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FM Frequency of the Week 2018-19: 99.1

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FM Frequency of the Week: 99.1

Up we go a notch to 99.1. What do you/did you/have you received on 99.1
In East Tennessee, it’s WNML-FM. Friendsville, which rimshots Knoxville. In an example of “rimshots hardest hit” by the translator revolution, WRJZ parked a Sevierville translator on 99.1 for awhile, which, after complaints, moved to 99.5. I’ve received a station under WNML which I haven’t IDed but suspect WJNV, Jonesville, VA.

Retro/other: Dayton, OH…all powerhouse WHKO.

When Gerard Westerberg had his DX site up, he had a receiver antenna on one of his radio station towers in Lexington KY tuned to 99.1 (before Lexington got a 99.1). I spent an hour just listening as WHKO, WSLQ (Roanoke VA), WIAI (now WYXY Savoy), Danville IL, and classical KFUO (now KLJY), St. Louis all fading up and down.

Here’s KFUO signing off in 1977. http://46124.info/FM/Missouri/MO Clayton 99.1 1978 KFUO Sign Off.mp3
 
For this just-casual FM DXer in my newer locale, but still a big jazz fan, 99.1 has been my best FM frequency.

WRTI Philadelphia (at the time all Jazz) put on a 99.1 translator in Pottsville, some 8 miles south of here. In car travels within a 10 mile radius, where their signal is spottier, I've heard WAAF Binghampton NY and WAWZ from NJ. One tropo night I caught that news station from Balt-Washington.

The coolest catch was one early afternoon off the GE SR II. Yup. Sure enough, there was jazz -- the midday female DJ and all. She said something about them, 'Jazz 99'. I did a triple-take. Wait a minute! WRTI is on 90.1! You can't say Jazz 99!
Then the gal gave out request-line numbers for Brevard and Dade counties. Miami was coming in, very well, via eSkip .... right over the local Pottsville translator of WRTI.
 
This used to be a good frequency for me. WMYX Milwaukee with a format I enjoyed used to put a very good signal in here from about 65 miles away. Before that their calls were WNUW also a format I enjoyed. Unfortunately for me a local translator WEEF has killed my reception of WMYX.
 
WMYX is on one of the WEMP...WSSP 1250 towers. That confused me when I saw the towers a couple of years ago. It's counterintuitive that the WSSP towers are much taller than the WOKY 920 towers nearby. I was thinking that the FM Bays were on that. I was confused when I looked to see whose FM antenna was on the WOKY tower. The answer is, there aren't any. I thought it was an AUX because it's not at full Class B Height, but it's the main antenna for WMYX. You might want to build a well designed DA FM antenna from the K6STI eham site. They have one that you supposedly can build with materials bought from The Home Depot, that's supposed to be better than the old stock 10 element Yagi-Logs. There's also an easier one that is just 5 elements, but with a great Front to Back Ratio across the FM Band. That's what we both need now. http://ham-radio.com/k6sti/
 
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Yakima WA

KUJ-FM Burbank WA (Top 40) serving Tri-Cities.

Only two Es logs here, kind of difficult channel here.
KTMG Prescott AZ (Adult Contemporary)
KTLI El Dorado KS (K-LOVE)

Anything else in Es range wanted! Most wanted probably KUAD Windsor CO, with their big 100KW stick.
 
radioman148 said:
This used to be a good frequency for me. WMYX Milwaukee with a format I enjoyed used to put a very good signal in here from about 65 miles away. Before that their calls were WNUW also a format I enjoyed. Unfortunately for me a local translator WEEF has killed my reception of WMYX.
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No such problem for me. As I alluded to a week or so ago, WMYX is the best Milwaukee signal at my location. Unlike most of the Milwaukee FM sticks that are located a few miles north of downtown attached to TV towers, WMYX's transmitter location is southwest of town near to the I-43=894 junction. Basically just around the corner from where the WOKY (920) towers are also located.
 
99.1 is one of my best frequencies here in Charleston. There is a translator about 50 miles out I sometimes get. During tropo I get Jacksonville very frequently (WQIK). Roanoke (WSLQ) comes in 3-4 times a year. I have also gotten Miami there.
 
Not much around Columbus, Ohio, because of digital hash from local WTOH (98.9). But as I mentioned in the 98.9 thread, WTOH is no powerhouse ... only 2,600 watts. As a result, WHKO breaks through the static pretty easy in the mostly rural southwest portions of Franklin County, less than 60 miles from Dayton as the crow flies.
Pre-IBOC, WHKO was pretty easy to hear across most of western Franklin County, albeit with some slop from WTOH depending on the area. Still gets loud pretty fast once you get out into Madison County.
 
Warminster PA(Philly 'burbs):
Usually WAWZ(Star 99.1, Christian music) from Zarephath NJ(Somerset County) or
splatter from local 98.9 WUSL(Power 99, Hip-Hop/R&B). Tropo has brought me WHFS
from Annapolis MD and WPLR from New Haven CT.
 
cyberdad said:
No such problem for me. As I alluded to a week or so ago, WMYX is the best Milwaukee signal at my location. Unlike most of the Milwaukee FM sticks that are located a few miles north of downtown attached to TV towers, WMYX's transmitter location is southwest of town near to the I-43=894 junction. Basically just around the corner from where the WOKY (920) towers are also located.
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I'm in Manistee, MI and WMYX is the most common of the MKE area stations despite it being 10-15 miles farther than the other Milwaukee FM's
 
Probably the 50 kW ERP. Way beyond the Horizon, and way up in the air, ERP dominates signal strength. Always got the Chicago, and Milwaukee high ERP stations, on 96.5 and 97.3, back in the Day, in SE Michigan when the signal could be nulled out. WFMK made it nearly impossible to hear 99.1. WQHH 96.5 wipes out 96.5 Milwaukee, and WMJO 97.3 wipes out 97.3 Milwaukee.
 
Newark, NJ area. Usually Semi Local WAWZ Star 99.1. Tropo mostly brings in WPLR from New Haven (If nulled from WAWZ). I've heard WPLM from Plymouth, MA a few times. In 2007, I received 99.1 from Annapolis, MD when it was a Spanish format
 
In the Valley of the Jolly Green Giant (Le Sueur, MN...for two more weeks)

KEEZ Mankato, MN
Z99...oh wait they blew up that name after 30 years and now call it "Mix 99.1"
 
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