WTRO-1200

[T2909]

I am still waiting for them to boost their power to 10kw. Ditto for WONX-1590.


Tom

 

[radiotower40]

I am still waiting for them to boost their power to 10kw. Ditto for WONX-1590.


Tom

They are actually 10kw now, they are boosting it to 20kw days, 4.5kw nights.

I drove by there new site just east of Halsted on 127th St, and construction has begun. They have torn down
the trees, and there are piles of dirt and gravel and lots of wooden markers. No towers yet though.

 

[dave73]

WONX can't boost their power until WCGO gets relocated to Jennison Michigan, & WKKD to Silvas Illinois. Adjacent channels would create interference being as short-spaced as they already are. So who knows how soon Kovas will move those 2 stations. I forgot the call letters for 1600 Harvard Illinois, but Kovas shut down that station, as their request to move the station to Wisconsin was denied, due to the station being only licensed station in Harvard. That was done just to get the power increase.

 

[firepoint525]

Did AM-1450 in Dyersburg, TN, change their call letters?  I thought they were WTRO!  ???

www.wasl.net

If you click the following link, you will see the WTRO logo on the right-hand side. Apparently, they don't have their own free-standing website separate from their FM station, SL-100.

http://wtro.wasl.net/localnews.htm

 

[Charlie Gee]

Dyersburg is still WTRO. The Chicago station is WRTO.

 

[Link]

The expiration date for the upgrade is 04/26/2009. I personally think the construction noted at the site is for something else (like an amusement park).

The way they run the low modulation and narrow bandwidth for the IBOC on this station, I would doubt you will hear it in Milwaukee even after the upgrade.

 

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The way they run the low modulation and narrow bandwidth for the IBOC on this station, I would doubt you will hear it in Milwaukee even after the upgrade.

From what I remember, the station is/was running IBOC and that required them to lower their analog modulation. I guess the concept was that they want their analog signal to have a similar "uncompressed" quality as the digital signal.

Univision was doing the same thing on WIND back in 2004 before it was sold to Salem....now WIND has the loudness that has become the norm on the AM band. The whole IBOC thing seems like a waste to me

 

[dave73]

The way they run the low modulation and narrow bandwidth for the IBOC on this station, I would doubt you will hear it in Milwaukee even after the upgrade.

From what I remember, the station is/was running IBOC and that required them to lower their analog modulation. I guess the concept was that they want their analog signal to have a similar "uncompressed" quality as the digital signal.

Univision was doing the same thing on WIND back in 2004 before it was sold to Salem....now WIND has the loudness that has become the norm on the AM band. The whole IBOC thing seems like a waste to me

I was glad that Salem shutdown IBOC on WIND, as it made it difficult to DX anything, and even worse when living a couple of miles from the WIND site. I could not DX 540, then WRRD (now WAUK) from Jackson Wisconsin, or WILL out of Urbana Illinois. I had to be at least 15 miles from the WIND site to do any DXing from 530 to 590.

I don't know how much of Lake County Indiana will be covered by the new WRTO site, but it looks like the signal should extend more into Gary, unlike now, where it only goes into most of Hammond, then WOAI starts hammering into WRTO's signal. Now if WOWO were still 50kw at night; I wonder if WRTO would even get a night increase in their signal, as they're still close enough to Fort Wayne, even with a null toward Fort Wayne.