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Originally Posted by Electronic M
IIRC one of the FM stations in Steven's Point Wi. (or was it Appleton/Greenbay?) is 100KW....Not a lot of large towns/FM stations up there so what is there sometimes has higher power to better serve the area.
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Stevens Point has one at 100K (WSPT), Appleton has one at 100K (WAPL), Green Bay has one at 96K (WIXX) and there may be more high powered stations around here. Actually there are a lot of FM stations up here. You may just have a different view because your history has been from living around big cities and their many suburbs, so you have had a plethora of choices of FM station to choose from. From here in Appleton I do have 35 FM stations within 50 miles, and there are many outside that range that can be heard on a decent radio with a proper antenna.
Just going through the FM band now I get 51 different stations coming in (more than 40 at a listenable level) on a small Tecsun PL-300WT with its 21-inch whip antenna. My Toyota radio will receive many more in the evening hours.
I'm sure when you get much farther into the boonies (such as your vacation site near Hayward) there are very few stations, and very few towns of any size. And the metallic ore in the ground in Northern Wisconsin and the Michigan Upper Peninsula sure can cripple radio reception.
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