FM Frequency of the Week - 98.9 MHz

[Buckeyes2001]

What can you all get on 98.9 FM?

Here in Vermilion, OH it is usually a very weak WMXY/Youngstown, OH 'Mix 98.9'. Occasionally and especially in the spring and summer months, I'll hear CHCD/Simcoe, ON 'CD 98.9' with a format very similar to WMXY. Usually can't tell which is coming in until I hear an ID. Other 98.9s I have heard here include:

WBYR/Woodburn, IN '98.9 the Bear' (Rock)
WOWE/Saginaw, MI (Rhythmic Oldies)

 

[tomservo]

98.9 is nothing but splatter from Pensacola-area "Cat Country" WYCT on 98.7. There's a semi-local station from the Biloxi area on 99.1 that further precludes hearing anything regularly here.

I've only got two nearby loggings on this frequency, WBAM from Montgomery, Alabama and WMSO from Quitman, MS. Both country.

 

[crainbebo]

98.9 here is local KLCK Seattle. Portland, OR has KUPL splatter, and Yakima gets KMNA 98.7 splatter [Mabton, WA].

-crainbebo

 

[fybush]

WBZA Rochester, about 7 miles away, a full class B that's pretty much never off the air. If it went off now, I'd probably hear CKLC-FM Kingston, Ontario. CKLC was still on AM at 1380 the last time I remember 98.9 here going off a few years back.

 

[ddsparxx]

Northern VA,

Nothing. Only IBOC from WMZQ 98.7 in DC. In very rare events I have heard Philly and Richmond 98.l9s.

 

[MarioMania]

KSOL - San Francisco

 

[willdav713]

KXBT- Leander, Texas.

On my radio dial right now. "Tom Kent" All Request Show.

 

[foreverchanges1975]

WKIM - Memphis

 

[charlestondxman]

Here, it is our semi-local WWIK McClellanville. They are an oldies station, but are getting ready to flip to sports. Whenever they go off the air, which is more often than any other FM around here, WSPA Spartanburg tries to come in, or sometimes WMMO Orlando.

 

[spunker88]

Here its semi-local CKLC from Kingston, ON. They direct a lot of their power away from New York but they still cover the greater Watertown area pretty well and are the only choice for alternative rock. Watertown has its own active rock and classic rock stations, but the market is likely too small to support an alternative station of its own.

I was down in Oswego, NY recently and 98.9 is an absolute mess as it sits roughly 60 miles from WBZA and 50 miles from CKLC. WBZA seemed dominant due to the fact that CKLC doesn't send much power south to protect WBZA, but CKLC was still pretty strong due to the good line of sight from Oswego to Wolfe Island.

 

[RyanHoward]

Warminster PA(Philly 'burbs):

Local WUSL("Power 99") from Philly.

 

[tanner]

Orlando WMMO

 

[kc0ltv]

Local 100 kW blowtorch KTCO occupies 98.9 here. On all but the highest caliber of radios it usually renders 98.7 and 99.1 unusable.

I was able, however, with the aid of my rotator-mounted APS-9B and very strong tropospheric enhancement to null it out and tune in KPZK from St. Cloud, 134 miles distant, complete with RDS. The date of that reception was July 17, 2011, and it was in the mid-morning.

 

[dxingtraveller]

A few years ago when visiting Shanksville, PA, WMXY Youngstown, Ohio came booming in....interestingly, so did WIHT 99.5 Wahington, DC.