gmt":"2010-11-03T20:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/?p=3928"},"modified":"2023-07-29T16:14:20","modified_gmt":"2023-07-29T20:14:20","slug":"the-75th-anniversary-of-fm-broadcasting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/2010\/11\/the-75th-anniversary-of-fm-broadcasting\/","title":{"rendered":"The 75th anniversary of FM broadcasting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On November 6th, 2010, WA2XMN<\/a> will once again take to the airwaves from Alpine, NJ on 42.8 MHz.  Beginning at 12 noon, EDT, the station will rebroadcast the 2005 commemorative broadcast.  WA2XMN holds an experimental license which expires in 2015 for the purpose of recreating Armstrong’s original Yankee Network.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am not sure if they will be using the GE Phasitron<\/a> transmitter or not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Armstrong Tower, Alpine, NJ<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The Armstrong Tower is located just off of the Palisades Interstate Parkway, on a bluff west of the Hudson River. \u00a0After the World Trade Center site was lost on 9\/11, all of the NY City TV stations relocated there until permanent facilities could be build at the Empire State Building. \u00a0Empire had always been the home to most of the NYC FM’s except public station WNYC, which was also on WTC #1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lots of interesting pictures and history on the Columbia University blog<\/a>, here<\/a>, here<\/a> and here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For those interested in the history of FM broadcasting, Empire of the Air<\/em> by Tom Lewis is a great read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On November 6th, 2010, WA2XMN will once again take to the airwaves from Alpine, NJ on 42.8 MHz.  Beginning at 12 noon, EDT, the station will rebroadcast the 2005 commemorative broadcast.  WA2XMN holds an experimental license which expires in 2015 for the purpose of recreating Armstrong’s original Yankee Network. I am not sure if they … Continue reading The 75th anniversary of FM broadcasting<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[82],"class_list":["post-1854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-fm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1854"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12340,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1854\/revisions\/12340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}