It's always been a little noisy, but it's getting so bad in Grayslake that I'm switching over to the web stream. Wonder if the antennae's been getting whacked, these past storms...

_________________
Middle Aged Crazy, like Uncle Terry

Actually, their signal has always been horrible for me, granted Im damn near close to Wisconsin. Amazing that they can't put a better signal out.

Aren't AM frequencies supposed to be heard farther distances then FM? I mean you can get that crap on WGN practically half way up the state of wisconsin

_________________

They don't feed that damn hamster quality food.

_________________
We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.- Eric Hoffer

Before ESPN Radio took over management of AM 1000 in 1998, Chet Coppock claimed his old "Coppock on Sports" show was being "heard in 38 states and Canada". Although I can't quite explain it, I think they have to purposely lower the signal by FCC rules after 6p. If you have a problem with WMVP's signal, I think you've got to take up the signal issue with the folks in Washington. When "The SCORE" first got started as a "sunrise to sunset" all-sports talk station at AM 820, they tried to get a stronger signal at their original frequency. It wasn't until Diamond Broadcasting sold WSCR and its FM sister station 93XRT were sold to Westinghouse, now known as CBS Radio, in the mid '90s where "THE SCORE" relocated to AM 1160 and once again in 2000 to its current home at AM 670 where the signal strength seemed much stronger than its original home.

I think they get WGN even up in Alaska. That signal is uber strong.

AM1000 is a strange duck in the realm of 50,000-watters. It's a clear channel, which means they should have everything from the Rockies to the Atlantic Ocean to themselves after sundown, as do WLS, WBBM, WSCR, and WGN, but for some reason, their signal has a goofy-ass imbalance wherein it can be heard as far east as Penn State, but can't get west of the Fox River. The rumor I've always heard was that when Amway owned WCFL, they wanted to hear it in Detroit, but that doesn't make sense, because Detroit can hear other Chicago blowtorches just fine, and we can hear theirs (I had the good luck to pick up a Windsor Spitfires game last winter, and the misfortune to hear Mitch Albom), so I don't know. I guess what I'm saying is that 1000 blows goats.

I think our 820 is a daytimer because it has to yield to an 820 in Dallas, I believe. Milwaukee had the same problem with their sports station until February, as 1510 had to move out of the way for a 50,000-watt 1510 out of Nashville.

_________________

AM freqs will bounce off higher apmospheric layers, giving it an illusion of having a longer range. It's possible that it could be heard in omaha, but not in the Quad cities, as it could bounce over the quads and come back down around Omaha. Course it's been years since I was in school for these things, and I might have been in altered states during the majority of my lessons, so this might not be right, but it's something like that.

_________________
"Play until it hurts, then play until it hurts to not play."
http://soundcloud.com/darkside124 HOF 2013, MM Champion 2014

Grayslake's not that far from the border, either. But like I said, it's been getting worse the past 2 weeks or so.

When considering stations, you have to think of their antennae configuration. I think 1160's antennae was wasting signal on Lake Michigan. 820 nowadays has better coverage than when SCR was using the frequency.

_________________
Middle Aged Crazy, like Uncle Terry

That's true. The altered states might also be true.

_________________
Middle Aged Crazy, like Uncle Terry

Genemens,

Am1000 redirects their signal east at a pre-determined time guided by the time of sunset. You can hear the change during the winter months during MJH. The show craps out momentarily when this happens. The signal redirection effort goes back to the WCFL days when they would redirect the signal to their F-federation of L-labor buddies in Michigan and beyond.

When Reinsdorf moved the Sox to the Score, don't you remember him saying he wanted them to be on a station that could be heard in Aurora? No kidding, it's a fact.

_________________
Host of the weekly "We Fish ASA" podcast
Weekly columnist for the Northwest Herald
Bi-monthly columnist for Illinois Outdoor News magazine
Former host of The Outdoors Experience on WIND and The Great Outdoors on CLTV
http://www.wefishasa.com

ESPN serves a really degraded signal to suburban Chicago residents roughly south of I-80, west of Lisle and north of the Cook County line. It reaches suburban Dyer, Indiana and parts of southern Michigan though. So it has that going for it. Which is nice.

Their engineers and management have known about these problems for years that affect their listener numbers in their Chicago market, yet have never bothered to fix it. You would think that an investment in engineering a better signal would pay for itself in better ratings and higher ad revenues in their target market.

thats odd cause i was in wisconsin a couple weeks ago in kenosha and i got them perfectly.

but i have trouble sometimes getting a signal in tinley park.

Huh. The signal in my office has deteriorated to the point where my radio can't find 'em anymore. Thankfully we have streaming feed! If only I can teach it not to bring me Tirico/Van Pelt

_________________
Middle Aged Crazy, like Uncle Terry

Thank you. I like to know where things are.

absolutly nothing in the far western subarbs...

_________________
Ба́бушка гада́ла, да на́двое сказа́ла—то ли до́ждик, то ли снег, то ли бу́дет, то ли нет.

my home radio finds it only on occasion. usually before 330. after that the only thing i get in that range on the dial is wls and some other odd sounding program.

my signal is great in the garage, shitty on the main stereo, and so-so on the alarm clock.

_________________
@audioidkid

nothing but spanish gospel stations to the right of 820...

_________________
Ба́бушка гада́ла, да на́двое сказа́ла—то ли до́ждик, то ли снег, то ли бу́дет, то ли нет.

an underground Arby's in Elburn?

_________________

Everything but Obama is to right of 820.

Even further west, my good man...

_________________
Ба́бушка гада́ла, да на́двое сказа́ла—то ли до́ждик, то ли снег, то ли бу́дет, то ли нет.

I'm not even sure about Obama recently...he's wearing conservative camoflauge...

_________________
Ба́бушка гада́ла, да на́двое сказа́ла—то ли до́ждик, то ли снег, то ли бу́дет, то ли нет.

This might explain some things:

http://www.radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/in ... service=AM

That can't be accurate. 1000 doesn't come in at all anywhere north of Elkhorn day or night, contrary to what the map indicates.

_________________

I'm in the local for the daytime, but trust me it doesn't work like that...it's ok, I like the Score better anyways

_________________
Ба́бушка гада́ла, да на́двое сказа́ла—то ли до́ждик, то ли снег, то ли бу́дет, то ли нет.

Fixed, and now much more accurate:

_________________
Disclaimer: Most of my posts are not suitable for work or home viewing.

The name's Rockmore. Beef Rockmore