When I was in Downtown Chicago 92.3's reception was kind of scratchy due to all the signal's coming on off the willis tower. 96.3,105.9,107.5,103.5,101.9 etc.
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How is power 92's signal in Chicago?
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not good.
What part of Chicago are you near?noknownuser said:
steve82655 said:
That's the key question. WPWX has its transmitter just a bit east of the Cook / Lake (IN, not IL) county lines, so it is in Chicago in the radio sense of being licensed to and located in the Chicago Metropolitan Survey Area. Because it is far to the south of the Willis and Hancock sites, it will not be as good in, let's say, McHenry County, as the signals on the downtown sites... but in some other parts of the market, it will be better.
The station is 50kW broadcasting from a tower smack dab on the Illinois/Indiana border, like David said.
The towns are Burnham, Il. and Hammond, In.
Its COL is Hammond.
It has an excellent signal through all of southern Chicago, the south suburbs and northwest Indiana.
Where it has problems is downtown, north side, northwest suburbs and west suburbs from about Aurora out west, due to adjacent 92.5 in Dekalb.
That said, there is a big difference with a car radio and say a portable fm ipod or mp3.
Downtown and Northside of the city forget it unless its a car, there is too much rf from the Willis and Hancock to get a good signal.
There is not a lot they could do to change it. They can't move west due to 92.5 can't go north or downtown because of 92.7 just north of Arlington Heights.
On the plus side they do have one of the best signals on the south side and south suburbs, they come in very well even on cheap clock radios.
The towns are Burnham, Il. and Hammond, In.
Its COL is Hammond.
It has an excellent signal through all of southern Chicago, the south suburbs and northwest Indiana.
Where it has problems is downtown, north side, northwest suburbs and west suburbs from about Aurora out west, due to adjacent 92.5 in Dekalb.
That said, there is a big difference with a car radio and say a portable fm ipod or mp3.
Downtown and Northside of the city forget it unless its a car, there is too much rf from the Willis and Hancock to get a good signal.
There is not a lot they could do to change it. They can't move west due to 92.5 can't go north or downtown because of 92.7 just north of Arlington Heights.
On the plus side they do have one of the best signals on the south side and south suburbs, they come in very well even on cheap clock radios.
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