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FM Frequency of the Week - 100.3 MHz

What can you all get on 100.3 FM? In Vermilion, OH it is mostly WNIC/Detroit with a signal that varies from very weak to strong depending on conditions. Also I can sometimes get WCLT/Newark, OH and less frequently WGYY/Meadville, PA. WNIC has a modern AC format and WCLT and WGYY are both country.
 
From Coldwater, MI-

A fairly strong WLKI- Angola, IN. Doesn't take much enhancement to bring in WNIC-Dearborn, MI and sometimes WILV-Chicago, IL.

On my home set-up, I can sometimes null WLKI and get the very ill-placed translator, W262AF in Parchment, MI (near Kalamazoo).
 
Nothern VA, I get a local WBIG DC with classic hits, used to be oldies. That's it. WBIG's HD-2 plays oldies and HD-3 has foreign language programming, I think it's Vietnamese.
 
I need to make a correction. It's another station that plays oldies on the HD-2 channel and 100.3 HD-2 channel provides the foreign language programming.
 
In Monroe, WA it's usually a weak-fair CKKQ Victoria, BC [The Q]. I've also caught KSNR Fisher, MN (Es) and KKRZ Portland, OR (Tr).

In Portland, OR it's local KKRZ.

In Yakima, WA I always get KWIQ Moses Lake with Country, but in the Umantum Ridge near Selah I can sometimes get KKRZ.

At the Washington Coast I think KKRZ also made it as well.

-crainbebo
 
From central Baldwin County, Alabama, halfway between Mobile and Pensacola, FL:

This is a good frequency for near-field tropo. It's a pretty equal fight most nights between CHR WWSL "SL-100" from Hattiesburg, MS @ 112 miles or sports WTKE "The Ticket" from Fort Walton Beach, FL @ 60 miles.

There's also a translator in the area on this frequency, currently operating from the town of Gulf Shores, 14 miles south of me, but I can't hear it at home because it's only one watt. It currently has a permit to move to the WKRG-TV tower in Spanish Fort, about 15 miles NW of me, to go to a full 250 watts from something like 1800' HAAT. Should be a monster signal (for a translator) if Clear Channel ever builds it out.
 
"`At the Washington Coast I think KKRZ also made it as well.`"

It's usually a pretty easy catch at Fort Canby. That, and KKCW. Those stations pretty much own their respective frequencies in at least this quarter of the state.
 
In NW Indiana, it's WILV Chicago. I have gotten a country station over WILV during the summer months. I'm not sure if it's WCCI Savanna, IL or WIXY Champaign, IL.
 
From Gaffney, SC - IBOC from WSSL 100.5, but sometimes during tropo I can hear either
100.3 WVBZ from Greensboro, NC or 100.3 WORG from Orangeburg, SC
 
Trenton NJ ....100.3 from Philadelphia and never 100.3 from NYC no matter what radio I'm using (car or the half dozen in the house). I've tried for six months and nothing. However, several others from NYC come in fine.
 
ddsparxx said:
Nothern VA, I get a local WBIG DC with classic hits, used to be oldies. That's it. WBIG's HD-2 plays oldies and HD-3 has foreign language programming, I think it's Vietnamese.

That's what I get in central MD. WBIG only has a HD2 now, Vietnamese programming. The oldies moved to 97.1 WASH FM's HD2 subchannel.
 
From Tampa - A weak Radio Rumba from Orlando during the summer but nothing on most winter days except when there's airplane scatter.


roadrunner said:
Trenton NJ ....100.3 from Philadelphia and never 100.3 from NYC no matter what radio I'm using (car or the half dozen in the house). I've tried for six months and nothing. However, several others from NYC come in fine.

When I grew up in New Jersey, I always wondered why there was a station on the same frequency in Philadelphia and New York when they were only about 80 miles apart.

From South Jersey, I was able to hear a couple New York stations in certain places when we got our first digital tuner car radio. That was without any kind of tropo.

On my portable radio, many would come in during tropo and I could get most NYC FMs all day when my stereo system was attached to the TV antenna on the roof aimed at New York, though there was splatter from the locals on many stations.
 
WHEB from Portsmouth NH. Transmitter is 106.5 miles from my location with 50,000 watts.
 
Here in my area(Philly 'burbs), it's local WRNB(formerly 107.9). Years ago, after WXUR-FM went off the air, I used to listen to
what was then WVNJ-FM(easy listening, WVNJoy as it was called) from Newark NJ(New York Metro). Today, it is CHR/Top 40
WHTZ(Z-100). Never heard Z-100 here, as a new local, WKSZ(Kiss 100, a soft hits station), came on while the New York one
was still WVNJ-FM.
 
I wonder how an HD radio or analog tuned to 100.3 would behave if you were, say, in an area halfway between Trenton and Edison? Would this be an even worse co-channel situation than there is on 104.7 between Charlotte and Columbia?
 
I caught a new station on 100.3 via tropo earlier in the week from here in Vermilion, OH I heard WQON/Grayling, MI with classic rock. They said something like "Saving classic rock, one person at a time" when I heard it. Did this station used to be a country station? Seems that I remember getting a country station on 100.3 from that area a few years ago.
 
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