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FM Bandscan from Hickory, NC

jp1996

jp1996

Am back in Hickory, and decided to follow up my AM Bandscan post with a corresponding FM bandscan! Was able to identify most, but will need help with a few!

87.7-very faint (sports)
87.9-rough reception (Joy FM bleedover)
88.1-Joy FM
88.3-bleedover from Joy FM, with another religious station mixing in)
88.5-WFDD, Winston-Salem, NC (crystal clear)
88.7-WNCW (faint)
88.9-WNSC, Rock Hill, SC (crystal clear)
89.1-WRYN, Hickory, NC (crystal clear)
89.3-bleedover from WRYN
89.5-WETS, Johnson City, TN (crystal clear)
89.7-classical (touch and go reception, NOT WDAV bleedover)
89.9-WDAV, Davidson, NC (crystal clear)
90.1-bleedover from WDAV
90.3-WFHE, Hickory, NC (crystal clear, repeater of WFAE)
90.5-bleedover from WFHE
90.7-WFAE, Charlotte, NC (crystal clear)
90.9-WSIF, North Wilkesboro, NC (OK reception)
91.1-WYFG, Gaffney, SC (crystal clear)
91.3-either Joy FM from Winston-Salem or His Radio out of Asheville)
91.5-unsure (crystal clear, NPR-maybe WTBI, Greenville, SC?)
91.7-WSGE, Dallas, NC (crystal clear)
91.9-bleedover from WSGE, mixed with something else faintly-WVTR, Marion, VA perhaps?
92.1-WMNC, Morganton, NC (crystal clear)
92.3-WKRR, Asheboro, NC (crystal clear!)
92.5-WESC, Greenville, SC (crystal clear)
92.7-WFNZ, Harrisburg, NC (crystal clear)
92.9-W225BD, Statesville, NC (crystal clear, WAME 550 AM translator)
93.1-WPAW, Winston-Salem, NC (patchy reception)
93.3-WTPT, Forest City, NC (crystal clear)
93.5-WKSK, West Jefferson, NC (hometown station, patchy reception)
93.7-WFBC, Greenville, SC (crystal clear)
93.9-faint bleedover from WFBC mixing with something else
94.1-WWLV, Lexington, NC
94.3-W232CW, Newland, NC (crystal clear, WECR 1130 AM translator)
94.5-WPTI, Eden, NC (mostly clear)
94.7-bleedover from WPTI, with W234DG in Lenoir, NC mixing in)
95.1-WNKS, Gastonia, NC (crystal clear)
95.3-faimt bleedover from WNKS
95.5-bkeedover from WXRC
95.7- WXRC, Hickory, NC (crystal clear)
95.9-bleedover from WXRC
96.1-WHQC, Shelby, NC (crystal clear)
96.3-bkeedover from WHQC
96.5-W243DV, Valdese, NC (crystal clear, WSVM 1490 AM translator)
96.9-WKKT, Statesville, NC (crystal clear)
97.1-bleedover from both WKKT and WKBC)
97.3-WKBC, North Wilkesboro, NC (crystal clear)
97.5-bkeedover from WKBC
97.9-WPEG, Concord, NC (crystal clear)
98.1-bleedocer from WPEG
98.3-WEGO, Concord, NC (crystal clear, His Radio)
98.5-WTFM, Kingsport, TN (crystal clear!)
98.7-unsure (crystal clear, preaching)
98.9-unsure (crystal clear, talk-maybe WLXB?)
99.1-W256CV, Boone, NC (crystal clear, repeater of WZJS, Banner Elk, NC)
99.3-WLRZ-LP, Hickory, NC (crystal clear)
99.5-WMAG, High Point, NC (crystal clear)
99.7-WRFX, Kannapolis, NC (crystal clear)
99.9-WKSF, Asheville, NC (crystal clear)
100.1-bleedover from WKSF
100.3-WMKS, High Point, NC (mostly clear)
100.5-W263CP, Lenoir, NC (crystal clear, translator of WJRI 1430 AM)
100.9-W265CT, Hickory, NC (repeater of WHQC)
101.1-bleedover from W265CT, with W267CH mixing in)
101.3-W267CH, Hickory, NC (translator of WNNC 1230 AM, Newton, NC)
101.9-WBAV, Gastonia, NC (crystal clear)
102.1-bleedover from WBAV
102.3-W272DU, Hickory, NC (crystal clear, translator of WHKY 1290 AM)
102.5-bleedover from W272DU
102.9-WLKO, Hickory, NC (crystal clear)
103.1-bleedover from WLKO
103.3-WKVS, Lenoir, NC (crystal clear)
103.7-WSOC, Charlotte, NC (crystal clear)
104.1-WTQR, Winston-Salem, NC
104.3-bleedover from WTQR
104.5-W283CE, Lenoir, NC (translator of WKGX 1080 AM)
104.7-WKQC, Charlotte, NC
104.9-bleedover from WKQC
105.3-WOSF, Gaffney, SC (crystal clear)
105.7-WVBZ, Clemmons, NC (patchy reception)
105.9-W290CW, Hickory, NC (crystal clear, translator of WAIZ 630 AM)
106.1-bleedover from W290CW
106.5-WEND, Salisbury, NC (crystal clear)
106.7-bleedover from WEND
106.9-WMIT, Black Mountain, NC (crystal clear)
107.1-bleedover from WMIT
107.3-W297CX, Valdese, NC (His Radio)
107.5-WKZL, Winston-Salem, NC (very faint)
107.9-WLNK, Charlotte, NC (crystal clear)
 
WTBI 91.5 is not NPR, its religious
and the 93.5 for WKSK is just a translator
 
I guess when you are surrounded by markets with 100,000 watt Class C stations, you can hear a lot! You get your home market of Charlotte, as well as reception from the Greenville-Spartanburg, Greensboro-Winston-Salem-High Point, Johnson City-Bristol-Kingsport and Asheville markets.
 
speer360 said:
98.9- WYRD-FM
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This is how I supposedly ended up on the radio as a caller to Foxy 99. In the 1980s I could hear what is now 98.7 Simon from Greensboro when I was trying to listen to what was beautiful music WSPA 98.9. Foxy is at 99.1. You do the math.

WEGO is off the air. You said it was 98.3, but that was WEGO's translator before it was sold to EMF.

Now that I think of it, there was already a H.I.S. radio translator, which was on a billboard east of Charlotte, so that's a different translator entirely. I used to have trouble hearing WIST in the Charlotte area for that reason when it played good music. WIST had different call letters when I was able to pick it up in Newton.
 
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