Rebel Radio WPJX 1500 - how is it getting out at night with 2 watts?

[stormy01]

I'm hearing AM 1500 as far away as Wauconda and Crystal Lake most nights. How are you receiving Rebel Radio? Still no web stream though... ):>

 

[audioguy]

That's pretty good for two watts! Do you think maybe someone forgot to turn the power down at night? Or maybe it's just too hard to measure so little power.

I can't hear them at all at night, and I can barely hear them in the daytime because I am off to the side of their pattern (in Northbrook).

 

[stormy01]

audioguy, your suspicion that 'PJX left their 250 watt TX on late might be correct. I'm not getting their signal tonight. Someone must've told them they were
on late with daytime power. There have been times I have heard the nighttime 5 watt WNOV 860 from Milwaukee in Lake Zurich, though that's omnidirectional.
Oftentimes the stations that power down to a handful of watts are using a separate transmitter, not just merely turning down the power on their daytime TX. What they're using for peanut power is anyone's guess, perhaps it's something like an LPB (or equivalent) with a long wire.

 

[JeremyAndrews]

It was on last night with dead air, in other words the same power level as they had been operating at, except there was no programming.

 

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Scott Davidson was out sick ...so maybe he didn't update the automation computer ....I'll pass the info on to him.

 

[stormy01]

So does anyone know, especially those within a few miles of 'PJX's TX site - have they ever operated on the very low power - 2 watts - or is this still only a CP?

 

[cyberdad]

I'm hearing AM 1500 as far away as Wauconda and Crystal Lake most nights. How are you receiving Rebel Radio? Still no web stream though... ):>

I'm your neighbor and I've never heard them at night!

 

[Tom Wells]

I've never heard so much as a shred of their signal in Chicago.
Back when WNIB owned this as WNIZ, and mentioned both stations on their FM IDs , I'd remember to listen as I drove
north up to various Wisconsin jobsites, and never even picked them up while driving right through Zion.

 

[audioguy]

I've never heard so much as a shred of their signal in Chicago.
Back when WNIB owned this as WNIZ, and mentioned both stations on their FM IDs , I'd remember to listen as I drove
north up to various Wisconsin jobsites, and never even picked them up while driving right through Zion.

They must have been off the air at the times you were listening, because I heard them regularly in that area. I even remember listening on a Walkman while visiting Illinois Beach State Park.

 

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So does anyone know, especially those within a few miles of 'PJX's TX site - have they ever operated on the very low power - 2 watts - or is this still only a CP?

The station is on the air with 2 watts, after sunset...an application for License is in the works.

I know ...I put it on! };>)

 

[Ultimajock]

I've never heard so much as a shred of their signal in Chicago.
Back when WNIB owned this as WNIZ, and mentioned both stations on their FM IDs , I'd remember to listen as I drove
north up to various Wisconsin jobsites, and never even picked them up while driving right through Zion.

They must have been off the air at the times you were listening, because I heard them regularly in that area. I even remember listening on a Walkman while visiting Illinois Beach State Park.

...when I was news director for 1500 (in 1985 as WRJR, right after its spell as WNIZ), we had regular listeners as far south as Evanston and Skokie...