FM Frequency of the Week 2018-19-20: 94.3

[gr8oldies]

Up the dial to the next traditional U.S. Class A DX frequency.
East Tennessee: Only local WNFZ, Powell, TN, currently the Knoxville market's Jack FM.
Retro/other: Dayton, Ohio area: There are several possibilities. If it's anything coming in, it could be WKKI, Celina, OH; WMRN (formerly WDIF), Marion, OH; WIFE, Rushville IN or WKKJ, Chillicothe, OH. I logged CKSY, Chatham ONT once there. In travels to Lake Erie, CKSY dominates the frequency.

Retro DX Clip of the week: I'm not sure where this was recorded from, but it was my home town station, at that time with 740 watts of Drake-Chenault Hit Parade power from a tower behind the Celina Music Store. Here you go. http://46124.info/FM/Ohio/OH Celina 94.3 1969 WMER.mp3

 

[radioman148]

In the near north Chicago suburbs 94.3 is a fair/good signal from WAWE Glendale Heights, Il

 

[radioman148]

Retro DX Clip of the week: I'm not sure where this was recorded from, but it was my home town station, at that time with 740 watts of Drake-Chenault Hit Parade power from a tower behind the Celina Music Store. Here you go. http://46124.info/FM/Ohio/OH Celina 94.3 1969 WMER.mp3

In the near north Chicago suburbs we didn't have a Drake-Chenault Hit Parade station, but WNUW Milwaukee did have that format which did make it into the northern Chicago suburbs.

 

[crainbebo]

Local translator for KATS, K232CV. Operates off Manastash Ridge.
If I am hiking on Rattlesnake Dance Ridge or up on the west side of Manastash, the KATS translator is often multipathed nearly out of existence, and K232ED Sunnyslope/Wenatchee (Jack FM) comes in.

 

[Mr Tony]

Mankato, MN

splatter from KXLP 94.1

 

[gr8oldies]

I saw my first automation system before I saw my first live studio. It was WMER (now WKKI)'s in back of the Celina Music Store. The owner of the store put it on the air in 1960, before the crosstown AM/FM combo across town. He sold it to the guys who put "Hit Parade" on the air. While it was still under the original ownership, it was a hodge-podge of formats, and my Jr. High principal copped a part time shift. I half expected to hear "Those were the Beatles and the following students are to report to detention hall".

As WKKI, the station still is located above the Celina Music Store, the store of which last I knew was still owned and managed by the family that owned it in 1960.

In the near north Chicago suburbs we didn't have a Drake-Chenault Hit Parade station, but WNUW Milwaukee did have that format which did make it into the northern Chicago suburbs.

 

[radioman148]

I saw my first automation system before I saw my first live studio. It was WMER (now WKKI)'s in back of the Celina Music Store. The owner of the store put it on the air in 1960, before the crosstown AM/FM combo across town. He sold it to the guys who put "Hit Parade" on the air. While it was still under the original ownership, it was a hodge-podge of formats, and my Jr. High principal copped a part time shift. I half expected to hear "Those were the Beatles and the following students are to report to detention hall".

As WKKI, the station still is located above the Celina Music Store, the store of which last I knew was still owned and managed by the family that owned it in 1960.

Interesting story!

 

[cyberdad]

In the near north Chicago suburbs 94.3 is a fair/good signal from WAWE Glendale Heights, Il

Pretty much the same story here in the far northwest Chicago burbs. 94.3 had slightly better signal at my location when it was WJKL "The Fox" a rock station based in Elgin, IL. When WJKL was sold (early 2000s, IIRC), the transmitter was moved to cover more of the metro area.

 

[cotton belt]

Smith County, Texas, 5 miles NW of Tyler:

Local Christian preaching & teaching "94.3 & 95.3 The Well" KZXM Bullard, Texas, 2.05kW horizontal / 1.85kW vertical, @ 172.3m HAAT, owned by the Educational Radio Foundation of East Texas, or ERFET for convenience.

It is one of 6 FM's owned by the ERFET in Tyler/Longview, and the only cluster of it's kind in Texas, hell, maybe the country. I've never personally seen it before the deal that saw the ERFET buy the 4 former Waller FM's.

 

[ftballfan]

WCMV Leland, MI, which just flipped to NPR "CMU Public Radio" as a simulcast of WCMU from Mount Pleasant. One of a few failed commercial stations that CMU has bought over the years (96.9 WWCM in Standish and 103.9 WCMW in Harbor Springs both failed as commercial stations, while 95.7 WCMB Oscoda and 98.3 WCMZ Sault Ste. Marie were noncommercial from day one, even though they're on commercial frequencies)

 

[radioman148]

Pretty much the same story here in the far northwest Chicago burbs. 94.3 had slightly better signal at my location when it was WJKL "The Fox" a rock station based in Elgin, IL. When WJKL was sold (early 2000s, IIRC), the transmitter was moved to cover more of the metro area.

Thanks for jogging my memory. I forgot about WJKL.

 

[CADXER]

If I remember right the move from Elgin, IL to Oak Brook Terrace happened in 2007 resulting in a much better signal at my location.

 

[ksradiogeek]

Mason City, IA:
Depending on conditions and direction of antenna, a sometimes strong signal from WQPC/Prairie du Chien, WI, literally just down the road from me about 120 miles

Central KS:
Strong signal from KCVW/Kingman, one of many signals in the Bott Network

 

[ente]

Picayune, MS:
WTIX-FM Galliano, LA (oldies), 100kw. The call sign was chosen so that they could use the same jingles as were used on the WTIX am.
Sometimes WKZW Sandersville, MS (Hot AC) 50kw also can be received.