July 14, 2006

College Radio Station Limits Broadcasts to Avoid Interfering With Research

By BROCK READ

College radio stations often struggle to be heard, even on their own campuses, over FM-band static. But WUOG, the University of Georgia's popular student-run station, has found itself facing a rather different problem: Its signal is so strong that it interferes with campus chemistry research.

In an unusual move, the station has agreed to stop weekday broadcasting temporarily from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m., WUOG officials say, because the station was wreaking havoc on a spectrometer in a nearby