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FM Frequency of the Week - 99.1 MHz

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Buckeyes2001

What do you all get on 99.1 FM?

Here in Vermilion, OH it is a messy mix of WFRO/Fremont, OH 'Eagle 99' with an AC format mixed with W256BT/Cleveland, OH as '99X' with an alternative rock format (which is also WMMS 100.7 HD-2).

Once, when WFRO was off the air for a 16-day period in Feb 2011 and before W256BT signed on, it was a great DXing frequency and I was able to log:

WFMK/E. Lansing, MI (AC)
WHKO/Dayton, OH 'K99' (Country)
WGGE/Parkersburg, WV 'Froggy 99' (Country)
WRKW/Edensburg, PA 'Rocky 99' (Classic Rock)
CBLA/Toronto, ON (CBC Radio)
CJAM/Windsor, ON (College variety)
 
Locally WNML-"The Sports Animal" Knoxville
When DXFM.com used to have its reciever stream 99.1 from high atop one of Clear Channel's towers in Lexington (before they got a local). It was interesting to hear WHKO, WSLC (Roanoke), Danville IL, and KFUO fade in and out
 
IBOC here in Marysville WA from KLCK. No E-skip logged here, nor tropo.

In Yakima WA it's KUJ Walla Walla WA with top 40 music.

In Pacific Beach, WA I received a real weak KODZ Eugene OR with classic hits music via tropo, but nothing else heard. 99.1 is very open out here.

-crainbebo
 
Northern VA, I get WNEW Annapolis, MD; semilocal; surprising it's not a very DXable frequency here as I don't think I've anything else here. WNEW is an all-news FM station; the calls used to be at NYC.
 
99.1 is an open frequency in the Chicago market, & for me in NW Indiana & South Chicagoland, I'll either hear WSMK Niles, MI, or WMYX Milwaukee. WMYX tends to make it into Chicagoland more than WSMK, but it depends on which one is stronger on a specific day (though technically, WMYX is the stronger signal, as it's 50kw, while WSMK is only 3kw, but WSMK is closer to my home in Gary, IN than WMYX is).
 
Allendale, MI: Mix of WFMK East Lansing and WMYX Milwaukee, WI
Manistee, MI: WMYX with WIKB Iron River, MI making it in rarely
Allendale has a local 99.3 and Manistee used to have a local there as well before that went off earlier this year
 
No changes to 99.1 from the previous 2013 post. Only station I've gotten on 99.1 is KUJ.
 
Here in Cincinnati on dial 99.1 FM.
It's 99.1 WHKO as a moderately local radio station. This station sound like a local station but a little bit of static while driving.
 
Here around Columbus, Ohio, before local WTOH-FM (98.9) fired up its digital signal, WHKO could be heard in pockets throughout the entire metro area. That's both a testament to WHKO's solid signal and the weak output of WTOH.
Even with WTOH's digital sidebands, WHKO still breaks through in far western and southwestern Franklin County, which is less than 60 miles from Dayton as the crow flies.
 
East Tennessee: WNML-FM, licensed to Friendsville. WRJZ parked a translator in Sevierville on 99.1 and after complaints, it was moved to 99.5
 
WPLR New Haven, CT, 24/7 here with ultra-tight-playlist classic rock, usually playing "Highway to Hell," "American Girl" or "Bohemian Rhapsody," or so it seems.
 
Far northwest suburbs of Chicago, it's WMYX. Most of the Milwaukee signals can make the hop to hear from the antenna farms on the north side of town, but usually they're not very listenable. WMYX broadcasts from a tower on the southwest side, which puts it closer to my location. And with no signals of consequence on the first adjacents, the result is that WMYX tends to sound just fine on a good radio.
 
I haven't checked lately, but WMYX used to put in a nice signal here in the near north Chicago burbs. In fact in the 70s when the call letters were WNUW I used to listen quite a bit to their AC/oldies based format. I could hear it in my car at least to the northwest side of Chicago on the Kennedy Expressway.
 
Warminster PA:

WAWZ(contemporary christian, Star 99.1), Zarephath NJ(Somerset county) is heard here most of the time, though it is
sometimes overtaken by local WUSL(Power 99, hip-hop and R&B) at 98.9.
 
99.1 has been berry berry good to me, here in Fustville PA and back in retro Long Island.

Now I'm no ace FM DXer. Far from it. I just listen to 99.1 a lot.
Back on Long Island, it was to WPLR New Haven, a terrific AoR station at the time. The erstwhile 'Popular 99' had a bigger signal than the three Long Island AoRs and was quite, well, popular the farther east you'd go.
One retro morning as few of us were trying for them over brunch -- guys and gals. Instead, we heard 'WNAB'. I thought that Bridgeport was too close to New Haven to have a station right there and told them so. Well, the retro morning turned out to be a tropo morning. We were getting WNAV Annapolis.
By myself one foggy morning I tried for WPLR. Dead hiss on the dial. Then on came the SSB and the sign-on of WPLM Plymouth Mass.

Here in Frackville PA, at the intersection of I-81, I occasionally like the jazz from the WRTI translator in Pottsville.
http://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/pat?call=W256AB&service=FX&status=L&hours=U
They have a pretty decent signal this way in spite of the terrain. I always can find them on the GE SR II. One afternoon, the usual gal DJ was there, playing jazz -- and then came out of a song saying 'Jazz 99'. I thought" 'Wait a minute! She's not allowed to say that! WRTI is on 90.1!'
Then she gave out request lines for Broward and Dade counties in FL.
Duh, Green. Yes, she is allowed to say that.

As near to here as Shenandoah, I was able to pick up WAAL Binghampton NY while idling at a garbage dump waiting to have the stuff weighed. There was also some audio from WAWZ in New Jersey.
This stretch of PA is up pretty high.
 
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radioman148 said:
I haven't checked lately, but WMYX used to put in a nice signal here in the near north Chicago burbs. In fact in the 70s when the call letters were WNUW I used to listen quite a bit to their AC/oldies based format. I could hear it in my car at least to the northwest side of Chicago on the Kennedy Expressway.
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The signal is still pretty decent around here. In addition to the tower location (near the junction of I-94 and I- 894) WMYX also benefits from not being on first adjacent from a Chicago signal.
 
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