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FM Frequency of the Week - 94.9 MHz

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Buckeyes2001

What can you get on 94.9 FM? Here in Vermilion, OH it is WQMX/Akron, OH with country. Once when I caught them off the air I heard classic rock from Lansing, MI in its place with a weak signal.
 
Mostly IBOC splatter from WQBW (ex-WFXF) 95.1 here in suburban Rochester NY...but when I can get a decent null on them, it's CKGE from Oshawa, Ontario, right across the lake, if the band is dead. If tropo is up, it's CIMF from Gatineau/Hull, Quebec (Ottawa market) instead.
 
Houston is blank, but any sort of decent FM outdoor antenna at all brings in KLTY Dallas. Skip usually brings in KQUR Laredo.
 
Nothing in northern VA. Just IBOC from DC's WIAD 94.7. Tropo openings have given me The Point in the Norfolk area and (very rarely) Roanoke's WSLC. The latter has a huge signal coverage area.
 
From Coldwater, MI-

Mostly WMMQ. Classic Rock from East Lansing, MI. Slight tropo brings in WSJM-FM from Benton Harbor, MI. One time, WMMQ was off the air completely and I heard CKGE from Oshawa, ON! Tried very hard for University of Western Ontario's station out of London, ON to no avail.

Other stations heard include-
WQMX- Medina, OH
WAAG- Galesburg, IL
WOLX- Baraboo, WI
WONB- Ada, OH
WREW- Fairfield, OH
WKZC- Scottville, MI
W---- Hillman, MI
 
94.9 here in Schenectady right now is a weak WKLL (Frankfort, NY) running a Modern Rock format... although a translator on 94.9 (right now in Troy at 10 watts) will be moving to the New Scotland tower farm (home to many of the class Bs in the market) at 250 watts, so that will probably replace it soon :)
 
Here in Philly, 94.9 is empty. For cars with portable sat radios or other devices needing an empty FM frequency, it's a great frequency. It's empty all the way down I-95 to Baltimore.
 
94.9 here is usually interference from 95SX (WSSX), our most powerful and closest FM, but good radios can get several things there. WVCO Loris (beach music) comes in a couple times a week, and WHKN Millen, GA also comes in periodically.

One time I heard Miami. I've never heard Tampa 94.9.
 
In Bothell/Bellevue, 94.9 is KUOW Seattle [NPR].

In Pacific Beach, WA I had a mix of KUOW and KQCB Cannon Beach, OR [Q 9-4-9, AAA format].

In Portland, OR this was all IBOC/splatter from KNRK. Darthvader, if he is around, I wasn't able to null out the IBOC that much.

In Yakima, WA I get KIOK Pasco, WA [94.9 The Wolf, Country].

-crainbebo
 
Here on the Alabama Gulf Coast, we get local 100 kw'er WKSJ, a top rated country station. I've only caught them off the air once since I've lived here and didn't hear anything else on the frequency. I'm only about 14 air miles from the tx site.

As an aside, when they were off the air the HD continued to transmit and decode. The main channel was dead air but the "Foggy Mountain" subchannel kept playing like nothing was wrong. Very weird to tune in static and have it "dissolve" to a perfect digital signal!
 
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