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FM Frequency of the Week: 106.9 MHz

Bongwater

Bongwater

At last....A frequency nobody brought up yet!

In Bellingham, WA, it's a super weak KRWM (and only on hilltops). Prone to regular interference by CHWF Naniamo, BC. Sometimes used by local pirates. Once picked up KFRC-FM (KCBS simulcast) in summer 2009.
 
Springfield, IL: fair to poor WSWT Peoria, IL--with a previous application for a religious translator on that frequency licensed to Springfield. But the tranny will be moving to 96.1 and simulcast WFMB-AM 1450 (ESPN radio).
 
I usually get either Newsradio 570 and 106.9 WSYR Solvay, NY or CKQB 106.9 The Bear Ottawa, ON. CKQB is the one that comes in stronger during tropo.
 
Usually I hear 106.9 K-Hits - Tulsa, OK. During tropo I'll hear Country Legends 106.9 From Topeka.
 
From Baldwin County, Alabama, about halfway between Mobile and Pensacola… it's almost always country WRBE from Lucedale, MS. It's about 65 miles to my NW. It's not particularly strong on the best of days, but the frequency is dead otherwise. That may change if Pensacola-area AM R&B outlet WRNE ever finishes moving their translator on this frequency to the city.

During tropo, I've logged KEDG Alexandria, LA and WBPT Birmingham, AL.
 
I think this frequency was done twice. I think we need to go to the non-commercial band next.

Bellevue, WA-local KRWM Bremerton.

Pacific Beach, WA-same, but much weaker at 100+ mi

Yakima, WA-sometimes KMOK Lewiston, ID with their powerful C&W signal, "The Outlaw 106.9"

Portland, OR-IBOC from KLTH.

-crainbebo
 
crainbebo said:
I think this frequency was done twice. I think we need to go to the non-commercial band next.

Bellevue, WA-local KRWM Bremerton.

Pacific Beach, WA-same, but much weaker at 100+ mi

Yakima, WA-sometimes KMOK Lewiston, ID with their powerful C&W signal, "The Outlaw 106.9"

Portland, OR-IBOC from KLTH.

-crainbebo
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Checking in from NE Sacramento where we normally pick up KFRC-FM (KCBS-AM Simulcast) out of San Francisco.
 
Interesting freq, 106.9.

It helps that my local 106.7 does NOT have HD....so the gates are open.

Most common is WZZS Zolfo Springs, with an FM relay of WSVU AM 960 in the north Palm Beaches coming in second.

Habana Radio in Cuba ekes in here maybe once a week or thereabouts, and under decent Tropo, even WKZY at nearly 300 miles & WUBD Bluffton SC at almost 400 miles will make it here!

cd
 
Interesting one indeed here in suburban Rochester NY. For many, many years it was a class B facility in Auburn, about 50 miles to the east, with a very good signal hereabouts. But it ended up rimshotting Syracuse, 20 miles northeast of Auburn, and a few years ago Clear Channel moved it into Syracuse as a B1. It's now WSYR-FM, a news-talk simulcast of WSYR 570, and it's become a DX catch from Rochester.

Without 106.9B Auburn in the way, we get Ottawa's CKQB when the trop is up; otherwise, it's become a nice open channel for now.
 
Here it is the aforementioned WUBB, a country station for the last several years. It is about 60-65 miles, but it is almost always in throughout the Charleston area. It was strong enough in the early 90s as WLOW (a standards station) that it had a bunch of listeners here.

They pretty well own the frequency along the SC coast. Their only competition is WMIT, which doesn't usually come in until the Columbia area. WUBB is very rarely off which leads to few DX opportunities.
 
charlestondxman said:
Here it is the aforementioned WUBB, a country station for the last several years. It is about 60-65 miles, but it is almost always in throughout the Charleston area. It was strong enough in the early 90s as WLOW (a standards station) that it had a bunch of listeners here.

They pretty well own the frequency along the SC coast. Their only competition is WMIT, which doesn't usually come in until the Columbia area. WUBB is very rarely off which leads to few DX opportunities.
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WLOW was great. I miss hearing standards/MOR stations now. I have a tape of them when they were on 107.9 and I was at Hilton Head (Sep 2004).

cd
 
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