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FM Frequency of the Week 2018-19: 99.9

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gr8oldies

It’s time once again to head up the dial to the next U.S. traditional class B/C frequency, which is 99.9. What do you or did you get on 99.9?

99.9 is dominated in East Tennessee by WKFS. Kiss Country out of Old Fort (Asheville) NC. Supposedly an LPFM, WUCF in Farragut TN operates out of a church there though I’ve only heard it once, several years ago. I’ll see if I can catch it again while in West Knoxville.

Dayton, Ohio---strong local WCHD (formerly WLQT and WVUD). Never caught them off to hear anything else.

Lafayette, IN- When I lived there in the 80s and 90s, it was WBUS “The Bus:” , Kankakee, IL Several incarnations followed including Spanish and even NINE-FM as the station crept up to Park Forest. It currently runs the very traditional Christian Bible Broadcasting Network. If it wasn’t that, it was WTHI, Terre Haute. Dayton crept in a time or two.

FM DX Recording of the week: WVUD, FM 100 “The Radio Station” in its AOR heyday in 1978 (though with serious competition from crosstown WTUE). The Charlie Daniels Band was coming to town. http://46124.info/FM/Ohio/OH Kettering 99.9 1978 WVUD .mp3

Bonus: WKSF, Asheville, NC as a top 40 station as received in Indiana in 1990. http://46124.info/FM/North Carolina/NC Asheville 99.9 1990 WKSF.mp3
 
Big-signalled The Hawk is the occupant here day and night. They're a Classic Rocker licensed to Easton(Allentown) and finishes at or near the tops of ratings with 9's and 10's. Huge signal. They can be heard in some places in Manhattan (with a whip antenna, of course, and can be solid with a rotary antenna)

WODE used to be 'Oldies 99.9' -- and got pretty much the same numbers. It's odd that after they changed to Classic Rock they kept the same WODE call-letters.

Often here, both day and night, they get bothered by WVRZ 99.7. That's a Hot A/C station in Mount Carmel, a little less than ten air miles away.
 
Kenosha, WI- 99.9 here has been one of those frequencies with a lot of stations just out of usable reach. WJVL Janesville WI, WHFB Benton Harbor, MI, WYHI Park Forest,IL would all be heard here, sometimes all at the same time. With an FM antenna on a rotor these could all be heard regularly...until W260CV Racine came on a couple years ago. They relay WRJN 1400 Racine. It is far enough away to still get killed by any skip.

There is also a translator,W260BL licensed to Waukegan, IL. As soon as you cross the state line it starts mixing in with the Racine translator.
 
Not unlike Keno guy (who's about 30-35 miles east northeast of me), this is an "in between zone". In my case, I'm just outside useable range of WJVL and WYHI. Usually WJVL is the one that makes it in to my location....but not comfortably listenable.
 
From suburban Columbus, Ohio, it's all hash from local rocker WRZK (99.7 The Blitz). I've never heard the former WVUD locally, and from my experience Radio Locator's map exaggerates their coverage slightly, especially in fringe areas.
In my college town of Toledo, it's strong local country giant WKKO (K 100). 50,000 watts with great coverage across the flat land of northwest Ohio, although it suppresses its signal slightly to the north toward Detroit.
 
Mason City, IA:
Night and day, always KAUS-FM from just north of the state line in Austin, MN.

Central KS:
The always powerful KSKG/Salina
 
The purple ring on WCHD (WLQT/WVUD)'s signal on radio-locator is probably about right as you head past Springfield. The tower is where most of the others are, at Germantown and Gettysburg in West Dayton


schmave said:
From suburban Columbus, Ohio, it's all hash from local rocker WRZK (99.7 The Blitz). I've never heard the former WVUD locally, and from my experience Radio Locator's map exaggerates their coverage slightly, especially in fringe areas.
In my college town of Toledo, it's strong local country giant WKKO (K 100). 50,000 watts with great coverage across the flat land of northwest Ohio, although it suppresses its signal slightly to the north toward Detroit.
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99.9 is HD hash from local KHHK Yakima. I have heard some very strong E-skip and went up in the mountains to hear a couple of knife-edge/tropo logs. Those logs are below:

KRKT Albany OR (Country - tropo)
KISW Seattle WA (Rock - tropo)
KOLA San Bernardino CA (Classic Hits - Eskip)
KTSM-FM El Paso TX (Adult Contemporary - Eskip)
 
99.9 in Charleston is a fun frequency. Usually it is hash from our local 99.7, but when there’s tropo, it gets good. Wilmington, which still plays jammin’ oldies (probably the last one left in the country) is there the most, followed by Jacksonville, FL’s country.

Sports out of Raleigh, WCMC (a station which was moved in from VA around 2007) also comes in not infrequently. Surprisingly, I don’t think I have ever heard WKSF here, even though it is a powerful station. I heard it one time in North Myrtle Beach a while back.

The Raleigh station is the flagship of the Carolina Hurricanes, who started simulcasting their broadcasts with local TV last season.
 
99.9 is KESZ in Phoenix (they always call it “KEZ”). It’s a very popular ‘80s music station with a good HD signal and a slightly softer version of its music mix that they call “The Breeze” on the HD2 channel.
 
Warminster PA(Philly 'burbs):

Usually, it's semi-local WODE(classic rock) from Easton PA. In tropo situations, there's WFGY from
Ocean City MD(formerly WKHI) and WEZN from Bridgeport CT.
 
99.9 here in the northern Fort Worth area is interesting - Either KLUR Wichita Falls or Waco 100 comes in. Its honestly about 50/50 these days as to which I hear, however if I head 45 miles north near Decatur it's all KLUR - and sometimes it trips the car radio.
 
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