Editing Alpine, New Jersey (section)

==Media==
[[Image:USA NJ ArmstrongTower.jpg|thumb|[[Armstrong Tower]], Alpine]]
Alpine is home to the [[Armstrong Tower|tower and laboratory]] built by [[Edwin Howard Armstrong]] after [[RCA]] evicted him from the [[Empire State Building]]. Armstrong's experimental FM station, [[W2XMN]], used various frequencies to broadcast from the tower, first on 42.8 [[megahertz|MHz]]; later on 44.1&nbsp;MHz; and finally on 93.1&nbsp;MHz in the modern [[Frequency modulation|FM]] band. The laboratory building and the tower still stand; the 400-foot (122-m) tower is home to many two-way radio users, one modern FM station ([[Fairleigh Dickinson University]]'s [[WFDU]]), and backup transmitters for several of New York's television stations. The tower served as a primary tower for the stations after the [[September 11 terrorist attacks]] destroyed the [[World Trade Center (1973-2001)|World Trade Center]].<ref>Strauss, Robert. [https://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/14/nyregion/a-nation-challenged-a-tower-in-alpine-keeps-new-york-tv-on-the-air-now.html "A Nation Challenged; A Tower in Alpine Keeps New York TV On the Air Now"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', October 14, 2001. Accessed August 23, 2014. "While the Alpine Tower has been there for 74 years -- it was built in 1937 by Edwin Howard Armstrong, considered the leading force in FM broadcasting -- it has long been disdained as an ugly resident in the upscale, mansion-strewn town of Alpine at the far northeast corner of the state."</ref>

There was some local opposition to this scheme, but the move was temporary, as the stations affected moved their primary broadcast facilities to the Empire State Building. The original lab building is home to a static display of historic communications equipment and offices; the [[USA Network]] cable channel operated from this building in the late 1970s.