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FM Frequency of the Week 2018-19: 104.5

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gr8oldies

Up the dial to 104.5, our next traditional, pre-Docket 80-90 Class B/C. What do you or did you hear on 104.5?


East Tennessee (Knoxville/Sevierville): Only local WKHT.
Retro/other: Dayton, Ohio. With local 104.7 and its iBoc, 104.5 could be a challenge. If anything, WJJK would drift in from Indianapolis. Further North in Ohio before Docket 90-90, WWST, Wooster made many appearances.

Lafayette, IN area, WAJC, later going through other formats including The Bear (Country), Gold 104.5 and Jack FM (the Jack moniker was dropped) was a semi-local. Don’t remember anything else.

When WAJC was the voice of Butler University in Indianapolis, there was a point where the tower fell (I don’t know why). Here they are back on the air: http://46124.info/FM/Indiana/IN Indianapolis 104.5 1987 WAJC (Tower Fell Down).mp3
 
104.5 is an interesting frequency in Manistee, MI. The two closest stations are WZTC Traverse City, MI and WSNX Muskegon, MI. However, the two most common 104.5s are WXER Plymouth, WI (which airs a similar format to WSNX) and WAXX Eau Claire, WI (the station that covers the most area of any station in the Great Lakes area thanks to running 100kW from a nearly 2000' tower)
 
Ellensburg WA
Noisy and very weak K283BX Wapato WA (KBBO-1390, Fox Sports). Once in a great while, you can get a fadeup from KLSW Covington WA (K-LOVE).
I have no Eskip logged here. I do have K283BH Bend OR (150 watts) logged from the hills above Rimrock, in my Yakima County logs. That was over 170 miles!!! They are a repeater for KBNW-1340, a talk station. This was logged in July 2014, pre-K283BX. Channel was wide open back then.
 
Mason City, IA:
Fading, weak signals from either KDAT/Cedar Rapids or KJLY/Blue Earth, MN

Central KS:
Clear signal from KFXJ/Augusta (targets Wichita)
 
Picayune, MS:
KWMZ Empire, LA (80's Hits)
less often WXRR Hattiesburg, MS (Classic Rock)
KKMY Orange, TX has been received via tropo.
 
ftballfan said:
WAXX Eau Claire, WI (the station that covers the most area of any station in the Great Lakes area thanks to running 100kW from a nearly 2000' tower)
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A flat-out monster. WAXX shares the tower with WEAU-TV, the NBC affiliate for Eau Claire and west central Wisconsin. Channel 13 (now virtual
Ch 13).
 
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