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FM Frequency of the Week: 103.1
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The usual Denver, CO - “Front Range Country” K276FK, fed by KQKS-HD2.
Right now in Leiden, South Holland, Netherlands - Two adjacent channels, both for national network Radio 10: 103.0 Hilversum and 103.2 Rotterdam. The Rotterdam signal is stronger here. In the crowded west of the country, it’s pretty common for the national networks to have stations that are in the same vicinity within a narrow range of frequencies, usually 200-600 kHz. Boosters would have been an ideal solution but they’re not used here.
Right now in Leiden, South Holland, Netherlands - Two adjacent channels, both for national network Radio 10: 103.0 Hilversum and 103.2 Rotterdam. The Rotterdam signal is stronger here. In the crowded west of the country, it’s pretty common for the national networks to have stations that are in the same vicinity within a narrow range of frequencies, usually 200-600 kHz. Boosters would have been an ideal solution but they’re not used here.
Most European countries have this setup of "sub bands" for national FM networks, so they can generally be found within a range - BBC Radio 2's "88-91 FM" for instance. The Netherlands rearranged their FM spectrum in the 2000s to put network transmitters close to one another, previously it was a bit more chaotic.
Where national networks have grown through the acquisition of local stations, they are scattered up and down the band, like with the Heart or Greatest Hits Radio networks in the UK, or most of the French networks, but generally public broadcasters have little "slots" within the FM band.
In the Manchester area, UK - 103.1 is splatter from the local 103.0 transmitter of a fairly quotidian CHR network called Hits Radio, better remembered as local "Key 103".
Hartland, VT:
WZKC Royalton, K-Love Christian contemporary. This station used to simulcast AAA programming from WNCS Montpelier, but that station's owners abandoned the Hanover/Lebanon/White River Jct. market in favor of a big cash infusion from EMF.
Meriden, CT:
Just IBOC splatter from the West Peak transmitter of WDRC-FM Hartford.
WZKC Royalton, K-Love Christian contemporary. This station used to simulcast AAA programming from WNCS Montpelier, but that station's owners abandoned the Hanover/Lebanon/White River Jct. market in favor of a big cash infusion from EMF.
Meriden, CT:
Just IBOC splatter from the West Peak transmitter of WDRC-FM Hartford.
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Tyler, TX:
Steady signal from KHFZ Pittsburg, 1/3 of the ERFET's Spanish Christian "Fuzion" network. I get better reception of it than the Jacksonville counterpart at 102.3. CHR KVJM Hearne (Bryan/College Station) was reaching up here during KHFZ's nearly year-long sabbatical prior to the ERFET's acquisition of it.
Steady signal from KHFZ Pittsburg, 1/3 of the ERFET's Spanish Christian "Fuzion" network. I get better reception of it than the Jacksonville counterpart at 102.3. CHR KVJM Hearne (Bryan/College Station) was reaching up here during KHFZ's nearly year-long sabbatical prior to the ERFET's acquisition of it.
Wilmington Delaware
Usually just splatter from last week's frequency 102.9 WMGK. There is a station just out of range that I've heard mainly in warm humid weather -
WRHS Grasonville MD 'Bright FM' with Contemporary Christian Music. It relays WRBS 95.1 in Baltimore. Its' XMTR is near the Bay Bridge over the Chesapeake and puts a good signal into Maryland's Eastern Shore. You start to hear it in DE as you head down US 301 toward the MD border.
Usually just splatter from last week's frequency 102.9 WMGK. There is a station just out of range that I've heard mainly in warm humid weather -
WRHS Grasonville MD 'Bright FM' with Contemporary Christian Music. It relays WRBS 95.1 in Baltimore. Its' XMTR is near the Bay Bridge over the Chesapeake and puts a good signal into Maryland's Eastern Shore. You start to hear it in DE as you head down US 301 toward the MD border.
The Netherlands tries to do the “sub-band” concept, and usually succeeds, but not always. For example, Veronica here is at 91.1 and 95.2; 100%NL (exclusively Dutch-language, including the music) is at 89.5, 104.4, and 104.6. The regionals (Radio West here; Radio Brabant in North Brabant) tend to cluster at the lowest end of the dial while there are quite a few low-powers at the very upper end.
Central Kansas:
Just a tad outside of KEKS/Olpe’s coverage area, but can come in if you position your antenna right, they’re fairly easy to get. Have also received KKJK/Ravenna during certain DXing events.
North Iowa:
What was once a very weak to non-existent KHAM/Britt has improved over the last few months. I believe they finally moved to their new tower and upped their power a tad to where I could actually receive them pretty clearly at my location. However, they still have to protect co-channel KFIL-FM across the state line in Chatfield.
Just a tad outside of KEKS/Olpe’s coverage area, but can come in if you position your antenna right, they’re fairly easy to get. Have also received KKJK/Ravenna during certain DXing events.
North Iowa:
What was once a very weak to non-existent KHAM/Britt has improved over the last few months. I believe they finally moved to their new tower and upped their power a tad to where I could actually receive them pretty clearly at my location. However, they still have to protect co-channel KFIL-FM across the state line in Chatfield.
From Pickerington, Ohio, it's "local" WVKO with the La Mega Spanish-language format.
I use local in quotations because it's 1,600 watts from well northeast of Columbus, near the Licking-Knox county border, and its local contour includes none of its target area at all. The format is simulcast on 107.1 out of Circleville, which hits a few more areas with a substantial Spanish-speaking population but not many.
Outside the area, I remember when WOWO's FM feed was on 103.1. That's been decades ago, and you had to be within 40 or so miles of Fort Wayne to pick up the signal. Maybe 50.
I use local in quotations because it's 1,600 watts from well northeast of Columbus, near the Licking-Knox county border, and its local contour includes none of its target area at all. The format is simulcast on 107.1 out of Circleville, which hits a few more areas with a substantial Spanish-speaking population but not many.
Outside the area, I remember when WOWO's FM feed was on 103.1. That's been decades ago, and you had to be within 40 or so miles of Fort Wayne to pick up the signal. Maybe 50.
Clifton, New Jersey
I get W276AQ "The Bridge" Fort Lee, NJ which airs a Christian Talk and Teaching format. It is an FM translator that simulcasts WRDR Freehold, NJ. During tropo, WWWF-FM "103.1 The Wolf" Bay Shore, NY can be received in spots.
Retro: From 1993 until 2004, W276AQ was known as Jukebox Radio, simulcasting WJUX Monticello, NY. It initially played Adult Standards until it flipped to Oldies in 1997. It switched back to Adult Standards in 2000. In 2004, W276AQ and WJUX became simulcasts of The Bridge.
I get W276AQ "The Bridge" Fort Lee, NJ which airs a Christian Talk and Teaching format. It is an FM translator that simulcasts WRDR Freehold, NJ. During tropo, WWWF-FM "103.1 The Wolf" Bay Shore, NY can be received in spots.
Retro: From 1993 until 2004, W276AQ was known as Jukebox Radio, simulcasting WJUX Monticello, NY. It initially played Adult Standards until it flipped to Oldies in 1997. It switched back to Adult Standards in 2000. In 2004, W276AQ and WJUX became simulcasts of The Bridge.
The 103.1 tower for WHUZ, later WOWO-FM was on U.S. 24 not far from WOWO's AM towers.
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