The Directional Antenna protected WISN 1150 in the Daytime and KSL 1160 during Limited hours between Sunset at WJJD and Sunset at KSL to the 20 kW nondirectional equivalent.
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WYLL AM 1160 Heard In The Night From Walls Of Lockport, IL Family
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There was also an 1150 in Rockford at the time.
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Scott Fybush, who has been inside more stations than lightning, did a piece on them:
https://www.fybush.com/site-20131211/
https://www.fybush.com/site-20131211/
Good little top 40 station. WJRL. 500-watts very directional. I'm just guessing, but I doubt that WJJD had any obligation to protect them. Here in Crystal Lake, WJJD had a good signal, but WJRL was long gone.
WISN on 1150 may have been a different story when it comes to protection, but I'm not sure about that either.
WISN had a four tower DA on 1150, DA-1 as I recall. There’s a site online that has more information.
WJJD's day signal although pretty good was bit weaker to the north and northwest. I don't know if they were required to protect Milwaukee or Rockford, but they did squeeze those stations in.
Interesting History Card for WJRL...WRRR 1150 Rockford. First Licensed in 1961 with 500 watts. Later 4 Towers In Line for 1 kW Daytime. Applied to be 5 kW Day 1 kW Night with 11 Towers. When WJJD moved, they probably had to address this. In those days, you could negotiate interference more easily.
http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/getimportletter_exh.cgi?import_letter_id=62218
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Interesting stuff--thanks!
Yes....interesting. My thanks as well.
12 tower site? 5kw day/1kw night? In Rockford? I don't think the result of all that would have ever been economically sustainable.
I also didn't realize the WRRR calls had been on 1150. Later in the 1960s, the WRRR calls were on the Rockford 1330 when Howard Miller was running the place.
I remember WRRR on 1330 even though I could never hear them where I lived due to WEAW-AM being so close.
I see than Plough Broadcasting (WJJD) filed a Petition to Deny the 1150 upgrade, as Bonneville (KSL) did against WJJD going full-time, at least with 10 kW. WJJD ended up with 5 kW when they first went full-time.
If I remember correctly it was around 1980 when WJJD went 24 hours.
That's what I remember as well. When they were at 5kw, they were unlistenable at my location. On the Northwest Tollway, you'd rapidly lose the signal between Schaumburg and Elgin.
I lived in Palatine in 1980, and don't remember anything on 1160 at night but KSL. Same for Wauconda when I lived there a few years later. WJJD was barely audible in Streamwood, where I spent my last years in the Chicago area (1986-94), which fits your description of where it faded out.
And if you were driving along 41 towards Wisconsin you would start losing WJJD around Lake Bluff and they were completely gone by Waukegan.
They had deep nulls toward the Skywave service area of KSL and the vacant allotment on 160 in Thunder Bay. The four towers were in the shape of a rhombus which is 90 degrees on each side. The towers and tuning buildings are still there. WIND 560 has an auxiliary there with 1000 watts Day and 580 watts Night nondirectional. The Thunder Bay allotment has been provisionally replaced by 1170, though it's doubtful it will go on the air, especially when you have vacant 580 and 800 frequencies. Strange that they had 1160 at all, as policies generally discourage stations on a harmonic frequencies in the same area.
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