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QUESTION: 1250 WSPL

Posted by John from Wisconsin <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/chicagomediachat/info/user=John+from+Wisconsin' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on September 10, 2023, 5:38 pm

Are they on? Saw they applied for STA to go silent.
Are they on? off?
Why is this?

THANK YOU in ADVANCE!

Re: QUESTION: 1250 WSPL

Posted by JJSPC1372 <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/chicagomediachat/info/user=JJSPC1372' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on September 10, 2023, 7:07 pm, in reply to "QUESTION: 1250 WSPL"

It's the only AM that Shaw Media owns in the market, there are problems with the antenna system and they have already applied to change the originating signal for the 98.5 translator to WYYS-HD2. Pretty unlikely that 1250 will be back.

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Posted by WYTZZ95FM <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/chicagomediachat/info/user=WYTZZ95FM' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on September 10, 2023, 7:26 pm, in reply to "Re: QUESTION: 1250 WSPL"

JJSPC1972 - I do not doubt you at all. But is WYYS-HD2 on the air right now or are they firing it up soon? Last time I was in Peru, I do not remember any stations running HD. There are no traces of HD anywhere for WYYS. - Thanks

Z

Re: QUESTION: 1250 WSPL

Posted by JJSPC1372 <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/chicagomediachat/info/user=JJSPC1372' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on September 11, 2023, 9:56 am, in reply to "Re: QUESTION: 1250 WSPL"

Z, the Streator 1250 is directional away from me so I can't hear it over the air, but they are mentioning WYYS HD2 in the legal ID on the stream. That's all I can verify unfortunately other than the posted FCC filings for WSPL and W253BX.

Re: QUESTION: 1250 WSPL

Posted by WYTZZ95FM <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/chicagomediachat/info/user=WYTZZ95FM' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on September 11, 2023, 10:02 am, in reply to "Re: QUESTION: 1250 WSPL"

Awesome. Thanks I appreciate it. They must have (or are) investing for the HD1/HD2 to turn off the AM. Seriously, from a money viewpoint, it is a good tradeoff considering cost factors.

Z

Re: QUESTION: 1250 WSPL

Posted by JJSPC1372 <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/chicagomediachat/info/user=JJSPC1372' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on September 11, 2023, 10:21 am, in reply to "Re: QUESTION: 1250 WSPL"

For sure. Absolutely no return on investment repairing a 500 day/64 watt night two tower directional AM. Or as we have all said, the majority of all AM's in 2023.

Re: QUESTION: 1250 WSPL

John were you able to hear this in WI? Pretty puny signal but I imagine with some effort could travel far enough North.

Z

Re: QUESTION: 1250 WSPL

Posted by Jeremy Andrews <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/chicagomediachat/info/user=Jeremy+Andrews' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on September 10, 2023, 7:31 pm, in reply to "Re: QUESTION: 1250 WSPL"

It should clear up any interference with WSSP. WGL tends to really be WSSP's biggest interference problem here.

That said nobody listens to WSSP anymore.

Re: QUESTION: 1250 WSPL

I should have said any additional interference

Re: QUESTION: 1250 WSPL

No, I have 1250 WSSP in the Milwaukee area, where I am now.
Read it somewhere: RadioDiscussions.com/Illinois
Thank you for the quick replies!

https://www.radiodiscussions.com/threads/wspl-streator.766631/

Re: QUESTION: 1250 WSPL

Last night, "WYYS-HD2 Streator" was noted, tho "WSPL" the rest of the hour.,....

Too, in my DECADES of DX'ing AM, have never logged WSPL-WIZZ! Guess I never will.

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