FM Frequency of the Week - 93.7 MHz

[Buckeyes2001]

What do you all get on 93.7 FM? In Vermilion, OH I get a scratchy WQIO from Mt. Vernon, OH and when there's tropo ill get Grand Rapids, MI mixing in.

 

[spunker88]

Hands down my best DXing frequency in my area. I usually get WBLK from Buffalo during tropo but besides for that its wide open. During ES season WGYL "93.7 The Breeze" Vero Beach, FL is a common log. In 2011 I also logged, WALI, WUSD, WOGK, KTUF, WFBC, KXKS, KRDJ, WMJY, WPEZ, although most weren't new logs. I really hope nobody puts a signal on this frequency or I'll be mad.

 

[RyanHoward]

Here in Warminster PA(Philadelphia area), it's WSTW from Wilmington DE(fair signal).

 

[ddsparxx]

Northern VA, that used to be a good DX frequency. Now these days, it's the IBOC hash from DC's local 93.9 that seems to be stronger these days. Tropo openings have brought WSTW Wilmington, DE, WNOB Virginia Beach and one Eskip brought me KYEZ from Salina, KS.

WNOB's big tower is right along the VA/NC border on rt. 168 when I went down to the Outer Banks once. WNOB's signal over Nags Head, NC semilocal there.

 

[swfl]

Here in SW Florida 93.7 is WTLT "Lite 93.7". It operates with 43,000 watts. It is current COL is Sanibel. This station started out in Naples on 93.5 in the very early 70's. I don't recall it's original call letters but after a couple of years on the air it became WRGI. Those call letters were used for about 18 years or so. WRGI originally operated with 3,000 watts and only served the Naples area. It's format was Top 40 for many years changing to oldies in it's later years. In the early 90's it was bought by another local broadcaster and it became WNOG FM providing a simulcast of WNOG/1270 AM's News/Talk format. Several years later WNOG AM & FM along with WARO 94.5 were purchased by Meridian Broadcasting and they were folded into the WINK empire. Over the years since then they moved to 93.7 to allow for increased power. Part of the last power increase the COL was changed from Naples to Sanibel.

In northern Florida 93.7 is WOGK "K Country" out of Ocala. That station operates with 100,000 watts and has what many consider the best signal in all of Florida. That signal covers everything north of Tampa to the Georgia state line. WOGK has been a market leader there for many years now.

 

[danikayser84]

Schenectady, NY - 93.7 had been a relatively troubled signal in the past (five formats between 2002 and 2007), although now it's WYAI with EMF's Air One format

 

[crainbebo]

Great DX channel in Bothell/Bellevue, WA. In Bothell I would usually get CJJR Vancouver, BC [Country] and sometimes KANY Ocean Shores, WA [Country]. Here in Bellevue I usually get nothing.

Very fertile Es frequency as well. Stations caught on 93.7 since 2009 include
KAZY Cheyenne, WY [976 mi]
KIZZ Minot, ND [958 mi]
KLGL Richfield, UT [767 mi]
KRAI Craig, CO [877 mi]
KRQQ Tucson, AZ [1222 mi]
KSKS Fresno, CA [755 mi]
KVYL Mohave Valley, AZ [971 mi]
KWYR Winner, SD [1120 mi, and only South Dakota station ever caught on FM]
KXXI Gallup, NM [1091 mi] and
WDAY Fargo, ND [1165 mi].

In Pacific Beach, WA this is all KANY Ocean Shores.

In Portland, OR I get KPDQ splatter and little else.

In Yakima, WA I get a local translator K229AD [repeating KLKY-96.1 U ROCK Radio Classic Rock], but I can null it out and once got a VERY weak KRKG Pasco [60 mi SE and only 450w!!].

-crainbebo

 

[schmave]

Here in Thornville, Ohio it's the previously-mentioned WQIO, a semi-local from about 35 miles up the road. Excellent signal that covers a lot of ground between Cleveland and Columbus.
One 93.7 I hardly ever see in DX reports is the one from where I used to live ... KKRW in Houston. 100,000 watts with excellent coverage in that region, but I rarely if ever see reports of it being heard elsewhere.

 

[Darth_vader]

Sideband of KPDQ. Up until KRYP came on the air, 93.7 *was* KPDQ.

 

[P33ling]

Here in the western Chicago burbs; WLIT splatter. With my Grundig G8 and/or G5 on some occasions I can get WBCT Grand Rapids MI or WEKZ Monroe WI.

 

[Hardrocker9]

WZMX Hot 93.7 Hartford, CT.

 

[Buckeyes2001]

Here in Thornville, Ohio it's the previously-mentioned WQIO, a semi-local from about 35 miles up the road. Excellent signal that covers a lot of ground between Cleveland and Columbus.
One 93.7 I hardly ever see in DX reports is the one from where I used to live ... KKRW in Houston. 100,000 watts with excellent coverage in that region, but I rarely if ever see reports of it being heard elsewhere.

I actually did get KKRW once last year. I have video of that you can find here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6RqBzmZ6MI

start around 2:30

 

[kenrayc]

In Fresno/Clovis that would be the grandfathered blow-torch KSKS that is at 4,600 ft above sealevel (1,900 ft HAAT) with 68K ERP, 21 miles away, the most powerful FM in Central California, signal and coverage above the Valley floor.

 

[dave73]

On occasion, I get WBCT Grand Rapids, MI on their grandfathered 320kw signal, despite having first adjacent WLIT Chicago on 93.9 splattering over 93.7 most of the time.

 

[BigDave]

Simulcast of 680 The Fan and sometimes Z93.7 WPEZ Macon,Georgia