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Towers NW Of Racine, WI

One of the towers carries WVTY 92.1 (Racine). The other used to be the analog site of WPXE 55 (Kenosha). WPXE's digital signal (on RF 40) comes from the tower farm on Milwaukee's northeast side- I think the MPTV tower, but don't hold me to that. It puts a killer signal into its COL 38 miles to the south.

WKKV is a few miles south and west of the 2 towers in question. It's closer to the area where WTMJ and WISN have their multi-stick arrays.
 
KenoGuy said:
One of the towers carries WVTY 92.1 (Racine). The other used to be the analog site of WPXE 55 (Kenosha). WPXE's digital signal (on RF 40) comes from the tower farm on Milwaukee's northeast side- I think the MPTV tower, but don't hold me to that. It puts a killer signal into its COL 38 miles to the south.

WKKV is a few miles south and west of the 2 towers in question. It's closer to the area where WTMJ and WISN have their multi-stick arrays.
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That explains the slotted ring antenna. There's a bunch of cellular antennas on the tower now.

Saw the WTMJ and WISN tower lights several times. It looks like only the center and corner towers of the nine were lit for WISN. If you didn't see my other post, here it is.

There are two towers along I-94 near Two Mile Rd. NW of Racine. At first I thought it was an AM DA with very tall towers. It looks like the antenna bays for WVTY 92.1 in Racine are on one of the towers on a pole near the top . The other tower appears to have a pole without an antenna or a slotted ring antenna. Did this used to be the tower for WKKV 100.7 in Racine, as I see it labelled as WRKR in some search results? Seems like I talked to Pat Martin 25 years or so ago (the only time I ever talked to him) about WRKR moving closer to Milwaukee. Seems like the new location used the old Short Spaced Zones and was barely 125 miles to be 50 kW/500 feet nondirectional, 125 miles from perhaps WBYT 100.7 in Elkhart, IN? But that wasn't what Pat Martin said. Figured it out with an aeronautical chart and a ruler.
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