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FM Frequency of the Week - 96.3 MHz

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Buckeyes2001

Happy Valentine's Day!!
What do you all get on 96.3 FM? Here in Vermilion, OH its usually hash from local WKFM 96.1 and some IBOC noise from WAKS 96.5 in Cleveland. With some tropo, WDVD/Detroit will show up. I have also heard WLVQ/Columbus, OH.
 
Over in Dayton, it's usually WLVQ but I have heard WHHH near Indianapolis. In the alternate location in Tennessee, local semi-southern Gospel outket WJBZ, Seymour
 
All WLVQ here 30 miles east of Columbus. Even weird atmospheric events don't affect the signal here (10 miles east, it becomes a different story).
 
Northern VA.

DC's WHUR with the urban adult format. HD-2 does jazz and urban adult mix and HD-3 relays the HD-2 channel. I think WHUR is the first DC area station to turn on the IBOC.
 
In NW Indiana, I get WBBM-FM Chicago. No chance of getting another 96.3 due to CBS Radio Chicago having a backup antenna installed on top of the old WXRT studios at 4949 W Belmont Avenue in Chicago (on the NW side away from downtown), along with WXRT, WCFS, WUSN, & WJMK on the same tower for their backups.
 
Nothing but K242AF repeating KLVP morning, noon and night. Pretty redundant when you consider that K240CZ does the exact same thing only 400 kHz away!

(I say, just stick the main "feeder" signal for all these little flea-powered "god translators" in a market on the HD2 or -3 of a big full-power, 50 000 000-watt station and get rid of some of these redundant analogue translators. Maybe that'd help clean up the band a little bit.)
 
In Durham, North Carolina, it's either Martinsville, Va.-licensed classic rocker WROV or Morehead City, NC country outlet WRHT, usually the former. Thanks to local WBBB 96.1 not having HD, we're still able to hear one or the other on a fairly regular basis.
 
I'm less than a mile from WCMF, with 50 kW on 96.5 - but on the rare occasions when it's been off, or when the trop was exceptional in the days before WCMF had IBOC, 96.3 here in Rochester belongs to Kingston, Ontario, or occasionally to CFMZ Toronto.
 
From Coldwater, MI-

It's a mish-mash between WNHT-Churubusco, IN (Rhythmic CHR- Wild 96.3) and W242BH, a 120 watt translator for 104.7 WFRN, from Marshall, MI.

When tropo is up, you can hear WDVD-Detroit, MI (Hot AC) or WBBM-Chicago, IL (CHR- B96) in addition to Fort Wayne and Marshall. In other words. It's a mess.

On my home set-up-
WLVQ- Columbus, OH- Classic Rock- QFM-96 is also possible
CFMZ- Toronto has sneaked in above WDVD a couple times, but very rarely.
 
Bothell/Bellevue, WA
IBOC from KJAQ 96.5. Have never logged anything over it.

Pacific Beach, WA
Nothing

Wapato, WA
KRCW Royal City, WA (Regional Mexican)

Portland, OR
K-LOVE translator (repeating KLVP 88.7), Portland.

-crainbebo
 
Philadelphia suburbs:

Usually splatter from either WCTO Easton(96.1 Cat Country) or WRDW Philly
(Wired 96.5). Sometimes in tropo, 96.3 from New York(was WQXR, forget what
it is now) or Washington DC(WHUR, Howard University's station).
 
RyanHoward said:
Sometimes in tropo, 96.3 from New York(was WQXR, forget whatit is now)
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WXNY-FM, with a Spanish Rhythmic format I believe :)

As for Schenectady, NY, it's all WAJZ here (Jamz 96.3, Urban)... although the signal is only a class A I still get it better than the closer WDCD-FM on 96.7 here :)
 
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