By: Roger Sitterly

It was my impression that the AM side of WYSO could only be received in the dorms because of something to do with the way it was broadcast – I remember someone saying it went out over the electrical circuits to the dorms or some such concept. I could never pick it up on my pocket transistor radio at the time, but if you had an AM radio plugged into a wall outlet in your room or in the common room, you could get it. I’m totally ignorant about anything electrical, so I have no idea how that could be – since you broadcast on WYSO, do you recall? Was AM just at such a super-low power rating that the signal faded before it got to Xenia Avenue? When I was there the FM side was powerful enough that it had to shut down at night when atmospheric conditions allowed it to interfere with commercial stations elsewhere in the region.