FM Frequency of the Week: 105.7

[MarioMania]

Rocklin, CA

Splatter from KSAC 105.5 Sacramento

Vallejo, CA

Nothing

 

[Battenkill50]

WWLL - Lite FM - Sebring FL 105.7 - under enhanced conditions

(about 50 miles SSW of Melbourne )

KTW - Melbourne

 

[gr8oldies]

East Tennessee.....It's an interesting frequency. Before a couple of translators came on, distant rimshot WIHG (The Hog, though Classic Hits and not Country), Harriman TN, reached most of the Knoxville area, but that all changed with W289BQ (WCRK), Morristown and particularly W289CU, Knoxville, making WIHG a Crossville market station only (I said at the outset of the translator invasion that rimshots would be hardest hit).

Retro/other: Dayton, Ohio area could bring 105.7 out of Hilliard (current calls WXZK), or more often, Indianapolis's WJXB. I've also received WZOM. Defiance, Ohio.

 

[schmave]

The current WXZX transmitted from much closer to Marysville for years, so doesn't surprise me to hear that signal snuck into parts of the Dayton area. When their tower was right off 33 and 42 in Union County in the 90s, I usually could take them to about the Logan-Auglaize County line before they finally faded out ... not an easy task with the Bellefontaine ridge stunting Columbus signals going in that direction (and Lima/other western Ohio signals going east), but their signal was still strong enough at that point to make it over.
Here in suburban Columbus, of course, it's all WXZX all the time.

 

[ksradiogeek]

South Central Kansas:
K289CI/Wichita, which relays KSGL. Before its move from Emporia and sign on a few years ago, it was a weak to audible only during tropo KJRL/Herington.

North Iowa:
Marginal to weak signal from KOKZ/Waterloo.

 

[gr8oldies]

The current WXZX transmitted from much closer to Marysville for years, so doesn't surprise me to hear that signal snuck into parts of the Dayton area. When their tower was right off 33 and 42 in Union County in the 90s, I usually could take them to about the Logan-Auglaize County line before they finally faded out ... not an easy task with the Bellefontaine ridge stunting Columbus signals going in that direction (and Lima/other western Ohio signals going east), but their signal was still strong enough at that point to make it over.
Here in suburban Columbus, of course, it's all WXZX all the time.

I've noticed in the past, likely because of that ridge, a big difference in FMs received from, Lima to Kenton or Bellefontaine

 

[schmave]

I've noticed in the past, likely because of that ridge, a big difference in FMs received from, Lima to Kenton or Bellefontaine

Yes it does. The dial even sounds considerably different at Mad River Mountain than five miles away at Campbell Hill or in Bellefontaine proper. Nowadays, I am not sure 105.7 makes it over the ridge into Bellefontaine. I very rarely if ever listen to them anymore.
@chad43358 can attest to this as well. He lives, or lived, north of the ridge and can/could get stations that disappear just to his south.

 

[cyberdad]

Crystal Lake, IL....

105.7 is heavy splatter from local WZSR 105.5.

 

[RMarino]

East Tennessee.....It's an interesting frequency. Before a couple of translators came on, distant rimshot WIHG (The Hog, though Classic Hits and not Country), Harriman TN, reached most of the Knoxville area, but that all changed with W289BQ (WCRK), Morristown and particularly W289CU, Knoxville, making WIHG a Crossville market station only (I said at the outset of the translator invasion that rimshots would be hardest hit).

It's still a mess here on my side of Knoxville. I can't hear either signal clearly. At home I can sometimes null out the translator and hear WIHG and all its HD subchannels. But driving around town it's basically an audio picket fence. That translator really needs to go elsewhere.

 

[gr8oldies]

It's still a mess here on my side of Knoxville. I can't hear either signal clearly. At home I can sometimes null out the translator and hear WIHG and all its HD subchannels. But driving around town it's basically an audio picket fence. That translator really needs to go elsewhere.

Unfortunately, the license says Herriman, not Knoxville. I think the owners of WIHG tried to get those translators off the frequency, but did not have any success. Distant rimshot were going to be the first affected

 

[RMarino]

Unfortunately, the license says Herriman, not Knoxville. I think the owners of WIHG tried to get those translators off the frequency, but did not have any success. Distant rimshot were going to be the first affected

I think you mean Rockwood, not Harriman. But I get your point. Yes they tried to get them off the air, and even contacted me for help. But that was over 3 years ago. Interestingly, Knoxville is still in their legal ID (WIHG HD1 Rockwood, Crossville, Knoxville). I guess they think someone is still able to listen here.