Warren came up to Highland Park ( abt 26 mi N of chicago) ...since my
wife's old lincoln would NOT pick up WLS for more than 10
seconds when wmaq, wgn & BBM all came rolling into that NEW car
radio. The dealerships owner also complained about not being able to
get wls.... !!!!!
Warren thought , since his 50KW was 30 miles south of the city, that
his field strength was too low.... as he measured with his potomac (
on a wood tripod) ,,,
However every other radio, including my VW could do fine with WLS....
( as Jim may remember I worked there in 1965-66)....
Visteon finally sent two engineers to the dealership, after trying to
swap two different radios) ,,,, i guess the third radio had an IF
... that would no go bonkers, opening up for wls's weaker signal,
then getting totally swamped with the three much closer 50Kw stations..
I noticed a few years ago while Warren had two 50KW stations WCFL &
WLS as his responsibilities ( both ABC/DISNEY/ESPN ) ,,,probably
along with a radio disney AM,
my old roomate Don Coleman was chief of two other 50KWs WBBM &
WMAQ simultaneously ,a result of the not so great consolidation of radio.
bill /3
At 04:07 PM 4/17/2012, Jim Brown wrote:
>On 4/17/2012 11:53 AM, Gary Smith wrote:
> > but, most manufacturers (Chrysler , Ford and Toyota) are okay
> with anything up to 100 Po.
>
>If you read through archives of this reflector, you'll find several
>posts addressing the fact that 100W on HF is NOT OK with SOME Toyotas, a
>prime example of which was my 2006 Sequoia, where the computer goes into
>cardiac arrest with 100w on 20M SSB. I can also report from a colleague
>who has for many years been Chief Engineer at WLS (50kW, 890 kHz) knows
>(from listener complaints) that many Fords are so noisy that the radios
>can't hear his station in their local coverage area.
>
>73, Jim K9YC
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