FM Frequency of the Week - 107.9 MHz

[Buckeyes2001]

What can you get on 107.9 FM?

Here in Vermilion, OH it is semi-local WENZ/Cleveland which is now in HD. I have nulled them out before and gotten WCRZ/Flint, MI. Tropo also will bring in WCRZ sometimes blanketing WENZ.

 

[ftballfan]

Manistee, MI: A weak WCDY McBain, with WBCV Wausau, WI and WMUS Muskegon making occasional appearances
Allendale, MI: WMUS Muskegon

 

[Schroedingers Cat]

Where I usually go, WCRZ is usually on top. WENZ interferes with it sometimes at stop lights, and sometimes it captures when there is an inversion over Lake Erie. WENZ was one of the first stations I ever DXed, as WNOB, back in around 1963, when the studios of WCRZ, then WGMZ, were not able to be occupied, because of a fire in a hotel across the street that threatened a building collapse. Later, WFBE allowed them to use their studios, which were not used in the summer as it was then a school instructional station.

WNOB also was sometimes heard in the night, after WGMZ signed off. WGMZ/WCRZ could be heard throughout the Lower Peninsula of Michigan before all the drop ins.

 

[travisl5678]

Concord, CA

A reasonably strong KDND Sacramento, sometimes in HD

 

[crainbebo]

107.9 here is mainly KNDD IBOC. I do sometimes hear CILS Victoria, BC, and KHPE Albany, OR. Once had KLSY South Bend, WA as well.

In Portland, OR I get KHPE Albany, OR.

In Yakima, WA it's K300AP Sunnyside, WA which is K-LOVE.

In Pacific Beach, WA it's KLSY South Bend.

-crainbebo

 

[drt]

Downtown St. Pete,FL area; semi-local WSRZ (licensed to Sarasota with tower south of Sarasota in Nokomis) "Oldies 108", a relatively good oldies format, about half the time I can pick them up in HD and when I do, I turn to their 107.9 HD2 , ClearChannel's/IHeart Radio's "real oldies" a format that I like better or as well as the "True Oldies" format.

There is no OTA True oldies stations receivable in St. Petersburg.

drt,
st. petersburg,fl

 

[ddsparxx]

Northern VA,

I can get WLZL whose tower is just west of Annapolis, MD, when I null the IBOC from local WWWT 107.7 Warrenton, VA. A previous DX catch was WNCT Greenville, NC a long time ago before that IBOC. WLZL is a Spanish language station; used to be WFSI with a very religious format.

 

[MarioMania]

In Vallejo, CA

KDND Sacramento

 

[tomservo]

Baldwin County, Alabama, halfway between Mobile & Pensacola:

Biloxi-market WZKX, "Kicker 108" with country music.

Until recently, it was not unusual for it to fight in this area with Panama City's WPFM, but they dropped power when they moved to a taller tower, and now they're almost completely absent here except during intense tropo.

 

[dave73]

In all of Chicagoland, I get WLEY Aurora, IL. It's the only suburban commercial allocation that can be heard in downtown Chicago, & covers nearly all of the Chicago market. WPWX Hammond, IN on 92.3 & WPPN Des Plaines, IL on 106.7, are 2 suburban commercial allocations that can be heard in Downtown, but don't cover the entire market (WPWX to the south & WPPN to the north).

 

[Steve Green NEPA]

Tucked sort of between Hazleton and Pottsville :

Depending on the turn of the antenna, it's the WBYN translator from Reading or the new religious translator (10 watts) on a hill east of Hazleton. Both are faint.

DID get your Oldies 108 here, Gar, a few years back, about 3PM on some E-Skip. You're right ; 'pretty good Oldies station' is the way to describe them.
I thought I might have had the record for them that session, but a DXer from Poughkeepsie NY heard them, maybe a further 130 miles than my snag was.
Thing is, it was off the car radio between Frackville and Fountain Springs so I didn't get to tape it.
By the time I got home, they were gone. Yet, a Spanish station was there, with that hard-to-define sonic mixing that indicates E-Skip. The logical process-of-elimination thought suggested Key West, but I didn't catch an ID. In pretty quick order, it was gone, too.

 

[Tincap]

Here, north of Brockville Ontario, I usually receive:

WVPS (VPR) Burlington/Mount Mansfield VT (233km/145mi)
WWHT (Hot 107.9) Syracuse NY (203km/126mi)
CHUC (The Breeze) Cobourg ON (206km/128mi)

I have gotten all of these, up in Ottawa as well, although only in the spring/summer , when Algonquin College station CKDR is off the air (last week of April to first week in September).

~BG