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Armstrong Broadcast Returns to New Jersey in June on 42.8 MHz will broadcast from the Alpine Tower for first time in a decade
By Nick Langan
Published: May 26, 2025-Updated: May 27, 2025
The commemorative Armstrong broadcast station will return next month to 42.8 MHz in the New York City Tri-State area.
On Thursday, June 19, Steve Hemphill and the staff at the historic Alpine Tower in Alpine, N.J., will celebrate with a commemorative broadcast the 20th anniversary of the Armstrong Memorial event, which Hemphill originally organized in 2005 to honor the man who made FM radio possible, Edwin Armstrong.
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he WA2XMN Edwin Armstrong memorial broadcast station, operating on 42.8 MHz, will return to the airwaves on June 19 from Alpine, New Jersey, at 12:00 PM. This station is an experimental FM radio station that broadcasts sporadically from the Armstrong Tower, a site historically significant as the location of the world's first FM broadcast station, W2XMN.
