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FM Frequency of the week - 106.9

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Buckeyes2001

What can you receive on this frequency, 106.9? From Vermilion, OH, if anything, it will be 'Rock 106.9' WRQK from Canton, OH. There have been a few times though I have heard '106.9 double XC Indiana's Classic Hits' from Marion, IN!
 
Interesting one here in Rochester: for many decades, it was a semi-local, occupied by a powerful class B signal from Auburn, about 50 miles east of here, known over the years as WMBO-FM, WPCX, WHCD and eventually WPHR, by which point it had become a Syracuse rimshot. In 2009, Clear Channel moved 106.9 into Syracuse as a B1, and now it's a DX catch at best from here. (It's now WSYR-FM, simulcasting talker WSYR 570.)

Ottawa's CKQB is often heard here in the summer as well - but not for much longer, since the Auburn downgrade cleared enough space for Clear Channel to move my local WKGS 106.7 to a new transmitter site: Pinnacle Hill, 4300 feet from here. When they move there later this year, their HD will completely wipe anything on 106.9...
 
We have "106.9 The Zone" here in Houston. Actually a rimshot from north of town in Conroe, Tx. Format is now 80's and 90's alternative, but up until recently it was our God awful "80's and more" station brought to you by Cox Radio. Once in awhile tropo will push KLUB-Bloomington, Tx. this way. It is a classic rock station targetting Victoria, and is pretty rare this far up the coast as it only runs 18,500 watts on a pretty short stick.
 
For me in VA, the same I posted on last November's FM Frequency of the week 106.9 thread: IBOC hiss from WJFK 106.7 in DC. When I null out the IBOC, I can get WARX 106.9 out of Hagerstown, MD.
 
Near Carthage/Watertown, NY I usually get a weak WSYR from Syracuse along with CKQB from Ottawa if there is any tropo at all. During the summer CKQB usually wipes WSYR right off the dial.

Scott, I wonder if that WKGS move will make it receivable by tropo up here. I have the relatively strong local WBDR on 106.7. Even though its ERP isn't very high I am close to the transmitter. Last summer WBEE wiped out WBLH from Watertown, but WBEE is 50kw and WBLH doesn't throw much power towards my side of the city. You never know, that lake tropo can get pretty powerful like the day CBL wiped out my local WOTT.
 
Spunker, how well did you get the 106.9 signal when it was still an Auburn-licensed B? It was a flamethrower to the west; there were many parts of Rochester where it came in better than WKGS, even though WKGS is right here in the market.

I suspect the WKGS move may make it a little less likely as a tropo target up your way. Right now, WKGS is an A located atop the Seneca Towers apartment building on the north side of Rochester; it's the closest Rochester commercial FM to the lakeshore. It's moving to Pinnacle Hill, a few miles inland, and picking up a little bit of elevation along the way.
 
If anything I may get a weak signal from WKDN Camden or WCCC Hartford but usually 106.9 is nothing but overload from 106.7 WLTW & 107.1 WXPK.
 
Here in Poughkeepsie NY, a local translator just moved to 106.9 four days ago from 98.9. This is due to a CP for a new class A station being issued locally for 98.9. So now, just the translator, relaying WJUX-99.7 is all I get on 106.9. Meanwhile, 98.9 is my one and only really empty frequency, so I'm hoping that the new 98.9 station doesn't come on the air until after the 2011 summer E-Skip season so I can add to my loggings on 98.9. The translator came on the air in spring 2008, before I got my SONY XDR-F1HD.

Heard on 106.9 since 2003:

WCCC - Hartford, CT "C-C-C", used to be dominant.
WKZY - Cross City, FL "K-Z-Y",
WSWT - Peorida, IL
KDMU - Bloomfield, IA
KIHK - Rock Valley, IA "Hawk Country", most-distant on 106.9 at 1144 miles.
WBQX - Thomaston, ME "W-Bach"
WMOZ - Moose Lake, MN "Oldies 106.9"
CBN - St. John's NF - CBC Radio Two
WKDN - Camden, NJ - Family Radio
WPHR - Auburn, NY "Power 106.9"
W295AA - Middletown, NY - Northeast Public Radio
W255BY - Poughkeepsie, NY - new translator - these are the "old" calls.
WEZX - Scranton, PA "Rock 107"
WWYN - Mckenzie, TN
WKXD - Monterrey, TN
WAFX - Suffolk, VA "The Fox"
 
From Coldwater, MI

The main station is WSAE from Spring Arbor, MI. A class A signal from 25 miles away. This station can get blown right off the map by WOOD-FM from Muskegon (100 miles) or WXXC from Marion, IN (also 100 miles).

I've also heard...

WRQK- Canton, OH
WJMR- Milwaukee, WI
KROC- Rochester, MN
WSWT- Peoria, IL
WVEZ- Louisville, KY
CIXX- London, ON (Very tentative catch heard while WSAE was off the air)

Not a very productive frequency for me..
 
Lawppy said:
From Coldwater, MI

The main station is WSAE from Spring Arbor, MI. A class A signal from 25 miles away. This station can get blown right off the map by WOOD-FM from Muskegon (100 miles) or WXXC from Marion, IN (also 100 miles).

I've also heard...

WRQK- Canton, OH
WJMR- Milwaukee, WI
KROC- Rochester, MN
WSWT- Peoria, IL
WVEZ- Louisville, KY
CIXX- London, ON (Very tentative catch heard while WSAE was off the air)

Not a very productive frequency for me..
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WXXC also blows away Wright State University's Class D WWSU (now runs 20W ERP, used to be just 8 watts!) in the Dayton, Ohio area as well any time the tropo activity is up. I remember one particularly bad day that the co-channel hiss could even be heard on the air monitor in the WWSU studio, even with the tower in sight just across campus!
 
Scott Fybush said:
Spunker, how well did you get the 106.9 signal when it was still an Auburn-licensed B? It was a flamethrower to the west; there were many parts of Rochester where it came in better than WKGS, even though WKGS is right here in the market.

I suspect the WKGS move may make it a little less likely as a tropo target up your way. Right now, WKGS is an A located atop the Seneca Towers apartment building on the north side of Rochester; it's the closest Rochester commercial FM to the lakeshore. It's moving to Pinnacle Hill, a few miles inland, and picking up a little bit of elevation along the way.
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To be honest I never had a decent radio before I got my Sony XDR-F1HD about a year ago. Many cheaper radios that I used before I got into Dxing have bleed in from WBDR on 106.9.
 
Schenectady, NY - just a faint buzz of WFFG 107.1 (Froggy Country in Corinth) here... can't pick up anything else here on 106.9.

Haven't seriously gotten into DXing much yet, but I've been thinking about it :)
 
KLTH (106.7) sideband, almost as clearly as the main channel. Currently it and KKCW are probably the strongest VHFs situated to the right of 91.9 that I can hear at the flat. (KKCW exhibits the same phenomenon, and both are running IBAC.)

I have yet to hear the effects of their IBAC transmissions on my analogue set!
 
Near Farmville, Virginia:

Antenna aimed east: W295BF, a translator for WRVL 88.3, Lynchburg (Victory FM) - Midlothian, VA
Antenna aimed southeast: WAFX 106.9, Suffolk, VA (The Fox)
 
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