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FM Frequency of the Week - 90.5 MHz

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Buckeyes2001

What can you get on 90 .5FM?

Here in Vermilion, OH it is mostly a scratchy WHVT/Clyde, OH with IBOC noise from WCPN 90.3. When tropo is up, WKAR/E. Lansing, MI can show up.
 
From halfway between Mobile, AL and Pensacola, FL it's usually a very weak WTGF out of Milton, FL, about 60 miles east of here. They run 24 kW from just 246' HAAT so it doesn't get out well at all. During tropo it can be stronger, or be wiped out completely by IBOC hash from Biloxi's MPB affiliate WMAH on 90.3.
 
In Monroe, WA it's a weak-fair CBCV Victoria, BC (CBC Radio One).

In Portland, OR it's slop from KBOO 90.7.

In Pacific Beach, WA I had a mix of KACS Chehalis, WA and KLCO Newport, OR (KLCC).

In Yakima, WA it's IBOC from KNWY 90.3.

-crainbebo
 
In Allendale, usually slop from WBLV (90.3 Twin Lake, 100kW) and W214AY (90.7 Walker, located less than five miles from my location); WKAR East Lansing sometimes slips through

In Manistee, all WPFF Sturgeon Bay, WI all the time
 
In northern VA, I get a weak WJYJ Fredericksburg, VA, with its tx being about halfway between Fredericksburg and Richmond.
 
This is one of the newest stations to sign on in NW Indiana, WRTW Crown Point, IN, a Class B1 at 3.1kw @ 183m (600 ft) from the same tower as WYIN TV. Run by First Baptist Church of Hammond, IN, but licensed to their school, Hyles Anderson College.
 
Springfield, IL: Local WSCT Springfield (contemporary Christian; originally a relay of WIBI 91.1 Carlinville, IL but has switched to relaying WCIC 91.5 Pekin/Peoria this past month).
 
In northeast Maryland it's WKHS, Kent County High School radio station. Most of the time they are relaying WXPN from Philadelphia.
 
90.5 is my favorite spot on the FM dial because it is the frequency of two of my most important stations. Here in the northern suburbs of Chicago it is the frequency of WNIU, a fantastic classical station from Northern Illinois University. I can only listen at home through the use of a huge directional antenna ever since the First Baptist Church of Hammond signed on their station. They have ruined reception of WNIU over pretty much all of the Chicago metro area including the western suburbs, and I am so upset about that, I could spit! Over in Michigan at my summer cottage, 90.5 is the frequency of WKAR in East Lansing, another fine classical station.
 
In central Maryland the semi-local Christian format of WCRH from the Hagerstown area (simulcast on a much more local translator at FM-91.7). Sometimes during tropo I'll get WKHS from the eastern shore which relays Philly's WXPN, arguably much better listening.
 
Here in Warminster PA(Philadelphia area), it's usually either WCVH in Flemington NJ or a Christian music station from
Cherry Hill NJ(forget the calls).
 
90.5 here in Derby is BBC Radio Three, which is a deadly serious classical music station. The signal from Sutton Coldfield goes miles across most of central England
 
Where is WMTH Park Ridge's Antenna Exactly?

For you Chicago area DXers, where is WMTH's antenna mounted? Inside that bell tower on the NW corner of Maine East High School? Maybe on top of it? I don't see any vertical structure on the satellite view that corresponds to the coordinates.
 
Schroedingers Cat said:
For you Chicago area DXers, where is WMTH's antenna mounted? Inside that bell tower on the NW corner of Maine East High School? Maybe on top of it? I don't see any vertical structure on the satellite view that corresponds to the coordinates.
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Good question? If I drive by there sometime I'll have a look.
 
I've been to both places also, but I only went to visit the WJJD site. My cousin went to Maine East, and then to Maine South when it opened. I think the last time I went by the HS was 1962 or 1963. I didn't visit the WJJD site until the late 1970s. One time I went to the WJJD site, the two new Night towers had just been constructed and it was all muddy.
 
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