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FM Frequency of the Week - 106.1 MHz

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Buckeyes2001

What can you guys get on 106.1 FM?

Here in Vermilion, OH it is a good signal from WVNO/Mansfield, OH with an ac format. Sometimes with tropo, WJXQ/Charlotte, MI will fight with WVNO
 
106.1 in Bellevue, WA is KBKS Seattle (106.1 KISS-FM).

In Yakima, WA I could get KBKS, KZFN Moscow, ID (CHR) and once in August 2008, a SS pirate (never found the location).

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

-crainbebo
 
From Coldwater, MI-

Local WJXQ Charlotte, MI with a rock format (Q-106).

If tropo is up, I can get
WVNO- Mansfield, OH- (AC)
WWWY- North Vernon, IN- (Classic Hits- Y106)
WHST- Tawas City, MI- (Religious- Promise FM)
CIMJ- Guelph, ON- (AC- Majic 106)

Kokomo, Muncie and Plymouth in Indiana all have translators on 106.1. My dream is for WJXQ to go down so I can try to grab one of them.
 
From Baldwin County, Alabama it's semi-local class A "Magic 106" WRRX from Pensacola, doing urban AC. Because I'm well on the fringe, it's a good frequency for near-tropo and occasionally the Picayune, MS-licensed WMTI booms in with sports talk.
 
Though both 105.9 WCFS-FM Elmwood Park/Chicago & WSRB Lansing, IL on 106.3 are pretty strong in NW Indiana, I occasionally get WMIL Waukesha/Milwaukee.
 
Northern VA.

Normally I get nothing here, even with the local 105.9 IBOC off. I once got WXSH Pocomoke City, MD even with the IBOC on. That's east of Chesapeake Bay. The 105.9 IBOC has been off lately...I heard WUSH from the Norfolk area once.
 
Primarily the ANALOGUE (not Ibiquity, which shows up on 106.2) sideband of KFBW. If I have the F1HD on the outside aerial I can hear another station far off, but not clear enough to make out.

KFBW's analogue sideband takes out everything that might otherwise be present on 106.1 on the Grundig.

(I'm guessing your rig must only tune in 200-kHz steps, crainbebo, which must be why Ibiquity channels show up on the odd-numbered frequencies.)
 
My radio tunes 100 khz steps, but due to the DSP technology, 106.1 is static and IBOC. 106.0 is the analog sideband. The DSP is excellent for FM. KMPS can be heard in Gresham on a high building, with no interference from KPDQ.

-crainbebo
 
ddsparxx said:
Northern VA.

Normally I get nothing here, even with the local 105.9 IBOC off. I once got WXSH Pocomoke City, MD even with the IBOC on. That's east of Chesapeake Bay. The 105.9 IBOC has been off lately...I heard WUSH from the Norfolk area once.
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Have you ever gotten WKGO from Cumberland, MD? They identify as "GO 106.1". I often listen to them when I'm travelling through PA or MD
 
It's a DSP rig. That would explain the difference, then, since the Yacht Boy 400 that I attempt DXing with* is most certainly not a DSP radio! If you're hearing the analogue sidebands 100 kHz out and the Ibiquity 200, its front-end must be set a bit narrower than what I have.

What did you say it was again, a G-8?

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* It's actually the more sensitive of the couple portable rigs I have access to at the moment. My original 15-year old DX-375 is just hanging on by a very thin thread, and is stone-deaf on FM to nearly everything except moderately-strong locals. (It used to be a pretty decent FM rig years ago, but it's been subjected to a few encounters with hard surfaces, mainly tile and hardwood floors, during its lifetime.) Even when I have it set to 9/100 (instead of the default 10/200) it also pulls in the Ibiquity channels 300 channels out, hence 106.2. I guess it must just be the way those older non-DSP Grundig dinosaurs were designed.
 
Yes, the radio is a Grundig G8. Your nearest Radio Shack should have the G8 for $50-60. I got it for $50 in November of last year.

-crainbebo
 
Buckeyes2001 said:
ddsparxx said:
Northern VA.

Normally I get nothing here, even with the local 105.9 IBOC off. I once got WXSH Pocomoke City, MD even with the IBOC on. That's east of Chesapeake Bay. The 105.9 IBOC has been off lately...I heard WUSH from the Norfolk area once.
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Have you ever gotten WKGO from Cumberland, MD? They identify as "GO 106.1". I often listen to them when I'm travelling through PA or MD
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I don't think I ever did, until I reach past Frederick, MD or Charles Town, WV. Tropo openings across the Appalachians are extremely rare here east of the Blue Ridges.
 
From Gaffney, SC - Weak signal from 106.1 WOLS south of Charlotte.
But I also get bleeding interference from WYRD 106.3 (Greenville) at times....
I have gotten interference from 105.9 WTMT (Asheville) as well, and during tropo, rarely WMMY (Boone) shows up over WOLS.
 
In Bellingham, WA, an unlistenable KBKS (106.1 has occasionally had a pirate up here.)
 
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