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FM Frequency of the Week: 93.7

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MarioMania

Dayton, NV

KPGF Sun Valley, NV with a Very Weak Signal

Vallejo, CA

KYRV Sacramento with a Weak Signal mixng with K229DD San Francisco

I don't think K229DD (KVTO) get out that far at 99 watts
 
WGYL - Vero Beach FL - 93.7-GYL - Hot AC - 2023 - 35 miles south of Melbourne - most commonly heard

retro
WOGK-FM - Ocala FL - 93-7 K Country - Country music - 2010

kw - Melbourne FL
 
Wilmington Delaware

Very local WSTW Wilmington with Top-40 music. Transmitter is 3 miles to my NE. It shares facilities with WDEL - 1150 AM. It has 2 HD signals relaying WDEL on HD2 and WXCY 103.7 in Havre De Grace MD on HD3. It also uses its' site for a translator to put WXCY on 96.9 which makes it hard to hear WFPG in Atlantic City which used to come in quite well.
 
Tyler, TX:

KZYY-LP "Radio Esparanza" with a solid signal at the house. Outside of the flea's reach, it's a weak to fair "Kiss Country" KXKS Shreveport. Honorable mention goes to rocker KLBJ Austin and Regional Mexican "La Raza" KNOR Krum, who both show up here from time to time.
 
In Rochester NY, we sit in between two 93.7s on their fringes. WBLK Depew/Buffalo is the big B to the west, and Family Life Radio has an A in Clyde to the east that's usually a smidge stronger for me here on the east side of town.
 
Denver, CO - This will be our first entry in what I call the "Aurora Triangle", a tangle of low-power stations - two translators and one LPFM - at 93.7, 93.9, and 94.1 - that requires a selective FM receiver for all three to be usable.

At 93.7 it's K229BS. The "BS" is appropriate because it's a translator for iHeart's farthest extreme-right talk station, 760 KDTD, "Freedom 93.7". KDTD has been a station in search of a purpose for years. The translator's transmitter is on Lookout Mountain west of Denver, so it does have some coverage. Because I'm on the east side of Denver, its coverage may be somewhat curtailed by the LPFM on 93.9 in Aurora. But more on that next week.
 
MarioMania said:
Vallejo, CA

KYRV Sacramento with a Weak Signal mixng with K229DD San Francisco

I don't think K229DD (KVTO) get out that far at 99 watts
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It was ordered off the air in 2019 due to interference complaints from KXZM Felton. The applicability of those complaints was somewhat in dispute. The translator was able to return to the air with 10 watts in 2020 on an STA but apparently is back to 99 watts, so I assume the complaints were resolved or otherwise dealt with.

K229DD is on Sutro Tower and the transmitting antenna is directional to the northeast. So it's not so surprising that it would have a presence in Vallejo; possibly San Pablo Bay helps it along, too.
 
Hartland, VT:

Nothing. WIFY Montpelier can be heard over the minimal splatter from WWOD Woodstock if I drive 20 miles north, but not here.

Meriden, CT:

Rhythmic CHR/Hip-hop WZMX Hartford.
 
East Tennessee: Until very recently, this was one of my few clear frequencies. That changed when W229DO signed on. It's the current Santa 93.7, no idea what'll be doing tomorrow or Tuesday. DX is WDJC, Birmingham, AL and WFCJ, Miamisburg, OH.

Retro/other: Dayton, Ohio area: WFCJ is a local but in the Eastern part of the market, it's possible to get WQIO, Mount Vernon, OH.
Further north in the Mercer/Auglaize County area, the present-day WBCT (former WJFM), with its powerful signal made frequent appearances.



 
CLT NC area: Prior to 2015 Top 40 WFBC B93.7 from Greenville SC would be received on fringe reception in the Southern and Western areas of the city. In 2015 the BBN signed on a translator to that same frequency, putting an end to B93.7 being receivable in CLT.
 
Canyon Lake, Texas brings in Classic Rock 93.7 KLBJ FM from Austin: 45 air miles away, it’s pretty much a local. Strong tropo will bring in the 93.7 from Houston (formerly KKRW).
8 miles south of me brought in KXXR from Minneapolis/St. Paul during a summertime E-Skip.
 
Around Columbus, Ohio, it's the powerful WQIO "93.7 The Super Q" from Mount Vernon. 37,000 watts from a tower almost 1,700 feet above sea level really gets out, so much so that it can be heard from southwest of Columbus almost to the outskirts of Cleveland. That is by no means flat terrain either.
In my wife's hometown of Conneaut, Ohio, it's oldies WQGR "Cougar 93.7." 6,000 watts from far eastern Lake County, and it does fight it out with WQIO in some spots. Radio Locator map doesn't do its signal to the southwest much justice.
KKRW was my favorite FM station when I lived in Houston. They really got out. I remember hearing them collide with KLBJ but I'll be darned if I remember exactly where.
 
Central Kansas:
Very clear reception from KYEZ/Salina

North Iowa:
Mostly bleed over from adjacent channel KIAI/Mason City, but have also received KKRL/Carroll and KXXR/Minneapolis on occasion.
 
Mark Roberts said:
At 93.7 it's K229BS. The "BS" is appropriate because it's a translator for iHeart's farthest extreme-right talk station, 760 KDTD, "Freedom 93.7". KDTD has been a station in search of a purpose for years.
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KDFD, KDTD is in KC.

Speaking of KC - here 93.7 is a translator for KMVG, a Catholic AM station that’s part of the Catholic Radio Network:
catholicradionetwork.com

Programming Schedules - Catholic Radio Network

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catholicradionetwork.com catholicradionetwork.com
 
In Pickens County GA it all AM translators. WLJA HD2 is on 93.7 W229CE which is a simulcast of WPGY 1580 Ellijay GA. WPGY also has the 98.1* translator licensed to Jasper up on Burnt Mountain (25 mile rule).

5 miles South of Jasper GA at the north end of I575 or the south end of GA 515, the 93.7FM W229CE translator for 680 the Fan Atlanta comes in.

* Doesn't work as well as radio-locator coverage maps show, plus lots of interference from 98.1 signal Mountain (Chattanooga).
 
radiofan2023 said:
KDFD, KDTD is in KC.
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Thanks. Ironies abound. I try not to listen to KDFD.
radiofan2023 said:
Speaking of KC - here 93.7 is a translator for KMVG, a Catholic AM station that’s part of the Catholic Radio Network:
catholicradionetwork.com

Programming Schedules - Catholic Radio Network

Programming Schedule Weekday Programming Schedule Weekend Programming Schedule
catholicradionetwork.com catholicradionetwork.com
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I believe Catholic Radio Network is headquartered in KC at KEXS, a station whose call letters, when pronounced, indicate that it is "excess". Yep, I know, EXS stands for Excelsior Springs. But still.

Once when up in Nashua in the 90s, I saw a car pulling into a convenience store with "KEXS" vanity plates. It was a Cadillac or a Lincoln, the kind of car that a one-station owner gets to try to impress everyone even though that same owner probably was paying crap wages.
 
In the Wilkes-Barre(Northeast PA) area, it's mostly country WSJR "NASH FM 93.7", owned by Cumulus. Its transmitter is located not on the Pnebscott Mountain like other locals, but on an opposite mountain. This station signed on in the late 80's as WDLS, a country station, until being sold to another owner in the mid 90's(at one point, it was also simulcasted on 95.9 in Columbia County for a short time). Around that time, they flipped to a simulcast of Oldies "Cool 94"(94.3) from Carbondale until '97 when the stations was sold again, but this time to Citadel Broadcasting. It kept the format, this time rebranded as "Big Oldies" until a year later when they flipped back to country, this time as "Cat Country 94", with jingles, imaging, and same VO guy that is similiar to the one heard in the Lehigh Valley, where "Cat Country" was originated. This lasted for two years until both stations were split up with 93.7 shifting to Alternative Rock as "93-7X" in late 2000. Four years later, the rock format moved to 97.9(where it remains today), and once again, shifted back to country, this time as "JR 93-7", until 2012 when Citadel was bought by Cumulus where it was rebranded as "Great Country", and then finally "NASH FM".

One interesting fact is that this station is one of the few surviving "Nash FM" stations in the country, with the original NYC station having been sold to Audacy and went to a classic Hip Hop format.
 
Kentwood, MI: All WBCT, all the time

Manistee, MI: Usually a weak WKAD Harrietta with sports talk. WBCT will occasionally break through, along with WBFM from Sheboygan, WI (another B93!) and WCYE Three Lakes, WI (yet another country station, but at least they have a different name besides B93!) Heard only a handful of times are KXXR from the Twin Cities and KRRL from Carroll, IA.
 
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