Now, Hear WHAV Easier, Everywhere
New Mobile Web Page Aids Listener Convenience

It’s easier than ever to take WHAV with you wherever you go.

Any time you type www.WHAV.net into your smartphone Web browser (e.g., Safari on the iPhone), you are automatically redirected to a special Web page especially designed for your mobile phone’s small screen. Once there, you may:

• Choose from one of three listening options, including 3G/4G mobile broadband or WiFi
• View a description of what is now playing, including title and artist
• Learn more about the radio station
• Choose optional mobile apps for iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch, BlackBerry/Storm, Android, Palm, Samsung Bada and Windows Phone
• Contact WHAV using a handy, built-in form
• View the “Classic Page,” standard WHAV website

COCO+CO. Art Director Greg Skorupka developed the mobile service and it was provided to WHAV at no charge. Previously, smartphone users were directed to navigate to www.WHAV.mobi, which also remains available.

There is no need to register and the service is always free.

Fund Drive Kicks Off in Earnest
Have You Sent in Your Pledge to Keep WHAV On?

WHAV’s new fiscal year began July 1 and support from local businesses and listeners is urgently needed. WHAV recently became listener-supported community radio and is operated by not-for-profit Public Media of New England, Inc.

Creating and airing quality programming 24-hours-a-day, seven-days-a-week is costly, but vitally necessary to the community’s health and growth. Donations help pay for news wire services, Pacifica Network affiliation, local weather, stipends to news and talk professionals, music royalties, streaming services, telephone and more. The administration of WHAV consists of unpaid volunteers.

Taking advantage of the latest digital technologies, WHAV pioneered local Internet radio and also relays award-winning programming through traditional radio and public access television stations in Andover, Haverhill and Methuen, Massachusetts, and Plaistow and Sandown, N.H.

WHAV relies on community minded residents and businesses for a majority of its support. When businesses underwrite public media, they receive prominent exposure (at rates substantially more affordable than traditional advertising). Underwriting also demonstrates unrivaled elegance, wins the loyalty of a thankful public and greatly leverages other community investments by providing a forum to the same charitable and civic causes they already support.

Businesses may download a list of underwriting packages here. Individuals may print the form below or click the “Donate” button at left. Residents are also asked to inquire if businesses they visit have made their pledges.

Help WHAV avoid a disruptive on-air “beg-a-thon” by contributing today.

Video Demonstrates WHAV AM Tech
New YouTube Channel Explores Inner Workings

Video of WHAV’s AM transmission facilities in the North Parish section of Haverhill, Massachusetts, is now on WHAV’s new YouTube Channel here.

The video focuses on three key pieces of equipment — Inovonics 235 audio processor, power supply meter panel and interface to the Rangemaster transmitter (Rangemaster not shown) and REA modulation monitor. The Inovonics 235 compresses, equalizes and limits the audio received via a 128kbps stream from the studios five miles away. Designed for AM broadcasting, it also creates an asymmetrical audio output favoring positive peaks without distortion and which legally adds power to the broadcast signal.

The modulation monitor confirms the as-received signal and plays back the off-air audio. Note, especially when the second song begins, 100% negative peaks and positive peaks well in excess of 100%.