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new FM translator in Chicago?

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I was driving down the Eisnehower yesterday and hit upon a strong signal on 97.5. I would have dismissed it other than it was broadcasting the "I'm gonna focus on your family" programs. I know that there is a Religious translator in Chesterton but I was over a mile from the lake front.

Could tis be another "100.7" type translator?
 
b344077 said:
I was driving down the Eisnehower yesterday and hit upon a strong signal on 97.5. I would have dismissed it other than it was broadcasting the "I'm gonna focus on your family" programs. I know that there is a Religious translator in Chesterton but I was over a mile from the lake front.

Could tis be another "100.7" type translator?
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Yes...

W248BB Hillside. Licensed for 70 watts from a site just west of Cicero Ave., about midway between the Stevenson and Ogden Ave.. (it's marked as the "Hawthorne Race Course" on my Rand McNally)

Permit to move to the Loop with 3 watts -- site is neither the Sears Tower nor the John Hancock but is between the two. I think it's the AON Center, 200 East Randolph. Their application says the antenna will be 349m above ground. It includes a Google aerial photo of the transmitter site - http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/getattachment_exh.cgi?exhibit_id=715348 to see it.

Licensee is Educational Media Foundation (which is not the licensee of 100.7) and in theory it relays WCLR-88.3 Arlington Heights, "Air 1" religious rock. (but translator primaries can be changed with little or no notice)
 
Thanks a lot. That was the absolute last frequency that was usable for an FM modulator device around here.
 
"That was the absolute last frequency [97.5] that was usable for an FM modulator device around here."

>That's why I have a direct connection from my XM receiver to the radio's amplifier! It was almost as bad getting interference from other people's modulators as from licensed
radio stations! Even on 87.7 and 87.9 I was getting bombarded from other modulators! (Thankfully Channel 6 from Milwaukee is now only digital)

"99.1 has WMYX Milwaukee which comes in pretty well in most of the northern suburbs."

>Seems to me WMYX "craps out" starting south of Lake-Cook Road, it makes it in OK in to the south borders of Lake and McHenry counties. There used to be a pirate on 99.1
a few years on the north side of Chicago that didn't seem to interfere with WFMT or WUSN (US-99), so I agree it would work.

And there's more translators coming to a radio near you, check:

Applications or Construction Permits for 92.1 (Elgin), 92.3 (Zion), 94.3 (Chicago - WHY? Is this an old application? Isn't K-Love moving to the Oakbrook Terrace Tower ENOUGH???), 95.1 (Homewood), 98.3 (Chicago), 99.1 (Elmhurst, Chicago Heights and Forest Park), 101.5 (Chicago), 103.9 (Chicago), 105.5 (Chicago), 107.1 (Skokie or Evanston) And yeah,
most of these are for Calvary or EMF (aka Air-1 or K-Love)

http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/fmq?stat...&slat2=&NS=N&dlon2=&mlon2=&slon2=&EW=W&size=9

Welcome to more RF pollution....
 
The thing to notice about these translators is how none of them would be available for LPFM because of the unfairness of the FCC rules for LPFM. Yet these translators can be shoe-horned in with no problem. Thank you NAB and your local congresspeople who believed the NAB.
 
>>Seems to me WMYX "craps out" starting south of Lake-Cook Road, it makes it in OK in to the south borders of Lake and McHenry counties. There used to be a pirate on 99.1>>

I used to pick up WMYX well on the Kennedy coming north out of the city.
Listened to them alot in the 70s when they were WNUW with a good contemporary format.
 
radioman148 said:
>>Seems to me WMYX "craps out" starting south of Lake-Cook Road, it makes it in OK in to the south borders of Lake and McHenry counties. There used to be a pirate on 99.1>>

I used to pick up WMYX well on the Kennedy coming north out of the city.
Listened to them alot in the 70s when they were WNUW with a good contemporary format.
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Of course, it depends on the receiver and antenna in one's vehicle, and there is often "tropo" enhancement along Lake Michigan that favors Milwaukee. Sometimes Green Bay, Appleton and Door County FM stations can be also heard when the tropo enhancement is more pronounced. With the increased "white noise" of more and more stations coming on the air (including LPFM and translators), stations increasing their power and/or antenna height, and of course the HD "Fuzz", it is getting more difficult to enjoy stations out of our own market. Back in the day,
I too would enjoy listening to Milwaukee, Grand Rapids, Muskegon, Benton Harbor or even South Bend. Like the disclaimer goes: "Your results may vary"
 
stormy01 said:
radioman148 said:
>>Seems to me WMYX "craps out" starting south of Lake-Cook Road, it makes it in OK in to the south borders of Lake and McHenry counties. There used to be a pirate on 99.1>>

I used to pick up WMYX well on the Kennedy coming north out of the city.
Listened to them alot in the 70s when they were WNUW with a good contemporary format.
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Of course, it depends on the receiver and antenna in one's vehicle, and there is often "tropo" enhancement along Lake Michigan that favors Milwaukee. Sometimes Green Bay, Appleton and Door County FM stations can be also heard when the tropo enhancement is more pronounced. With the increased "white noise" of more and more stations coming on the air (including LPFM and translators), stations increasing their power and/or antenna height, and of course the HD "Fuzz", it is getting more difficult to enjoy stations out of our own market. Back in the day,
I too would enjoy listening to Milwaukee, Grand Rapids, Muskegon, Benton Harbor or even South Bend. Like the disclaimer goes: "Your results may vary"
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Yes it's getting more & more difficult to pick up those distant FMs. In the early 70s I used to listen to WMYX--then WNUW crystal clear in De Kalb where I went to school. I could even get signals from as far north as Wausau. I don't think it was tropo as it was an everynight occu
rance even in winter.
 
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