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FM Frequency of the Week: 106.1

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In Cheyenne, WY:
I should be getting some faint whiff of KLMI Laramie, however there are some mountains in the way of that signal, as SRG on this website has explained to me before.

During the June 10th, 2021 tropo duct, I had a pretty clear KYVZ Atwood, Kansas (my first ever KS catch) at 210 miles away, and there was ads for Rusty Ech Ford (of Wichita, apparently), Shelter Insurance ("our several locations throughout Missouri, Kansas and Colorado"), and eventually a "Decision Weather Forecast" (company based in Atwood, which sealed the positive ID for me). In addition there was an ad for "Nutrient of Atwood".
(KYVZ is between 4:05 and 5:13 in the vid, but is also heard around the 1-2 minute mark. This vid also contains KPMX Sterling, KJLT North Platte, and KIOD McCook (see 10 minute mark for that ID).
 
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East Tennessee: Perrenial rimshot WVLZ, which has had several call letters.
Retro/other: Most of Ohio, WVNO, Mansfield. The 2 Mansfield former class Bs were heard all over the state, being fairly centrally located. Lafayette, IN area, if I got anything it was the present day WWWY North Vernon, IN. That coincidentally was the first station I ever interviewed with in the 1970s, as the much lower powered WOCH.
 
San Jose, California

( hourly Intro with the electricity sound ) 69 Thousand watts of music power, 106 point 1, KMEL FM, San Fransisco, Oakland, San Jose!!!! God, I loved that hourly intro!! I use to listen to the morning "Zoo crew" on the way to school and Rick Chase in the afternoon back in the day.
KMEL was hard to get down here in the south bay on walkmans, with powerful locals such as KEZR(106.5) and KARA of Santa Clara(105.7) squishing KMEL with excessive co-channel bleed over.

KMEL was the station I DX'ed the most as a young lade. There signal was quite strong once you left the south bay. Like Mario, I once listened to KMEL nearly all the way to Tahoe, on a Sony Walkman. They were easy to get, once you got some elevation above the local mountains or away from buildings. There signal could be heard as far south as Los Banos, into Sacramento, and deep into the north bay but you needed a good antenna. At night driving into South San Francisco on 280, I was always (and still am) amazed at the site of radio mountain (San Bruno mountain) with all the antennas with there red flashing lights. I loved getting the full, clear, power of KMEL on the Walkman when those antennas came into view.

KMEL had some good R&B- Dance music back in the day, but they lost their way by 2002.
 
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East Tennessee: Perrenial rimshot WVLZ, which has had several call letters.
Retro/other: Most of Ohio, WVNO, Mansfield. The 2 Mansfield former class Bs were heard all over the state, being fairly centrally located. Lafayette, IN area, if I got anything it was the present day WWWY North Vernon, IN. That coincidentally was the first station I ever interviewed with in the 1970s, as the much lower powered WOCH.
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I used to pick them WVNO fairly frequently around greater Columbus, or at least the Far East Side where I grew up. Far enough away from the 106.3 in London that any adjacent channel interference was minimal.
Only speak in past tense here because I haven't tried for WVNO in any years and don't DX FM much at all anymore.
 
formula72 said:
San Jose, California

( hourly Intro with the electricity sound ) 69 Thousand watts of music power, 106 point 1, KMEL FM, San Fransisco, Oakland, San Jose!!!! God, I loved that hourly intro!! I use to listen to the morning "Zoo crew" on the way to school and Rick Chase in the afternoon back in the day.
KMEL was hard to get down here in the south bay on walkmans, with powerful locals such as KEZR(106.5) and KARA of Santa Clara(105.7) squishing KMEL with excessive co-channel bleed over.

KMEL was the station I DX'ed the most as a young lade. There signal was quite strong once you left the south bay. Like Mario, I once listened to KMEL nearly all the way to Tahoe, on a Sony Walkman. They were easy to get, once you got some elevation above the local mountains or away from buildings. There signal could be heard as far south as Los Banos, into Sacramento, and deep into the north bay but you needed a good antenna. At night driving into South San Francisco on 280, I was always (and still am) amazed at the site of radio mountain (San Bruno mountain) with all the antennas with there red flashing lights. I loved getting the full, clear, power of KMEL on the Walkman when those antennas came into view.

KMEL had some good R&B- Dance music back in the day, but they lost their way by 2002.
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I liked KMEL back in the 80's when they were Top 40, They used to play Mixes of alot of Top 40 Songs

My brother used to have the old KMEL Bumper Sticker when they were Rock, Hence the Call Letters
 
Because of the AM noise, I'm grossly limited to FM DX here, 50-50 between the car and the house. I'll become more of an FM DXer if and when the music starts to improve.

About 100 miles due North of Philly, it is often WISX from there. Sometimes when heading downhill north, the car radio gets Hanna-FM's simulast on 106.1. WHNA itself, the parent station across the Susquehanna from Danville, is closer and louder on 92.3.
When I once heard the 106.1 signal say 'Beaver Springs', I rushed to look it up in R-L, figuring it was from Western PA. Wrong again, Green.

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We're just off the map to the east.
 
From the southwest suburbs of Chicago:

Only station I've ever gotten on 106.1 fell into my lap in 1990, pre-IBOC: WMIL Waukesha, Wis., 20 kW in clear stereo. Today 106.1 is wiped out by IBOC sides of 105.9 WCFS Elmwood Park and 106.3 WSRB Lansing.
 
In the near north Chicago suburbs the only station I've heard on 106.1 is WMIL-FM from the Milwaukee area during tropo.
WCFS is much too strong in my area to hear anything else.
 
Chatham, IL (12 miles southwest of downtown Springfield, IL):

Strong, semi-local signal of WSMI-FM Litchfield/Hillsboro, IL. Great local station with mostly a classic country format (plus a little Americana rock at times in recent years), farm programming, local news and lots of high school sports. IIRC they still sign off at midnight. After WSMI signs off for the night, I've detected nothing else.
 
Side hash from classic rock 105.9 wnrq here in Nashvegas.

Historic: back in the '80's, WRDU (Wilson Raleigh Durham Chapel Hill) used to throw an immense signal up into central Virginia. One evening I picked it up just out of Roanoke on US 460 and carried it across 460/360 most of the way to Richmond, and picked it up again down the Peninsula into Newport News. Alas, no more... and there's a Class A station in Roanoke there now.
 
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Side hash from classic rock 105.9 wnrq here in Nashvegas.

Historic: back in the '80's, WRDU (Wilson Raleigh Durham Chapel Hill) used to throw an immense signal up into central Virginia. One evening I picked it up just out of Roanoke on US 460 and carried it across 460/360 most of the way to Richmond, and picked it up again down the Peninsula into Newport News. Alas, no more... and there's a Class A station in Roanoke there now.
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What station is it now?
 
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