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FM Frequency of the Week - 105.3 MHz

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Buckeyes2001

What do you all get on 105.3 FM?

Here in Vermilion, OH it is mostly semi-local WYHT/Mansfield, OH with a hot-AC format. When tropo is up from Canada, I'll hear CFCA/Kitchener, ON mixing in with WHYT.
 
Allendale, MI: WHTS Coopersville, MI

Manistee, MI: A sloppy mess of WRLO Antigo, WI and WHTS. If I had to guess which station came in more, I would say WRLO slightly. WHTS used to dominate 105.3 when it was in Hart.
 
Springfield, IL (car radio): weak WAOX Staunton, IL (which targets the St. Louis Metro East area). I also recall at least one instance of receiving WKAY Knoxville, IL/Galesburg here in the Capitol City as well.
 
Since I'm so active all of a sudden with my Finland post re: our AM, I obviously would like to know if anyone catches our FM, WPTQ! 25kw HD with 2 sides!
 
In St. Louis: a very weak combination of WAOX in Staunton, IL and KZNN in Rolla, MO, and even then only on the car radio.
 
In northern VA, I sometimes get the following with a Sony XDR-F1HD or a Tecsun DSP radio:

Very weak WFRB Frostburg MD (or Cumberland area since Frostburg is just west of Cumberland), with a country format,
WDAS Philly with urban adult format,
and WNOH Windsor, VA (Norfolk area) with top 40; used to be urban adult. Both under tropo conditions.

An ordinary radio would only get splatter from local WAVA 105.1.
 
In Saratoga Springs, NY.....Country station WJAN (former Rocker WEBK) Killington, Vt....with interference from a jesus translator in Albany, NY....
 
In Monroe, WA it's local KCMS Edmonds, WA with Spirit 105.3, Christian music. Formerly KBIQ serving from "Vancouver to Vancouver" with 240,000 watts of pow-pow-power with B/EZ! ;D

In Yakima, WA, KCMS is never picked up, since KONA Pasco, WA (Soft Rock) dominates the frequency. Your only ticket out for AC in Yakima ever since 99.3 KQMY went to news/talk.

In Portland, OR I get IBOC from KRSK 105.1. Will be going to the WA coast, again, in a couple weeks so I'll see how good KCMS does down there.

-crainbebo
 
In Houston it is a battle between 2 weak rimshots, KTWL Hempstead, TX with Americana "Texas Mix 105.3" and KPTY Winnie, TX airing Spanish pop simulcasting local KAMA Deer Park, TX "Tu Musica". San Antonio's KSMG "Magic 105.3" makes appearances here regularly as well.
 
In Coffeyville, KS you get a DAILY combination of three. Very inconvenient.
KJMM/Tulsa (81 miles from my house)
KFBZ/Wichita (117 miles, though broadcasting 98K ERP from 307 Meters HAAT)
KMOQ/Joplin, MO. (52 miles, 13K ERP from just 93 Meters HAAT)

You head 10 miles south, you'll hear KJMM clearly. Go 30 miles east, KFBZ is a breeze. Maybe 10 - 15 miles west and absolutely nothing fights with KMOQ. 105.3 is a complete MESS in Coffeyville, the only possibly way to make any of the 3 listenable is on a home stereo.
 
From Coldwater, MI-

WKHM serves Brooklyn and Jackson, MI with a Hot AC format (K-105.3). However, it's just a class A and on top of that terrain kills the signal in my area. Despite being just over 30 miles away, it's not very hard to get WHTS Coopersville, MI in over WKHM.

I can also get WKOA Lafayette, IN (Country K-105), WYHT Mansfield, OH (Hot AC Y-105) and sometimes W287BL Elkhart, IN (Southern Gospel) when short-haul enhancement is up.
 
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