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FM Frequency of the Week - 94.5 MHz

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Buckeyes2001

Just noticed this site was back up and running. I had been hanging out on RadioInsight. Anyways, what do you all get on 94.5 FM?

Here in Vermilion, OH it is semi-local WXKR/Port Clinton, OH with a classic rock format. This is a Toledo market station but with a rimshot signal into Toledo proper. Not sure exactly why their transmitter has to be so far east of Toledo. Tropo was brought be WCEN/Hemlock, MI 'The Moose' (country), WNED/Buffalo, NY (classical), WWSW/Pittsburgh, PA (classic hits) mixing with WXKR or even taking over. A rare tropo event brought in '94.5 the Bull' from Wingham, ON with a Rock format.
 
Welcome back!

Here in Tampa, the old classic rock station 'Thunder' returned to the air about a year ago with two low power 250 watt transmitters for the Tampa Bay area.

One is on 94.5 - W233AV in Gulfport. The other, W290BJ, is on 105.9 in Tampa.

The one on 94.5 has a fair signal here in Tampa but nothing like the other locals.

Interesting though that all it takes is a little mild tropo conditions that happen on a lot of evenings and early mornings and WCFB Daytona Beach can be heard when you move the antenna to one position and then Thunder when it's in another position.

WCFB's transmitter is about 25 miles SW of Daytona Beach.
 
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Buckeyes2001 said:
Just noticed this site was back up and running. I had been hanging out on RadioInsight. Anyways, what do you all get on 94.5 FM?

Here in Vermilion, OH it is semi-local WXKR/Port Clinton, OH with a classic rock format. This is a Toledo market station but with a rimshot signal into Toledo proper. Not sure exactly why their transmitter has to be so far east of Toledo. Tropo was brought be WCEN/Hemlock, MI 'The Moose' (country), WNED/Buffalo, NY (classical), WWSW/Pittsburgh, PA (classic hits) mixing with WXKR or even taking over. A rare tropo event brought in '94.5 the Bull' from Wingham, ON with a Rock format.
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WXKR has a really solid signal east and west of Toledo. I believe it's directional. Even 35 miles north of Toledo, it gets overrun by 94.7 out of Detroit.
Here in Columbus, 94.5 is all just bleed from local WSNY on 94.7.
 
In Yakima, it's local KATS (Rock). No DX here.

In Western Washington, I received K233BU White Center (Hot Jamz Radio/KMIH), CFBT Vancouver, BC and KRXY Shelton WA depending on where I was and conditions. I also grabbed KATS once.
For E-skip logs, I grabbed KRFD Merino, CO (The Ranch), KSKL Scott City, KS (Mix 94), KLIQ Hastings, NE (The Breeze 94.5), KVBE Moapa NV (94.5 The Vibe in 2011, now Jelli), and KYAT Gallup, NM (Star 94.5 in 2011 when I logged it, now it's a Najavo/Indian format)

-crainbebo
 
Far northwest suburbs of Chicago its a weak 94.5 from Milwaukee. Formerly WKTI, but I forget what the current calls are. Sister station to WTMJ/620. Most of the Milwaukee full facility FMs can be a little problematic here because the towers are on the north side of the city.
 
KOOL-FM here in Phoenix.
 
Cincinnati OH West
Reception location: Second story of house which is not situated well for FM DX.
Receiver: Grundig G8

W233BG Cincinnati "WLW FM" - Duplicates WLW AM programming. .099 KW, and uses the WKRC TV tower which is located on a hill just north and east of the Cincinnati downtown area. 7 - 8 miles from my location.
 
WXKR was and is short spaced to a number of stations. Originally, one problem was WCEN-FM, which was considered to be a Class C until around 1986. It had to be 170 miles from WCEN-FM to be fully spaced. WCEN-FM filed for C1 with short spacing agreements with with 94.5 Holland, MI and WCSX. They filed for a new tower, and the Class went from C to C1, which resolved one short spacing. WXKR is a Port Clinton station, so it has to be close enough to cover Port Clinton with a 70 dBu signal. It is also short spaced to CIDR/CKLW-FM, and another signal to the South on 94.3 I think.
 
The station on 94.3 would probably be WMRN/Marion. I'm guessing it's not WKKI from Celina, but I suppose it could be. Marion isn't all that far from Toledo line of sight, maybe 75 miles or so (so less from Port Clinton).
 
Allendale, MI: WTNR (their stick is less than ten miles from Allendale)
Manistee, MI: WLWK, WCEN, WTNR, and WRJO (from most often to least often)
 
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