What do you all get on 97.5 FM? Here in Vermilion, OH, 97.5 is semi-local WONE-FM/Akron, OH with a rock format. When tropo is up across Lake Erie, it doesn't take much for CIQM/London, ON to cause interference or sometimes WJIM/Lansing, MI when tropo is favorable in that direction.
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FM Frequency of the Week - 97.5 MHz
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Near north Chicago suburbs it's WZOK from Rockford--varying degrees of strength.
Here in suburban Rochester NY, it's usually in the hash from WPXY 97.9, less than a mile away. But when I can get around PXY, there's a semi-local translator, W248BH Gates NY (// WMHN 89.3), and the usually-reliable WFRY Watertown, which benefits from trop enhancement over Lake Ontario in the summer. I've (very rarely) heard the London ON station here as well.
In Bothell/Bellevue, WA it's IBOC/splatter from local KIRO 97.3 (News/Talk).
In Pacific Beach, WA it's mostly KOMO 97.7 (News) splatter but have heard at times KSHL Gleneden Beach, OR (Country, about 150 mi S) under the slop.
In Yakima, WA it's KOLW Basin City, WA (Classic Hits).
In Portland, OR 97.5 is open, so I have not heard anything there yet.
-crainbebo
In Pacific Beach, WA it's mostly KOMO 97.7 (News) splatter but have heard at times KSHL Gleneden Beach, OR (Country, about 150 mi S) under the slop.
In Yakima, WA it's KOLW Basin City, WA (Classic Hits).
In Portland, OR 97.5 is open, so I have not heard anything there yet.
-crainbebo
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In the middle of Virginia, 3WV or WWWV in Charlottesville pretty much rules the dial. Not a bad listen either from time to time. In some real odd times of weather and tropo, I also get the 97.5 out of West Virginia, WLTF. I don't really listen anymore, but some years ago when it was WKMZ, I used to be a regular listener then. I was a little closer to their signal then too.
97.5 is a mess here, sometimes I get the WNGN translator in Albany (which is more often than not rebroadcasting tropo or static, 91.9 Argyle is rather far from the transmitter)... and if I point it east, I get WHAZ-FM on 97.5 (a member of the WHAZ Christian radio network)
Manassas, VA,
It's usually rather weak WLTF Martinsburg, WV or weaker WWWV from Charlottesville. The temperature inversion over the Chesapeake Bay sometimes brings the country 97.5 from the Delmarva Peninsula. Oh, yeah, when WLTF was WKMZ, it was an interesting sounding top 40 a playlist that included XTC's "The Ballad of Peter Pumkinhead" and even Billy Ray Cyrus' "Achy Braky Heart" before switching to classic hits.
It's usually rather weak WLTF Martinsburg, WV or weaker WWWV from Charlottesville. The temperature inversion over the Chesapeake Bay sometimes brings the country 97.5 from the Delmarva Peninsula. Oh, yeah, when WLTF was WKMZ, it was an interesting sounding top 40 a playlist that included XTC's "The Ballad of Peter Pumkinhead" and even Billy Ray Cyrus' "Achy Braky Heart" before switching to classic hits.
Dayton, Ohio....Dueling WVNU, Greenfield OH and WTGR, Union City, OH. Now WSWO-LP in Huber Heights joins the fray, moving into town from 97.7.
Here just S of Charleston it is a very interesting frequency. WCOS from Columbia comes in much of the time, and all the time during most of the winter and during any DX. They are the heritage country station of the state. During the summer with a good radio, 97 Country from Winter Haven often comes in, at over 330 miles.
Before 97.5 moved from South Boston to the Raleigh area, I used to pick them up sometimes.
Before 97.5 moved from South Boston to the Raleigh area, I used to pick them up sometimes.
Here in Durham, North Carolina, its a very strong signal from now-Carrboro-licensed WQOK (their transmitter, on the WFXC/Durham (107.1) tower is maybe two miles from my home). They added HD when they moved to the Durham tower and pretty much obliterate the whole 97 Mhz "neighborhood" on the FM dial. The station was pretty strong here as three years ago when it was still licensed to South Boston, Va. with a transmitter in nothern Granville County. (but it's been a "Raleigh" station since 1987). I never listen to WQOK, as I can't stand their hip hop format.
I checked my FM log, and I've never received anything else on 97.5 MHz.
I checked my FM log, and I've never received anything else on 97.5 MHz.
Here in Warminster PA, 97.5 is the local all-sports station, WPEN-FM(The Fanatic)
from Burlington NJ/Philadelphia.
from Burlington NJ/Philadelphia.
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ddsparxx said:
Funny I don't think I've ever gotten the 97.5 Country station from the Eastern Shore/Delmarva. Even as far East as New Post, VA, I've pulled in WWWV from C'ville. Now there are nights when I can easily pull in 103.3 WESR from the Eastern Shore, but 103.3 is a clear one here otherwise.
In North Dallas KLAK 97.5 is the usual suspect. There's an FM Translator in the Oak Cliff section of Dallas that relays KDKR 91.3, Decatur, TX which is rather dumb because the same station has a translator on 99.9 licensed to Irving Tx. The tower sites are less than 10 miles from each other. KDKR is religious (of course). KWTX from Waco is a very rare here.
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Usually bleedover but I sometimes hear WPZE 97.5 from Fayetteville,Georgia
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