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Most crowded frequency in your area

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charlestondxman

There are many people who have FM frequencies which are crowded with multiple stations in a single area that you hear all the time. This doesn’t occur as much on the AM dial, but it happens.

In our area, the most crowded AM frequency is probably one of our graveyarders. 1400 AM has multiple stations within 100 miles. Savannah, GA has one, along with Georgetown, SC. Columbia, SC also has a station. With all being 1kw, there is very little overlap though. There isn’t really a frequency with two decently-powered stations close by.

The most crowded FM frequency in our area is probably 107.9. We have two 50kw stations within 90 miles (Myrtle Beach and Hilton Head). Depending on where you are, in the summer it can frequently flip from Hilton Head’s oldies to Myrtle Beach’s country.

What about in your area?
 
I cannot answer your question, but when It gets cold, we have translators, LPFMs, and full power stations all over each other, all across the FM band.
 
Orange County, Texas - here on the Gulf Coast most all of the freqs, except for some locals and 50kw's, graveyarders not withstanding, are crowded with Spanish language stations. I'm guessing that they are Mexico, Cuba or Central/South America.
 
East Tennessee: Knoxville-Sevierville. Off the top of my head, as far as the few remaining relatively open frequencies, 95.5 on any given day can bring WSM-FM, Nashville; WQHY, Prestonsburg, KY or WSBB, Doraville,GA. Most crowded translator/LPFM frequency is 101.1, with an LPFM in Knoxville (WIAI-LP) and Gatlinburg, a translator for WYSH in Oak Ridge, and I believe another 101.1 will be showing up somewhere in the area. Sometimes WSGS in Hazard, KY still makes it in.
 
Off the top of my head....

88.1 where at my location three low powered stations compete with each other. Also 98.3 Where two there's a low powered FM sandwiched in between two class As.

On AM, All six graveyards have at least two audible signals during the daytime. 1400 being the only one where the weaker one can be difficult to detect. "Non-graveyards," 1330 is the one where two stations (WNTA and WKTA) mix on something approaching equal footing. 1570 used to come close with WFRL and WBEE fighting it out, but what used to be WBEE (Harvey, IL) isn't what it used to be.
 
The greater Columbus area has become a real mess with translators walking all over each other. 92.9 (WDLR translator from nearby Delaware, now covered in many areas by WVKO-AM's translator), 96.7 (WQTT/Marysville and local Southern Gospel WJVG) and 98.5 (jazz WSAX and Delaware's WINF) are the three worst IMO.
One thing in common ... the Delaware and Marysville stations on 92.9, 96.7 and 98.5 are all owned by the same company. Another of their stations, 95.1 WXMG, has complained about co-channel interference from WMNI-AM's translator, although unlike the other three cases, those two towers are roughly 50 miles apart and that co-channel interference generally comes in areas where both stations would be dying out anyway. The other stations are roughly 30 miles apart, maybe less, and stomp on each other with regularity in areas where all would otherwise be heard quite well.
 
Just moved outside the Annapolis, MD area and on FM I'd say 99.9. Yes local AM'er WNAV has a translator on 99.9, but on a low tower and low wattage. It competes with WFRE Frederick, WWFG Salisbury and a FM translator for Baltimore's WQLL. Driving around it's quite a 4 station stew.
 
For me in Southeastern CT, There are tons of signals coming from every direction.
88.1 is a mix of WKIV in Westerly RI and WESU out of Middletown CT
91.1 is a jumbled mess
92.9 can be WBOS out of Boston and/or WEHM from Long Island
94.5 is a local classical hits low powered station from 8-10 miles away that often gets overpowered by WJMN out of Boston even though I am 80+ miles away from there
95.3 was from Long Island until a Translator from 10 miles away was created and now it's jumbled
96.1 is Country Long Island vs WSRS out of Worcester MA, i'd say WSRS comes in slightly more frequently
99.1 Depending on where I am in the yard I get WPLR from Hamden CT mostly but some spots I get WPLM from Plymouth MA
100.1 is the battle of a low powered religious station vs WWFX
On AM there's 1230 WBLQ Westerly RI Vs Manchester CT. I've been trying to get WBLQ to listen for a long time but the spanish signal from Manchester keeps interfering with it so i'm happy there will be a translator for WBLQ
So yeah, I have a lot
 
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