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FM Frequency of the Week 2018-19-20: 88.1

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We're done with the traditional U.S. Class B/Cs so let's tackle the (U.S.) non-comm band. I will confess to not knowing it as well as the commercial band.

Starting at the beginning, what do you/did you/have you heard on 88.1?

East Tennessee: Almost always a deep fringe signal from WUTC, Chattanooga (I wish we had this NPR instead of parent WUOT in Knoxville). Ocassionally WCQS, Asheville NC may sneak across the mountain.

DX from here includes UNID Spanish language stations. KTNU, Dallas mixed with another Texas Christian station one July day.


Retro/other: Dayton, Ohio has local WPDS.
Lafayette IN area in the 90s. I still don't know who I had in the distance playing "Skip A Rope" by Henson Cargill.


FM DX Clip of the Week: WJIS, Bradenton, FL by E-Skip (Joy 88) from 1987.
 
Ellensburg WA

KCWU Ellensburg (Top 40/CHR), xmitter about a half mile away on the SURC building at CWU. Obviously never will get anything else here. I'm glad to be in a building that's far enough where KCWU doesn't ruin half of the band. If I was in a nearby residence hall, FM would be more difficult to work with. (And besides I'd be at my home residence during most of the Eskip season anyways. Just about all of the non-North Campus dorms are less than a quarter mile away from the transmitter. One dorm, Wilson Hall, is less than 250 feet from KCWU - ouch.)

My former home residence, Yakima, had another local with KYTR Union Gap (Catholic). 10 miles south in Wapato, KYTR mixed with KAYB Sunnyside (AFR). Aforementioned KCWU was faintly heard when KYTR was off one afternoon, along with KAYB. Another outage resulted in KTCV Kennewick (Alternative) weakly there. KQHR Hood River OR (// KQAC All Classical) was heard above Rimrock at about 6000 feet elevation several years ago, same with KWAO Ocean Park (Air 1). I also have KYRS Medical Lake WA on tropo, from yet another outage of KYTR. (Variety)

Eskip was limited in Yakima due to the local, but there were some faint nulls I could work with.
KCFY Yuma AZ (Religion)
KKJZ Long Beach CA (Jazz)
 
In the near north Chicago suburbs 88.1 is usually WNTH the New Trier high school station or WCRX from Columbia college in Chicago. Sometimes I hear WTZI Rosemont, Il.
 
radioman148 said:
In the near north Chicago suburbs 88.1 is usually WNTH the New Trier high school station or WCRX from Columbia college in Chicago. Sometimes I hear WTZI Rosemont, Il.
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Why stop with just three stations in the Chicago area on 88.1? At my location, 88.1 is WWTG from Carpentersville, IL. 2kw religious station directional with a null to the east to protect the trio that radioman is talking about.
 
cyberdad said:
Why stop with just three stations in the Chicago area on 88.1? At my location, 88.1 is WWTG from Carpentersville, IL. 2kw religious station directional with a null to the east to protect the trio that radioman is talking about.
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A graveyard FM frequency....:)
 
WJSP Columbus an educational FM of Georgia Public Broadcasting. Our tax dollars at work!
 
When I first had a good VHF-UHF-FM antenna connected to a good receiver, the antenna of course was pretty good for 88.1. This was the early 1970s, and as I recall, the first station I heard on 88.1 was WVPE in Elkhart, Indiana. WVPE, the "Voice Of Public Education".
 
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Meriden, CT:

Here it's WESU Middletown, Wesleyan University's station, with block programming of niche, largely obscure, music, liberal talk (politics and social justice) occasionally leaning radical, and syndicated "Democracy Now" programming. An old-fashioned student sandbox of a college station, with hosts bringing in their favorite tunes from home. Reception while driving is occasionally interfered with by SiriusXM and other units in passing vehicles transmitting on the same frequency.
 
Lexington, KY:
Local University of Kentucky college radio station WRFL, Lexington (Class C3 - 8kW @ 285').

Zachary (Baton Rouge suburb), LA:
Local AFR affiliate (Christian talk) KPAQ, Plaquemine (Class C1 - 90kW @ 299').
 
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