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FM Frequency of the week - 94.1 MHz

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Buckeyes2001

What do you all get on 94.1 FM? Here in Vermilion, OH, it is usually a somewhat scratchy WHBC/Canton, OH with a Hot AC format which was once a regular AC station. I have also heard WVIC/Jackson, MI and once heard KMXJ/Amarillo, TX via E-skip.
 
At home in Rochester, it's super-local WZNE 94.1, transmitting from less than a mile away. Before it came on in the late 1990s, we heard CBL-FM from Toronto.
 
Schenectady, NY: a fair to weak signal from W231CF, a translator for AM 1440 WFNY; however, on occasion I've gotten WNYV during tropo events...
 
Dayton, Ohio area, mostly 94.1 in Cincinnati which has had more format changes than some folks have had underwear changes. Also have received WHBC-FM Mix 94.1 out of Canton north of town. Had one extreme tropo event that brought WVIC in Jackson MI in.
 
Here in Warminster PA(Philadelphia suburbs), it's local all-sports WIP-FM(the station formerly known
as WYSP, the rock station) at 94.1.
 
In Bellingham, WA, an unlistenable KMPS, Seattle.
 
In Fresno/Clovis CA, The two most common are KISV Bakersfield, Top 40, 111 miles away and KBKY Merced, Spanish language Format, 53 miles away, both come in good on a directional antenna, but KISV is actually stronger in reception even though they are twice the distance, KISV is class B and has a higher TL at 3,700 ft Sea level., KBKY is a 6K Class A station in the foothills at 1,200 FT sea level.

The 3rd station I have picked up on occations is KPFA Berkeley, Non Commercial Pacifica, 157 miles away, and a very rare 4th station KLMM Oceano/San Luis Obispo, 142 miles away.
 
Northern VA,

IBOC from WKYS 93.9 in DC. Tropo conditions gave me Hampton Roads sports talker and Philadelphia's former WYSP.

I once had a roommate in northern VA who heard Philly's 94.1 and she thought it was a local station, though she didn't know where the station really was located. This was during a tropo event. As I remembered correctly, she said "Ninety-four point one to listen to." on our stereo receiver.
 
here in suburban Pittsburgh I get a ten-watt repeater out of Clairton, PA
simulcasting WKHB-AM 620 from Irwin, PA. They seem to get a lot out of
their ten watts.
 
Buried somewhere in the depths of New Mexico's now-comatose threads is a recent complaint about problems on 94.1 in Albuquerque. Some 40-years ago, I myself managed 94.1 on the campus radio station at the now-defunct University of Albuqerque. Engineering upgrades available back then, including turn-key installation of new hardware, made no difference in the sound, reported by listeners as "weak".
 
In Bothell/Bellevue, WA/Pacific Beach, WA it's no doubt KMPS Seattle, WA (69kw, Country). I've heard it clear down to Longview save some KPDQ splatter.

In Portland, OR it's all KPDQ 93.9 splatter.

In Yakima, WA I've gotten KMPS, KXIX Bend, OR (real weak however), and KCLK Lewiston, ID w/ oldies.

-crainbebo
 
From Coldwater, MI-

A very regular WVIC from Jackson, MI (94-1 The Edge). The area's only alternative rock station.

Tropo sometimes brings in
WWKR- Hart, MI- Classic Rock- (K-Rock)
WBNI- Roanoke, IN- Classical
WGFA- Watseka, IL- AC
WHBC- Canton, OH- Hot AC
 
FreddyE1977 said:
here in suburban Pittsburgh I get a ten-watt repeater out of Clairton, PA
simulcasting WKHB-AM 620 from Irwin, PA. They seem to get a lot out of
their ten watts.
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FM 94.1 has an interesting story in Pittsburgh. Originally, K-Love used it as a translator for WKEL-98.5 out of Confluence. Then Keymarket LMA'd FM 98.3 to K-Love and WPKV eliminated the need for FM 94.1.

After that, Broadcast Communications Inc. started using FM 94.1 to further WKHB-620's signal at night and FM 97.5 to give daytimer WKFB-770 a nighttime service.

A year ago, the FCC was asked to allow a move of FM 94.1 from its Glassport, PA, tower site to the WYEP-FM tower overlooking Calvary Cemetery in Pittsburgh, with an increase in power from 10 to 84 watts.

BCI has a CP for that move but the question will be whether CBS, licensee of KDKA-93.7, and Clear Channel, licensee of WWSW-94.5, will challenge the signal once it signs on from there.
 
Near Farmville, Virginia:

Antenna aimed north: W231AD, Charlottesville, VA - A translator of Generations 102.3 (WZGN, Crozet)
Antenna aimed southeast: WVSP, Yorktown, VA (ESPN Radio)
 
Lately I've been getting a 50/50 messy mix of WHBC/Canton, OH and WVIC/Jackson, MI from Vermilion, OH. It used to be only WHBC unless there was tropo.
 
On Interstate 95 in MD, I once heard WQKX Sunbury, PA while crossing the bridge over the wide Susquehanna River. The signal was good, and flowing right above the river like fluid flowing through a pipe.
 
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