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FM Frequency of the Week - 96.9 MHz

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Buckeyes2001

What do you all get on 96.9 FM?
Here in Vermilion, OH I get WLRD/Willard, OH with a country gospel format. When tropo is up I have also heard WGRF/Buffalo, NY and WRRK/Braddock, PA with tropo from that direction. On trips to Fredericksburg, VA I get WWUZ/Bowling Green, VA.
 
There: Sideband of KYCH
Here: Really scratchy mono copy of KDLO on the Yacht Boy, about 100 miles or so south. Had I brought the F1HD with me, I'd undoubtedly hear it clearer. Especially considering how flat it is here in the Dakotas.
 
Northern VA,

I usually get only the IBOC hash fromn WASH 97.1 in DC. Occasionally, I could dig out the IBOC to get WWUZ down south, or WSIG Mt. Jackson, VA west of me, or WLAN in Lancaster, PA. One tropo opening I've gotten WYMY Goldsboro, NC.
 
Near Farmville, Virginia:

Antenna aimed northeast: WWUZ 96.9, Bowling Green, VA (96.9 the Rock)
Antenna aimed north/northwest: WSIG 96.9, Mount Jackson, VA (Real Country 96.9)
Antenna aimed south/southeast: WYMY 96.9, Goldsboro, NC (La Ley)

All of these are received under normal conditions with rooftop TV antenna and pre-amp.
 
Here in SW Florida 96.9 is WINK FM which could be considered the heritage FM in this area. It has always been the sister to WINK AM and WINK TV. Of course with deregulation it is now sister station to several other local stations. It has been owned by the same Ft Myers based company for decades. It operates with 98,000 watts and can be heard as far north at the Tampa Bay area.

Originally years ago it was an easy listening station, then changing over to Top 40 around 1980, then to an Adult Contemporary format later on. WINK FM currently plays a Hot AC format and has for several years.
 
15mi west of Seattle here in Bremerton, WA, it's mostly KGY South Sound Country on 96.9. Sometimes during tropospheric conditions, CKLG 96.9 Jack-FM from Vancouver, BC will pop in, which is a perfect companion to 2nd adjacent KJAQ 96.5 Jack-FM here in the Seattle area.
 
Yeah, so anyways, had the system not pharted last night I would have edited my above post to add in some other observations, thus it would have read as follows:

There: Sideband of KYCH
Here: Really scratchy mono copy of KDLO on the Yacht Boy, about 100 miles or so south. Depending how I have the aerial positioned I can also sort of hear it fade to what I think might be KMFY in Grand Rapids (could also be the sideband of KCYK, which is about 100 miles closer.)

Had I brought the F1HD with me, I'd undoubtedly hear everything clearer, especially considering how flat it is here in the Dakotas and how well VHF signals propagate over such terrain.

[size=8pt]Perhaps the MBE/sysop could kindly replace my above post with the text of this one?
 
Where are you located today Darthvader? North Dakota?

-crainbebo
 
96.9 is one of our biggest signals, WIWF, a country station. They have been around for almost 60 years. They started as easy listening, were owned by a local AM, were easy listening for decades before transitioning to AC in the mid 1980s, then were AC for all but a couple years until 2007 when they went country.

Can be heard in most of SC east of I-95. A few time (when skip is REALLY strong), Jacksonville's 96.9 overpowers The Wolf.
 
Through tropo, I usually get WWDV Zion, IL (simulcast of 97.1 WDRV Chicago). Otherwise, 97.1 is too strong to get anything on 96.9 on any other day.
 
Here in Warminster PA(Philadelphia area), it's either a translator of educational religious
WBMR from Telford(Bucks County) PA or WFPG from Atlantic City NJ. In tropo, I have
received WLAN from Lancaster or WJIB(now WTKK) from Boston.
 
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