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Winter Park After nearly two years of fund raising and red tape cutting, Winter Park High School students expect to go on the air next week with their own radio station. WPFL-FM at 88.9 megacycles will be the first high school-operated station in Central Florida. When it converts to stereo in a few weeks it will be the only such noncommercial student station in the Southeast. ALDIE BEARD, general manager of the Winter Park High School Radio Service, a student Organization of 25 members, said it will broadcast from Monday through Friday from 4 until 10 p.m. Initial programming calls for classical music from 4 to 6 p.m.

and rock programs until sign-off. Later, said Beard, the station will air educational programs on subjects like space exploration and give previews of courses so students can decide it they want to enroll. High Radio STUDENTS HAVE raised $6,100 to get the station on the air and two Orlando Naval Training Center radiomen with first class Federal Communications Commission operator's licenses are volunteer helpers. They are Eugene Daost and Luther Peterson. Beard said 12 members of the student sponsoring group now have third class operator's licenses and soon all 25 will be licensed.

Two of the licensed students will pull three-hour operating shifts each broadcast day. Donations of $500 each from the, Sentinel Star and the Junior Service League helped get the project in motion. The Orange County School Board matched the total of $2,500 raised through students efforts to bring the fund to $5,000, Beard said. Recently the , Winter Park High School Student Council threw another $1,100 into the kitty to purchase equipment for tha shift to sterao. Ready To Air Programs ORIGINAL PRIME movers in the project were students Brock Lesper-ance and Rick Reeves, who were shooting to get the station on the air last spring.

But red tape posed "technical difficulties" and the pair graduated, are now in college but are "keeping in touch." Beard said the station has gone through applying for a Federal Communications Commission construction permit, equipment test, permits, interference tests, summary letters, procedural letters, final application to Washington and now is awaiting program testing authority expected Monday or Tuesday. After three months of test operations, Beard expects "permanent" authority, good for three years, to continue operations. He said it is undecided if the station will operate during summer vacation months. ORIGINALLY, Beard said, the station was to hava had call letters WPHW, representing "Winter Park High Wildcats," but it was found International Telephone and Telegraph Co. already claimed the letters.

WPFL stands for "Winter Park, Florida," the best they could do since a half dozen other suggested combinations were already in use. WPFL with about 13'2 watts pow-er will have a range of roughly six miles, although to the east it can be received beyond Florida Technological University. AS PART of the preparations required by the FCC, letters have been sent to all area radio and TV dealers and repair organizations on how to correct interference, if any, on other channels. Beard said the station's frequency is close to that of WDBO-TV's audio channel, but that in tests at 40 locations only four showed any interference. This, said Beard, is a "good" rating.

Sets ordinarily can be adjusted to eliminate interference, he said..