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FM Frequency of the Week - 105.7 MHz

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Buckeyes2001

What do you all get on 105.7 FM? Here in Vermilion, OH, this is local WMJI/Cleveland with a Oldies/Classic Hits format. This is the FM signal in my area with the greatest range. It takes some intense tropo for anything to interfere with it here and I have only caught interference from Star 105.7/Grand Rapids, MI (Formerly WOOD-FM).

On my travels to Columbus, OH via I-71, WMJI is solid until just south of Mansfield, where WBWR/Hilliard, OH starts cutting in with a 80s based classic rock format 'The Brew at 105.7'

Driving on I-95 near Stafford, VA while visiting a friend, I heard a semi-weak WMXH/Harrisonburg, VA calling itself 'Stardust 105.7' with a standards/nostalgic format.
 
Here just east of Columbus, it's the Brew at 105.7 with a moderately strong signal. Get much farther away from town than I am, though (about 30 miles due east), and 105.7 is liable to get clobbered if there's an atmospheric event of some kind. It's not uncommon even 15 miles north of me to hear WMJI run all over the Brew if conditions are right.
About 15 miles east and southeast of me, the Brew gets run over by WWJM from New Lexington.
 
Schenectady, NY - very strong WQSH Malta with "Crush FM" 90s Hits format... (ex-WNYQ... I remember it used to be WNYQ broadcasting out of Queensbury until 2006 and back then it actually had a fair signal all the way down to southern Albany/Rensselaer Counties much like WKBE does today), never been able to get anything else on this frequency...
 
In Bothell/Bellevue, WA 105.7 is another good channel for DX. CBU Vancouver, BC (CBC Radio Two) and K289AK Orting, WA (CSN jesuscaster) are both common stations, and KJET Raymond, WA (105.7 The Jet, Dial-Global Hot AC) pops up once in a great while, either from their main xmitter or their KJET-FM1 booster in Aberdeen-Hoquiam. I've also caught XEPRS Tjiuana, BCN (Oldies, The Walrus) and KPMX Sterling, CO (Hot AC) via Es.

In Pacific Beach, WA it's KJET with a strong signal.

In Portland, OR it's splatter from KFBW 105.9.

In Wapato, WA I get local KRSE Yakima, WA (Bob FM).

-crainbebo
 
Buckeyes2001 said:
Driving on I-95 near Stafford, VA while visiting a friend, I heard a semi-weak WMXH/Harrisonburg, VA calling itself 'Stardust 105.7' with a standards/nostalgic format.
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Never hear them on the Eastern side of the Blue Ridge. At least I've never heard them, even with a rooftop FM antenna. I can pull in most of the other H'Burg stations, but WMXH is listed as Luray, VA, so they are a bit North of the city and in a more mountainous area of the Valley. At 150 Watts, that must have been a fluke to hear them from so far. Luray is around 100 miles and across the Blue Ridge at that.
 
I have CIKR 105.7 from Kingston with its big 50kw signal that covers Watertown pretty well and usually shows up in the ratings. Once you get away from the signal going west/NW its quite common to get interference from CFGL Montreal during tropo.
 
Manassas, VA,

Just IBOC from WMAL FM 105.9 (and this station no longer identifies as AM 630). When I null out the IBOC with a Tecsun DSP radio, I can get Baltimore's 105.7 but unfortunately not WMXH. A tropo opening last year allowed me to hear Dixie 105.7 down in NC once.
 
This one used to be a wide-open DX channel here in Rochester NY, but when CIKR came on in Kingston, it owned the channel and has owned it ever since. Sometimes CHRE St. Catharines will poke through, and very occasionally WMJI Cleveland, WMRV Endicott/Binghamton or even CFGL Laval/Montreal.
 
Philadelphia PA area:

Usually a very weak signal from WCHR-FM in Manahawkin NJ(rock station, not to be
confused with the Trenton religious station on AM 920). During tropo, I have also gotten
WQXA from York PA, WQSR(now WJZ-FM) from Baltimore, and WVBF from Boston.
 
From Coldwater, MI-

Not much to speak of here except for WSRW (Star 105.7), an adult contemporary station in Grand Rapids, but their tower is on a hill a good 25 miles southeast of GR. Also, I don't think they're running all of their licensed 265kw, either. Their signal into Coldwater is scratchy, and not what you might expect from a station of their size.

On my home set-up, I can also get..
WYXB- Indianapolis, IN- AC- B 105.7
WMJI- Cleveland, OH- Oldies- Majic 105.7
WZOM- Defiance, OH- Country- The Bull

Rare, but not uncommon..
WIXO- Peoria, IL- Rock- The X
WAPL- Appleton, WI- Rock
CHRE- Saint Catharines, ON- AC- EZ Rock

From Bowling Green, KY in summer '10 and fall '11
A mash-up of WGRK from Greensburg, KY (Campbellsville) and WTCJ from Cannelton, IN (Owensboro/Tell City)
 
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