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thehawkeyeway

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Unfortunatly I have a wedding to go to tomorrow. It is KILLING me! I was wondering if anyone knows what radio station I can catch the game on in the Chicagoland area???

yes, I am bringing a radio to a wedding, I know, I'm an arse! but I'm also a hawkeye.
 
1040 SHOULD make it to Chicago. I remember listening to Sound Off on the way home from the Michigan game a few years back. They don't call it the blowtorch for nothing!
 
While I've heard rumors of 1040 reaching this far, I live in the Western Suburbs and have never been able to get it on the radio. For that matter, I have never listened to an Iowa game on the radio here. I haven't been able to find a station, except when they're playing Illinois or NW. Good luck though. If you find one, let us know.
 
BlckNGldHwk said:
1040 SHOULD make it to Chicago. I remember listening to Sound Off on the way home from the Michigan game a few years back. They don't call it the blowtorch for nothing!
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WHO's range and clarity are often exaggerated. I've known people who've picked it up in Bridgeport, CT and San Antonio, TX, but there are a few places I've been in South Dakota, Minnesota and Missouri where it won't come in.
 
Ok, so my dad was here visiting me in Jacksonville Beach a couple weeks ago. He gets up at the butt crack of dawn, 4:30. He claimed to me, on his way to get coffee that he listened to 1040 WHO radio for about 15 minutes in the car. I said to him, Are you serious, it had to have a lot of static, he said it did but he could hear it. Take it for what it is worth. This is not the only time he has said he could get it in down here too...
 
bec32173 said:
Ok, so my dad was here visiting me in Jacksonville Beach a couple weeks ago. He gets up at the butt crack of dawn, 4:30. He claimed to me, on his way to get coffee that he listened to 1040 WHO radio for about 15 minutes in the car. I said to him, Are you serious, it had to have a lot of static, he said it did but he could hear it. Take it for what it is worth. This is not the only time he has said he could get it in down here too...
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As I understand it, 1040AM only broadcasts WHO until the sun comes up in San Antonio... then it becomes a mariachi station.
 
bec32173 said:
Ok, so my dad was here visiting me in Jacksonville Beach a couple weeks ago. He gets up at the butt crack of dawn, 4:30. He claimed to me, on his way to get coffee that he listened to 1040 WHO radio for about 15 minutes in the car. I said to him, Are you serious, it had to have a lot of static, he said it did but he could hear it. Take it for what it is worth. This is not the only time he has said he could get it in down here too...
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It reaches nearly the entire country when the sun is down. Radio stations are required by the FCC to power down their watta when the sun goes down. WHO was grandfathered in and isn't required to do so. It is so clear because there is little to no airwave competition at night with the 50,000 watt blowtorch.
 
thehawkeyeway said:
Unfortunatly I have a wedding to go to tomorrow. It is KILLING me! I was wondering if anyone knows what radio station I can catch the game on in the Chicagoland area???

yes, I am bringing a radio to a wedding, I know, I'm an arse! but I'm also a hawkeye.
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You have never heard of the no weddings during football season rule?

If you are a man, all weddings during football season are optional, including your own!

In all seriousness, I absolutely refuse to attend a wedding if it in any way interferes with a football game. I got burned by this a couple times a few years ago, and now I have got all my friends to adopt the same policy. Now nobody would ever dare schedule one during a football game. If they did, they would knowingly have nobody in our circle of friends attend.
 
I listened to the Iowa post game show on 1040 in the parking lot of Land Shark/Dolphin/Pro Player/Joe Robbie/Whatever it was called at the time Stadium after the Orange Bowl.
 
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