Which Old School 50Kw clear blowtorch do you think has the best overall signal?

[radioman148]

Remember in the movie "Somewhere In Time" where the main character played by the late Christopher Reeve was suddenly back in Chicago, after "driving" to Mackinac Island and back, waking up to WJJD. Seems like there was a WJJD jingle and time check. Remember the WJJD news sounder from the 1970s?

Yes I do. Thanks for jogging the memory.

 

[cyberdad]

Was it complete with Reese Rickards?

 

[radioman148]

Was it complete with Reese Rickards?

Wow, there's a name from that I forgot.

 

[PhilJSmith67]

I don't know about the progress on the WMFN Peotone towers. Maybe somebody else on this board has a handle on it.

On Wednesday evening (2016-07-27) I drove down I-57 past Peotone and noticed four shiny, brand new towers standing in the cornfield, just west of the 99.9 WCPQ tower. It's apparently not a bargaining chip, they're actually building it out. I am personally annoyed because I will most likely lose my clean 650 WSM signal around the Chicago south suburbs at night. I'm hoping that my house will fall in 640's sharp null toward Beecher (almost directly East).

Aside from that, it looks like 640 is positioned to put a decent signal into the entire Chicago area, and it will be sitting near the edge of a good conductivity zone.

 

[Schroedingers Cat]

At first I thought you were going to say April Fools about the WMFN 640 Towers, and then I was looking for something about dreaming the whole thing about the towers. But I guess they are really going to build it.

 

[radioman148]

On Wednesday evening (2016-07-27) I drove down I-57 past Peotone and noticed four shiny, brand new towers standing in the cornfield, just west of the 99.9 WCPQ tower. It's apparently not a bargaining chip, they're actually building it out. I am personally annoyed because I will most likely lose my clean 650 WSM signal around the Chicago south suburbs at night. I'm hoping that my house will fall in 640's sharp null toward Beecher (almost directly East).

Aside from that, it looks like 640 is positioned to put a decent signal into the entire Chicago area, and it will be sitting near the edge of a good conductivity zone.

I remember the times when I could hear KFI in the Chicago area almost everynight. Now 640 is becoming almost a graveyard channel.

 

[Schroedingers Cat]

Reese Rickards is a name that I had forgotten. He recently left WBCT Grand Rapids, another station the late engineer Charlie Gustafson worked at, from the time they were 500,000 watts as WJFM. I don't recall if a name was included in the movie "Somewhere In Time" with the WJJD excerpt.

 

[cyberdad]

Reese Rickards is a name that I had forgotten. He recently left WBCT Grand Rapids, another station the late engineer Charlie Gustafson worked at, from the time they were 500,000 watts as WJFM. I don't recall if a name was included in the movie "Somewhere In Time" with the WJJD excerpt.

I stand to be corrected, but I believe there could be TWO Reese Rickards. Father and son. The dad was the one who spent many years as a newsman at WJJD beginning in its top 40 days, continuing on through the beautiful music and country formats. My understanding is they sounded quite similar.

 

[radioman148]

I stand to be corrected, but I believe there could be TWO Reese Rickards. Father and son. The dad was the one who spent many years as a newsman at WJJD beginning in its top 40 days, continuing on through the beautiful music and country formats. My understanding is they sounded quite similar.

I think you're right Cyberdad because I also remember him from WJJDs Top 40 days.

 

[PhilJSmith67]

Reese Rickards is a name that I had forgotten. He recently left WBCT Grand Rapids, another station the late engineer Charlie Gustafson worked at, from the time they were 500,000 watts as WJFM. I don't recall if a name was included in the movie "Somewhere In Time" with the WJJD excerpt.

So, before 93.7 WJFM was at their current 320kW, they were 500kW?!? Wow. I'm pretty sure they've been at 320kW since the mid 1980s.

 

[PhilJSmith67]

I remember hearing KFI maybe twice ever in the Chicago area, but it was obviously possible. As for WMFN, I was still hearing the weak signal coming out of western Michigan today. Does anyone have an idea of when the signal will leap to Peotone?

 

[Schroedingers Cat]

After the Peotone array, equipment, and building are completed, it might sit there awhile before proofs or whatever new method of determining that the array is working properly is completed.