FM Frequency of the Week - 98.5 MHz

[Buckeyes2001]

What do you all get on 98.5 FM?

Here in Vermilion, OH it is local WNCX/Cleveland with classic rock. They were off the air during the Aug 2003 blackout and I caught what I think was WUPS/Harrison, MI. The ID I heard sounded like "98.5 the Hits" but 98.5, UPS was the closest thing I could think it could have been.

 

[ftballfan]

What do you all get on 98.5 FM?

Here in Vermilion, OH it is local WNCX/Cleveland with classic rock. They were off the air during the Aug 2003 blackout and I caught what I think was WUPS/Harrison, MI. The ID I heard sounded like "98.5 the Hits" but 98.5, UPS was the closest thing I could think it could have been.

Their slogan is "We Deliver the [Classic] Hits". They're a full C1 (100kW @ 299m) from pretty much the middle of the Lower Peninsula. They cover the most land of any station in Michigan despite not having the biggest 40dBU (I can think of at least eight stations in Michigan that have bigger 40dBU coverage areas, but they cover less land due to short-spacing and the Great Lakes).

Back on topic, 98.5 in Manistee is a sloppy mess of WUPS and WQLH Green Bay, WI. Under any tropo, WQLH wins out.
98.5 in Allendale is WFGR I-BLOC. However, I have received WNWN Coldwater, MI and WUPS in southeast Grand Rapids

 

[crainbebo]

In Monroe, WA, 98.5 is mainly CIOC Victoria, BC with adult contemporary that sounds more like Hot AC.

E-SKIP CATCHES
KABG Albuquerque, NM (2011) Farthest catch at 1189 miles on this frequency.
KUFX San Jose, CA (2012)
KLUC Las Vegas, NV (2011)
KHAQ Maxwell, NE (Yesterday, June 25 2013)

In Eldon, WA (Hood Canal) it's CIOC mixed with KEYG Grand Coulee, WA (classic rock) 189 miles (!!)

In Yakima, WA I get nothing due to KMNA 98.7 Mabton splatter.

In Portland, OR I get nothing due to KUPL 98.7.

In Pacific Beach, WA I had a very weak CIOC Victoria and that was IT!

-crainbebo

 

[MarioMania]

I made a thread like this remember Buckeye

http://radiodiscussions.com/smf/index.php?topic=186831.0

 

[purpledevil]

Houston: Rimshot targetting us from the east. Licensed to Port Arthur, Texas at 100kW, its branding is "La Raza" as a Regional Mexican station. Simulcasts with fellow 100kW KJOJ-FM/Freeport, Texas.

 

[dxtrfn]

WDWG Rocky Mount

 

[Brother]

In St. Louis, I get KTJJ (J-98), a 100-kW country powerhouse in Farmington, MO, about 60 miles south of St. Louis.

 

[Lawppy]

From Coldwater, MI-

My very local WNWN (50kw from 7 miles). However, they are off the air quite often due to power outages. I have managed...

WRRM- Cincinnati, OH- AC- Warm 98
WUPS- Houghton Lake, MI
WNCX- Cleveland, OH- Classic Rock
WKSE- Niagara Falls, NY- CHR- Kiss FM
WARU- Peru, IN-
WXXP- Freeport, IL- Country
WQBH- Green Bay, WI- AC

And my all time favorite-

WINH- Paris, IL- News/Talk- Heard with Michael Savage, completely wiping out WNWN (yes, they were on the air too).. This remains to this day, the best nulling of a local frequency I've ever encountered.

And one evening when WNWN was off the air, I had Es and managed the aforementioned WDWG Rocky Mount, NC.

 

[RyanHoward]

Here in Warminster PA(Philadelphia area), it's usually a fair-to-weak signal from WBBO(B-98.5) in
Asbury Park NJ. In tropo, I have also received the 98.5 stations from Boston, Hanover PA,
and the Poconos.

 

[TheDingo]

Here in Toney AL, I normally get WZLQ Tupelo MS at the first sign of even the lightest DX opening, but occasionally WSB-FM from Atlanta will overtake it, or sometimes WKSW Cookeville TN, other than those 3, 98.5 is a rather dead frequency for me.

 

[msugrad2000]

Here in Kosciusko, MS, we go back and forth between WZLQ Tupelo, MS and WINL Linden, AL

 

[michigandxer]

Here in Escanaba it is a cross between WQLH out of Green Bay and WUPS out of Houghton Lake MI.