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FM Frequency of the Week 2018-19: 88.3

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What do/did you hear on 88.3

Before plowing into the Class B/C 94s on the commercial band, let's take a look at 88.3 in the Educational Band.

Knoxville/Sevierville TN: WYLV, Maynardsville TN, our local K-Love station. That is all.

Dayton, Ohio: WAIF, Cincinnati if anything, with the possibilibility of WLAB, Fort Wayne.
 
88.3 here is a mixture of WSMZ Crystal Valley, MI (Smile FM) and WTCY Greilickville, MI (EWTN Radio).

I have also received:
KPAC San Antonio, TX (Classical)
KLYT Albuquerque, NM (CCM)
WEJC White Star, MI (Smile FM)
WHWC Menomonie, WI (WPR Ideas Network)
WPOZ Union Park, FL (CCM)
 
Nothing close by here in suburban Columbus, Ohio.
This is a frequency close to my heart, though. I was sports director at an 88.3 once upon a time, that being WXUT in Toledo, the University of Toledo's campus radio station. Filled that role from 1998-2000.
I don't DX FM much, nor look at many FM DX reports, but doubt WXUT is heard too far and wide. Broadcasts with 100 watts from atop the tallest dorm at UT (Parks Tower) but in effect has a somewhat directional signal because WBGU from Bowling Green provides some interference in the south suburbs (and definitely in northern Wood County) with 450 watts on 88.1. I remember hearing WXUT much better to the north into Michigan than to the south because of WBGU.
WXUT shares time weekdays with WXTS, broadcasting from Toledo Scott High School. We always were on the air from 8 p.m.-8 a.m. weekdays and then all day on the weekends (we'd get clearance to come on an hour or so early for sports broadcasts, usually Toledo women's basketball games, which I called for three years). I believe that timeshare is still the case today.
 
Yakima WA
Usually nothing, just splatter as it's sandwiched between 88.1 KYTR and 88.5 KYVT. Higher hills or tropo propagation will bring KMLW Moses Lake (Moody, same programming as KMBI Spokane). This is my best channel for Es in the low-band, besides 90.7 when KNWR is nulled. It helps that both 88.1 and 88.5 are quite low-powered, even though they are locals. When I moved here in late 2013, 88.9 used to be the 'beacon' channel for Es, that all stopped when K205FT went on. Non-Es logs, KSBC Nile (Spanish) and KBVM Portland OR (Catholic Rel.) were both heard about 25 miles away in Rimrock, up in the hills at 5000+ feet. Yakima County, still counts.

Es logs:
KNAI Phoenix AZ (La Campesina, Regional Mexican. But now wastes power running a loop in SS stating that 88.3 moved to 101.9. Will be airing VCY America programming soon, however.)
KPHF Phoenix AZ (Family Radio. THESE ARE NOT COUNTED AS TWO LOGS. They time share on the same channel from transmitters almost near each other.)
KESD Brookings SD (NPR/SDPB)
KSDS San Diego CA (Jazz)
KLYT Albuquerque NM (Christian Contemporary)
KAXL Bakersfield CA (Christian Contemporary)

Wanted in 2019!
KJRT Amarillo (Kingdom Keys Radio Network. I have heard their satellite on 92.3, KIJN Farwell - how many times now? But never their parent station based in Amarillo.)
KPRH Montrose CO (Colorado Public Radio - This got away from me a couple years ago. KPYR Craig is also Colorado Public's news service but far less power. I don't know if they do TOH IDs locally however.)
and of course, anything else within the 600-1450 mile range that I haven't heard yet!
 
The Valley of the Jolly Green Giant (Le Sueur, MN)

unique situation as its mainly KJGT Waconia which is a satellite station of KJLY Religious (Kinship Christian Radio)
But I have heard KJTS New Ulm which is ALSO a satellite of KJLY except KJTS has it in Spanish when available
 
Far northwest Chicago metro...

88.3 is a weak WFEN (religion) from Rockford, IL. 9.5KW (8KW vertical) at just under 500 feet HAAT. But with a null in my direction. Distance is about 35 miles.
 
In Meriden, south central Connecticut, a weak WPPB, Southampton, NY, along with occasional bursts of SiriusXM from passing cars using the satellite radio service's old FM modulators. This seems to be a very popular frequency for those units in these parts, since WESU, WFCR and WNHU, on 88.1, 88.5 and 88.7, all have much stronger signals than WPPB.

Those modulators put out a walloping signal, easily audible across a fairly large parking lot, and were ordered "neutered" by the FCC which, if I recall correctly, determined that the manufacturer of the units, Delphi, had submitted reduced-power units for type acceptance, then went ahead and produced much more powerful units for actual sale. I have one of those and I remember getting a parcel from XM containing bead-like thingies that I was supposed to attach to the unit that would sharply reduce the output to the antenna, but -- like just about everyone else, I'd imagine, given the number of units still on the road -- I laughed heartily and tossed it in the trash. The laughable non-effort at mandating compliance was triggered, of course, by complaints from non-comms like WPPB.
 
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