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FM Frequency of the week - 104.7

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Buckeyes2001

What can you receive on 104.7?

Here in Vermilion, OH it is WIOT/Toledo, OH with some IBOC interference from WCLV 104.9. When there is some tropo, WKKY/Geneva will fight with WIOT.
 
30 miles north of Chicago, a mix of WCFL Morris, Il and a station near Milwaukee--I forgot the calls.
Also sometimes WFRN Elkhart, In.
 
104.7, KDUK-FM "K-Duck" (Florence, OR.)
Florence is at the central OR coast, perhaps most famous for the "Exploding Whale" news broadcast of KATU back in 1970. (Nice place, but personally, I like Manzanita better. ;o) This is also my first hit from the OR coast since hearing KAST-FM (R.I.P.) in the late 1990s, at my Folks' previous house about a mile away from here. Scratchy but tolerable, with stereo signal. ~120mi. (!!!)
( http://boards.radio-info.com/smf/index.php?topic=180295.msg1575731#msg1575731 )

Still there as I write this, in fact, it's a bit louder now than it was when I posted that description almost three months ago. I currently have a rabbit ear aerial on the F1HD in lieu of the factory-stock longwire, so that's probably why.
 
In northern VA,

Semilocal WAYZ from Hagerstown, MD, 55 miles to the NNW, with the transmitter on a mountain somewhere along the PA border. Plays country music; used to ba an instrumental easy listening station until 2000 when the station went ownership change. In the warmer months I occasionally hear WQHQ in Ocean City, MD, along the Atlantic coast.
 
Depends on where you are in Northeast Ohio.

WKKY/Geneva is dominant on Cleveland's east side, mixed with splash from WCLV/104.9 Lorain the further west you go, and hash from WQKT/104.5 Wooster the further south you go.

And even further west, as posted here, WIOT/Toledo pops up with a pretty good signal.
 
Here in Poughkeepsie, NY, 104.7 is owned by one of two Class B locals, WSPK, "K-104.7".

However, on the evening of Aug 10, 2009, WSPK was off the air for a while, and the following were all logged within a 40 minute period on 104.7.

WAYZ - Hagerstown, MD (country)
WQHQ - Ocean City, MD "Q-105" - most distant on 104.7 at 245 miles.
WOCN - Orleans, MA "Ocean 104.7"
WBBS - Fulton, NY "B-104.7"
WXLM - Montauk, NY (talk)
 
In southeast FL....

With outdoor antenna, or from the car....104.7 is a jumble. In order of commonness:

WFLM White City/Ft. Pierce
A pirate or two
WSGL Naples
WRBQ Tampa

On the rarest of tropo, even Radio Rebelde in Cuba

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WTUE from Dayton used to get into Columbus, especially western and southern areas, before WCVO went to HD. But once you get out of Franklin County into Madison and Union to the west, Dayton owns the frequency all the way into Cincinnati (and I'm guessing a little ways beyond).
WIOT from Toledo has an excellent signal. I used to pick it up starting at Marion, 85-90 miles south of Toledo, heading back to college and listened to it the whole way. Still do sometimes when I drive up. Their signal's is one of the big reasons no other rock station in that market has threatened them for years. On that open flat land of northern Ohio, there's really nothing to impede the signal until you get to its fringes.
 
In Carthage-Watertown, NY I get WBBS from Syracuse, NY. If there is really good tropo I will get interference from CJRC from Gatineau/Ottawa, ON.
 
104.7 in Charleston here is hash usually from our 100kw 104.5, who also has IBOC. I've picked up WNOK a couple times, but before 104.5 added IBOC (several years ago).

One time I picked up WFLM, but it took almost a perfect DX day for that to come in. WNOK is the dominant signal in central SC, but you have that horrible displacement between them and WKQC in Charlotte. WNOK interferes with Charlotte as close in as Rock Hill.
 
From Coldwater, MI-

104.7 is usually semi-local WFRN in Elkhart, IN. Turning my antenna to the east brings WIOT in Toledo during most days. WTUE in Dayton makes it in a few times a year during southern DX openings, while WKJC makes it in from Tawas City, MI during northern openings.

A very rare DX visitor (once, maybe twice a year) is WYKX from Escanaba, MI.
 
Here in Houston, 104.7 usually only brings us Hot AC KKYS-Bryan "Mix 104-7", but we shall see what happens once KVIC-Victoria moves from 95.1 in the near future.
 
In Durham, North Carolina, 104.7 MHz is one of three stations (in descending order): WPZZ, Crewe (Richmond), VA, WKQC, Charlotte or WZUP, La Grange, NC.
 
In Clovis/Fresno it would be KHTN (Hot 105) "Today's Hip Hop" from Merced CA a semi-local station.
 
In Greenville, PA, it's a fight between 104.7 from Geneva and WPGB from Pittsburgh, with Geneva winning out. Also fighting it if hash from WHMJ 104.5/ Cambridge Springs, PA
 
WQBX 104.9 from Alma, MI has a CP to move to Fowler, MI (near Lansing) at 104.7. When (and if) this move ever happens, it will probably impede all but the strongest reception of WKJC and WYKX. Right now, Lansing has a translator on 104.7 that i've never heard here. Not for lack of trying.
 
WSPK Poughkeepsie and/or WBBS-FM Syracuse are very common during tropo season here in Schenectady, NY, but normally 104.7 is either WVTL translator W284BZ or splatter from adjacents WTMM-FM and WZMR, depending on the radio used
 
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