FM Frequency of the Week: 89.3 mHz

[crainbebo]

What do you guys get on 89.3? In Bellevue, it's usually KNHC splatter.

On my travels, this is what I've gotten.
Edmonds, WA-KVIX Port Angeles, WA (KPLU), and KAOS Olympia, WA (Community Radio).
Pacific Beach, WA-nothing due to KXPB-LP 89.1 in the way
Portland, OR-KMHD splatter/IBOC
Yakima, WA-again, nothing due to KSOH 89.5 Wapato in the way.

-crainbebo

 

[Buckeyes2001]

Here in Vermilion, OH it is mostly slop from 89.1 WNZN/Lorain, OH (which only broadcasts during the day between 8am and 5pm and usually not on Sundays). When they're off I can get WCSB/Cleveland, OH and WKRW/Wooster, OH (repeater station to WKSU 89.7) alternating. Tropo really can make this frequency a mess by adding in WJKN/Spring Arbor, MI and WYSZ/Maumee, OH. If there was ever such a thing as an FM graveyard station, tropo would do that to 89.3 here.

 

[tomservo]

From Foley, AL it is slop from two stations… WPAS Pascagoula, MS (AFR) on 89.1 and WPCS Pensacola, FL (Pensacola Christian College) on 89.5. Both are very good signals, with WPCS transmitting 100 kW from a stick not 10 miles from here.

It's possible I have heard WRKF Baton Rouge (public radio) on this frequency, but never got a positive ID.

 

[Lawppy]

From Coldwater, MI

Tons of e-skip, but here's the common tropo catches

WGNB- Zeeland, MI- Religious- Moody Radio West Michigan
WJKN- Spring Arbor, MI- Religious- 'The Message'
WYSM- Maumee, OH- Cont. Christian- 'Yes FM'
WYSA- Lima, OH- Cont. Christian- 'Yes FM'
W207BF- Goshen, IN- Spanish Rel.- 'Radio Manatial'
WIKV- Plymouth, IN- Cont. Christian/K-Love
CKGW- Chatham, ON- Religious- UCB Canada
WFPL- Louisville, KY- Public Radio

 

[dave73]

All I hear on 89.3 is first adjacent WLPR Lowell, IN when in Merrillville or Crown Point Indiana. At home in Gary Indiana, I usually hear static on 89.3. 89.5 WBEW Chesterton Indiana is also strong in northern Lake County Indiana.

 

[RyanHoward]

Here in Warminster PA(Philly 'burbs), it's local WRDV(which is licensed to Warminster) at 89.3.

 

[nocomradio]

Depending on conditions, it can be either WPFW from D.C. or WVTU from Charlottesville, VA.

 

[ddsparxx]

Northern VA,

DC's WPFW with jazz and talk.

 

[JakeLongwell]

From my location in the Finger Lakes region of NY, I can usually hear WSKG-FM (NPR/Classical) from Binghamton. This will change whe/if WEOS (our local NPR station) moves to 89.5 (they have a CP to do so). If this happens, all I'll hear on the channel will be IBOC hash.

 

[stewie]

From my location in the Finger Lakes region of NY, I can usually hear WSKG-FM (NPR/Classical) from Binghamton. This will change whe/if WEOS (our local NPR station) moves to 89.5 (they have a CP to do so). If this happens, all I'll hear on the channel will be IBOC hash.

Sacramento checking in.

89.3 is a small Class A simulcast of KQED (NPR) out of San Francisco.

 

[Darth_vader]

Sideband of KMHD. (The upper Ibiquity channel's on 89.4, crainbebo.) Sometimes I can hear another station faintly in the slop when I point my aerial to the northeast, but I haven't been able to hear it clearly enough to make out what it is. I've compared it against KQAC and it's not their sideband. Probably another god translator somewhere way out in the sticks or the Gorge.

 

[crainbebo]

Could be KRYA Glenoma, WA (near Mt. Adams) or KVRA Sisters, OR (Air 1).

-crainbebo

 

[Darth_vader]

Really doubt it'd be KVRA, as Sisters is clear down by Bend (about halfway across Oregon, on the other side of the Cascades, yet) and it only goes out at 1400 watts, so it probably wouldn't stand a chance against KMHD even on the F1HD. But the reception characteristics can be quite odd around these parts, and stranger things have happened....

 

[audioguy]

All I hear on 89.3 is first adjacent WLPR Lowell, IN when in Merrillville or Crown Point Indiana. At home in Gary Indiana, I usually hear static on 89.3. 89.5 WBEW Chesterton Indiana is also strong in northern Lake County Indiana.

In Gary you should be able to hear WNUR from Northwestern University if you have a directional antenna. Point it north across the lake towards Evanston. They have lots of interesting programming-- it is not a cookie cutter NPR outlet!

 

[Tim from Springfield IL]

Springfield, IL:

--On a car radio, fair to poor signal from WIPA Pittsfield, IL--a repeater of our local NPR station WUIS 91.9 Springfield (broadcasting from the University of Illinois' Springfield campus).

 

[Tincap]

From just north of Brockville ON

WRVH (WRVO) Clayton NY - signed on just recently and has killed off my most southerly semi-regular, WSKG-FM (NPR) Binghamton NY, along with the unique programming of Montreal's CISM-FM.

~BG

 

[Bongwater]

In Bellingham, WA, it's local KUGS, Bellingham out of Western Washington University. Not a bad college station. I listen by days from time to time

 

[KyleSmith1988]

From Gaffney, SC - WLFJ-FM "HIS Radio" loud and clear from Paris Mountain in Greenville, SC.

 

[ChuckTiller]

In Houston, it's KSBJ. 100KW.