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FM Frequency of the Week: 92.7

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MarioMania

Carmichael, CA

Slop from 92.5 the Breeze KBEB Sacramento

While I visit Vallejo

I don't hear anything, But I'm using a subpar Radio it used to be KREV Alameda, CA

DX/Retro -- In Pacifica in the 80's it was KJAZ til 95
 
In Cheyenne, WY:
I get some spillover from 92.9 KPAW, but otherwise it's empty.

It has been filled up several times during E-skip, most recently grabbing WBKL Clinton, LA on July 23rd, 2021.
 
Far Northwest suburban Chicago....

92.7 is rimshot WCPY from Arlington Heights, IL with a fair signal.

92.7 was perhaps best known as the home of the Chicago area's first FM top 40 station, WEXI in the late '60s. Currently the format as WCPY is ethnic. Polish language.

92.7 has gone through a number of formats and call letters down through the decades. Perhaps best known of these being a few years as WSEX for a time during the 70s and/or 80s.
 
cyberdad said:
Far Northwest suburban Chicago....

92.7 is rimshot WCPY from Arlington Heights, IL with a fair signal.

92.7 was perhaps best known as the home of the Chicago area's first FM top 40 station, WEXI in the late '60s. Currently the format as WCPY is ethnic. Polish language.

92.7 has gone through a number of formats and call letters down through the decades. Perhaps best known of these being a few years as WSEX for a time during the 70s and/or 80s.
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In the near north Chicago suburbs 92.7 is all WCPY Arlington Heights with a good signal at my location.
As Cyberdad pointed out they first played Top 40 around 1966. The call letters then were WNWC. Then around 1968 changed to WEXI.
In 1970 a local Cadillac dealer bought the station and changed the format to beautiful music.

Retro: when WNWC first began playing Top 40 myself and a friend used to visit the night DJ and he was nice enough to let us visit regularly. His name was Jon Terry. He let us help out in the studio and answer phones. The was in 1967.
 
East Tennessee: Knoxville/Sevierville. Most of the time, WIVY, Harriman, TN, which has an AM with translator that simulcasts its programming in Knoxville. Very frequently. about double the distance, we can get WMIK-FM, Middlesboro, KY, sometimes for days at a time. (WMIK will get a mention in both AM and FM FoTW this week).

Retro/other: Dayton, Ohio---Sometimes WZBD, Berne IN
One must remember the Great Frequency Shift of 1986 on 92.7, 93.9 and 104.9.
Several Indiana stations flipped frequencies to open 104.9 in Muncie, IN for new applicants. This caused 104.9 in nearby Hartford City to flip to 93.5. But wait! There's more! 93.5 was already occupied by WZWZ, Kokomo, IN, and the change made them go somewhere else, and that place was 92.7, where WXUS, Lafayette, IN was. It moved to 93.5.
 
Moses Lake, WA DN07
92.7 is the Spanish Catholic counterpart to 88.7 KDMB (its supposed primary). FCC database lists call sign as K221BT, but the station identifies as K224EW.

Prior to K224EW going on the air, and when it is off air, I can get KNCW Omak on 92.7
 
Yes, K224EW Othello is also heard in Ellensburg but only in small pockets and very weakly. KNCW Omak is often weak but audible around exit 106 at the Love's Truck Stop. It is much stronger up on Manastash Ridge (the hike SW of town, not the freeway viewpoint).
Plenty of E-skip heard here but don't have time to compile a full list. Highlight? Probably KUNK Mendocino, CA heard on 7/14/21's super opening, only about 550 miles or so.
 
Northeast New Jersey

WFME Garden City, NY and W224CW Franklin Township, NJ (New Brunswick area) I have received WRRV Middletown, NY at Mills Reservation near Montclair State, which is about 5 miles from my location.

Tropo: WOBM Toms River & WGMD under rare tropo events
 
From Pickerington, Ohio, usually WHIZ from Zanesville. We're right on the edge of their reach ... it's noticeably stronger on the east side of town than the west as you get further into the urban areas of Columbus. That said, it's only listenable in a car and not on a home radio.
No reach to speak of from local LPFMs WCRS or WEFC, both of which are located in other parts of the metro and too far to put anything but the weakest signal out this far.
 
San Jose, California

I actually get two stations on 92.7

6.9KW, KTOM out of Marina, is weak, but listenable.

6KW, KREV out of San Francisco is extremely weak! This station is the worst of all the (FM) Bay Area stations, to get to the south bay!
 
Palmdale, CA

92.7 KYZA - Adelanto, CA [Local-ish]
Pretty dominant signal on the frequency considering its proximity. Nothing else is ever really on here normally. When strong ES occurs, i've had two instances where a station managed to override it, even with RDS. [KUSO and KIVY]
 
formula72 said:
San Jose, California

I actually get two stations on 92.7

6.9KW, KTOM out of Marina, is weak, but listenable.

6KW, KREV out of San Francisco is extremely weak! This station is the worst of all the (FM) Bay Area stations, to get to the south bay!
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Funny enough, I got KTOM via ES when I was in Prescott, AZ back at the end of August 2019. Very strong short skip around dusk that day. Even got some Salinas stations and a few from Santa Cruz.
 
dx_sphere said:
Moses Lake, WA DN07
92.7 is the Spanish Catholic counterpart to 88.7 KDMB (its supposed primary). FCC database lists call sign as K221BT, but the station identifies as K224EW.

Prior to K224EW going on the air, and when it is off air, I can get KNCW Omak on 92.7
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I feel like I may have had something like that during that one strong WA opening last July. If I have the IQ files still, I could check.
 
SkyWaveDX said:
I feel like I may have had something like that during that one strong WA opening last July. If I have the IQ files still, I could check.
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If you heard Spanish speaking with crappy-quality (usually very amplified) mono audio, then that's probably what you got. If you find a recording, send it to me and I can tell whether or not you caught K224EW for sure.
 
Western Massachusetts

I get nothing on 92.7 near Springfield, except for WWYZ's right HD sideband.

If I get tropo, I occasionally can get WFME-FM or WBUA, and if I head up to Hampshire county, I can get WKVT.
 
dx_sphere said:
If you heard Spanish speaking with crappy-quality (usually very amplified) mono audio, then that's probably what you got. If you find a recording, send it to me and I can tell whether or not you caught K224EW for sure.
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Darn, the only few IQs I had left from that event were about 25 minutes prior to the slight path shift to Eastern WA. I checked it anyways and still nothing.
 
South Mississippi:

weak signal on WBKL Clinton, LA - the Positive, Encouraging K-Love station for the Baton Rouge area. KYSW-LP Slidell, LA is much closer but rare because it's only 56 ft HAAT. Country 92.7 KIVY Crockett, TX has come in during tropo.
 
On 92.7 in CLT NC I get Sports WFNZ-FM, Prior March 1st of this year it was Hip-Hop THE BLOCK; however Urban 1 swapped the Hip-Hop format to the 102.5 translator where it used to be sports.
 
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