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FM Frequency of the Week - 101.9 MHz

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Buckeyes2001

What can you get on 101.9 FM?

Here in Vermilion, OH it is WDET/Detroit (NPR) with a side of IBOC hash from local WDOK 102.1 in Cleveland
 
Best FM frequency in Bellevue, WA.

KINK Portland, OR is the only one heard regularly, and that's with even weak Tr down that way. I also heard KUJJ [now KZIU] Weston, OR a few years ago when they still had the Smooth Jazz format.
Stations logged via Es include
KATP Amarillo, TX
KBTO Bottineau, ND
KIGN Burns, WY
KXWA Centennial, CO.

In Edmonds, WA 101.9 is a mess of CITR Vancouver, CFUV Victoria and KINK Portland.

In Pacific Beach, WA 101.9 is KINK only.

In Portland, well, of course, KINK.fm 101.9!

Yakima, WA gets KZIU.

-crainbebo
 
No no no, "KINK FM 102", crainbebo. Trust me, if you don't want to sound a haole*, it's "KINK FM 102"! ;o)

And yeah, that's all I get on 101.9, day and night. They lost this listener when they dumped "Lights Out" a while back. KINK really lost a lot of its kink when that happened.

Texas and Colorado, jeeze! Wish I could work it like that around here, but KINK pretty much obviates that.

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* Even none of the locals I've talked to about the station call it "KINK dot FM", unless they happen to be on the air. I suppose it's just gone by its "old" name for far too many years to be known as anything different. "KINK FM 102" is just what's gotten hammered into everybody's heads as a result. They didn't start playing this silly "dot FM" game until just a couple years ago.
 
This frequency is interesting if you are driving I-10 from Lake City, FL to Tallahassee. For mile after mile, you can hear WJHM from Orlando.

As a bonus, there are areas in Lake City, particularly at where there used to be a gas station on highway 100, where you can hear WSRV 97.1 Gainesville GA (not Gainesville FL) with absolute reliability.
 
Here in the Portland area it is KINK 101.9 which has a AAA format.

Last weekend I visited the Puget Sound area and could hear KINK in parts of Seattle and loud and clear in Everett on Saturday.
 
Albany, NY - a fair to weak signal from Christian radio station WJIV licensed to Cherry Valley, NY (perhaps one of the best signals in the area?) Whenever it's off I can sometimes get WRXP (?) from New York City or a rock station from Keene, New Hampshire during DX events...
 
KINK has an amazing signal. It's also been heard by FM DXers in British Columbia (mostly Vancouver Island).

-crainbebo
 
Here is SW Florida 101.9 is WWGR "Gator Country" out of Fort Myers and is one of the top rated stations in the market. WWGR is a 100,000 watt flame thrower. In fact due to the location of it's transmitter in respect to the population it probably is the best over all signal in SW Florida amongst the other 100,000 stations. WWGR has been a country station as far back as at least the 1970's. For many years it's calls were WHEW and it was the sister station to WMYR/1410 one of Ft Myers oldest stations. In the mid 1990's it was sold to Renda Broadcasting who changed the call letters and revamped the station overall but left the country format in place.
 
WWGR is the dominant one in Miami-Ft. Lauderdale too, but once in a while WJHM Daytona Beach/Orlando pops up, and at home W270AD with public-radio news sometimes makes it in.

We have a pirate or two as well on 101.9.

cd
 
For me a constant strong signal from Baltimore's WLIF "Lite FM" 46 miles east. I know taboo with DXers but the signal is strong enough to decode its HD signal. Their HD2 is oldies, HD3 is standards as "The Strip", and their HD4 is Christian "Hope FM". I've never heard WLIF off-air so no DX here.
 
"KINK has an amazing signal. It's also been heard by FM DXers in British Columbia; mostly on Vancouver Island."
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Used to be a regular catch for me in Victoria, when I was living there, much like KXXO is down here. Pretty scratchy, though. I ended up taking the liberty of scraping a chip of paint off the downspout and soldering a length of RG6 to the bare aluminium, then connecting the other end of it to the stereo receiver just so I could hear "Lights Out" in stereo! (As far as I know, it's probably still there.)

Of course, at that point the F1HD was also still a few years off. Desperate times called for desperate measures.
 
rbrucecarter5 said:
As a bonus, there are areas in Lake City, particularly at where there used to be a gas station on highway 100, where you can hear WSRV 97.1 Gainesville GA (not Gainesville FL) with absolute reliability.
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I believe it. At one time I worked on the east side of Birmingham, well over 175 miles from Gainesville, and 97.1 was very much a regular thanks to the building's easterly hillside location. And some nights, it was strong enough to stop a scan on cheapo boomboxes inside our metal building. It's a very impressive signal.

As for 101.9, it's a good DX frequency for me in Baldwin County, Alabama, halfway between Mobile & Pensacola. The only semi-local is "Magic 101.9" WLMG in New Orleans, which blows in upon occasion. I've also heard WHHY "Y-102" from Montgomery, AL, once or twice.
 
Nowadays, the new BC stns on 101.9 (CFUV Victoria and CITR Vancouver) have caused havok with KINK N of the Seattle area, when Tr is up. Sometimes a three-stn mess is heard in some areas.

-crainbebo
 
Weird, at the house where I was living (in between Victoria and Saanich) I could barely get CFUV at all no matter how hard I tried. Weak as KINK was up there, it pretty much overpowered it.

Either I must have been in a pretty good null for CFUV there, or they must have had a really directional signal that didn't favour my part of the island.
 
Here in Central VA its Hot 101.9 WHTE from Ruckersville, VA.

I've had WKSK from South Hill, VA when conditions are right. That's pretty rare though.
 
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