 Efforts immediately began to build out an FM station, although it was hampered by a lack of available frequencies as other educational broadcasters built their stations first.A plan to partner with Morgan State University to launch a shared station (later to become WEAA) fell through.A 1973 letter to "The Towerlight" was reflective of the overall mood surrounding the station, bemoaning the fact that the largest mass communications program in the state had only a carrier current station – which the author described as a "sophisticated intercom" – for training.