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FM Frequency of the week - 99.1

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Buckeyes2001

What can you receive on 99.1 FM?

From Vermilion, OH that would normally be WFRO/Fremont, OH 'Eagle 99'. However that station has been off the air since Monday due to technical problems. As a result it has become a great DXing frequency and I have picked up, so far, the following:

WFMK/Lansing, MI 'The station you hear everywhere!'
WHKO/Dayton, OH 'K 99.1'
WGGE/Parkersburg, WV 'Froggy 99'
WRKW/Edensburg, PA 'Rocky 99'
 
From Warminster PA:

Either hash from Philly's Power 99(WUSL 98.9) or WAWZ from Somerset NJ. Also picked up
WPLR from CT a few times.
 
From Coldwater, MI-

Usually WFMK East Lansing, MI.

Less often-
WSMK- Buchanan, MI- Rhythmic CHR- Smokin' 99.1- I've heard high school stations that sound better than this one. It's all South Bend has now.
WFRO- Fremont, OH- AC/Eagle 99- I liked this one better in their live and local days, but oh well.

Summer tropo-
WMYX- Milwaukee, WI- Blasts into Michigan during lake enhancement. I've heard this one stepping on WSMK within 10 miles of their tower site!
WHKO- Dayton, OH- Country/K-99- Being one of OH's biggest signals, it's not as common as it should be.

Buckeye,
You should try for CJAM from Windsor or CKXS from Wallaceburg. CKXS should be doable in your location with WFRO being gone. I've yet to hear them here, but I have received CJAM one time with a weak signal.
 
This is a good DX freq in Carthage-Watertown, NY.

When tropo conditions are decent I usually pull in CHRI from Ottawa or WAAL from Binghamton, NY. When tropo is good over Lake Ontario I pull in CBLA from Toronto.
 
Here in Rochester, it's IBOC hash from local WBZA 98.9. Pre-IBOC, we'd sometimes hear Toronto (the old CKO and later CBLA) when the trop was up in that direction.
 
Not really anything here. We're too far east for WFRO, when it is on. Eastern parts of the area get splash from CC's WMXY/98.9 Youngstown.
 
WLZL "El Zol" in Annapolis, MD, about 45 miles east of me; it plays Spanish tropical music. Back in the 80s, it used to be progressive rocker WHFS.
 
In Greenville, PA....nothing...just hash from either WMXY 98.9 Youngstown and WXMJ 99.3 Oil City
 
Just S of Charleston, SC, 99.1 is a weird frequency. A lot of the time we get hash from our 250-watt translator at 99.3 and/or 98.9 Chick FM, but other times, and farther away from their transmitter it's a good DX frequency.

I usually get Jacksonville during the summer, but Barnwell's gospel station also comes in, and Foxy from NC comes in a lot also.
 
Nothing, really. 99.1's in between KUPL and KWJJ. If I am using a wide enough rig I can sometimes get a little bit of splatter off both, but nothing else beyond that.
 
From near Gurnee/Libertyville, IL, 99.1 is a fairly strong (basically local) WMYX Milwaukee. Nothing else has a chance.
 
Near Crystal Lake, IL:
WMYX Milwaukee is fairly reliable, even while mobile.
DX:
KFUO (now KLJY) Clayton-St. Louis, MO
WIAI Danville (now WYXY Savoy), IL
WEDR Miami, FL
 
In Poughkeepsie, NY, we had a nearby translator on 99.1 (W256BI - Red Hook, NY) for the past year or two, but Jan 31 they moved to 105.9 to clear the way for new local WGNY-98.9, currently testing intermittently, regular programming announced to begin Feb 26. This leaves WPLR New Haven, CT dominant (53 miles), and also WAWZ Zarepath, NJ (88 miles). Neither is very potent, so 99.1 is quite DXable.

DX on 99.1 since 2003:

WQIK Jacksonville, FL
WEDR Miami, FL "99-Jams"
KXKC New Iberia,LA
WPLM Plymouth, MA "Easy 99.1"
KEEZ Mankato, MN "Z-99"
KLLZ Walker, MN
WYMK Greenwood, MS "Max 99"
WKNN Pascagoula, MS "K-99"
WAAL Binghamton, NY "The Whale"
WVOD Manteo, MC "The Sound"
KODA Houston, TX "Sunny, 99.1", most distant on 99.1 at 1471 miles.
 
Surprised no one has mentioned one of the most powerful FM's in the nation: WSLQ, Roanoke VA.

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In Gary Indiana, I can get either WMYX Milwaukee or WSMK Niles Michigan. It depends on which one is stronger at that moment. Since my area has no 98.9 or 99.3, it makes it easier for either of these stations to travel beyond the predicted coverage area.
 
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