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Does anyone know what happened to this station? I am in town today and it is not on the air. So I take a detour to see if the long wire has fallen out of the trees and poof! Nothing. Transmitter is gone, no tower, no building. Looks like ND plowed it under. Just wondering. BTW the view of the campus looks better without the tower obstruction.
 
ND needed the Tower site of 1490 for a campus expansion so Art took the 1490 format and moved it to 1620 and took 1490 dark till the find a new tower location. if i recall what i saw on here a few months back
 
Thanks Mike for the update. I was looking for ESPN programming I didn't dial up to 1620 I got the signal out of Chicago. Expansion on campus is somewhat of an understatement it is more of an explosion of building and remodeling.
 
My experience was that 1490 had an awful signal. Five miles down the Toll Road and it was about gone. Does anyone know what the problem was? Bad ground system? Low conductivity? If they re-build it, I hope they can find a better location.

I have similar comments about 1620. For 10 kW, it goes nowhere! By the time I get to my cottage about 35 miles away, it is at the noise level. Take a look at the daytime coverage curves on Radio-Locator. What do you guys think is going on? Is it the fact that Northern Indiana is made out of sand?
 
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