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FM Frequency of the week - 94.1 MHz

A somewhat strong WWKR in Manistee and a weak WWKR in Allendale. It is one of two FM stations I can consistently get in both Manistee and Allendale (the other is 100kW WBLV on 90.3; WWKR is only 5kW, but they moved to the old WCXT tower east of Hart a few years ago, which is somewhat tall (almost 500 feet) and located at a somewhat high elevation for Michigan [the tower base is 1,000 feet above sea level]).
 
From my job in Merrillville Indiana, it's sometimes possible for me to get WGFA Watseka, IL (local from my former jobsite in Lowell, IN). My job is outside of WLIT-FM's Grade A coverage area, & that makes it a bit easier to get 94.1. At home in Gary, won't happen at all, as 93.9 is too strong.
 
Kenosha, WI. Active Rock WJJO Watertown / Madison WI will come in at the slightest hint of tropo, or a trip about 15 miles west of town.
 
Local KBXL there since Feb 22, 1961. Before I knew what DXing was.
Not much else heard there.
I do remember being amazed when they showed up my Dads
Hallicrafters S-56 AM/FM radio (with phono input!). A second FM station!

Sill have that radio.
 
In Pottsville PA, one of the supervisors at work heard I'd worked in radio and asked me for advice about putting a TV aerial on his house so he could hear Howard Stern on WYSP Philly. Of course, this was before Stern left terrestrial radio.

http://www.radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/pat?call=WIP&service=FM&status=L&hours=U

Pottsville is at upper left.

Reception was iffy but do-able. But his house was fairly up there, and faced downhill toward Philly, so reception was present a lot of the time.

Here's the reason it often wasn't.

http://www.radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/pat?call=WQKX&service=FM&status=L&hours=U

94-KX is a collage of Hot A/C, not a bad listen for :45 minutes or so. They're the station that DDSparxx heard on the I-95 bridge in Maryland.

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(Our own home here is located near that big, unnamed, peach-hued smudge south of Hazleton. According to the map, the stretch spans parts of two counties -- our Schuylkill County and Carbon County.
The smudge is a misprint. There is no population density of the sort there. Maybe that's why it has no name :- )
 
"Have you ever gotten WWKR or WVIC there?"

I have heard both at one time or another; WVIC when there is Detroit tropo, WWKR will come in with the typical warm weather West Michigan tropo.
 
KenoGuy said:
"Have you ever gotten WWKR or WVIC there?"

I have heard both at one time or another; WVIC when there is Detroit tropo, WWKR will come in with the typical warm weather West Michigan tropo.
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WWKR gets out well for only being 5kW. I was up in Beulah (65 miles from their tower) a couple of weeks ago and they were in, although not strong. I once carried them to the Walker Ave exit on I-96.
 
Whitmore Lake, MI - WVIC dominates, with splatter from 93.9 CIDR on less selective radios. Sometimes WHBC-FM pops in during tropo.

Bay City, MI - WVIC is a pretty common catch up that way as well.

However, I did manage to receive CBL-FM Toronto in Tawas City MI a couple of weeks ago.
 
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