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What's the frequency, NASA? WUOG wobbles Submitted by robertandrews on Fri, 06/30/2006 - 7:20am. The Athens radio station that helped launch local bands like R.E.M., The B-52s and Widespread Panic, has been taken off the air because its signals are interfering with a NASA-related research project. WUOG-FM, the University of Georgia station, has scaled back broadcasts to go dark until 4pm during summertime days, because its frequencies were blasting into sensitive equipment campus' chemistry lab, Associated Press reports. Researchers say they began having problems in May with the piece of equipment, which studies the way space gases interact by counting the number of charged molecules - or ions - they create, a reporter wrote. The disruption threatened to ruin the project. "It would go from about 300 ion counts per second to about 300,000," said Doug Jackson, a senior chemistry major working on the project, which is being funded by a grant from NASA. By last month, the researchers figured out the disruption was happening at 90.5 megahertz on the dial - the frequency at which WUOG broadcasts. Reply with a "Thank you" if you liked this post. _____________________________ MEDIANEWS mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
