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FM Frequency of the Week: 99.7

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MarioMania

I emailed ZantennaG1 about taking this over, I'm on most

What do you get on 99.7?

In Carmichael it slop from 99.5 KLVB Sacramento

When I go back to Vallejo it's KMVQ San Francisco

Retro/DX When I lived in Pacifica, CA it was all KYUU in the 80's then KXXX & KFRC in the 90's
 
Crystal Lake, IL....

99.7 here is basically an empty channel between WUSN 99.5 Chicago and an LPFM on 99.9 (WYML) seven miles east of me.
 
Thanks to IBOC hash from WUSN 99.5, I get nothing on 99.7 from home back in the southwest suburbs of Chicago.
 
Thanks Mario!

I worked at one in the mid-80s....WSHW Shine 99 in Frankfort IN.
But here in East Tennessee: W259AV translaator for (WJBE-AM). It gets out pretty well but a site on Sharps Ridge will do it. I can hear it in Sevierville. Before this translator fired up, WWTN, the talk station near Nashville, was pretty regular.
Retro/other: WSHW made most of the northern half of Indiana from a transmitter between Frankfort and Kokomo. The upgrade and move were paid for by then WIKS, now WZPL so the latter could move in from Greenfield. From Dayton, Ohio WSHW made it now and then, but most of the time it was Columbus (one time WRMZ). It was The Blitz, I'm not sure what they are now.
 
Despite WUSN on 99.5 I managed to hear 6 different stations on 99.7 through the years. All of them from nearby states (MI, WI IN, IA) plus IL and all thanks to tropo openings. Outdoor antenna with a rotor also helped in hearing these.
 
From Cheyenne, WY:
I normally don't get anything on 99.7 (too much slop from 99.9 KKPL), but KOGA (184 miles) is a frequent tropo visitor during the summer, and I did once recieve E-skip from WSSH (Wish 99.7) Pitsburgh, PA (1,120 miles) on June 27th, through my HDR 15.

Thank you @MarioMania for continuing this thread.
 
Newark, NJ suburbs

WEAN from Rhode Island and WBHX Tuckerton, NJ in past tropo events, otherwise bleed over from WBAI/pirate stations from Brooklyn
 
KWJJ's other sideband.
 
In South Mississippi there is usually nothing due to the upper HD sideband of WRNO New Orleans. When their HD is off, there's W259DA Poplarville, MS, translator of WRPM 1170 AM, which airs a gospel format with no commercials. I've also heard WJMI Jackson, MS "99 Jams" and WOOF Dothan, AL (adult contemporary) via tropo.
 
Used to get 99.7 WDJX from Louisville on my Pioneer super tuner 3 in the SW Kentucky suburbs of Cincinnati back in the 80’s. That was until the dial became filled with translators and car radio manufacturers started making cheaper tuners. I was telling my husband that soon long distance FM reception will no longer be possible with all these FM translators coming on the air.
 
San Jose, California

KMVQ. Its still not a great signal. Not a fan of there current format either. I miss the old X100!!!

(Retro look-back from the 1988-1991 era)
My second best hourly intro ( From the Top, top, top, top, top, top ttttttttooooopppp of Radio Mountain,... KXXX FM.... San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose!!!! ) Back in the day when I listened to X100, they seemed harder to get then KMEL, yet the transmitter is on the same mountain. I guess only having 40kW just couldn't pierce beyond downtown San Jose. If you lived south of the downtown area, it got much harder to get ( especially on a Walkman )
 
formula72 said:
San Jose, California

KMVQ. Its still not a great signal. Not a fan of there current format either. I miss the old X100!!!

(Retro look-back from the 1988-1991 era)
My second best hourly intro ( From the Top, top, top, top, top, top ttttttttooooopppp of Radio Mountain,... KXXX FM.... San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose!!!! ) Back in the day when I listened to X100, they seemed harder to get then KMEL, yet the transmitter is on the same mountain. I guess only having 40kW just couldn't pierce beyond downtown San Jose. If you lived south of the downtown area, it got much harder to get ( especially on a Walkman )
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Yeah, I miss the old X100 too
 
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