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Equipment,
Signal Coverage, and Basic Facts
Frequency: 1700 kHz
Transmitter location: Acme Park, 154 Great Road, Shirley Center/North Shirley
Sign on date: April 2004
Effective Radiated Power: 100 milliwatts (1/10th of a watt) FCC Part 15 maximum power level.
Antenna: Home constructed 3 meter vertical, impedance matched with a base loaded tuning coil and elevated about 17 feet above ground level.
Transmitter: SStran Model AMT3000 assembled from kit.
Automation software: Station Playlist
Coverage Area: The neighborhoods of North Shirley, Shirley Center, and Woodsville in the town of Shirley, Massachusetts. Maximum range is 2 miles, but more is possible using good mediumwave DX equipment during daylight hours in locations AWAY from power lines (See map below.) During the most ideal conditions (daytime - morning - winter), the signal can be received on a high quality car radio at "hot spot" locations over three miles away.
Format: Folk, Americana, New Age and World Music (progressive easy listening) supplemented with compatible cultural and natural health programs. Imagine the musical sensibilities of the 1980's/early 1990's WUMB (with fewer restrictions), the actual music library of Walden 1120 updated and maintained since its 1997 demise, then add new age and world music. That is our sound! We feature more than 8,900 quality selections from over 2,000 artists... and we're still growing.
I grew up with the largely non-corporate, one-hit wonder dominated pop music of the '60's and the early '70's and that has always informed my folk programming sensibilities. Although such influences are maligned by some, they do tend to steer musicians away from too much self indulgence and musical mechanics in favor of the universal, the infectious, and the enduring.
Heritage: Walden 1120 AM, Concord, MA (1989-1997), Folk Image.com (1997-2004)
| Troubadour 1700
Transmitter and
Antenna (with the Liberty & Justice 1640 array in the background) |
Troubadour 1700 Signal Coverage |
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Darker shaded area is
prime day time coverage and full night time
coverage. Lighter shaded area is secondary (weak) daytime coverage. Map reflects ideal (winter) conditions.  |