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FM Frequency of the Week - 102.9 MHz

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Buckeyes2001

What do you all get on 102.9 FM?
Here in Vermilion, OH, it is usually a weak WWWW/Ann Arbor, MI 'W4 Country' or WYFM/Sharon, PA (Youngstown, OH market) with classic rock, or a mixture of both - sometimes with some splatter from local 102.7 WCPZ/Sandusky, OH. Tropo usually just brings in WWWW with a stronger signal.
 
From Coldwater, MI-

A straight-up MESS between WWWW- Ann Arbor, MI and WFUR- Grand Rapids, MI

Tropo sometimes brings in
WGL-FM- Huntington, IN
WDHT- Urbana, OH
WHQG- Milwaukee, WI
 
This one depends upon where you are in the Metro Portland area. In my area (Washington County) it is either KQSP-LP in Newberg, OR with a mix of programming, or with some elevation KNBQ Centralia, WA which is now a repeater for sports radio AM950 KJR in Seattle. When you go south about halfway between Portland and Salem you start to get KPIK-LP from Stayton, OR with an Oldies format. Great music but is mono.
 
Dover NH: 102.9 is all WBLM the Blimp from Portland ME, transmitter in Raymond ME. They've been around forever playing classic rock, they have huge coverage 100 kW. They're the most listened to FM in Maine.
 
borderblaster said:
Dayton. OH...all WDHT all the time.
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I remember when WDHT in Springfield was WING as '102.9 WING-FM' with a classic rock format. When I was going to OSU 1998-2001 I could easily pick this station up especially towards Hilliard and Dublin on Columbus's west side.
 
In the near north Chicago suburbs it's usually bleed over from WVIV or WVAV. Otherwise it's WHQG Milwaukee especially during tropo.
 
In northern VA,

It's local W275BO relaying Liberty University's WRVL in Lynchburg, VA, with non-commercial religious programming. Before the translator went on air, I had Norfolk, Philadelphia and southern MD when there's tropo.
 
Depending on where you are in Bellingham, WA, you can usually catch KNBQ. Or with a very good radio on a hill, KLOI-LP, a 17 watt LPFM on Lopez Island in the San Juan Islands sometimes comes in.....
 
Before July 1, 1998, this was an open frequency in Durham, North Carolina, on which I frequently heard Hickory, NC-licensed WLYT, Kinston, NC's WELS-FM, or Norfolk, VA's WOWI. On that date, Raleigh's last open FM allotment signed on as WWND (later WWMY and now WKIX-FM).

I've also logged KDMX, Dallas, TX; KHUT, Huthison, KS; WMKC, St. Ignace, MI; and WSQN, Scranton, SC.
 
In Bothell/Bellevue/Pacific Beach, WA/Portland, OR it's KNBQ Centralia, WA all the time (simulcasting KJR 950 in Seattle). HUGE signal range. Heard them from the coast to the Cascades, north to Oak Harbor and La Conner, and S to Portland's east hills. Bongwater, BTW have never heard KLOI-LP when I've been up on Fidalgo Island or N Whidbey Island.

In Yakima, it's a different story. Usually it's KORD splatter, but heard a presumed KSJJ Redmond, OR w/ Bob Kingsley's CT40 one Saturday morning on a trip (no IDs however, just heard Bob's voice and C&W music). I might have heard KNBQ as well, but don't count on it, I haven't been to Yakima since October 2010.

-crainbebo
 
In SW Florida 102.9 is WJGO "BOB FM" with a "we play any thing format". It has been very successful in the ratings since adopting the BOB format several years ago.
 
KNBQ, sometimes. On this side of the river, it seems, the only place to hear it is in Hockinson. And even on an F1HD it's iffy.

"WWWW"? Jeeze, 12 syllables, so that may very well be the longest call letter string in American broadcast radio. I'd hate to be the DJ who has to announce that call over the air...
 
Darth_vader said:
"WWWW"? Jeeze, 12 syllables, so that may very well be the longest call letter string in American broadcast radio. I'd hate to be the DJ who has to announce that call over the air...
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Which is why it's always been known as "W4" in its various incarnations.

Here in Rochester NY, 102.9 is dominated by WMHR Syracuse, 70 miles to the east. Trop sometimes brings in CKLH Hamilton ON, 80 miles (and some tough terrain!) to the west. When local WLGZ-FM 102.7 runs its IBOC, 102.9 becomes useless.
 
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