FM Frequency of the Week: 94.3

[gr8oldies]

One of the few remaining clear frequencies in our area, when the band opens up it's either WKKI, Celina, OH, WKKJ, Chillicothe OH or the Rushville IN station (now WIFE I think). Also the new WMRN (which was the old WDIF), Marion.

 

[MW_FM_DT_DXer]

I don't get anything at home on 94.3, but, if I go north of the Valley, I can get KDDL, Chino Valley (4.1 kW, ND, C3); I can get KXKQ, Safford (1.7 kW, ND, C2) starting around the Gila-Graham county line; and, I can get KBUX, Quartzsite (250 watts, ND, A) in the Quartzsite-Blythe area.

 

[MW_FM_DT_DXer]

Correction-KBUX is 205 watts, ND, Class A.

 

[BobOnTheJob]

One of the few remaining clear frequencies in our area, when the band opens up it's either WKKI, Celina, OH, WKKJ, Chillicothe OH or the Rushville IN station (now WIFE I think). Also the new WMRN (which was the old WDIF), Marion.

Good to hear that my 2.8KW output into a single bay 570' above ground is reaching Springfield. It is now WIFE, formerly WKWH (former owner was the local REMC...therefore KWH = kilowatthour) & before that WRCR, which I presume meant Rush County Radio.

 

[dgendvil]

I had once got KKEE from Long Beach, WA many years ago while I had lived in Beavercreek, Oregon, just 30 miles southeast of Portland, whenever it was clear outside.

 

[Lawppy]

From Coldwater, MI:

Mostly bleed from semi-local WVIC in Jackson. Otherwise, it is WZOC Plymouth, IN. Sometimes I hear CKSY from Chatham, ON and WKKI from Celina, OH. 94.3 isn't a very happening frequency here.

 

[schmave]

Agreed with my Ohio counterparts ... 94.3 is a busy frequency in this state. There's WKKI (used to be K94 and might still be) as well as stations as Marion and Chillicothe. Driving home to Columbus from my grandparents in St. Marys, Ohio when I was a kid, I remember K94 gave way to the Marion station in the hills about halfway between Bellefontaine and Mad River Mountain. There was maybe a mile where the two fought it out, then it was all one or the other.
K94 was usually audible much of the way to Dayton in the south and nearly to Findlay to the northeast.
In Columbus, Chillicothe is audible in the southern half of the city and it's all Marion to the north.

 

[gr8oldies]

I lived in Kenton very, very briefly and before WKKI moved from it's little dinky tower beside the studio above the Celina Music Store to the Wright State tower (built for a translator for Dayton's Channel 16 when Wright State still owned it), I listened to WDIF regularly (it was somewhat legendary as a really good small market station in the mid and late 70s). I'm curious to know if WKKI gives them a run for their money there now. (yes its still known as K94..though last I heard the format was kind of a rock-oriented Jack). I could pull WDIF to the extreme far reaches of Lima to the east at that time.

Completely forgot that I had logged CSKY once.

 

[PhilJSmith67]

Since 2000 in Manteno and Beecher IL (35-45 miles south of Chicago) I have logged the following...

WJKL Glendale Heights/Elgin (not exactly a local, but typically receivable)
WZOC Plymouth IN (Oldies 94.3)
WSSQ Sterling IL (Q94)
WPMJ Chillicothe IL (Peoria's True Oldies Channel)

My best catch via E-Skip, on three occasions since 2000:

CKMF-FM Montréal QC (Radio Énergie)

The last time, which I believe was in 2005, was such a strong skip that I picked it up in the car with RDS, and several clear IDs in French: "Radio Énergie, See-Kah-Em-Ef, quatre-vingt-quatorze trois..." That skip session lasted for over an hour, along with CHOM 97.7.

 

[KML0224]

No dice for me here. That's home to WYBC-FM of New Haven here. I'm nearly 30 miles away in southern Hartford County (Connecticut).

 

[romer979fm]

from Nashville...94.3 finds Oak Grove, KY (former WDBL Springfleid, TN)
and/or WJJM Lewisburg, TN

 

[missterled01]

WKZW--"KZ94.3", in the Hattiesburg/Laurel area, and to the south of here, receptive probably from Picayune southward, WTIX-FM, from the New Orleans area.

 

[Tim from Springfield IL]

WKZW--"KZ94.3", in the Hattiesburg/Laurel area, and to the south of here, receptive probably from Picayune southward, WTIX-FM, from the New Orleans area.

Interestingly, the WKZW calls and "KZ94.3" were used from 1994-97 in Peoria, IL. Here's some history from Wikipedia regarding the use of the WKZW calls and legendary Peoria CHR's "KZ93" (93.3, c. 1977-1994) and "KZ94.3" (1994-97).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WPBG (93.3)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WPMJ (94.3)

 

[kc0ltv]

KKIN Aitkin, MN usually comes in on this frequency here. I've also heard CJSD Thunder Bay and KULO Alexandria by tropo / troposcatter and KILO Colorado Springs and WKZW Sandersville, MS via skip.

 

[austingrace]

94.3 is out of the question here in orlando because of bleeding from star 94.5.

 

[vibe]

One of the pitfalls of living on top of a hill is the difficulty in getting distant channels. I get a solid 94.1 WHJY from Providence RI about 30 mi S and a solid Jamn 94.5 from Baaaston, MA from about 30 mi E.
Nothing to squeeze in between on 94.3.

 

[kenrayc]

There's one right here in town ,KOKO which is an R@B oldies station ,it keeps me fron getting any others.

 

[KML0224]

One of the pitfalls of living on top of a hill is the difficulty in getting distant channels. I get a solid 94.1 WHJY from Providence RI about 30 mi S and a solid Jamn 94.5 from Baaaston, MA from about 30 mi E.
Nothing to squeeze in between on 94.3.

That's because WJMN-FM is to the west of Boston on the so-called FM 128 tower near I-95/MA 128 in the Newton area. Most Walkmans I've used on bus trips almost always start getting the adjacent-channel interference in the same area from WMAS-FM 94.7 of Springfield: In Charlton, MA, between Exit 9 and 10 on I-90 (Massachusetts Turnpike).