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FM Frequency of the Week 2018-19: 103.5

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gr8oldies

FREQUENCY OF THE WEEK: 103.5

What do you/did you/have you heard on 103.5?

Taking a trip up the dial on the traditional Class B/C U.S. Frequencies.

East Tennessee: Knoxville/Sevierville: Nothing but 79,000 watt local WIMZ. The one time I caught it off the air revealed nothing,

Retro/other: Dayton, Ohio area: WGRR most of the time, which with its Hamilton COL can still put a decent signal into the South Suburbs. Fairly often, the Lancaster/Pickerington station would make it in in whatever configuration it was. Also have picked up WMUZ, Detroit.

RETRO DX CLIP OF THE WEEK FROM BOB HAWKINS: E-skip from WSHE, Fort Lauderdale as heard from Indiana in 1988.
http://46124.info/FM/Florida/FL Fort Lauderdale 103.5 1988 WSHE.mp3
 
40 miles northwest of downtown Chicago, it's WKSC. Fair to good signal.

103.5 hasn't been a frequent stop for me since its days as WFYR (1970s). I was living about 150 miles west of Chicago at the time, and occasionally, WFYR would make the hop to there during tropo events from a stick mounted atop the Prudential Building (IIRC).
 
cyberdad said:
40 miles northwest of downtown Chicago, it's WKSC. Fair to good signal.

103.5 hasn't been a frequent stop for me since its days as WFYR (1970s). I was living about 150 miles west of Chicago at the time, and occasionally, WFYR would make the hop to there during tropo events from a stick mounted atop the Prudential Building (IIRC).
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When WKFM became WFYR in April of 73 they were running much more power at 188 w Randolph. I could hear them much farther out than the FM sticks on the Hancock or Sears.
 
radioman148 said:
When WKFM became WFYR in April of 73 they were running much more power at 188 w Randolph. I could hear them much farther out than the FM sticks on the Hancock or Sears.
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WKFM on 103.5. Yeah. Growing up in Wauconda, ten miles east of where I am now, that was a station you could pick up "hiss-free" on a table radio or a small clock radio. WMAQ-FM (101.1) was another. In the early 1960s, in junior high school when I started to get interested in DX, not all of the Chicago stations were listenable at my location. WBBM-FM was one of those.
 
Mason City, IA:
A weak but listenable KYSM/Mankato; occasionally, KNEI/Waukon from the far northeast part of the state can sneak in.

Central KS:
Generally nothing, though being on a hill, I can net KQLA from Ogden (about an hour up the road, though very weak). When I was going to school in Hutchinson, I pulled in KVSP/Anadarko (OKC) for about 5 minutes before fading away.
 
Warminster PA(Philly 'burbs)
Usually WKTU from NYC. In tropo, there's also WTOP from
DC and a station from Delaware(forget the calls).
 
In Laramie, WY

K278CM 250 Watts at 33 feet, a translator for KUWR 91.9 HD and their Wyoming Sounds format

That "33 feet is deceiving". Theyre up on a big ass hill
 
gr8oldies said:
WIMZ has never made it up there?
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Not that I recall. At least not within the last 10 years or so. 103.5 is an odd frequency here. It's almost always WGRR or nothing at all. WGRR more often than not. I will say that 100.3 WCYQ makes it as far north as Richmond on a regular basis. I used to be able to listen to it in Wilmore (near Nicholasville) when I was in college at Asbury University, but I've never been able to pull in anything from Knoxville in Lexington proper.
 
Ellensburg WA
A fuzzy KWHT Pendleton OR (Country). This was the same thing in Yakima until last year, when KZTR-LP (Spanish Religion) signed on, wiping out the Pendleton signal. Also logged is CHQM Vancouver BC (Adult Contemporary).
Surprisingly NO Eskip has been caught here. I've heard this frequency light up when skip is up, but have never logged any identifications. I need everything in Es range including the legendary KOST 103.5 L.A.
 
Reynoldsburg, Ohio ...
Always local WNND, the 103.5 half of "Rewind 103.5/104.3," broadcasting with 4,200 watts from about three miles east of me on I-70. The tower looks like a cell phone tower on the south side of 70 right at mile marker 116.
 
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