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FM Frequency of the Week 2018-19: 94.7

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gr8oldies

What do or did you get on 94.7?

In East Tennessee, it used to be WGSQ, Cookeville coming in frequently, but W234CU nixed that. That's the translator for WIFA-1240 which simulcasts the distant contemporary Christian rimshot, WIJV "Victory 92.7". One E-Skip catch had an unidentified Cuban.

Retro/other
Dayton, Ohio, a weak WSNY would make it most of the time, but it wasn't rare to hear WFBQ Indianapolis.
Lafayette, IN: WFBQ most of the time, but sometimes it would be WLS-FM (or whatever calls they may have had) sneaking in. Also heard KSHE, St. Louis a time or two.

Celina, Ohio area: Q95 (WFBQ) next door to our usual TM Stereo Rock station, WPTH Fort Wayne on 95.1. WVKO, Columbus or WMJC, Birmingham, MI sometimes made the trip in the 70s.

Retro DX Clip: WJMD, Bethesda, MD on a 97 degree day in 1980. http://46124.info/FM/Maryland/MD Bethesda 94.7 1980 WJMD.mp3

Thanks all for participating!
 
Yakima WA
Heavy splatter from 100KW blaster KATS-94.5. I do have KZAL Manson WA (Country) logged from a hill about 15 miles away from Yakima. Can't hear them at my location. Even in the high hills near Rimrock and the Goat Rocks, 94.7 is still, nothing but KATS splatter! The last time I was up at 6000 feet, there was faint country mumbling when I could find a fair null for KATS, probably also KZAL.
No E-skip logged here on this channel. Three heard north of Seattle however, since KUOW's HD wasn't as strong as other stations.
KTWV Los Angeles (Urban AC)
KCNB Chadron NE (Top 40)
KRKS Denver CO (Christian Talk)
 
Nothing notable nearby me at 94.7. There *is* an LPFM assigned to scenic nearby Ashland on 94.5, but I naver heard it. It hasn't been on the air ever by my knowledge.

Now when *this* linked station is loud in the car atop 94.7 :

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

If you have the banner ad for Sirius/XM atop your map, we're underneath the 'm' , hi.
Despite the 'NE PA' tag on my name, my site is actually closer by a few miles to the Maryland border than to the New York border. Still, the society and architecture here is decidedly 'Coal Country'

..... it's tropo time. WDSD also was perhaps theee best trope indicator back in the Long Island days.
 
Far northwest suburbs of Chicago, it's WLS-FM. Not quite the strongest Chicago full facility FM signal, but still very listenable.
 
Most of the time it's WZOR Mishicot, WI, which has a long-running Alternative format.

Other catches include:
W234BU Traverse City, MI (Classical // WIAA)
WCSX Birmingham, MI (Classic Rock)
WJLV Jackson, MS (K-Love)
WLS Chicago, IL (Classic Hits)
WOZZ Mosinee, WI (Rock)
WYLK Lacombe, LA (Hot Adult Contemporary)
 
In Phoenix, Arizona:

Nothing but KOOL-FM 94.5 HD splatter. Go a little north of Phoenix and you can get Jack FM in Prescott on 94.7 FM and go west and you can pick up KAWC Yuma, Border Radio, broadcast by Arizona Western College, but I have never received either of these stations here in the Valley of the Sun. Thank you HD-radio!
 
Warminster PA(Philly 'burbs):

Mostly splatter from local 94.5 WPST from Trenton NJ. On occasions, I have heard either
WDSD Dover DE or WFME Newark NJ/New York(now WNSH) here.
 
Sometimes it's WMAS-FM 94.7 of Enfield (CT)/Springfield (MA). Their power is decent but their transmitter is fairly short, close to I-91 at the edge of Springfield itself. Unless you have a good tuner, it gets stepped on here by WERB-FM 94.5. That's the high school radio station for Berlin, CT. I'm usually in neighboring New Britain, CT or in the Kensington section of Berlin, close to where the high school is.
 
94.7 here in Charleston is a local translator which signed on in the last couple of years, a ESPN Radio station. It is actually useful because their simulcast partner, 98.9 (WWIK) often gets interfered with by the station in Spartanburg and Orlando on 98.9.

At 99 watts off of a 410 foot antenna it has a pretty decent range throughout the region, probably 20 miles or so.

Prior to the translator signing on I used to get Sumter, SC or sometimes Raleigh (WQDR) depending on DX conditions.
 

the Bay Area doesn't have 94.7...but we do have KKDO 94.7 (alternative) out of Sacramento. However, it's 25 Kw signal is usually overridden by WiLD 94.9. You have to point the antenna at just the right angle to hear it.
 
Central KS:
Fair signal from KSKU/Sterling (Hutchinson). Was an oldies station before adapting their sister station’s Top 40 format (their old signal was being moved into Wichita) in ‘07.

Mason City, IA:
K234BK, a translator for regional Christian network Kinship Radio (based in Minnesota), about 30 miles away in Britt. (The flat landscape here can shoot the range out further than just 20 miles like a lot of trslrs.)
 
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