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FM Frequency of the Week - 105.5 MHz

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Buckeyes2001

What can you all get on 105.5 FM?

Here in Vermilion, OH 105.5 is pretty much all IBOC hash from local WMJI 105.7. I've heard WWWM/Sylvania, OH (Toledo) with Hot AC as 'Star 105.5' and CBEF/Windsor, ON with the Première Chaîne format when tropo is strong enough or when I can catch WMJI's IBOC off. WGOJ/Conneaut, OH is a rather rare tropo visitor - rare that is has to come in strong enough to get through WMJI's IBOC to be heard here.
 
In East Tennessee (Knoxville and Sevierville) it's WSEV-FM (no relation anymore to WSEV AM 930, home of Milton Crabapple.), known as Mixx 105.5. Very strong in Sevier County, where it serves as the hometown station. It's pretty noisy in Knoxville due to adjacents on 105.3 and 105.7.

In Dayton, OH it was generally WCHO-FM Chillicothe, but often WMVR, Sidney
 
during the day, local WYTM-FM Fayetteville TN has a stronghold on the frequency, but they sign off the air at night, opening it up. Usually it's WVNA-FM Muscle Shoals that either takes over, or fights with WERC-FM from Birmingham. There's a 105.5 over in Chattanooga too, but I have never been able to catch it here.
 
It depends on where I'm at in the Chicago market. In Lake, Porter, & LaPorte Counties of Indiana, along with far eastern Cook County Illinois, I get WLJE Valparaiso, IN. If I'm in Lake, McHenry, or far northern Cook County Illinois, then it's WZSR Woodstock, IL. I haven't driven toward Joliet to get the other 105.5, which is WYKT Wilmington, IL. All 3 of those Class A stations are 3kw licensed stations.
 
Here in Warminster PA(Philly 'burbs), it's usually splatter from local 105.3 WDAS. In tropo situations, I have heard WDHA from Dover NJ(Morris County).
 
In Houston, there is the flagship of Houston Christian Broadcasters next door at 105-7. On occasion, country KUSJ "US 105" from Waco will sneak in next to KHCB. From Bellville, the other next door neighbor KTWL Hempstead at 105-3 causes problems for KUSJ, but "US 105" does make it as far south as Austin County with a little more regularity than in Houston.
 
Meriden, CT (car radio): WWEI Easthampton/Springfield, MA, weak but well above the background hash with its simulcast of WEEI-FM Boston's sports format.
 
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I swear we've done this frequency before, but nonetheles ...
Not much in Columbus, Ohio except digital hash from WBWR. Before the digital era and back when WBWR (in its previous incarnations) transmitted from northwest of town between Dublin and Marysville, WCHO from Washington Court House could be heard through some static. Nowadays, you have to get some distance southwest of Columbus before WCHO becomes audible. I wished I'd have checked that last Wednesday when I traveled down to suburban Dayton via I-71 for work, but I didn't.
Get down to Lancaster or so, and Power 105 out of Athens begins to come in.
 
ALL of the frequencies have been covered at some point so naturally they're going to be repeated eventually, am I right?? I try to pick ones that haven't already been done too recently.
 
Buckeyes2001 said:
ALL of the frequencies have been covered at some point so naturally they're going to be repeated eventually, am I right?? I try to pick ones that haven't already been done too recently.
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Nothing wrong, IMHO, with revisiting frequencies. Time passes, new users arrive on the board, and existing users come up with new catches, etc., etc.

For me 105.5 is a no-brainer. I have a local about 3 miles to my northwest...WZSR, Woodstock, IL. The antenna is attached to one of the three towers used by formerly co-owned WAIT (AM 850), Crystal Lake, IL.
 
105.5 has always been a frequency where I can't get a darn thing. I believe I did get KPLU's Mount Vernon translator, K288GG when I lived in Marysville. Otherwise, KCMS IBOC everywhere else.
Not good here either - just KRSE splatter. Only log I've made was KCGB Hood River, Oregon and I had to go into the Rimrock area to catch them! "Your Music, Your Station KCGB" with Westwood One's satellite Hot AC program. If you've ever DXed and heard Bernie Mack's "Nighttime Radio Program," that's the network you are getting. KRDQ 100.3 in KS runs it, as does KATL-MT 770 and KKTS-WY 1580.

-crainbebo
 
99% of the time 105.5 is WSRJ Honor, MI with ESPN Radio. Rarely, WGKL from Gladstone can make it in with a classic hits format. Once I received the aforementioned WZSR complete with ID
 
In Denver....KJAC ESPN Radio....transmitter near Ft Collins

In hometown Rome, GA...nothing except on a mountain top you can get WRXR (1800 watts) in Rossville, GA close to Chattanooga,TN.
 
South of Minnesota River (SW Burbs of Minneapolis)

KRBI 105.5 "The River" (St Peter/Mankato) about 50 miles away
A/C
 
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