stormy01 said:Perhaps WSQR was off a few days, anyone know? They were on the air this morning at the normal sign on time.
For their 900 watts, WSQR puts in a great, good sounding signal on 1180 at least as far east as Libertyville.
stormy01 said:Perhaps WSQR was off a few days, anyone know? They were on the air this morning at the normal sign on time.
For their 900 watts, WSQR puts in a great, good sounding signal on 1180 at least as far east as Libertyville.
joebob said:Too bad they only have 60 watts at night. It's a great format!
stormy01 said:joebob said:Too bad they only have 60 watts at night. It's a great format!
Agreed...it's a great format, better than most of the musical fodder out there nowadays...Are you sure WSQR is 60 watts @ night? FCC database and radio-locator.com shows a mighty 1 watt. Would love to hear them @ 1 watt in Crystal Lake, but there would have to be a serious magnetic disturbance or auroral conditions* to suppress WHAM at night. 60 watts would definitely interfere with WHAM @ night at my location, about 30 miles away (that's without
auroral or magnetic conditions) *http://www.nrcdxas.org/notebook/DXNTBK7107.pdf
joebob said:I can't believe 1 little watt is all they could get for night time. Most of the low power at night stations I know of have at least 60. The light bulb in the transmitter shed puts out more. Wow.
stormy01 said:joebob said:I can't believe 1 little watt is all they could get for night time. Most of the low power at night stations I know of have at least 60. The light bulb in the transmitter shed puts out more. Wow.
A light bulb when placed on top of the transmitter shed could probably be seen further away than the 1-watt AM signal is heard! 60 watts would have been nice - if WSQR were creative in placing the towers, they may have been able to cover both DeKalb and Sycamore.
WSQR probably could have gotten more power if the signal was directional away from WHAM at night, but would it be
cost effective? There would be at the very least the cost of adding another tower. WNVR 1030 tried 120 watts at night and was buried under WBZ more than about 5 miles from their transmitter. Trouble is, the majority of their target audience is more than 20 miles away, since their transmitter is out in the countryside away from the population! In WSQR's case their target audience is right there.
Not sure of what the FCC or the broadcasters/consulting engineers are/were thinking when they apply and are granted the very low power that some of the stations have. The signal is almost completely unlistenable unless your receiver is within a few miles of the transmitter. Can anyone explain the logic behind the very low power?
joebob said:Yes it is a mystery how it can be done. Station owner Larry Nelson who is a fantastic engineer did a great job with getting the daytime signal that he did. And you know I think the majority of the target audience is daytime listening for the most part. What they could do thought is stream on line, or arrainge to have a feed to the local cable TV info channel for the stations audio.