Atlanta DXing

[jabba17]

DXing seems to be good right now. My first indication was WSSL out of Spartanburg walking all over Rock 100.5. Some of the stations I picked up Friday morning include the following:

WPEZ 93.7, Jeffersonville (Macon)
WFDR 94.5, Woodbury (Manchester/Columbus)
WQZY 95.9, Dublin
WPCH 96.5, Gray (Macon)--this is where CC has parked the "WPCH" calls
WSPA 98.9, Spartanburg
WDEN 99.1, Macon
WOBB 100.3, Tifton
WDDK 103.9, Greensboro
WBBQ 104.5, Augusta
WQBZ 106.3, Fort Valley (Macon)

WQZY and WBBQ are usually pretty easy stations to DX.

WNGA 105.1 out of Helen and WMJE 102.9 out of Clarkesville were also coming in better than usual.

 

[ShawtyBlack_ATL]

DXing seems to be good right now. My first indication was WSSL out of Spartanburg walking all over Rock 100.5. Some of the stations I picked up Friday morning include the following:

WPEZ 93.7, Jeffersonville (Macon)
WFDR 94.5, Woodbury (Manchester/Columbus)
WQZY 95.9, Dublin
WPCH 96.5, Gray (Macon)--this is where CC has parked the "WPCH" calls
WSPA 98.9, Spartanburg
WDEN 99.1, Macon
WOBB 100.3, Tifton
WDDK 103.9, Greensboro
WBBQ 104.5, Augusta
WQBZ 106.3, Fort Valley (Macon)

WQZY and WBBQ are usually pretty easy stations to DX.

WNGA 105.1 out of Helen and WMJE 102.9 out of Clarkesville were also coming in better than usual.

As far as 98.9 goes, here in East Metro ATL that's the home for BLAZIN 98 a reggaeton pirate station. However it usually on broadcast between 6pm-2am.

Wow, WMJE 102.9 must've knocked W275BK 102.9 (HOT 107.9) out. Where do you live btw?

 

[radiostuwright]

WBBQ is at 104.3....not 104.5

 

[jabba17]

DXing seems to be good right now. My first indication was WSSL out of Spartanburg walking all over Rock 100.5. Some of the stations I picked up Friday morning include the following:

WPEZ 93.7, Jeffersonville (Macon)
WFDR 94.5, Woodbury (Manchester/Columbus)
WQZY 95.9, Dublin
WPCH 96.5, Gray (Macon)--this is where CC has parked the "WPCH" calls
WSPA 98.9, Spartanburg
WDEN 99.1, Macon
WOBB 100.3, Tifton
WDDK 103.9, Greensboro
WBBQ 104.5, Augusta
WQBZ 106.3, Fort Valley (Macon)

WQZY and WBBQ are usually pretty easy stations to DX.

WNGA 105.1 out of Helen and WMJE 102.9 out of Clarkesville were also coming in better than usual.

As far as 98.9 goes, here in East Metro ATL that's the home for BLAZIN 98 a reggaeton pirate station. However it usually on broadcast between 6pm-2am.

Wow, WMJE 102.9 must've knocked W275BK 102.9 (HOT 107.9) out. Where do you live btw?

98.9 definitely wasn't reggaeton.

I live in Gwinnett. I used to get WMJE good while the translator was off the air, but got W275BK over WMJE until the other day.

 

[StrayKats]

WOBB Tifton (I remember it as WCUP Tifton - one of the simplest, yet emphatic, top of the hour IDs I can remember) must have one of the most dynamite transmitters around - here in central Alabama, as far west as Montgomery, now that WGZZ Waverly (Auburn) has switched frequencies off 100.3, it's now a near-mainstay every night after sunset. Even with another station on 100.3 to the south (WAOQ Brantley), to put it mildly, this station puts out. The country station in Albany (WKAK) was similar as well until south Alabama's gospel powerhouse debuted on 104.3.

 

[GRS86]

WOBB Tifton (I remember it as WCUP Tifton - one of the simplest, yet emphatic, top of the hour IDs I can remember) must have one of the most dynamite transmitters around - here in central Alabama, as far west as Montgomery, now that WGZZ Waverly (Auburn) has switched frequencies off 100.3, it's now a near-mainstay every night after sunset. Even with another station on 100.3 to the south (WAOQ Brantley), to put it mildly, this station puts out. The country station in Albany (WKAK) was similar as well until south Alabama's gospel powerhouse debuted on 104.3.

WOBB is no joke of a signal. A full 100K that blankets most all of South, South Central GA, plus reaches N. FL and SE AL.

WDEN, the former "FM 99" WMAZ in Macon is also another full 100K signal that covers a lot of ground. It covers from Metro Atlanta southward well into South GA almost to Tifton and Albany, westward to Columbus, and eastward to. If I remember correctly, they piggyback off of WMAZ TV Channel 13's tower. I come across 99.1 regularly on my vehicle radios here in the Metro area.

 

[w9wi]

WDEN, the former "FM 99" WMAZ in Macon is also another full 100K signal that covers a lot of ground. It covers from Metro Atlanta southward well into South GA almost to Tifton and Albany, westward to Columbus, and eastward to. If I remember correctly, they piggyback off of WMAZ TV Channel 13's tower. I come across 99.1 regularly on my vehicle radios here in the Metro area.

Simply judging from the FCC DB (I'm not in the area) they moved off the TV tower some time ago, to a separate tower just a bit (~1/2mi.?) due north.

 

[Bengalsfan]

WDEN, the former "FM 99" WMAZ in Macon is also another full 100K signal that covers a lot of ground. It covers from Metro Atlanta southward well into South GA almost to Tifton and Albany, westward to Columbus, and eastward to. If I remember correctly, they piggyback off of WMAZ TV Channel 13's tower. I come across 99.1 regularly on my vehicle radios here in the Metro area.

They used to be on 13's tower. Had to move off when 13 put their HD signal on the air cause the tower could not handle the load. 99.1 had been on 13's tower since it's inception. They relocated to the tower that WGNM-TV is on.

 

[RadioGaGa75]

I believe that whole DXing thing you were experiencing is what the engineers call temperature inversion, a phenomenon that occurs quite often in the mornings in the Summertime.