FM Frequency of the Week - 103.1 MHz

[Buckeyes2001]

What do you all get on 103.1 FM?
Here in Vermilion, OH it is CBEF/Leamington, ON with programming in French. Their signal various from somewhat scratchy to very strong.

 

[borderblaster]

That was my experience in Vermilion with CBEF. Could blast in or be very weak right on the lake. (My friend lives at Vermillion-On-The-Lake.

Back in Dayton, almost entirely hash from WDHT on 102.9

 

[danikayser84]

Schenectady, NY - almost always WGY-FM (ex-WHRL) running a simulcast of 50kW WGY 810

When WGY-FM is off, sometimes I've been able to catch WJGK (Newburgh)

 

[Bongwater]

In Bellingham, WA

CHTT Victoria, BC (103.1 Jack FM)

 

[Darth_vader]

Just KKCW's sideband.

 

[ddsparxx]

Northern VA,
WAFY in Frederick, MD with a hot AC format. Nulling it out and positioning the antenna brings me WJMA in Culpeper, VA, a country station a little farther away.

 

[RyanHoward]

Warminster PA(Philadelphia area):

Splatter from local WMGK 102.9(Classic rock) or semi-local WPRB 103.3(College station from Princeton NJ).

 

[nocomradio]

WJMA rules that spot on my dial. I'm about 5 miles (by air) from their transmitter on Clark Mtn.

 

[FreddyE1977]

from Pittsburgh suburbs:

The very impressive signal of WKVE, Mt. Pleasant.

This station was for many years WANB-FM in Waynesburg, about 60 miles
due south of Pittsburgh. Barely audible in the far-south of town. New
owners moved the stick to the top of Chestnut Ridge, about 50 mile E/SE
of Pittsburgh, where it booms nicely over most of the Greater Pittsburgh area.

 

[Lawppy]

From Coldwater, MI-

Mostly WKFR 103.3 IBOC hash..

But underneath the hash I can pull in..
WNDH- Napoleon, OH- AC- 'The One'
WHME- South Bend, IN- Religious- Harvest 103.1
WGDN- Gladwin, MI- Country
WVIV- Highland Park, IL- Spanish
WQUS- Lapeer, MI- Classic Rock

 

[Bob1370]

Rochester, NY; CFMX-FM-1, Coburg, Ontario (across the lake in Canada); 60 miles away, but 87 kW ERP from about 800 ft. HAAT carries it a long way. They do a classical/fine arts format

 

[kenrayc]

From Fresno/Clovis semi-local KAAT Oakhurst CA. Regional Spanish language format.

 

[dave73]

From Gary, IN, it depends on what comes in. If I get anything on 103.1, it's usually WVIV-FM Highland Park, IL. When I used to work in Lowell, IN, I got WCSJ-FM Morris, IL instead of WVIV-FM.

 

[RadioDaze]

In Durham, North Carolina, 103.1 MHz is very frustrating. We used to hear WLHC, Robbins, NC not clearly, but somewhat adequately. In 2011, the station's parent company signed on WLQC in Sharpsburg, NC at 103.1 (due east of here) with identical branding and program logs, though the two stations aren't synchronized.
Now--in the car--you get a mish-mash of the two "Life 103.1's" that sounds akin to a skipping CD.

 

[tomservo]

Between Mobile (AL) and Pensacola (FL) and between two semi-distant stations on 103.1.

Depending on which way the tropo is blowing, it's either:

WOSM // 50 kW, 68 mi. west // Ocean Springs, MS // gospel // "The Gospel Giant"
or
WMXZ (50 kW, 88 mi. east // Valparaiso, FL // rock // "The Blaze"

Sometimes it's a nauseating mix of both at the same time.

 

[n2wds]

Wellsville, NY
WCIK (Family Life) from Bath, NY.

 

[foreverchanges1975]

In Memphis it's either WMXX from Jackson, TN or KFFA from Helena, AR.

 

[Darth_vader]

@Zach--

At the same time? You mean there's no capture effect? ;o)

 

[Tincap]

From just north of Brockville Ontario. Usually (semi-local) WTOJ Watertown NY, though on good days, a tweak of the antenna nets CFMX Cobourg ON.

~BG

 

[tomservo]

@Zach--

At the same time? You mean there's no capture effect? ;o)

It's one at a time but sometimes moving the antenna as little as two or three inches is all it takes for it go from full strength on one to the other. The "in between" can be a gnashing swirl of noise, though.

I have heard two simultaneous FM signals decoding at the same time, though. It happened just the other night while I was down on Mobile Bay after sunset. Both signals appeared to be very, very weak. But I was able to ID WJDX from Canton by their TOH ID and at almost the same time WASJ Panama City did their BOB-FM promo followed by a legal ID and both were audible at the same time.

Dunno how that could be explained, but I let out an audible "whoop" when I was able to ID two stations on the same frequency almost totally at the same time!