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FM frequency of the week - 100.1

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Buckeyes2001

What do you receive on 100.1?

Here in Vermilion, OH it's a fight between WSWR 'My 100.1' (transmitter tower just north of Shelby, OH) and WNIR 'The Talk of Akron' (transmitter tower in Kent, OH) with WSWR being a bit more dominant.
 
From Coldwater, MI:

Mostly WBCH, a country station from Hastings, MI. Sometimes WNUY, an FM News/Talker from Bluffton, IN.

With the antenna parked in the WBCH and WNUY null, I can receive a very weak WSWR Shelby, OH and WFRI Winamac, IN.
 
I'm a few hundred feet down on the south (wrong) side of a hill, so I usually can't hear KLVJ Julian, CA, except in very rare cases. Go up to the top of the hill, though, and it comes in with a fairly decent signal.
 
Here in Rochester NY, it's dominated by a relatively new sign-on, CHCQ from Belleville, Ontario, right across the lake. Before CHCQ, it was one of our most open DX channels and a prime spot to sit and listen for E-skip or even meteor scatter; even now, it's pretty good for that purpose.
 
Northern VA:

Nothing. Just IBLOCK sideband interference from WBIG 100.3 from DC. A tropo condition once allowed WBXB 100.1 Edenton, NC to be heard above the HD sideband.
 
Schenectady, NY: mostly bleedover from semi-local WKBE, but if the antenna is pointed right, I could maybe get WUPE (North Adams) or even WDST (Woodstock) with a good enough radio :)
 
Analogue/IBAC sideband of KKRZ. Never really been able to pull in anything else on 100.1, not even in the pre-IBAC days. KKRZ pretty much drowns out everything else within a 300 kHz radius of itself, it seems.

Yeah, they're loud. Too bad they don't broadcast much that's even worth listening to these days!
 
Warminster PA:

Mostly hash from semi-local 99.9 The Hawk(WODE) from Easton and local 100.3 the Beat(WPHI)
from Media/Philly. Sometimes picked up WJRZ from Manahawkin NJ.
 
The aforementioned WNIR/Kent OH "The Talk of Akron" here, of course, being a local.

What happens when it goes away?

During the 2003 blackout, WSWR/Shelby OH north of Mansfield, then oldies "Cruisin' 100", made it well into Medina County with a clear signal.

In Akron and Cleveland, you could hear first-adjacent 100.3 out of the Meadville PA area (can't remember what format it was running at the time). It also cleared the way for country WTUZ/99.9 Uhrichsville (New Philadelphia) to make it north into Akron.
 
Here in Poughkeepsie, NY, I have local WDST "Radio Woodstock" (Woodstock, NY) which I have never caught off the air.

The only other logging on 100.1 here is WWOT "Hot 100" Altoona, PA, heard once during tropo back in the fall of 2005. (251 miles).
 
Here in Central KY, it's local WKQQ dominating 100.1.
 
Here, usually WSSJ out of Rincon, GA. They're a gospel station, and has a usually decent signal. Their transmitter is farther north than the other Savannah stations, so they usually get through here. Sometimes, 100.1 the Beat from Columbia comes in, but rarely.
 
In Houston, KILT-FM's sidebands kill off most anything at 100.1, but I have found Lufkin's KYBI breaking through the hash a couple of times.
 
This is a pretty dead channel in Carthage-Watertown, NY. There is a WLFK translator on 100.1 that I can pick up but it can easily be overpowered during tropo openings usually by CHCQ.
 
In Gary Indiana, there's nothing on 100.1, & it get splattered by both WCPQ 99.9 Park Forest IL & WILV 100.3 Chicago, due to both stations having Grade A coverage over Gary.
 
It's funny how some ppl get WSWR from Vermillion and Michigan...lol...they were a hard catch for me when I lived in Ashland, Oh!!!! Lol. But here in Greenville, PA.....nothing...sometimes hash from Froggy 100.3/ Meadville.
 
I was driving through Ashland not long ago, and you could get WSWR - in the car - there.

But it was clearly the northeastern edge of the signal, and WNIR starts poking through just north of Ashland, though it's not really taking over the frequency that far south.
 
Maybe it was my car stereo...lol....I just know I always had trouble getting it to come in well until I got close to the Richland line. Oddly enough, it started to come in well going north on 58 north of Nankin, headed towards Sullivan.
 
In my house stereo, when I lived in Ashland, fughedabahtit, I got 91.1, 95.7, 101.3 and 105.3
 
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