102.9 WYGB Edinburgh, IN moved frequncies to 100.3 Tuesday. I'm 30 miles S of Indy listening to middle Tennessee on 102.9 at 5PM EDT. I love clear FM channels...
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102.9 LaVergne/Nashville
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When I lived in Cincy (30 years ago), the Knoxville station would come in fairly often on 100.3...once on a portable radio! I remember the pre-80-90 days well...back when many FM's went off at midnight. WJFM 93.7 Grand Rapids was in every night with it's 470KW. Parking on 104.3 brought Augusta GA in every few minutes if you sat there & listened to the hiss long enough. And overnights, Knoxville on 107.7 wasn't uncommon. In more recent times (15 yrs ago) here in south central Indiana, 96.3 was clear & Murfreesboro, TN was just about always there. Now I have a 96.3 30 miles N & one 40 miles S...and a huge catfight on 96.3 in the car. But my fave channel here in Indiana was 101.1...St Louis, Chicago, Detroit, a class A near Columbus, a class A in northern IN, Hazard,KY & Russellville,KY were all regulars. That channel is still pretty good, but with Cincy on 101.1, it's value has diminished. I'm enjoying 102.9 for now. WXCH Versailles, IN is moving there at some point & moving closer to me. Oh to just have 1 day of the way it was in the late 60's...I'd do nothing but sit in front of my Pioneer TX9500 MKII with modified IF filtering...Shoot...I may even hook up my original Heathkit AJ-5 that I still have from my high school days...
There's a filing window for the non-comm band coming up later this year. If you think it's bad now,...let's just say, if I can quote Carly Simon, These Are The Good Old Days...
There's a filing window for the non-comm band coming up later this year. If you think it's bad now,...let's just say, if I can quote Carly Simon, These Are The Good Old Days...
I wish I could have been alive pre 80-90. That would have been cool to hear stations from Tennessee in Indiana on a regular basis.
In Coldwater, MI i'm losing good frequencies at a pretty alarming rate. One that I remember the most was 94.7 in the mid to late 90's. I could hear Indianapolis, Columbus, Chicago and Detroit. That ended in 1998 when WCVM signed on in Bronson. Another good one was 97.1. I could hear Chicago, Detroit, Columbus, Ashtabula and Shelbyville. That all ended last summer when a 170-watt translator signed on just one mile away. I also lost 101.9 due to IBOC from nearby 102.1 WMUK last summer.
I have two wide-open commercial frequencies left, 99.7 and the best one being 103.7 where I can get Erie, PA, Tiffin, OH and Bloomington, IN on any given day. I have a few open non-comms (88.7, 88.9, 89.7-90.1) that will almost certainly be filled in your previously mentioned filing window.
In Coldwater, MI i'm losing good frequencies at a pretty alarming rate. One that I remember the most was 94.7 in the mid to late 90's. I could hear Indianapolis, Columbus, Chicago and Detroit. That ended in 1998 when WCVM signed on in Bronson. Another good one was 97.1. I could hear Chicago, Detroit, Columbus, Ashtabula and Shelbyville. That all ended last summer when a 170-watt translator signed on just one mile away. I also lost 101.9 due to IBOC from nearby 102.1 WMUK last summer.
I have two wide-open commercial frequencies left, 99.7 and the best one being 103.7 where I can get Erie, PA, Tiffin, OH and Bloomington, IN on any given day. I have a few open non-comms (88.7, 88.9, 89.7-90.1) that will almost certainly be filled in your previously mentioned filing window.
In the mid and late 70s it was a different world. Not only all the 80/90s not there, as the other poster said, a lot of small town stations signed off at 10pm or midnight. From "the other Coldwater (OH)" I regularly heard Detroit (92.3, 98.7, 101.1, 103.5, 104.3, and others), CKLW-FM at 93.9 sometimes, 93.7 from Grand Rapids was pretty regular, as well as some of the other signals from Grand Rapids. I remember getting WUFM from Albion, WLEN from Adrian, WUOM, even DXing Traverse City once. WKQQ (then on 98.1) was a semi-regular.
Sometime maybe I'll do a "retro band scan".
The only clear commercial frequencies in Springfield OH are 93.9 (mostly get Wild 93-9 in Lima if any tropo at all), 105.3 (mostly I'll get Lafayette or Mansfield). 103.7 was usually WCKY-FM (what a signal) if the band was open, it's covered by K-Love now. 103.3 was good, with Indianapolis, Ashland, Ky and St. Marys OH fighting it out, but I still heard Kalamazoo occasionally. 98.1 will still get Lexington or Defiance most of the time if I'm far enough away from the University of Dayton translator. As was said, it's on;y gonna get worse.
Sometime maybe I'll do a "retro band scan".
The only clear commercial frequencies in Springfield OH are 93.9 (mostly get Wild 93-9 in Lima if any tropo at all), 105.3 (mostly I'll get Lafayette or Mansfield). 103.7 was usually WCKY-FM (what a signal) if the band was open, it's covered by K-Love now. 103.3 was good, with Indianapolis, Ashland, Ky and St. Marys OH fighting it out, but I still heard Kalamazoo occasionally. 98.1 will still get Lexington or Defiance most of the time if I'm far enough away from the University of Dayton translator. As was said, it's on;y gonna get worse.
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I thought that the translator stuff stopped! And why would anyone bother with a translator or lpfm these days? With all the media choices there are, who the hell is going to listen? And why clutter up MY radio with it? Geez!
It really IS a shame though.
It really IS a shame though.
As was said, it's on;y gonna get worse
I understand that completely.. It's gotten worse already in the 5 years i've been logging my catches. There is a construction permit for another translator in Coldwater on *gulp* 103.7, hands down my best frequency.
In the last twelve years (the time I have actually paid attention to DX'ing) we have had stations sign on at 91.9, 92.5, 94.7, 102.5, 105.3, 105.5 and 106.7 as well as translators and LPFM's on 92.3, 93.1, 93.3, 96.3, 97.1, 99.5 and 101.1. That is a LOT of space to be lost.
Ditto on the translators. Why do the satellators need five stations broadcasting the same thing in a 25 mile radius?? The way I see it, one group should only be allowed one translator in a given market. If K-Love wants to broadcast on, say, 98.5 in then that's the only frequency they get in the area. Not five additional stations beaming into the suburbs
I'll probably hang it up whenever there is only about two open frequencies in my area. It looks like that day may be sooner than I thought...
If I wasn't proud enough of LaVergne,TN, I was perched on 102.9 this morning when Lavergne faded & for 3 minutes, calss C2 "Catfish Country 102.9" from Marion, AL took it's place. 437 miles...hope it takes a LONG time for 103.1/Versailles, IN to move to 102.9. I'm likin' this...This is the way DX was on many frequencies back in the day...
My best 10W catch from Cincinati was WBWC near Cleveland at well over 200 miles. Another DXer heard a South Dakota 10 watter from Cincy...I missed that one. Clear frequencies do make the difference!
So what is the best you can muster on the radio these days? In Southern Michigan, i've found my normal limits to be pretty fair, but these are only on open frequencies, which I don't have too many of.
Translators, LPFM's- 40 miles (WIDR 89.1, W209BA 89.7, WKDS 89.9)
Class A- 100 miles (WTGN 97.7)
Class B- 250 miles (WPBG 93.3)
Class C- 300 miles (WJNR 101.5)
I can also get regular reception from Detroit and Chicago and occasionally Indianapolis, Cleveland and Columbus.
Translators, LPFM's- 40 miles (WIDR 89.1, W209BA 89.7, WKDS 89.9)
Class A- 100 miles (WTGN 97.7)
Class B- 250 miles (WPBG 93.3)
Class C- 300 miles (WJNR 101.5)
I can also get regular reception from Detroit and Chicago and occasionally Indianapolis, Cleveland and Columbus.
From Central Indiana, in the old days, I could hear 98.9 Petoske Mi, WSGS 101.1 Hazzard KY, Knoxville TN
St louis, Milwaukee, Cleveland and Detroit almost every night. You could hear 8 states from Indiana with tropo.
plus 3 from Windsor Ontario 93.9, 88.7 and 89.9.
With E skip much more.
Not only are there more stations now, but the noise floor is much higher today.
100 watts today is not as good as 10 watts in the 70's and 80's.
St louis, Milwaukee, Cleveland and Detroit almost every night. You could hear 8 states from Indiana with tropo.
plus 3 from Windsor Ontario 93.9, 88.7 and 89.9.
With E skip much more.
Not only are there more stations now, but the noise floor is much higher today.
100 watts today is not as good as 10 watts in the 70's and 80's.
My best "always there" is WSGS/Hazard on 101.1 at 200 miles. Northern IN on 101.1 is always there too...that would be my most distant A around 115 miles. C2, the equivelant of a B, from Lexington on 100.1 at 125 miles is probably the best reqular B. If there were clear channels, those numbers wouldn't double, but they'd be notably better. The Dayton B's at 100 miles are regulars. For some reason, Chicago has always been poor here.
Chicago was a little better before 80-90 (there's always the challenge that several Chicago frequencies are the same as Indianapolis frequencies. Before 80-90, from Frankfort I'd regularly get what was WLAK (now I think WLIT) on 93.9, and sometimes the 106.7. Sometimes WLUP would override WNAP and 97.1 (then playing classical) would nuke WENS (now WLHK).
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