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FM Frequency of the Week - 98.3 MHz

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Buckeyes2001

What all get you get on 98.3 FM?

Here in Vermilion, OH it is mostly Ibiquity hash from WNCX 98.5/Cleveland, OH. If anything it's WMIM/Luna Pier, MI under the hash and less often WMAN/Fredericktown, OH. This is also the frequency where I got the longest E-skip catch with KATR/Otis, CO one July night about 10 years ago.
 
Here at my home in the far northwest suburbs of Chicago, I get my Whole House FM transmitter. Same goes for my neighbors on the block. (Sorry, guys...couldn't resist!) When the TX is off, its usually a weak WRLR....an LPFM from Round Lake, IL, about 20 miles to my northeast.
 
In Knoxville and East TN it's a very weak WMTY, Sweetwater, whose AM tries to rimshot Knoxville on 670 but this FM is on a very low tower and can only be heard reliably in upper elevation areas of adjacent Blount Co. A former True Oldies Channel affiliate, it now plays oldies off hard drive with different liners and ads for AM and FM. FM is religious all day Sunday.

In Dayton, OH, the Bellefontaine FM, WPKO is often heard, as well as the Winchester IN station. This when WKET isn't operating or you aren't in range
 
Here in Columbus, it's low-powered WCRS with 126 watts from its tower just west of the Ohio State campus. Signal isn't a powerhouse in the suburbs, but it's there.
Depending on the part of the metro, WKNA from Logan (45 miles southeast of Columbus) and/or WMAN out of Fredericktown (45 miles northeast) also can be heard.
WPKO does not show up in Columbus, even in the northwest suburbs closest to Bellefontaine. I think it's largely because of the hills, aka the "Bellefontaine ridge," but WPKO is basically gone by the time you hit Marysville on U.S. 33, only 25 miles east. Conversely, it's easily heard 35 miles northwest in St. Marys (possibly farther, but I've never tried). The hills basically make the signal directional.
 
Here in Yakima it's KEYW Pasco, WA with Hot AC (The Key). Staticky but always in.
I have one of my few W-calls on this frequency, via Es. WBJI Blackduck, MN w/ Real Country, logged 7/15/14. Also heard on 98.3 that evening via Es was KQYB Spring Grove, MN, one of my farthest FM logs ever at 1422 miles (KQYB is very close to the MN/WI border near La Crosse, WI) with a mention of "Rushford Days" (Rushford, MN).
Also heard here and there and much better in very high elevations, is KTWS Bend, OR "The Twins" with classic rock.
NOTHING in Seattle due to KING IBOC.

-crainbebo
 
Here in Warminster PA(philly 'burbs), it's usually splatter from 98.1 WOGL. I have, however, picked up WMGQ from New Brunswick NJ at times.
 
Here in New Britain, CT, about 10 miles southwest of downtown Hartford, I usually get a weak signal of WILI-FM from Willmantic, occasionally in stereo. If I move my antenna wire the right way, I get a trace of WDAQ-FM from Danbury, but that's almost never there. On the odd occasion, I get a trace of some Spanish translator from the Meriden area, a few miles to my south.
 
In South Chicagoland & in parts of NW Indiana, it's possible to get WCCQ Crest Hill, IL (from the Joliet area). At least on the Indiana side, 98.3 is an open frequency.
 
98.3 here, if anything, is a weak WLCS North Muskegon, MI. During the summer, WRUP Palmer, MI and WCQM Park Falls, WI will sneak in once in a while. Also received KQYB via tropo in July.
 
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