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FM Frequency of the Week: 94.9

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East Tennessee: 100,000 watt WAEZ, Electric 94.9 .
Retro/other: Dayton, Ohio area. Mostly WREW, Fairfield. Sometimes either Ada (now WOHA) or WQMX received in Western Ohio frequently as Beautiful Music WDBN.
 
North Iowa: A fair to weak KCPI/Albert Lea, Minnesota, though KGGO/Des Moines will also come in on certain days/direction of antenna.

Central Kansas: Fairly strong KNCK-FM/Concordia, despite being a bit outside of the primary contour (100,000 watts and flat land will do that). I don’t remember picking up KCMO-FM/Shawnee (ex-KCMO) if Concordia’s would be off air, as some KC stations do tend to come in even 150 miles away.
 
South Mississippi -

Gumbo 94.9 WGUO Reserve, LA (classic country) and WKSJ Mobile, AL (country) are most common.

There has also been tropo from KLTY Arlington, TX (Christian music) and E-skip from 94.9 The Outlaw KOLI Electra, TX (country) and KJLT North Platte, NE (Christian radio).
 
Chatham, IL (12 miles southwest of downtown Springfield):

Almost always a fair-to-weak signal from heritage country (plus farm programming and some NASCAR) station WAAG Galesburg, IL (about 110 miles northwest). Maybe a rare weather-driven appearance from WYNG Mt. Carmel, IL.

In the late 80s/early 90s (when FM radios were better) I remember hearing strong signals from WAAG as far south as Hannibal, MO, and well into other parts of eastern Iowa and northeastern Missouri. Kind of like a western Illinois version of KWWR.
 
In Cheyenne, Wyoming (Southern Wyoming):

Nothing here locally, although I'll catch a faint whiff of 94.9 K235BT from Fort Collins, 50 miles away, from time to time. Of course, I can hear "Radio 94.9" all the time on KSME HD2, which only breaks up in certain parts of Cheyenne, and at my house, it doesn't disappear at all.

Tropo: During a mild tropo event, K235BT can be fairly audible for a while. I had several occurrences last year of KJLT North Platte (about 190 miles away from me) peaking through, especially on the massive June 10th tropo. By the way, congrats @ente for grabbing KJLT on E-skip!

E-skip: I got WAEZ Greeneville, TN (about 1,020 miles) on June 20th of last yea plus a few others throughout the year, including WSLC Roanoke.
 
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Tim from Springfield IL said:
In the late 80s/early 90s (when FM radios were better) I remember hearing strong signals from WAAG as far south as Hannibal, MO, and well into other parts of eastern Iowa and northeastern Missouri. Kind of like a western Illinois version of KWWR.A
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At my college location in southeast Iowa in the late 60s,WAAG was a regular from about 65 miles away. Usually with a good signal.
 
Once, way back, into the southwest suburbs of Chicago arrived 37 kW-strong WLVE Barbaoo, Wis., in rompin' stompin' stereo. Just once, though, and before WLS-FM clicked on the IBOC.
 
radioman148 said:
There must have been some nice tropo that day.
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As I recall, the Milwaukee stations were pouring in that day, and a few more. With IBOC all about it's not possible today, except for a spot or two on 88-92, so I don't even try to DX FM. And with every UHF TV channel filled in Chicago, you can't DX that either. I suppose VHF is doable, but I've not tried. That leaves the rather barren shortwave bands or AM. So AM it is.
 
tvnut said:
Once, way back, into the southwest suburbs of Chicago arrived 37 kW-strong WLVE Barbaoo, Wis., in rompin' stompin' stereo. Just once, though, and before WLS-FM clicked on the IBOC.
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This station has a tremendous signal even without tropo. In the 80s and 90s (as WOLX,,,oldies), it would be good for half my route on my drives to Minneapolis, I;d pick it up aaround the Illinois-Wisconsin state line, and it would be good until abut 30-40 miles past the I-90-94 split at Tomah, Unless they;ve moved, the stick is between Baraboo and Madison on a high ridge. They brand themselves as part of the Madison market.
 
tvnut said:
As I recall, the Milwaukee stations were pouring in that day, and a few more. With IBOC all about it's not possible today, except for a spot or two on 88-92, so I don't even try to DX FM. And with every UHF TV channel filled in Chicago, you can't DX that either. I suppose VHF is doable, but I've not tried. That leaves the rather barren shortwave bands or AM. So AM it is.
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Yeah it's very tough these days to hear any of these stations with all the clutter on the FM dial.
 
cyberdad said:
This station has a tremendous signal even without tropo. In the 80s and 90s (as WOLX,,,oldies), it would be good for half my route on my drives to Minneapolis, I;d pick it up aaround the Illinois-Wisconsin state line, and it would be good until abut 30-40 miles past the I-90-94 split at Tomah, Unless they;ve moved, the stick is between Baraboo and Madison on a high ridge. They brand themselves as part of the Madison market.
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Wonder if since August 1990 sign-on, if WDKB DeKalb, IL and their 3 kW has cut into WLVE's reception?

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They've also wiped out what may have once been possibly in some spots, fair or "poor but listenable" reception of WAAG from about before Sterling, IL northward.
 
cyberdad said:
At my college location in southeast Iowa in the late 60s,WAAG was a regular from about 65 miles away. Usually with a good signal.
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Actually that was back in their WGIL-FM days (they were originally WGIL-FM from their 1966 sign-on until about 1972 when they became WAAG and adopted their now-heritage country format.

Hearing WAAG down here is like a taste of home here because I grew up between Peoria and Galesburg on the border of both the Peoria and QC TV DMAs too (with both markets basically locals on TV). Obviously WAAG was unstoppable and tropo-proof at my family's house.

WAAG is also a regular (at least back in the day and on car radios) not just in much of SE Iowa (perhaps to at least Fairfield), but also in most of NE Missouri too. I remember hearing a strong WAAG signal in Hannibal before and when traveling with family in that area in the early 90s, all the way as far south as Mexico and Columbia (and perhaps even all the way to St. Louis).
 
Tim from Springfield IL said:
Wonder if since August 1990 sign-on, if WDKB DeKalb, IL and their 3 kW has cut into WLVE's reception?
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Maybe a very slim slice along the stateline area. I doubt if either station cares, In any event, I don;t hear either one of them,

And,,..ah yes....WGIL-FM. I remember that.

I was back the general area (Quad Cities) in the mid 70s, That must be where I remember the WAAG calls. And a pretty decent signal in both locations. Thanks for helping me connect the dots in my memory.
 
Tim from Springfield IL said:
Actually that was back in their WGIL-FM days (they were originally WGIL-FM from their 1966 sign-on until about 1972 when they became WAAG and adopted their now-heritage country format.
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IIRC from '66-72ish the old WGIL-FM was Beautiful Music before going Country and changing the calls. Including the time when Cyberdad heard them in college.

Actually, according to these great articles about WGIL/WAAG's interesting history, looks like the switch to country and to WAAG was around '70-71:

wymanmedianewplace.blogspot.com

Roger Coleman: Mr. Galesburg Radio and Mentor #3

Roger Coleman at Cubs Spring Training in Mesa, AZ Mentor #3 in the life of Jim Wyman is Roger H. Coleman, former general manager of WGIL...
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Coleman an innovator in radio

The passing of Roger Coleman on Thursday at the age of 89 marks the end of an era in Galesburg radio. Roger was...
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Former Galesburg basketball play-by-play voice, WAAG radio pioneer dies

Jim Wyman’s first job in radio came in 1975 at Galesburg’s WGIL-WAAG after his graduation from Western Illinois University.
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50th Anniversary Page

50 Years and counting! FM 95 is celebrating 50 years on your radio dial at 94.9FM! Starting off as WGIL FM in 1966, playing “beautiful music”. The call letters were derived from Galesburg being named an “All
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Thanks for sharing. I wasn't familiar with Mr. Coleman. Impressive stuff. A life and a career well-lived,
 
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