Will WIBC's signal get hurt??

[Hoosierky]

I have noticed that the Anson development by the WIBC transmitter site is taking shape. Will this hurt WIBC's signal considering all the farm land will be asphalt and warehaouses??

 

[ChiefEngineer]

As long as they don't cover the ground system it shouldn'tmbe a problem.

Don't expect telephone services or computer speakers to be free of ESPN.

The IBOC saw on 1050,1060, 1080,1090 might be a problem too.

 

[Hoosierky]

So the toasters will be airing Rush Limbaugh !;D

I went by there a couple of days ago and the developers are right up to the fence of the property. I thought it might affect the signals reach like WLS when they built up the farm land at Tindley Park (I-80 and IL 53).

 

[N_D_Radioguy]

So the toasters will be airing Rush Limbaugh !;D

"Hello, good people. Coming to you with talent on loan from God and coated in buttery goodness..."

 

[Goat Rodeo Cowboy]

As long as they don't cover the ground system it shouldn'tmbe a problem.

The WSB tower in Atlanta used to stand in a field. They didn't build NEXT TO IT.... it now stands in the middle of a shopping center parking lot. They paved and built right over all the ground system.

 

[BobOnTheJob]

As long as they don't cover the ground system it shouldn'tmbe a problem.

The WSB tower in Atlanta used to stand in a field. They didn't build NEXT TO IT.... it now stands in the middle of a shopping center parking lot. They paved and built right over all the ground system.

I'd hate to be a business in that center. Every phone in the place has 'talk on hold' whether they want it or not.

 

[PTBoardOp94]

I'd hate to be a business in that center. Every phone in the place has 'talk on hold' whether they want it or not.

Fifty-Thousand Mighty Watts ... in your telephone
(referring to the old WIBC Jingle)

 

[Juan Bodley]

My last job was a home theater/home systems installer, and I did a few jobs around the "formerly MIGHTY 1190" sticks...once in a while we'd get interference from it.
If these developers WANTED to spend the money, they'd do what I had to do: they'd get SHIELDED Cat5/Cat6 and GROUND it properly. It worked for me almost every time.
(I really had more trouble around Fort Wayne's "tower farm" and WPTA-TV's tower. It got into everything it could. Don't know what it's doing now...)

If I remember where WIBC's tower(s) are at, there's enough flat land that the signal won't be bottled up and reflecting, but I agree that the ground system would be trouble. Good luck to the poor souls who have to deal with this...