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Early, but...FM Frequency of The Week: 105.5

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crainbebo

Disclaimer: See 830 AM thread for details on why this is early.

What have you guys gotten on 105.5?

This is one of the few frequencies which I have logged NOTHING. Seattle: KCMS 105.3 IBOC hash, Yakima: 105.7 KRSE bleed.

-crainbebo
 
I've picked up CKQK on 105.5 a fair bit (when conditions are right). It's the K-Rock station in Charlottetown, PEI.
 
We have a local on 105.5, WCOO (a AAA station). It is one of the closest to my area, and overloads radios at beaches like Kiawah and Folly. They used to be on 105.3, but moved to get their own frequency. Before, Darlington and Jesup would sometimes come in.
 
On a not-so-selective radio like my Panasonic RQ-SW20, 105.5 is splatter from 105.3 KIOZ. On a radio with better selectivity, though, like my Tecsun PL-380, 105.5 is usually IBOC hash from KIOZ. I think I may have possibly heard a station on 105.5 on my '380, but I can't remember for sure now.
 
In Manassas, VA,

WAMU 88.5 DC'S translator W288BS at 105.5 with bluegrass and other non-commercial programming. The translator has a CP to move into MD just on the north side of Potomac River.
 
Before WBWR/105.7 moved from Marysville into Columbus, and definitely before their IBOC days, WCHO was an easy catch in Columbus. It still comes into play not far south of town, but 105.7's hash encroaches big-time.
 
In Dayton WCHO and WMVR fighting it out..did get Auburn IN once
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GR8, I think the Auburn station you're thinking of is WTHD. Their COL is actually LaGrange, IN. Not very far from Auburn though.

WTHD is my local on 105.5, but it can easily be nulled with WWCK from Flint, MI or WWWM from Toledo, OH in it's place.

Tropo catches:
WMVR- Sidney, OH
WLJE- Valparaiso, IN
WZSR- Woodstock, IL
WYKT- Wilmington, IL
WBMI- West Branch, MI
 
WTHD either is or was Spanish as I recall. Half the NE Indiana dial was rearranged at some point; 105.5 used to be Auburn's allocation.
 
WTHD either is or was Spanish as I recall. Half the NE Indiana dial was rearranged at some point; 105.5 used to be Auburn's allocation.
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Way to school the young buck on the NE Indiana radio dial. I only really got into FM radio as a high school student in the late 90's, but I do remember a lot of hype about a new country station coming to Sturgis, MI around 1994 or 1995. This new station was, of course, WTHD. I knew the 105.5 allocation went back to the 1980's, but I had no idea that it was at one time slated to be an Auburn, IN station.

I am very interested in learning about my area radio dial from before I ever cared about it. Perhaps i'll start a thread over in the Indiana board and see who bites.
 
Mine is KJZN 105.5 from San Joaquin CA, Transmitter located in Kerman, which runs a talk format that in the ratings has a 0.00, which runs the same syndicated programming as KMPH 840 in Modesto and accually has higher ratings in Fresno a .4 ,but KMPH is going dark on 8/31, KJZN had better ratings when the where Smooth Jazz, I see them going dark very soon, they should go back to a music format.

I have picked up KRVR also.
 
In Poughkeepsie, NY 1105.5 is pretty much an average DX channel. Semi-local WDBY Patterson, NY is normally received quite well, and is the only station always receivable on 105.5.

DX on 105.5:

WENN - Hoover, AL "Hallelujah FM"
WOLL - Hobe Sound, FL "Cool 105.5"
WYZB - Marey Esther, FL "Country 105.5"
WBTT - Naples Park, FL "The Beat"
WDUV - New Port Richey, FL
WIFN - Macon, GA "The Fan"
WVEI - Easthampton, MA (repeats WEEI Boston)
WBEC - Pittsfield, MA "Live 105.5"
KBAJ - Deer River, MN
WDHA - Dover, NJ
KGFY - Stillwater, OK "Cowboy Country" - most distant on 105.5 at 1297 miles.
WOJL - Louisa, VA "Sam"
 
Traditionally I have only pulled in sidebands/IBAC noise from KRSK (105.1) and KFBW (105.9). Lately tho, I have been pulling in a very weak feed of various XM streams, which I managed to pinpoint to an apartment in the complex a block away from mine.

Thus far, this is the second satellite-fed personal "LPFM" I have received since I moved to my new place. (Maybe one of these days I'll see if my old FM transmitter I built in high school still exists, and hook it up to my Pansat, just for kicks. ;o)
 
105.5 WDHA Dover, NJ is the normal here being 25 miles SW but WDBY Patterson, NY does mix in @ a few spots...The only tropo station gotten on 105.5 was WSNQ Cape May Court House, NJ
 
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