WSPR (other)
WSPR may refer to: * WSPR (AM), a radio station (1490 AM) licensed to serve West Springfield, Massachusetts, United States * WACM (AM), a radio station (1270 AM) licensed to serve Springfield, Massachusetts, which held the call sign WSPR from 1936 to 2016 * WSPR (amateur radio software) WSPR (pronounced "whisper") is an acronym for ''Weak Signal Propagation Reporter''. It is a protocol, implemented in a computer program, used for weak-signal radio communication between amateur radio operators. The protocol was designed, and a ...

WSPR (AM)
WSPR (1490 AM) is a commercial radio station licensed to West Springfield, Massachusetts, and serving the Springfield metropolitan area. The station is owned by John Fuller, through licensee Red Wolf Broadcasting Corporation. It airs a Spanish tropical and contemporary hit radio format known as Bomba FM. WSPR programming is also heard on 250-watt FM translator station 104.5 W283CK, West Springfield. Much of the programming originates at WMRQ- HD2 in Hartford, Connecticut, which also feeds a network of FM translator stations around Connecticut. History The station first signed on the air on August 28, 1949. Its call sign was originally WTXL. During the late 1960s and early 1970s, WTXL aired a Top 40 format. Although it was programmed well, it never achieved rating success due to the heavy competition from crosstown WHYN (560 AM). With a 5,000-watt signal and much lower on the AM dial, WHYN could easily be heard around Western Massachusetts and northern Connecticut. WTXL ...
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WACM (AM)
WACM (1270 AM) is a radio station licensed to serve Springfield, Massachusetts, United States. The station is owned by John Fuller, through licensee Red Wolf Broadcasting Corporation. It airs an oldies music format, simulcasting WSKP 1180 AM Hope Valley, RI. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, the station had a Top 40 format. Later decades, the station had a talk/news approach before its current format. The station was assigned the WSPR call letters by the Federal Communications Commission in 1936. On April 12, 2016, it changed its call sign to the current WACM. On May 1, 2016 WACM changed their format from Spanish tropical (as "Bomba 1270") to oldies, branded as "Kool Radio AM" (simulcasting WSKP 1180 AM Hope Valley, Rhode Island). WACM’s programming is also simulcasted on W261DD, a translator station A broadcast relay station, also known as a satellite station, relay transmitter, broadcast translator (U.S.), re-broadcaster (Canada), repeater (two-way radio) or compleme ...
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