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FM Frequency of the Week 2018-19: 94.1

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Back to the Class B/C Frequencies on the commercial FM band, what do or did you hear on 94.1?

East Tennessee: Mostly WMKH, the K-Love station in Morristown, TN. In just the right spot (particularly a higher elevation spot in Knoxville I go to), one can get W231DY, the translator of WBBX-1410, now doing top 40 in the same cluster as WIHG, in the Crossville area.

Retro/other: The Dayton, Ohio area was mostly the present day WMKX (which I'll always think of as WSAI-FM, despite seemingly 100 call sign and format changes over the years). I did get WHBC-FM Canton a couple of times (ironically at the time both Cincinnati and Canton 94.1s were both "Mix 94.1". Lafayette Indiana, almost always WGFA, Watseka.

DX Clip of the Week: Not so distant, but an early example of Cincinnati FM from WJBI-94.1 in 1967. You'll note a PSA for a meeting of a ham radio club.
 
Not much to report here. 94.1 is first adjacent to Chicago's 93.9 and nothing of consequence on the channel for roughly 150 miles in any direction.
 
The Valley of the Jolly Green Giant (LeSueur, MN) is KXLP Mankato

When its humid as heck out I can get KKLN Atwater (Willmar) or even I94 WIAL Eau Claire, WI
 
94.1 is an open channel here. The most common station received is KSWD Seattle (Soft AC), followed by KXIX Bend OR (Rhythmic) and KCLK Clarkston WA (Hot Country), all three via tropo and aircraft scatter. There is some KATS bleed however in quite a few places, since I'm 6 or 7 miles away from the 100KW Ahtanum Ridge blaster. Even with KATS issues, this is a wonderful Es frequency and many logs have been made here over the years:

KDNS Downs KS (Country)
KISV Bakersfield CA (Rhythmic Contemporary)
KKXK Montrose CO (Country)
KMXB Henderson NV (Adult Top 40)
KMYI San Diego CA (Hot AC)
KMXJ Amarillo TX (Adult Contemporary)
KRDE San Carlos AZ (Country)
KZOR Hobbs NM (Hot AC)
KZRR Albuquerque NM (Rock)

Of course, any other full-powered station between 550 and 1450 miles is well-wanted here! This includes KPFA Berkeley (never heard even though I've had KOIT, KLLC, etc. in the past) and KSDN Aberdeen SD (which got away from me in 2015, couldn't tell if the rock on 94.1 was KSDN or KXLP even though I had KNBZ IDing on 97.7).
 
94.1 is mostly local WWKR Hart, MI, with a long-running classic rock format (but still runs a CCM show on Sunday mornings). WWKR is 5kW at about 40 miles away, so it can be defeated.

Other 94.1 catches include:
KLNO Fort Worth, TX (Regional Mexican; they were airing the 2018 World Cup when I got them)
KQCH Omaha, NE (Top 40)
KQXY Beaumont, TX (Top 40)
KRNA Iowa City, IA (Classic Rock)
KTFM Floresville, TX (Rhythmic Contemporary)
WEMX Kentwood, LA (Rhythmic Contemporary)
WIAL Eau Claire, WI (Hot AC)
WJJO Watertown, WI (Rock)
WLLD Lakeland, FL (Rhythmic Contemporary)
WUPK Marquette, MI (Classic Rock)
WWDK Jackson, MI (Classic Country) - a couple of weekends ago I had WWDK walking all over WWKR one night
 
Tale of two non-FM DXers:

Here in north-central Schuylkill County PA, it's '94-KX'.

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

'94-KX' is pretty much as much a full-service hot A/C as possible. If and when the ratings are published for Sunbury-Selinsgrove-Lewisburg, WQKX is always at the top.

A fellow from downstate PA (PottsTOWN) was a Howard Stern fan. He lived in PottsVILLE for a while, and moaned about not being able to hear Stern anymore on what was then WYSP Philly on 94.1. 'That (expletive) kiddie station K-X is always there now. What do I do?'
Sure enough, as you can see on the map, 94-KX puts its red signal contour right through Pottsville. Probably right up his driveway.
The blue coverage contour signal of WYSP (now WIP) doesn't even put their *outer* circle near Pottsville. I offered the fellow to put up one of those $90 Radio Shack-job aerials on his roof for him to aim, but by the time he'd balanced other priorities, Stern had left WYSP.
 
I forgot to put this up. Andy Bolin in Charleston IL, with his 1,526 mile logging of KCLK-94.1 on June 6th, 1977:
http://dx.bobandtanya.com/0579 Es KCLK 94.1 WA 6-6-77.mp3

He also had a new logging from Wyoming in the same opening. Perhaps this was very short 2-hop? Or was it still very long 1-hop Es? 1500 mile Es doesn't happen often. I thought it was very cool to have KCLK DX audio from Illinois, knowing they occasionally scatter in and out with Hot Country.
 

KPFA community progressive radio out of Berkeley...strong 59 Kw signal


Moderator comment: Please don't post text in bold lettering. It's OK to use the font options for headlines or items in a text you want to emphasize, but headline-style text is tedious.
 
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Street Novelist said:

KPFA community progressive radio out of Berkeley...strong 59 Kw signal


Moderator comment: Please don't post text in bold lettering. It's OK to use the font options for headlines or items in a text you want to emphasize, but headline-style text is tedious.
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"Headline style text" doesn't bother me personally, BUT....After more than a dozen years in broadcasting, I spent more than 30 years in pint and online media. Very early on I learned that "if readers preferred 'out of the ordinary typefaces', then that's what editors would work in"

They don't. In fact, we had research that showed when advertisers tried to "get cute" and run copy in reverse type (white on black, etc.) readership, recall, and action(s) taken all suffered. So, as I said, while headline style doesn't bother me, David is correct when he says it gets tedious. My preference is definitely is the text that is standard.

With that said, and as I alluded to the other day, I look forward to your contributions,
 
Central KS:
No locals. Depending on the day, I may pull in KFKF/KCK or KDNS/Downs.

Mason City, IA:
Heavy bleedover from local adjacent channel KIAI. If I get out from under the ‘interference cloud’, either KRNA/Iowa City or KXLP/Mankato pulls in.
 
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