FM Frequency of the Week 2018-19-20: 101.9

[gr8oldies]

What do you/did you receive on 101.9?

East Tennessee: WWST next door on 102.1’s iBoc precludes much of anything.

Retro/other: Dayton, OH area: The one and only Q102/WKRQ.
Lafayette, IN in the 1980s/90s: A tossup between WKRQ and WTMX, Skokie IL

Retro DX Clip of the Week from Bob Hawkins: A telephonic weather update from WDEZ, Wasau, WI from 1982.

http://46124.info/FM/Wisconsin/WI Wausau 101.9 1982 WDEZ.mp3

 

[radioman148]

In the near north Chicago area it's all WTMX, actually licensed to Skokie, but transmitting from the Sears Tower. (yeah I know it's Willis, but old habits are hard to break).

 

[cyberdad]

40 or so miles northwest of downtown Chicago, it's all WTMX on 101.9. Like most full-facility Chicago FM's, the signal is fair-good.

 

[RyanHoward]

Warminster PA(Philly 'burbs):

Usually splatter from local 102.1 WIOQ(you know, Q-102). In tropo situations, there's
WFAN-FM from NYC, WLIF from Baltimore and WAVT from Pottsville PA.

 

[Steve Green NEPA]

If I stuck my headset out my attic window here in Fustville PA I would be able to see 'T-102's stick five miles north of me up there in Shenandoah Heights.
That's the WAVT about which Ryan speaks.
'The Heights' indeed is up there in elevation. The now-dark WMBT 1530 used to have their stick several blocks west of WAVT's tower. (and WMBT really could get out. I used to hear them in Queens at sunset, regularly.)

https://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/pat?call=WAVT&service=FM

T-102's tower looks like a combination Erector Set / oil well / airport windsock-beacon. I've never heard them off the air, so I have no idea what would come in during their absence. Perhaps Baltimore would come in. I have heard that T-102 regularly goes into north New Jersey and gives NYC's 101.9 fits at times.

So much for DXing on 101.9 for any gleeful catches, hi.