This is my first post on the board! I live in South Bend, IN and I was scanning through on my car radio and my scanned stopped on 90.9, which is very rare, considering 90.7 broadcasts 20 miles north of here at 50,000 watts. I heard "Telephone" by Lady Gaga and "Teenage Dream" by Katy Perry. The station was coming in fairly clear and once in awhile it would fade completely out and then I heard classical music, very faint signal. I head a DJ on the CHR station but he did not identify the station. I'm assuming the classical music I was hearing was from WILL in Urbana, IL, but when I searched for a CHR or Dance format, the only one I could find was WOWB in Brewton, AL. Can this be possible? I find it hard to believe, especially when I was having a hard time picking up fringe stations today, especially out of Chicago. Anyone have any clue what I was hearing?
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Did you hear Kiss FM??
When I clicked WOWB on RL it took me to the 97.9/105.5 KISS-FM site..
But on the Wiki WOWB is WOW90.9 a contemporary Christian music Station
Can anyone confirm this??
But on the Wiki WOWB is WOW90.9 a contemporary Christian music Station
Can anyone confirm this??
fabs80 said:
According to the FM tropo forecasts, there hasn't been anything lately in the midwest.
If you got a station from Alabama, it seems the only other possibility could be sporadic e but this is very much out of season for that.
Since there was no official ID, it's hard to say what you really heard or not. I've had that same problem all too often with hearing distant AM stations.
As for distant AM stations, if it's in the middle of the day, can't you look at the databases and Radio-Locator's coverage maps? Then, considering which direction your radio was facing, could you make an educated guess as to what it would likely be? I'm sure it would help to have a strong enough signal so that you could hear some trace of audio, so you could figure out what format it is, and use that to narrow it down as well. I sometimes do things like that when trying to identify distant AM stations in the daytime. At night, though, with skip, it doesn't work all that well.
I was heading west, for about 5 miles and I continued to hear it clearly, but it sounded distant if that makes any sense. I will see what I hear today, but like I said, I find it hard to believe as well, because the conditions at the time were in no way favorable. Thanks for the responses.
Like I said again
When I clicked WOWB on RL it took me to the 97.9/105.5 KISS-FM site..
When I clicked WOWB on RL it took me to the 97.9/105.5 KISS-FM site..
tfcwings said:
That's what I do but unless I hear an actual ID from a station, I can't call it an official catch even though it's pretty obvious which station it had to be.
That's the reason I haven't listed KCTA 1030 from Corpus Christi, for example, as one of my official daytime catches from the gulf here in west central Florida. The religious station I hear behind what is probably a Cuban has to be KCTA by the process of elimination as to what stations could possibly be heard there in the daytime but until I hear them actually give the call letters, I couldn't list it as an actual catch of KCTA in the heading of my video.
The same went for KTRH Houston until the day I finally heard their ID and then I listed that as an official catch in the title.
MarioMania said:
Radio-Locator is broken in a very significant way. When a station changes its call letters these days, those call letters are often reassigned (and fairly quickly) to an unrelated station somewhere else. That's what happened with WOWB: the calls were on 105.5 in Little Falls, NY, half of "KISS-FM" in central New York. Way back in 2001, WOWB in Little Falls changed its calls to WSKU. But radio-locator's database keeps formats, websites and slogans linked directly to callsigns, so when the WOWB calls were reassigned in 2009 to a religious station in Alabama, it immediately showed up on radio-locator (but not in reality!) with the old information from the New York station.
As for what the OP was hearing on 90.9: this is a dead time of year for e-skip, so reception from typical e-sip distances (700-1500 miles) is highly, highly unlikely, verging on impossible. I suspect it's more likely he was hearing either someone relaying a webstream over a low-power unlicensed transmitter at home...or maybe WBDG from Indianapolis?
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