At 02:06 8/4/02, Scott Gomez wrote:
Someone used to sign off with "...and THANK YOU Major Armstrong!" Can't
remember who/what/where for sure but I believe it was one of the early FM
stations. Given where I grew up, and my listening choices, I would suspect
it was WRPI (from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) in Troy, NY, but I
certainly don't know that for sure any more...
*sigh* Who knew that FM as an art form would be so short lived?
---
Scott Gomez
Could it have been the station at Columbia Univeristy?
Perhaps a station at Alpine, New Jersey, along the Hudson River?
Before WWI, Armstrong was an assistant to professor Pupin at
Columbia. After WWI he eventually became Pupin's successor at Columbia,
even though his inventions had made him independently wealthy. Armstrong
started work on FM in the late 1920's to eliminate static from received
audio and finally had a working wide-band system in 1933. It took until
1940 to get approval from the FCC to erect a station (at his own expense)
and two more years after that to get frequency allocations for
broadcasting. This station was located in Alpine, New Jersey. (After
WWII, the FCC reallocated FM broadcast to the band currently used for it.)
-- John
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