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FM Frequency of the Week - 88.5 MHz

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Buckeyes2001

What can you get on 88.5 MHz?

Here in Vermilion, OH 88.5 is usually just a weak WYSU/Youngstown, OH with NPR/Classical Music unless there's e-skip activity which has brought an unknown station from either MN or ND back on 6-10-12 and WVTW/Charlottesville, VA on 7-24-12.
 
Manistee, MI: WNLI Sturgeon Bay, WI (usually listenable despite 100kW first adjacent WIAA 30 miles away)
Allendale, MI: WGVU Allendale (very strong!)
 
Local KPLU Tacoma, WA here in the Seattle area. In Yakima, WA it's another local, KYVT, owned by Yakima School District #7.
In Portland, OR it is mainly KBVM splatter, but KPLU made it in via Tropo. About 150 miles.

-crainbebo
 
I have an MP3 transmitter that goes down to 87.5, but neither of my vehicle's radios go any lower than 87.7, so it's useless for me at that frequency in either of them.

But I did find out that a clock radio I have will go down to 87.3, so if I got the right adapter and used it inside the house that I could set up on 87.5.  :)
 
Anotherguy, this is the 88.5 thread, not the 87.5 thread.

-crainbebo
 
Here in the Philly 'burbs, it's local WXPN, the U. of Pennsylvania station(home of David Dye, Jerry Blavat and Michaela Majoon).
 
ddsparxx said:
Northern VA,

It's WAMU in DC with NPR on main channel, bluegrass on HD-2 and some other programming on HD-3.
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Same here in central Maryland. The HD3 is alternative NPR talk programming during the day, xponential radio (a AAA music service from Philly's WXPN) at night. The subchannel use to relay Baltimore's WTMD at night but was dropped for some reason.
 
10 miles NNW of NYC, when WBGO was off HD, I believe to have gotten WEDW out of Stamford, CT. NPR out of Sussex, NJ is a little closer but it's less likely to have been that station because of all the hills
 
From Merrillville Indiana (at work), I get WTMK Wanatah, IN. It's basically a simulcast of 89.7 WONU Kankakee, IL.
 
From Coldwater, MI

It USED to be my best DX frequency. I used to hear on any given day

WYSA- Wauseon, OH- Cont. Christian (Yes FM)
WGVU- Allendale, MI- Public Radio (Grand Valley State University)
WMUB- Oxford, OH- Public Radio (Miami University)
WNLI- Sturgeon Bay, WI- Cont. Christian (The Light)
WBNH- Pekin, IL- Religious

Add to this list approximately 30 other 88.5's via Tr or Es.

This all changed in January, 2013 when WGNC- Constantine, MI signed on the air with a new-fangled 'Positive Country' format, which is basically country music without the drinking and the trucks breaking down. It shall be interesting to see if 88.5 is still a usable DX frequency this season.
 
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