[BC] OLD WABC 860 in Wayne NJ; WJZ 760 in Bound Brook NJ

[Fred Gleason]

On Wednesday 14 December 2005 19:34, Dan Strassberg wrote:
> Isn't Bound Brook just a
> few miles from Zeraphath, which was home to WAWZ, the 1380 station that
> shared time with (then) WBNX? By the time I became aware of WAWZ, it had
> pretty good facilities for a noncommercial (religious) share-timer (5-kW-S
> DA-2, IIRC). WAWZ had a really rotten signal in the part of the Bronx where
> I lived (just a few miles from Maj Armstrong's Alpine Tower, which I could
> plainly see from my bedroom window). The poor signal might have been at
> least partly a consequence of the directional patterns.

Yes, Zerephath is sort of wedged between Bound Brook and Franklin.  The AM 
signal is indeed not very impressive, but they have a flamethrower FM signal 
(WAWZ-FM) that was for many years co-located off of one of the towers of the 
AM array.  The owners (Pillar of Fire Ministries) operate it as a non-comm, 
even though it is not in the reserved band.  I suppose no one really cared 
when they put it on the air in the 50s/60s, but I can imagine it's value has 
appreciated a bit since.  :)

Cheers!


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