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FM Frequency of the Week - 98.3 MHz

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Buckeyes2001

What do you all get on 98.3 FM?

Here in Vermilion, OH it is usually IBOC hash from 98.5 WNCX in Cleveland, OH. Sometimes I can hear WMIM/Toledo, OH under the hash. If you travel about 10 or 15 miles south of here you can sometimes hear 98.3 from Fredericktown, OH (this used to simulcast with WSWR 100.1 in Shelby, OH. However 100.1 in Shelby is now WMAN-FM, a simulcast of 1400 AM in Mansfield, OH). Not sure how this affected 98.3s oldies format that they had with 100.1 as 'My 100.1 & 98.3'
 
Coldwater, MI-

Despite heavy splatter from WNWN 98.5, I can get...

WMIM- Luna Pier, OH- AC- My 98.3
WCXT- Hartford, MI- Hot AC- The Coast
WZZY- Winchester, IN- AC- Star 98.3
 
Schenectady, NY - WTRY-FM, oldies (I live around 5 miles from the tower or so)... whenever WTRY is off I often get WSUL Monticello and/or WHAI Greenfield :)
 
CFLY from Kingston, Ontario dominates the channel here in suburban Rochester NY when I can get past local WPXY 97.9.
 
The Columbus, Ohio area is sort of a convergence for a few 98.3s. Here in Thornville, it's mostly WKNA "Sam FM" from Logan, but they have an awful signal for being only about 30 miles south of here. They get run over by WWMM from Fredericktown pretty regularly.
I think there's at least one LPFM in Columbus on this frequency as well.
Northwest of Columbus, WPKO from Bellefontaine comes in, but you have to get much closer to Marysville to hear it. Its signal does much better to the west of Bellefontaine because of the ridge to its east. I've never heard it in suburban areas, and even last week when I was in northern Madison County Fredericktown owned 98.3.
 
In Durham, North Carolina, it's local WLUS, Clarksville, VA "US 98.3", with occasional interference from WIST, Thomasville, NC and WUIN, Oak Island, NC.
 
Here in Warminster PA(Philly 'burbs), it's usually splatter from local 98.1 WOGL. At times,
I have heard WMGQ from New Brunswick NJ or WTKU from Cape May NJ at 98.3.
 
From Dayton,Fairmont High School's WKET, with limited hours and coverage. Otherwise WPKO Bellefontaine and frequently WZZY Winchester IN.

When I'm in Knoxville a weak WMTY, Sweetwater, simulcasting the True Oldies Channel with AM 670 on a very low tower. I've heard others on 98.3 but haven't identified them
 
Two distant stations with weak signals in Manassas, VA. One is WKSI in Stephens City, VA 45 miles to the northwest with a Top 40 "Kiss" format and the other is WSMD Mechanicsville, MD about 50 miles toward southeast with the old-fashioned 3kW, 328 ft tower specs. WSMD programs a Jack-like AC format. A tropo opening once brought what is now WLUS Clarksville, VA, with its tower now south of the VA/NC according to the R-L map.
 
Bothell/Bellevue, WA: IBOC from KING 98.1.

Pacific Beach, WA: nothing.

Westport, WA: unid Classic Hits station, likely KPPK Rainier, OR.

Portland, OR: KPPK Rainier, OR (98.3 The Peak), static-free at times but not strong

Yakima, WA: KEYW Pasco, WA (98.3 The Key, mostly Hot AC). Staticky but it's in.

-crainbebo
 
KPPK, fairly decently around most of America's Vancouver, and even better yet on an F1HD. Usually sounds semi-local.
 
Lawppy said:
Coldwater, MI-

Despite heavy splatter from WNWN 98.5, I can get...

WMIM- Luna Pier, OH- AC- My 98.3
WCXT- Hartford, MI- Hot AC- The Coast
WZZY- Winchester, IN- AC- Star 98.3
Click to expand...

Not to split hairs, but Luna Pier is in Michigan (though one could practically throw a rock
into Toledo from there)

Here in Pittsburgh it is WPKV, a former Froggy country station which is currently leased to K-Love.
Technically licensed to Duquesne, PA (a rapidly decaying former milltown) the transmitter is actually
right in the center of Pittsburgh.

This was the former WESA in Charleroi, PA. WESA ironically enough are now the call letters for
a Pittsburgh NPR outlet which used to be WDUQ. When it was owned by Duquesne University, which
is not in Duquesne, PA.
 
98.3 is a clear frequency here, actually one of the clearest - the nearest locals are 97.1 and 98.9.

WCQM "98Q Country" from Park Falls, 108 miles away, comes in fairly reliably at night there on even car radios. There's something about that direction that favors long-distance reception.

One my XDR-F1HD and antenna/rotator combo, during flat conditions, I can also pick up a weak WBJI from Blackduck, MN (129 miles...serves the Bemidji market), another country signal, and KQYB Spring Grove, MN, (La Crosse, WI market) from 215 miles away, although that one is less reliable. I've also received KXGT Carrington, ND (318 miles - odd direction), KWQW Boone, IA "Wow FM" (348 miles), and KUQL Ethan, SD "Kool 98.3" (362 miles - received multiple times this past summer) via tropospheric ducting, though none of those signals are regularly received here. By E-Skip, looking at my log, I've gotten WDLT Chickasaw, AL, WGCO Midway, GA (Big 98.3, heard in 2008), and KKFR from Mayer, AZ (Power 98.3, also heard in 2008).
 
From Fresno/Clovis There 2 stations that come in both are weak, the most common is KLVY low power (10 watts) K-love from Madera, 23 miles away, at times the stonger power station KWNN from Turlock CA, 84 miles away will dominate under Tropo conditions, but there is a CP for a new station, KZLA from Riverdale/ Fresno a new 25 KW, at 329 ft, 19 miles away that will over take KWNN and KLVY when they go on.
 
Wellsville, NY
A weak WVIN Bath, NY (35 miles east of me). I have also received WQRS Salamanca, NY (45 miles to the west).
 
From between Mobile (AL) and Pensacola (FL) the usual station is WDLT from Mobile, running an adult urban format. It's kind of a tightly spaced channel here as we have a strong semi-local on 98.1 from Fort Walton Beach ("Highway 98 Country") and a class C on 98.7 ("Cat Country 98.7") that give it fits on lesser radios.

Skip was in this morning, and something was breaking through WDLT but I was never able to get an ID. Probably WJDR from Prentiss, MS, about 150 miles northwest of here.
 
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