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FM Frequency of the Week 2018-19: 105.3

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Up one more on our tour of the Class B/C frequencies (or at least the frequencies that used to be Class B/C. What do you/did you/have you heard on 105.3.

East Tennessee, it's the Loudon rimshot, WFIV with its little-paid-attention to AAA format.

Dayton, OH area. If anything, it's usually WYHT, Mansfield. Sometimes WKOA, or even more rare, Evansville IN. Lafayette(obviously my Lafayette local).. Mansfield's 2 higher powered stations, WYHT (formerly WCLW-FM) and WVNO get out across the state.

Retro DX Clip of the week from Bob Hawkins site: WVHI. Evansville, IN, 1968. We were looking forward to the 1968 Indianpolis 500, which was blacked out across the state of Indiana. The solution? Cross the border and watch the race in Kentucky on closed-circuit television. http://46124.info/FM/Indiana/IN Evansville 105.3 1968 WVHI.mp3
 
'Lava 105-3'

They had been playing classic rock but recently switched the format to 'Greatest Hits of All Time' and they play so many good lost songs you don't hear on typical oldies stations.

On Sunday mornings, they even have American Top 40 The 70's with Casey Kasem.
 
Orange County, TX KXXF Winnie, TX. Under skip conditions most often WWL New Orleans and KSLO Simmesport, LA, KRLD, Dallas and KSMG Seguin,TX.
 
In Atlanta 105.3 belongs to WBZY in Newnan GA. It is owned by I-Heart and has a Spanish format.
 
In Seattle it's KCMS ("Christian Music Service"), licensed to suburban Edmonds WA. They run a CCM format, and ratings wise are quite successful even here in godless Seattle. Now at 54kW broadcasting from Cougar Mt. (around 1200 ft HAAT) as a C1, back in the 60s and 70s was known as Beautiful Music KBIQ (Known By It's Quality.) KBIQ had a very powerful 240kW signal that was generated from the top of their AM tower just north of Seattle. I guess the thinking was that you could overcome a lot of multipath through sheer brute force LOL.

Christa Ministries is a well operated mini-chain. They have an AM Christian spoken word in the Seattle market, A CCM FM licensed to Lynden WA (think right on the Canadian border) which is really serving Vancouver BC, and a CCM FM in Austin TX to go along with the CCM FM in Seattle. All are programmed separately, AFAIK.
 
Ellensburg WA

KONA-FM Pasco WA (Adult Contemporary, but leans towards Hot AC nowadays) - a big 100kw stick that makes it far to the west, heard them in the Roslyn area yesterday.
If you are way up in the hills you might get KCMS Edmonds (Christian Contemporary) in spots where KONA fades out. But it's hard to catch.

No Eskip has been caught here.
 
Local 105.5 here at my QTH here northwest of Chicago blows out everything on the two first adjacent channels.
 
Surprisingly, most common on 105.3 in Manistee is WRLO Antigo, WI with a classic rock format. Much closer WHTS from Coopersville, MI (tower near Fremont) rarely makes it in, as well as WLVE from the Milwaukee suburbs.

Retro: WHTS (as WCXT) used to be much closer (and 100kW), so it owned the frequency.
 
Mankato, MN
Not much in town as its sandwiched between 105.1 The Current (MPR) translator and 105.5 KRBI

If you go out of town a few miles (to mute that 10 watt translator) you can get Y105 KYBA Stewartville (Rochester, MN)..every now and then when its really humid you may get WLUP Cambridge, MN (north of the metro)
 
Back when WHTS Coopersville (where Del Shannon was from) was WCXT Hart, it was 100 kW and always crossing Lake Michigan into Southeast Wisconsin, before they dropped in 105.3 into Mukwanago, Wisconsin. Seems like they were Z-Rock for a while.
 
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Schroedingers Cat said:
Back when WHTS Coopersville (where Del Shannon was from) was WCXT Hart, it was 100 kW and always crossing Lake Michigan into Southeast Wisconsin, before they dropped in 105.3 into Mukwanago, Wisconsin. Seems like they were Z-Rock for a while.
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I have heard that Salem (the original owners of the 105.3 in Mukwonago) paid the owners of WCXT a lot of $$ to downgrade from 100kW to 28kW (they were on the tower now used by WWKR and WSMZ east of Hart)
 
From Carrollton, MO.
Usually nothing but splatter from KCJK-FM Garden City, MO (Kansas City, MO area.) IBOC. I used to once in a while hear KZNN-FM Rolla, MO (Country.) years ago.
 
Mason City, IA:
Clear to iffy signal from KYBA/Stewartville, MN (Rochester)

Central KS:
Clean signal from KFBZ/Haysville (Wichita)
 
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