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98.3 FM in Carolinas?

In a parking lot at 9 in the morning on several occasions, I've picked up big band music. Real big band music that sounds like it was recorded in the 30s or 40s. I have only tried once to listen for long enough to hear a station ID, but I never wanted to waste $3.50 a gallon gas or my battery. I voted last Tuesday and was too late to hear it right at 9. They played several songs but there were never any interruptions.

Later in the day I can't hear it. I'm in front of a building when I do. It would have to be to the south because there is a creek flowing south beyond an alley across the street--that alley keeps the signal from being blocked, while the building directly in front of the parking lot blocks out anything from the east.

I'm on the wrong side of the hill to hear Country Legends 98.3, which is what I'm trying to do.

I should have voted earlier to make sure I'd be there right at 9. I won't get to be in that parking lot that early again until August. Unless I rearrange my schedule.
 
Was the parking lot near a hospital or senior living center? There's a service called "Companion Radio" that programs the sort of music you were hearing, and it's relayed over Part 15 FM systems in some of those facilities...
 
Scott Fybush said:
Was the parking lot near a hospital or senior living center? There's a service called "Companion Radio" that programs the sort of music you were hearing, and it's relayed over Part 15 FM systems in some of those facilities...
I don't think there was anything like that. I'm going to try again Wednesday at 10, and then there's pretty much no chance for the rest of the summer unless I change my usual routine. By law it would have to identify itself at the top of the hour, unless it was some special service.

I called the local AM station and was told there was no low-power FM.
 
Update: I had a dental appointment, so I went to the library early in order to get more done.

I heard Spanish on 98.3 as I pulled into the parking lot.

I figured that wasn't it, so I moved forward, but I never got the big band music I had been hearing.

My watchband broke, so I tried another day. I heard The Beatles. Not instrumental versions of The Beatles. The Beatles.

I realized I was wasting gas, so I turned off the car. I lost the signal.

I did hear big band music when I left the library around 6:45. No, I was already late for "Jeopardy". I'm not sitting around waiting for the top of the hour.
 
Another update: No station ID at the top of the hour. Great music. Whoever it is, they make Music of Your Life seem hip and contemporary. Probably like Stardust when it began but without vocals. Maybe even like Music of Your Life when it first started.

This morning I heard Savannah's Big 98. What oldies station plays "Heart of Glass" by Blondie?
 
Mystery solved!

I wish someone on this site had thought of looking in some sort of database. I don't know where these are.

I got an email from someone on another site saying Wadesboro, N.C. has a 21-watt LPFM.
 
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