The FCC granted a construction permit for WRAS in February 1970 to operate at 19,500 watts, with a small studio in what is now known as the Student Center West building. The antenna was placed on leased tower space on the grounds of WABE, near the intersection of Piedmont and Cheshire Bridge roads. This antenna site was on high ground and gave excellent coverage of metro Atlanta. Our Chief Engineer, Harvey Morris, with the assistance of Butch Foster and, in 1976, Jim Gantner, did an excellent job in engineering the station and produced a sound so clean that the station was often used to demonstrate "hi-fi" stereo equipment in retail audiophile stores. The station even aired Atlanta's first live "Quadrophonic" broadcast along with WREK in 1974, using a short-lived technology that gave the listener two front and two rear channels of sound.