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FM Frequency of the Week - 103.5 MHz

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Buckeyes2001

What can you get on 103.5 FM?

Here in Vermilion, OH it is WMUZ/Detroit, MI with a varying signal and on cheaper radios, bleedover from WCRF 103.3/Cleveland (no IBOC)

Merry Christmas to all!
 
Down in Baldwin County, Alabama, it's a very weak W279AT from Spanish Fort, running religious talk programs as heard on WBHY-AM. The translator runs 99 watts but is only about 20 air miles away. It's not a good DX frequency because when tropo is up, strong stations are heard on the first adjacents here. I have logged WKNK out of Panama City before, as well as WJAD from Albany, GA. But now that the translator is there, I rarely hear anything else.
 
Usually not a very good DX frequency here in northern VA, either. However, I have logged WRCQ Dunn, NC when tropo is strong enough, and an unidentified country station from MN at this frequency during one Eskip. Normally it's DC's WTOP with news, traffic and weather, HD-2 relaying Federal News 1500 also in DC. and HD-3 called the "Gamut", a somewhat Jack-like adult hits music format.
 
Upper analogue sideband of KKCW (not Ibiquity, which shows up on 103.6 MHz).
 
Warminster PA(Philly 'burbs):

Usually splatter from 103.3 WPRB Princeton NJ. When they are off the air or nulled, I usually pick up
WKTU from New York, the dance music station.
 
On a good radio with selective tuning here in Bremerton, WA, the 100,000 watt CHQM (QM-FM) from Vancouver, BC can be heard on good days. Usually happens when KKCW from Portland, OR comes in as well next door on 103.3, when the KMTT translator from Downtown Seattle is nulled out.
 
About how strongly does KKCW hit you up there, usually?

[size=8pt]It's at least a semi-regular catch for me, down here. ;o)
 
The West side of Houston gets KPBA from Austin, in places strong enough to be like a local. East side of Houston is too far, plus there is first adjacent interference from KHJK 103.7
 
In my new spot of Monroe, WA it's a very weak CHQM (usually have to tune to 103.4 to hear it) Vancouver, BC.

Nothing in Portland (KKCW IBOC only), and in Yakima, WA I get KWHT Pendleton, OR (Country).

-crainbebo
 
From Coldwater, MI

Usually nothing but I-BLOC hash from WKFR (103.3) in Battle Creek, MI. Sometimes I can get a sniff of WMUZ Detroit, MI, WAWC Syracuse, IN or WKSC Chicago, IL.

From Bowling Green, KY- (10/2011)

A very weak urban gospel station. I think it may have been Memphis.
 
From Gaffney SC - Mostly bleed from 103.3 WOLT & 103.7 WSOC.

However I can get a weak signal from W278BE (simulcast of WBCU)
and before that translator went on air a few years ago, I can hear WZSN in Greenwood.
During tropo I can hear WZSN & the Union FM translator battling it out despite some ACI.
 
I wonder if anybody has ever gotten KXNP, North Platte, Nebraska via e-skip on 103.5. I did a fair amount of engineering for that station several years back and I have some fond/not so fond memories of that place.

Coincidentally, the KXNP transmitter site is about a half-mile from KNOP-TV DT-2, which is certainly a favorite DX target itself. Perhaps under the right conditions, both stations could be received during an opening.
 
awsherrill said:
I wonder if anybody has ever gotten KXNP, North Platte, Nebraska via e-skip on 103.5. I did a fair amount of engineering for that station several years back and I have some fond/not so fond memories of that place.

Coincidentally, the KXNP transmitter site is about a half-mile from KNOP-TV DT-2, which is certainly a favorite DX target itself. Perhaps under the right conditions, both stations could be received during an opening.
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Back in June 2001, I received a TV Channel 4 from that area via e-skip from here in Vermilion, OH. What gave it away was an ad for the Lincoln County Fair with the Nebraska outline on the screen. This was after 8pm eastern time when it happened. I remember that station had Wheel of Fortune on.
 
The Channel 4 you are talking about is likely KDUH Scottsbluff, NE. I was thinking KSNB at first until I spotted that Lincoln County was in the North Platte area.

-crainbebo
 
Rocker '103.5 The X' Serving Pittsburg/Joplin. KVSP Anadarko/Oklahoma City is an occasional visitor.
 
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