Happy Birthday, FM - No Static At All!
Happy Birthday, FM! It was on March 4, 1941 that the first FM station signed
on in Nashville. Station "W47NV" is now known as WSM-FM.
written by Edwin Armstrong in 1922. Edwin Armstrong presented his paper: "A
Method of Reducing Disturbances in Radio Signaling by a System of Frequency
Modulation", which first described FM radio, before the New York section of
the Institute of Radio Engineers on November 6, 1935:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FM In 1938, Edwin Armstrong built 425 foot Alpine Tower, in Alpine, New Jersey,
for his transmission experiments that led to modern FM radio. The original
transmissions occurred at 42.8MHz: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpine_Tower Today Alpine Tower in the home of WFDU 89.1 Teaneck NJ, the broadcast outlet
of Fairleigh Dickinson University: www.wfdu.fm According to Inside Radio: Today, there are nearly 11,000 radio stations
around the nation -- close to six-out-of-ten of them operating on the FM
band.
http://www.insideradio.com/Article.asp?id=1717413&spid=32060
