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FM Frequency of the Week 2018-19: 101.5

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This week we look at 101.5 What do you/did you/have you heard on 101.5?

East Tennessee (Knoxville-Sevierville). When I first moved here and for several years, it was a solid WQUT, Johnson City TN with their mega 99,000 watt signal some 1500 feet towering over Johnson City, Northeast Tennessee, Southwestern VA and North Carolina. It was solid throughout the Knoxville metro area, and could serve as a secondary classic rock station for me. This was until translator W268BP showed up. WQUT and the translator fought and continue to fight throughout Knoxville, with WQUT dominating and the translator being an annoying little bug. The translator has upped its power and is a little more solid in Knoxville but still suffers interference from WQUT, which is still solid in Sevierville.

Retro/other: Dayton, Ohio-101.5 has had an interesting recent history. It was completely blank, and most often I heard one of two “101.5 The River’s., one from Toledo and one in Gallipolis, Ohio (the latter has changed calls and format). Sometimes WKKG, Columbus, IN made it in. For awhile a translator for WSWO-LP parked there. Then WKSW, Urbana but moved in to Springfield moved to 101.5 and was re-licensed to Enon and moved into the Dayton market as WCLI, Click 101.5. (now with the same calls, 80s/90s country as Hank 101.5.

Retro DX Clip of the week: Here’s classic WQUT as AOR QT101 as heard in Cincinnati in 1971. http://46124.info/FM/Tennessee/TN Johnson City 101.5 1979 WQUT.mp3
 
101.5 is WKHX a country formatted station in Atlanta. Their transmitter is at the Briarcliff Rd. transmitter plant near Shepard's Lane in NE Atlanta.
 
Far northwest "Chicagoland".... 101.5 is usually blank, but WIBA-FM from Madison, WI occasionally sneaks in.
 
Mason City, IA:
Depending on the day, can get KKSI from far Southern Iowa (COL of Eddyville, serves Ottumwa).

Central KS: Being on a hill, a usually decent signal from KMKF/Manhattan (another one of my old stations!)
 
In the near western suburb of Chicago this frequency used to be open with WNSN South Bend, IN or WIBA Madison, WI making it through. However since W268AY went on the air from John Hancock Center the frequency is lost.
 
Newark, NJ area. WKXW Trenton, NJ (47 miles away) WPDH Poughkeepsie, NY and the Plainview, NY translator can be heard through the null
 
From Laramie, WY in the SE corner of the state, 101.5 is blank but sometimes I get weak tropo from classic hits KDDV The Driver Wright/Gillette, WY 205 miles away. I There's also KJHM Watkins/Fort Morgan, CO which is a Denver rimshot. Despite it being closer at 140 miles, bigger (97kw at nearly 2000 feet) compared to KDDV's 100kw at about 1000 feet, I've never heard KJHM
 
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